digital storytelling
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An overview of Digital Storytelling with video examples.TRANSCRIPT
Digital StorytellingM.A Reilly
What is Digital Storytelling?
Digital storytelling is the enrichment of a traditional narrative with photographs, audio, video, graphics, animation and other media by means of computer or internet-based applications.
Hardware and Software Requirements
Digital camera/video player
Scanner to scan non-digital images
Computer
External or built in microphone
Movie Creation Software such as:
Windows Movie Maker and/or Photo Story for PCs
iMovie for Macs
Online applications such as VoiceThread and Animoto
VoiceThread
A collaborative multimedia slide show with images, videos, and documents and oral and written comments
Easy to use
http://voicethread.com
Animoto
http://animoto.com/
“Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips and music. Fast, free and shockingly easy.” (from website)
Media Formats Used to Tell Stories
graphic,
motion graphic (ex. A flip book),
video,
animation,
text,
photo,
audio
Stories: A STORY NARRATED WITH YOUR VOICE
Stories created in a narrative style are the most personal in topic and tone. Written in first person, narrative stories are narrated with your own voice. Narrative digital stories are often the source of personal discovery and introspection, where we generally find out something personal about the author. The story “drives”—or takes precedence over—the images; the meaning is expressed through the narrative and supported visually by the images.
Digital Essay
Stories: A STORY WITH MUSIC
Most commonly recognized as music videos, this type of production is a story without words, although captions, titles and the blending of lyrics and visual imagery can personalize the piece.
Stories: A STORY WITH INTERVIEWS
Different people (including yourself) tell a story with interviews and the author provides supplemental images to support what is being spoken about. A common technique is to weave an entire story through the voice and reflections of others; this method is enhanced through multimedia technology, which allows voices to be heard while different images are seen. A story using interviews can also be mixed with a story including narrative.
Digital Story Based on Interview“Tocayo” (Student production SFETT)
Personal Story Themes
REMEMBRANCE OR MEMORIAL STORIES
Stories that acknowledge, honor or reflect on the life of one who has died.
RELATIONSHIP STORIES
Stories of significant relationships in your life. Common subjects are immediate relations, including parents, grandparents, siblings, spouse or partner. Other meaningful relationships may include a business or creative partner, a teacher or mentor, childhood or lifelong friends, even pets. Who are these subjects and what impact have they made on your life? Consider including stories of love, admiration, longing or loss, disappointment or a poignant reflection of a person.
Personal Story Themes
THE GENESIS STORY
Almost all people can point to a significant moment or event in the past that was a determining factor in how things are today, e.g., “If my mother had not taken a ceramics class, she would not have met my father....” The genesis story is an essential part of almost all family histories, examining the question, “Where do we come from?”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/yourvideo/pages/raphael_schutzerweissmann_01.shtml
STORIES OF CHALLENGE
Stories in which you have experienced challenge and how (or whether) you overcame it. They can be physical as well as mental challenges, i.e., the challenge of climbing a 15,000-foot mountain, conquering the fear of changing careers or returning to school after an extended absence.
Example: http://www.storycenter.org/stories/ SOFAS by Wayne Richard
Personal Story Themes
OBJECTS AND ARTIFACTS
All of us have owned or known of a possession that held tremendous value in our lives and the compelling stories that accompany them. Objects or artifacts can be as varied as a lucky charm, a rock found on a memorable hike or a precious family heirloom handed down through many generations. What are these objects, how do they exist in your life and what value do you place on them?
HURT AND HEALING
Sadly, it is guaranteed that human beings will experience at least some element of emotional suffering. Stories about pain and the healing process are ultimately about resurrection and finding a way to continue. These types of stories can be about hurt and how that changed you.
SFETT: “the system”
Informational Stories
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/02/18/national/20060219_SMUGGLE_AUDIOSS.html
Sample Digital Stories from Wales
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/galleries/pages/capturewales.shtml
Jason Ohler’s site: http://www.jasonohler.com/storytelling/index.cfm
6 Steps to a Digital Story
Step One: What To Say?
Step Two: Artifact Search: images, music, voice
Step Three: Story Board
Step Four: Revision
Step Five: Construction
Step Six: Screening
Digital Story that Began with Images
Story Sources
Our identities are filled with stories, which provide insight into who we are. Stories mined from our lives are a direct connection to what our experience on the human journey is. Stories can explain and illuminate:
Who we are
Where we came from
Where we are going
What we care about
What is important to us
That’s Who I Am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/yourvideo/pages/raphael_schutzerweissmann_01.shtml
That's Who I Am
By Raphael Schutzer Weissmann
September 2004,
A digital story from Who Do You Think You Are?
Getting Started: What To Say?
1. Draw a detailed map of your neighborhood. Include the layout of the streets, homes of friends and strange neighbors, schools, local hangouts, and so forth
2. In a journal exercise, respond to the following: “Think of your favorite childhood coat. What is in your pockets?”
3. Respond to the following: “Write about a decisive moment (one where you ended up heading in an unanticipated direction) in your life.”
Step Two: Artifact Search
Use a digital camera to capture images related to your story.
Photograph artifacts that relate to the words you use in your story.
Step 3: Storyboarding
Map on paper each image, technique, and element of their story by constructing a storyboard.
This visual story had two dimensions: chronology—what happens and when—and interaction—how audio information interacts with the images.
Step 4: Revision Techniques
Option 1: Highlighting
Students marked up their scripts, highlighting all of the action in green and all of the reflection in pink. Too much pink indicated too much preaching. Too much green indicated that the writer was telling an anecdote with no implications.
Option 2: Timeline
Students rearranged the order of events, making them either more or less chronological (Heard 99).
Option 3: Exploding Sentences
There were two possible plans of attack here. First, writers worked to explode the sentence into a slow- motion retelling (helpful to the text that will be read aloud). Or, writers thought of the explosion as more of a magnifying glass, focusing on pinpointed, targeted specifics (Heard 32–38).
Step 5: Construction
To build your digital stories, you will need to: to import or digitize their photos, add transitions and special effects to how they played, record narration, add sound tracking, and burn their finished work on a CD.
Step 6: Screen
Celebrate the finished stories.
Show digital stories. Have popcorn, etc.
Digital Stories in Spanish
http://www.umbc.edu/oit/newmedia/studio/digitalstories/projects.php?movie=SPAN305_Relato_digtal_Elver.flv
Please go to the following site and view two stories told by Heritage Spanish speakers. Could your students collect heritage Spanish speakers’ stories? How might that help them to deepen their language?
From UMBC Digital Stories