Digital storytelling workshop
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Digital storytelling is a grassroots movement utilizing new digital tools for individuals to share their personal stories in engaging formats, typically under eight minutes. It encompasses various forms, including interactive narratives, oral histories, and promotional tools. Key tips for effective storytelling include using natural sounds, diverse photography angles, and avoiding overly posed shots to maintain authenticity.
Digital storytelling workshop
- 1. Digital Storytelling Trainer: Mark Ellis
- 2. What is digital storytelling? "Digital Storytelling" is an emerging term, one that arises from a grassroots movement that uses new digital tools to help ordinary people tell their own 'true stories' in a compelling and emotionally engaging form. These stories usually take the form of a relatively short story (less than 8 minutes) and can involve interactivity. The term can also be a broader journalistic reference to the variety of emergent new forms of digital narratives (web-based stories, interactive stories, hypertexts, and narrative computer games). According to:
- 3. Who is using Digitalstorytelling and Audio slideshows?
- 4. What kind of digital stories are there? Oral histories Audio narration Interpretation Exhibit descriptions Personal stories Promotional presentations Campaigning tools
- 5. Content to discuss/deconstruct Oxfam report on Char Atra in Bangladesh Guardian report on DFID project to boost trade and combat HIV in Chirundu on the Zambia/ Zimbabwe border. The artifical eye maker An appeal film for the neo-natal ward at Leicester Hospital
- 6. Audio Non-reporter, first-person testimony “ say what you see” Music and “actuality” can help with transitions Speakers introduce themselves Natural sounds to let the photos breathe
- 7. Pictures Storyboard the shoot Landscape format far better than portrait Good mix of photos – wide, mid range and close ‘ Arty’ is good Take several photographs of each ‘thought’ Too much posing is bad – try to get people looking natural, doing something then follow and just shoot, shoot, shoot… Your ‘subject’ shouldn’t be in every shot, think laterally, or shoot close-ups Think of good opening and closing shots If you haven’t taken the photos, check what credits are needed – and web copyright clearance