The document outlines an agenda for discussing blogging tips, storytelling techniques, and the challenges of non-linear and participatory digital storytelling. It then shares several blog post examples and highlights an article about the six critical elements of an effective narrative as seen in the video "Caine's Arcade". The document also discusses embracing non-linearity, allowing audience participation, and provides a link to a missed discussion from last week on digital trends for 2015.

2. Agenda
 Blogging tips
 Storytelling
 The challenge of non-linearity
 The challenge of incorporating participation
 Missed last week – Epic 2015– if we have time

3. Interesting blog entries
 Hashtag searches:
Sara’s entry is not only about her
doco, but may give you
something interesting to think
about regarding social media.

4. Interesting blog entries
Yanna’s entry is about a book
She’s found directly relevant to
her doco topic. Good research !

5. Interesting blog entries
Christoph’s entry show him
using social media to engage
with his community.

6. Interesting blog entries
Dhiraj is struggling to get people
To interview. He may need a
different approach..

7. Interesting blog entries
Jessie is developing her
aesthetic and structure.

8. Tiny Story: fundamentals
of narrative design
 http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669074/tiny-story-a-short-film-
about-the-fundamentals-of-narrative-design

9. 6 critical elements of
storytelling
Illustrated in ‗Caine‘s Arcade‘:
1. Simple. A boy. An idea. Some boxes. Doesn‘t get much simpler
than that.
2. Unexpected. This video had at least four unexpected things: An
unusually creative boy; a video maker who accidentally stumbled
upon the boy‘s arcade; a flash mob; and Caine‘s surprise at the
flash mob….
3. Concrete. There‘s one moment that stuck with me more than any other:
Caine manually feeding prize tickets through a hole in the box. If there‘s a
second moment I remember, it‘s the claw machine. If there‘s a third, it‘s the
calculator he used to track legitimate ―Fun Pass‖ users. All three of those
details are concrete, and the story was more effective for its total absence
of abstractions.
--Brad Phillips, The 6 traits of great storytelling—in one adorable video
http://www.prdaily.eu/PRDailyEU/Articles/11408.aspx

10. 6 critical elements of
storytelling (cont)
4. Credible. Totally. Not a single false note.
5. Emotional. Before my wife showed me the video, she sheepishly
admitted that it had made her cry. I mildly teased her. Then I watched it
and teared up, as well. It felt deeply satisfying to see the boy‘s
industriousness rewarded. And the father‘s pride in his son‘s achievement?
How wonderful to see a struggling businessman in East L.A. enjoy such
rich satisfaction.
6. Stories. Back to the first ―S:‖ a boy, an idea, some boxes. Stories can‘t
get stripped down much further, proving that good stories don‘t require
complexities to work.
--Brad Phillips, The 6 traits of great storytelling—in one adorable video
http://www.prdaily.eu/PRDailyEU/Articles/11408.aspx

11. 6 critical elements of
storytelling (cont)
TEDtalk about storytelling.
Andrew Stanton: The clues to a
great story http://t.co/HYSLMNWS

12. Non-linearity
―embracing non-linearity in digital storytelling does three important
things:
 It recognizes that your audience may not be interested in
everything you have to say about a subject
 It empowers your audience to participate in the creation of the
narrative surrounding your subject
 It allows you to create a practically-infinite number of stories
with any given media collection rather than forcing you to slave
over the creation of one fixed narrative that may or may not
resonate with your audience.
--Mike Nutt, Non-linear narrative in digital storytelling
http://www.uncstorylab.org/2010/06/non-linear-narrative-in-digital-
storytelling/

13. Non-linearity
―The evolution of interactive media means the story no longer flows
in one direction, from the one to the many. Through a framework of
possibility that visitors use to weave their own story, the narrative is
only visible in hindsight—when their path is revealed—the path that
was their history, their story—that is the second story.‖
—Brad Johnson, Creative Director, Second Story quoted by Mike
Nutt, Non-linear narrative in digital storytelling
http://www.uncstorylab.org/2010/06/non-linear-narrative-in-digital-
storytelling/

14. Participation
Ie, letting your community make their own comment / tell their own
stories
 Makes non-linearity even more complicated
 Can be achieved by use of social media within your doco
 The means to do this are still just being developed
 Eg. Putting a Twitter widget showing a hashtag feed in your
doco‘s blog: http://cyclistsvmotorists.tumblr.com/
 Other means of comment: setting up a Facebook page.
 Allowing comments in a blog usually doesn‘t work, you will get too
much spam.

15. Missed last week: Epic
2015
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQDBhg60UNI
Hasn‘t all come
true, but it still
might