Monthly Archives: June 2009

Four things to do before saving your final version

1. Make sure each digital storyteller in the workshop watches their film from start to finish 2. Make sure there are no mistakes with narration or images: an image duplicated or in the wrong place, a piece of narration clashing … Continue reading

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Why you should keep movie titles away from the edges

When adding titles and end credits to your digital story, use only the middle 80% of the screen. The central area is the TV safe area. If you creep too far out to the edges, there’s a risk letters will … Continue reading

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How do you solve a problem like portrait?

Showing landscape-oriented photos and still images in your digital story is straightforward. You just crop, constraining dimensions to 768 x 576 pixels, or whichever dimensions you use. But how do you crop and display portrait-oriented images in your story? If … Continue reading

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Why naming conventions matter

Here’s a tip that will make post-production, storing, archiving and finding individual digital stories easier. When working with workshop participants and individuals, ask them to make a final decision about which name they will use on their digital story. This … Continue reading

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Housekeeping for training workshop

Here’s a cribsheet I wrote to remind me of what to say at the beginning of the first day of our three-day digital storytelling workshops around Wales: Fire drill Beware of tripping on cables. I’d let people know that I’ve … Continue reading

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A Thousand Words

A Thousand Words from Ted Chung on Vimeo. A year ago, I pondered about Stories That Work with the Sound Turned Off. Today I saw this four-minute movie: A Thousand Words. The movie’s by Ted Chung; thanks for the link … Continue reading

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DS4 Festival of Digital Storytelling 2009 cribsheet

Telling stories of Llanberis slate and Hollywood features, more than a hundred digital storytellers gathered for the annual digital storytelling festival in Aberystwyth. Here’s my illustrated story of the day… L to R: Annette Mees, Dai Evans (holding the new-technology … Continue reading

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Mrs Smoke shares 35 refreshing digital storytelling links

What a great Desert Island Digital Storytelling links list on the Making Teachers Nerdy Blog today. The sections on Web 2.0 and Storyboarding are especially refreshing. Mrs Smoke is Dyane Smokorowski: a Technology Instructional Coach and Integrationist for the Andover … Continue reading

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Future of Digital Storytelling in Public Spaces

This post is a response to a question asked on Museum 3.0 group about: “the future of digital storytelling in regards to broader social networking tools” by Angelina Russo, an Associate Professor at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. As this question’s … Continue reading

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Three Digital Storytelling Ideas for Museums

If you work in a museum, library or archive and you’re looking for digital storytelling inspiration, here are links to three ideas in this blog: Archive Meets Storytelling – A step-by-step set of instructions on how to run a workshop … Continue reading

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