telling stories vine twitter
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Working my way towards being able to articulate the process and value of storytelling with social mediaTRANSCRIPT
Telling StoriesWITH INSTAGRAM, TWITTER (AND SOUNDCLOUD)
A thousand words?
We have always been storytelling creatures
And are lives are ‘storied’ We are multi-faceted and multi-storied
Aggregating and rearranging our social media postings can represent these facets
And, as long as we are alive and tweeting, these stories evolve
We can either be intentional or un-intentional autobiographers…
http://bit.ly/1iV9GlG
The medium for storytelling is always expanding
And the languages of story increase
Puck Magazine, 1881 Internet, 1980’s onward
Developing, and breaking apart, a story
Just because the tools use 140 characters or 15 seconds of video doesn’t mean that the same rules do not apply.
Storyboarding, preplanning pays off
Once you have the story you can ‘parcel’ it out
Multiple medias allow for creative expression◦ Parsing out the action to twitter, dialog to video,
scene transitions to images, etc…
Storyboards and perspectives
From : Matt Madden – 99 ways to tell a story http://www.exercisesinstyle.com/
Telling along ‘the arc of critical hope”
In stories that are meant to project our work forward we create an arc of the future.
A storytelling challenge – find and tell the arc of critical hope
Naiveté or despair are the easy arcs
Storytelling is a curatorial process (with social media)
Tech mediating the story Multi-medias
Peer interaction – it is ‘social’ media – opening up the telling to multiple perspectives, voices…
Stories as magnets or sponges
The toolsTWITTER, INSTAGRAM AND AGGREGATORS
Twitter 140 characters
Ability to embed:◦ Links◦ Images◦ Hashtags
Instagram Capture images and video (15 seconds)
Smartphone app – Android and iPhone
Tags
Soundcloud Audio
Multi platform
Tags
Hashtags…narrative glue # used to group messages on many social networking sites A sorting and metadata mechanism 3rd party services can aggregate across social networks (eg, tagboard)
Twitter – custom timelines
Introduced 11/2013
Allows users to curate tweets and create stories
Easily shareable◦ Re-tweet◦ Custom timeline widget
Feature added Fall 2013
No longer necessary to follow link to see images
Twitter – embedded pictures
Tagboard
Storify
An experiment in storytelling Working with 4-H youth to re-tell Romeo and Juliet using social media
https://storify.com/ptreadwell/performing-romeo-and-juliet-via-social-media
Contact Paul Treadwell
@ptreadwell
http://www.paultreadwell.com