• I hope you keep revising your storify. • Please follow the twitter @multi_journo• You will start creating your own story today. • Next assignment is audio slide story due Oct.7• Let’s review the basics of storytelling first.

International impact of digital media• Case of Kony 2012 • Campaign group Invisible

Children Inc. and Jason Russell released a 30-minute documentary titled Kony 2012.• More than half of young adult

Americans heard about Kony 2012 in the days following the video's release.

Controversy• Hypocrisy?• Slacktivism?• Justification of military intervention?• Even an embezzlement accusation.

Global awareness? Global citizenship?

BONG HiTS 4 JESUS• 2007-Morse v. Frederick “BONG HiTS 4 JESUS”• The high school principal confiscated the

banner and suspended John Frederick. • This was not a conduct. No actual

disturbance. • The student sued alleging his First

Amendment rights were violated. • 6-3 majority. "It was reasonable for (the

principal) to conclude that the banner promoted illegal drug use-- and that failing to act would send a powerful message to the students in her charge.“

• Give me a dissenting opinion?

The Forum Theory• What is a public forum?Government facility where a free exchange of ideas is a principal purpose. But it is rather a legal status than a physical place.

• Exs.-public park, speakers square, auditorium, or in some cases, media.

• If a public forum exists, any attempt to denial access to a particular speaker based on the content is a presumptively invalid prior restraint• Suppose city allows dances, speeches, plays at its civic auditorium, it would be

unconstitutional to deny access to a speaker for their views or message is unconstitutional.

Student’s right limited?• 1988-Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier

-High school newspaper is not a public forum. The majority of the USSC characterized the school paper as “a laboratory”. -Interest in education provided sufficient basis to allow censorship.

What about university newspapers?• 2001- Kincaid v Gibson at Kentucky State University. The school year

book as “a limited forum”. • Other cases of student expression did not apply with the forum

theory.

Find a story

• You already know how to tell a story. Everyone has stories. • Stories come from a variety of places, from a person’s past to their

imagination. Some can be funny, some can be painful, but all are personal. • “Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of

storytelling. Throughout history, storytelling has been used to share knowledge, wisdom, and values. Stories have taken many different forms. Stories have been adapted to each successive medium that has emerged, from the circle of the campfire to the silver screen, and now the computer screen.”

– The Digital Storytelling Association*Brain storm and look for story examples. Storycenter. www.storycenter.org

You may find ideas but they are not stories

• Stories are presented in narrative styles. Typically they have beginning –middle – end.

• You need to set up your story, characters, issues, location -in a way that allows events to unfold so that audience wants to know more and more about it-tell how are your characters are affected-how they develop a solution (or not) and finally where they go from there.

Compare narrative story with reports.

*Freytag’s Pyramid: originally developed to analyzed Greek and Roman plays. Exposition: Introduction to the characters, the conflict and basic setting. Rising action: More detail. Reveal the nature of the conflict.Climax: the moment of greatest tension. Turning point for better or worse.Falling action: heading to the conclusion. Sometimes continued tension.Denouement: where complications are resolved and the story comes to end. *Compare it with the reverse pyramid.

Shaping a story (3 act principle)

• -Almost all storytellers think of story structure as three act play. And this is recommended for your project.• Act 1. Introduce your characters. Let us meet them. Show location

and time. Give a reason why we should care about them. • Act 2. Reveal the complication. Usually the longest part of the

story. Let the complication intensify. • Act 3. Resolve the complication. And finish the story in a satisfying

way. What choices were made in the crisis?

Point of view (POV)

• First-person POV. e.g. Grey’s anatomy. Many of bio videos. • Second-person POV. Direct address by the actors to the audience.

e.g. Think of on-spot TV anchors. • Third-person POV. Most common in storytelling. Audience are

detached observers. • Character POV. One character is dominant in a series of stories. e.g.

sit com Seinfeld.• Conflicting POV. Mixture of different point of view.

Exercise: identifying structure and POV

• “Hungry: Living with the Prader-Willi Syndrome”Identify the three part acts. https://vimeo.com/5717103https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5BSpxvqL2A• Sofa by Wayne Richardhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPrnDD51Y5s&list=PL7AC307C5535EF045

Snowfall by the New York Times

• The 2012 Tunnel Creek Avalanche occurred on February 19, 2012, at about noon in the Tunnel Creek section of Stevens Pass, Washington, U.S. World class skiers were killed. Three fatalities and one injured.• December 2012, the New York Times published an interactive

multimedia feature piece called "Snow Fall“ winning the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

• http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunnel-creek

Tips: Generalize what you see around you• Example story: Age of Uncertainty• https://vimeo.com/1229405• Photo by Josh Meltzer, Roanoke Times• The photographer saw a woman who assists her fellow church

members. A colleague encouraged him to think more broadly about what this lady did a story on caring for elderly people in general.

Tips: Localize and personalize large issues • Example story: Robert Krulwich and Will Hoffman, NPR Online• To tell the complicated story of health care for NPR Online, Krulwich

and Hoffman zeroed in on the personal tales of a few individuals.• http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/06/01/121158190/a-lock

smith-s-tale-and-other-health-care-stories

Tips: Visualize a long history• Manage a long time period with digital story telling. You cannot tell the whole story

with writing or just still photos. • But mix them with interviews, graphics, archival footage makes them manageable. • Gather the materials and edit them, you can take audience back in time. Think of the

great story book chapters. • Video: mix A roll and B roll. • Photos: new and old. • Audio: music, narration and interviews• Example• Take care Media Storm• http://mediastorm.com/training/take-care