Category Archives: capturing assets

Learn how to shoot for the web and edit video archive mashups

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Gareth Morlais

Welsh media trainers Cyfle have two tantalising training courses which are open for registration now: 1. Archive Mashup Learn how to mix diverse archive video clips and sounds. A part-time course beginning 26 March 2012 2. Shooting for the web … Continue reading →

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Using your mobile phone as a digital storytelling tool

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Gareth Morlais

My friend Bethan is planning a workshop to train artists and business people in using their mobile phones to tell stories about the work they do and she asked me for some ideas. I had a chat and then sent … Continue reading →

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Free photographic workshops in Aberystwyth

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Gareth Morlais

Here’s news of a free training opportunity for artists and youth workers from Aberystyth Arts Centre. The Using Photography workshop takes place over three days: 27 & 28 September and 4 October 2010. This practical workshop in B&W photography will … Continue reading →

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How do you solve a problem like portrait?

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Gareth Morlais

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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Flip videoblogging tips video

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Gareth Morlais

Verdi’s made this concise, useful training video about using consumer camcorders for the citizen journalism end of the video blogging spectrum at Freevlog.

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Bug eats VHS

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Gareth Morlais

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 … Continue reading →

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Avoid using other people’s stuff – number 7 of 7 DS no-nos

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Gareth Morlais

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 … Continue reading →

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Avoid less-than-perfect voice recordings – number 3 of 7 DS no-nos

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Gareth Morlais

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). … Continue reading →

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Thanks for the memory

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Gareth Morlais

In the summer of 2007, my BBC Wales colleagues Carwyn Evans, Lisa Heledd, Robin Moore and I worked with Microsoft Research Centre via Participate in the testing of a prototype wearable camera called Sensecam. Carwyn and Lisa gave Sensecam cameras … Continue reading →

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How to upgrade your home video so it can be broadcast on TV

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Gareth Morlais

Between Christmas and New Year, we stayed with my brother in law Dylan’s family. Dylan’s wife had given him a camcorder for Christmas and he’d filmed his family opening and playing with their presents on Christmas morning. He played the … Continue reading →

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