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DIGITAL STORYTELLING585 TIE WorkshopBriana Allen
STORYTELLING is the way we have communicated since our earliest ancestors
gathered around a campfire. The stories and anecdotes we share with one another are the way we let each other know who we are, what we care about, where we
come from, where we are going and, most importantly, what we care about.
-Dana Atchley
What is a story?
Short explanation Epic novel Connects us to past Teaches a lesson Desire-Struggle-Realization
Finding Your Story
Start small Polyfoto
Use photographic imagery Pedro Meyer
I Photograph To Remember http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/foto
grafio/
Interview Objects
Object Story
Types of Personal Stories
Character Stories Relationship with
another person Memorial Stories
Honoring and remembering
Adventure Stories Normal life
interrupted Accomplishment
Stories Achievement of a
goal
Special Places Sense of place
1,000 Rooms What I do
Profession Hobby Social Commitment
Recovery Stories Overcoming
challenges Love Stories Discovery Stories
Power of Story
Inspire, challenge, encourage, call to action Sofas
http://www.storycenter.org/stories/ Ironing
http://www.storycenter.org/stories/index.php?cat=4 Healing
http://www.storycenter.org/stories/index.php?cat=6 Home…in past tense
http://www.storycenter.org/stories/index.php?cat=8 Rivers Know This
http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=79 My Father’s Eyes
http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=26
7 Elements
Point of View Dramatic Question Emotional Content The Gift of Your Voice The Power of the Soundtrack Economy Pacing
Point of View
Common pattern Desire/Need/Problem Action
Realization Define realization Reason for telling story
Dramatic Question
Tension Desire – Action – Realization Conflict between our desires being met and the
desires of others Romance – will the girl get the guy? Adventure – will the hero reach the goal? Crime or Mystery – who did it? Manipulating expectations is what
entertains us. Will the girl find happiness? (real question) Twist the expectation
Emotional Content
A truthful approach to emotional material Death or sense of loss Love and loneliness Confidence and vulnerability Acceptance and rejection
Resurrection Tales Love must be lost to feel satisfaction of hope Protagonist destroyed so others (we) can
understand the character flaw Hero on very edge of extinction before victory
or goal of quest is achieved
The Gift of Your Voice
We listen to different forms of speech differently Conversation – to affirm or respond Speech – applause line Lecture – major points Story – rhythmic pattern invoking associative memories
Voiceover Reading vs reciting the script Keep writing terse Speak slowly in conversational style Digitally construct the story from an interview
The Power of the Soundtrack We create personal soundtracks on our
MP3 players Music adds an emotional aspect to the
story Instrumental music often works best
under voiceovers Consider copyright issues Use self-composed music created on
programs such as Garage Band
Economy
Sequential composition, repurposing existing images (and perhaps video)
Consciously economize language as juxtaposed with a small number of images
Use of symbolism and metaphor for implicit meaning
Pacing
Rhythm sustains audience interest Fast-paced
Urgency, action, nervousness, exasperation and excitement
Slow-paced Contemplation, romanticism, relaxation or
simple pleasures Changing the pace of the music or
narrative can be very effective Maintain the vitality Good stories breathe
Writing Exercise
In our lives, there are moments, decisive moments, when the direction of our lives was pointed in a given direction, and because of the events of this moment, we are going in another direction. Poet Robert Frost shared this concept simply as The Road Not Taken. The date of a major achievement, the time there was a particularly bad setback, meeting a special person, the birth of a child, the end of a relationship, the death of a loved one are all examples of these fork-in-the-road experiences. Right now, at this second, write about a decisive moment in your life.
You have 10 minutes.
Storyboarding
Too much material=unfocused story Organization and focus
Images Narration Effects Sounds
Multiple methods for storyboarding Poster board with post its Computer software Prints
Copyright Law
What is copyright? http://www.mediaeducationlab.com/1-whats-copyright-
music-video User Rights-Section 107
http://www.mediaeducationlab.com/2-user-rights-section-107-music-video
Five Principles
Educators can:
make copies of newspaper articles, TV shows, and other copyrighted works and use them and keep them for educational use
create curriculum materials and scholarship with copyrighted materials embedded
share, sell and distribute curriculum materials with copyrighted materials embedded
Learners can:
use copyrighted works in creating new material.
distribute their works digitally if they meet the transformativeness standard
Fair Use Empowers
MYTH: FAIR USE IS TOO UNCLEAR AND COMPLICATED FOR
ME; IT’S BETTER LEFT TO LAWYERS AND ADMINISTRATORS.
TRUTH: The fair use provision of the Copyright Act is written broadly because it is designed to apply to a wide range of creative works and the people who use them.
Fair use is a part of the law that belongs to everyone—especially to working educators.
Educators know best what they need to use of existing copyrighted culture to construct their own lessons and materials. Only members of the actual community can decide what’s really needed. Once they know, they can tell their lawyers and administrators.
Creative Commons
Code of Fair Use Helps
•To educate educators themselves about how fair use applies to their work
•To persuade gatekeepers, including school leaders, librarians, and publishers, to accept well-founded assertions of fair use
•To promote revisions to school policies regarding the use of copyrighted materials that are used in education
•To discourage copyright owners from threatening or bringing lawsuits
•In the unlikely event that such suits were brought, to provide the defendant with a basis on which to show that her or his uses were both objectively reasonable and undertaken in good faith.