Category: Digital Storytelling
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Take It to the Streets
This is what I spent my summer doing. From there website: University of Toronto Scarborough, in partnership with community partners, hosted two-day digital story workshops for resident-led initiatives identified by community partners. Participants scripted, narrated, designed, and directed short stories that serve as a window into their lives and experiences and tell stories of Scarborough…
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Video School
I’m always on the look out for online tutorials that freely available. Vimeo’s Video School is good starting place for people looking for tips and explanation for most of the technical aspect of creating videos. From explaining different camera shots to how to storyboard to why pre-production is important, these short articles are written in…
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Taking Pictures
I’ve been reading through some of the articles on NPR’s Editoiral Training website and this one about taking better pictures with a smartphone really caught my attention. Then there’s one about open copyright, which was also really interesting. And telling me how create a visual story? While these articles don’t directly relate to digital storytelling they…
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Starting the digital storytelling process
Digital storytelling starts with finding a story. Without a story, it becomes a news piece. So, as a facilitator, you have to find ways to get people thinking of their stories. Sometimes that’s simply having them talk to each other with a particular topic or theme in mind; other times it starts with an interview.…
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Publishing Content
So here’s the current challenge I have with my work; I don’t have any examples of what I’m doing. In a digital storytelling workshop, I get people to tell their stories and show them the tools necessary to do. Often times, participants only want to share these stories with family and neighbours. The idea of…
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Developing Workshops
I just finished a four-day digital storytelling working. These workshops take a lot out of me because it’s short days (six hours) but it seems like i’m consistently being pulled in every direction. I’ve been slowly coming up with a couple of guidelines to help me keep things under control. Set a maximum number of…