DIGITAL STORYTELLING 585 TIE Workshop Briana 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

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

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/fotografio/ Interview Objects

Start small

Polyfoto

Use photographic imagery

Pedro Meyer

I Photograph To Remember

http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/fotografio/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

• 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.