Entries Tagged as 'capturing assets'
Anyone who filmed home video from the 1980s -90s will is likely to have that footage in the VHS tape medium. I’ve just seen an item on a TV programme called Sunday Life which warned that fungus is attacking these old tapes. So now may be a good time to digitise these old recordings.
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This is your story, so try to use your own images, story, words, original sentiments, music, style, philosophy, etc. as far as you can.
The promotion of royalty-free content advocated by some digital storytelling trainers means that opportunities may be missed. Of course, sometimes you’ll find yourself working with people who have no access to their […]
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Get your voice-recording done with a high-quality unit in a quiet room with natural acousics (neither boxy nor echoey), unless there’s an overriding reason to the contrary (e.g. you’re working with an archive recording or in an inescapably noisy environment). As I’ve said here before, the best digital stories can work as radio pieces, so […]
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February 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Sensecam - tasks to test what it feels like to walk around all day with a device around your neck that captures automatic pictures every minute or less…
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Watching this home video set me wondering about what Dylan might need to do to get what he’d shot at home out on TV.
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October 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I’ve just updated my shopping list here:
brand new Aberth Digital Storytelling Resources
It’s actually the first page of a brand new sister website to this blog. Aberth Digital Storytelling Resources is a response to what a number of people have asked for: a site that brings together in one place all kinds of equipment and software […]
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If you’re planning to set up your own digital storytelling or participatory media project,
you’ll need somewhere to hold your workshops. You can base yourself at one venue or roam around using existing community facilities as venues. Here’s a solution which has the capacity to combine the two scenarios. If you’re making a bid for funding, […]
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You’ve been invited to help a group of digital storytellers to post produce their stories at the end of their workshop or course. Here are some things to think about when you prepare.
1. know your ‘deliverables’. Have a list of things you need to take away from the digilab and make sure you go home […]
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File and folder housekeeping is really important when it comes to building, re-building and archiving your Digital Story movie-file and associated assets. It’s worth emphasising this. Devise a way of working whereby all the components of the Digital Story fit in named sub-folders of one master folder which has the storyteller’s full name on it. […]
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If you want to post an audio blog on the move or are desperate to record a voice track for a digital story, but don’t have access to voice recording facilities on the computer you’re using, here are three sites which will let you record audio via your phone:
http://www.gabcast.com - The free package seems to […]
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