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.