The Center for Digital Storytelling is an international not-for-profit community arts organization rooted in the craft of personal storytelling. www.storycenter.org . They assist youth and adults around the world in using media tools to share, record, and value stories from their lives, in ways that promote artistic expression, health and well being, and justice and have developed this unique workshop experience—for the multimedia novice or the professional—to create powerful and effective 3-minute movies for personal use, web broadcast or for selected-audience screenings. With the help of facilitators and easy-to-use editing software, you will record yourself reading or telling your story and create a video adding a combination of photographs, drawings, scanned memorabilia, video clips and a music soundtrack.
Topics:
- Introduction to Digital Storytelling by showing samples of former student work
- Participants are helped to develop their idea into a 250-300 word story through a group storycircle and are given facilitator guidance in writing, storyboarding and editing Overview of photo editing software
- Recording voice-overs in audio editing software
- Tutorial in PC video editing software (Sony Vegas)
- Explore special effects including image pan, motion, superimpositions, transparency and titles
- Screening of all stories in final hour of workshop
Learning Outcomes:
- Introduction to the elements of storytelling methodology: point of view, emotional content, dramatic action, pacing, etc
- Practice writing in a conversational style for an oral/aural medium
- Acquire a working knowledge of the tools of desktop video in a PC environment (using Sony Vegas software)
- Dialogue about visual literacy, and the use of voice and sound to complement mood and text dialogue about how Digital Storytelling can be used as a means of creative expression and catharsis and as an agent of change in education, public awareness and advocacy; family and community history projects; social justice, public health and community development.
- Completion of a 3-minute digital story for personal use, web broadcast or for selected-audience screenings.
Please Note: Each participant will be emailed a pre-workshop preparation package including writing tips on how to get to the core of the story you want to tell, and guidelines for compiling & digitizing your visual story materials. The instructor is also available as a resource for questions about how individuals or organizations can use digital storytelling to broaden creative practice or embed it as part of a public advocacy and education strategy.
Facilitator: Suzanne Ahearne has been a consistent contributor of photojournalism, news, feature & travel writing as well as radio documentaries to regional, national and international media organizations since 1993. Based in Vancouver and Vancouver Island, she is the B.C. field representative for the Berkeley, California-based Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS) and will co-teach the workshop with another CDS-trained facilitator.
suzanne-ahearne-cv.blogspot.com Link to Digital Storytelling resources available from CDS:
http://www.storycenter.org/resources.html