Aberth Digital Storytelling

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 with an image
3. Correct any typos in the titles or credits
4. Double-check the spelling of names
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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 get lost if the story’s broadcast on TV. Old cathode-ray tube TVs trim the edges […]

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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 you want full control over the way your portrait-oriented photos are shown in your digital […]

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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 seems so simple, but some people find it difficult because:

they have a name like John Smith which […]

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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 to  @ShortFilmFest) It’s a personal story - albeit fiction, maybe - but it’s an utterly engaging […]

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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 version of a teaspoon) and Bonnie Shaw.

DS4 - 17 June 2009, Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Huw Davies showed […]

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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 Schools and an Intel US Senior Trainer in Andover, KS, USA. You can follow her on […]

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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 related to museum of the future, I’ll begin with an editorial approach to applications of […]

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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 which delivers short videos mixing considered but unscripted personal reminiscence with existing archive footage.

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How can museums resource this: recording and sharing visitors’ interpretations and stories about its artefacts?
One of the challenges around publishing personal stories made by lots of people is keeping on top of the ethical issues around the right to portray others in public. This will be especially true of teachers and also of public organisations […]

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