Aberth Digital Storytelling

I had a query recently from Liz Milner, Bristol, via Mandy Rose, asking about digital storytelling in Scandinavia and northern Europe. Here’s a list of the ones I could think of; please feel free to add others using Comments:
Hanne Jones, Christer Fasmer and Eli Lea of Digital Fortellinger . See also the end of this […]

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Great to see Love Letters to the Future nominated for this year’s SXSW Interactive Awards:
One of the notes sealed inside the time capsule is:
“Please, you have to keep doing what we could not finish” by Manuela, Argentina
http://www.loveletterstothefuture.com/
Another notable nomination is:
http://sketch.odopod.com
This is an addictive and therapeutic web sketcher with a lovely feel and texture to the […]

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Here’s some news of funding that may benefit digital storytellers in the UK. A pilot grant scheme for Connections though Culture: India - UK is now open and  arts producers or representatives from an arts organisations in the UK are eligible to apply.
Connections through Culture is the British Council’s new programme for collaborative exchanges between […]

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‘Same Place; Different Routes’ digital stories are being screened by Breaking Barriers at Llanhilleth Institute on Thursday 28th January 2010 at 7pm.
‘Same Place; Different Routes’ has three strands examining the experiences of:

recent migrants to Wales and people who moved here some years ago,
different generations living together in the Valleys
people with a range of mental health […]

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Thanks to Sarah Goodey who sent me news of this call for submissions:
“In celebration of International Women’s Day, Women’s Arts Association is hosting an evening of short films by contemporary female filmmakers.  This will be held in Pontardawe Arts Centre on Saturday 6th March 7-9pm. We are planning a short Q&A session after the screening […]

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Digital storytellers will be interested to hear that one £500 award per week is available between now and March 2010. That’s what Community Voices has to offer those in England using digital media to help empower disadvantaged communities:
“Media Trust is always looking to celebrate the varied and inspiring ways you are using digital media to […]

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Inform, educate and entertain was the old Reithian view of the BBC. Whilst continuing to be a worthwhile mission, it does sound a little ‘paternal’ or top-down for today’s world. It was refreshing to hear a new personal view of what the BBC needs to do today from Seetha Kumar - online access champion and […]

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This is a site by BBC Wales with personal stories by 14-25 year olds. In PS, you can submit and watch videos categorized Health, Entertainment, Education, Religion, News & Politics, Environment, Love & Sex, Animals, Race & Culture, Crime & Violence, Business & Economy, Sports, Life, Drugs & Alcohol, Science & Technology, Community & Society […]

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BBC iPlayer won the main Judges’ Award at last night’s RTS Innovation Awards.
I was there with Karen Lewis because BBC Digital Storytelling had been nominated in the user generated content category along with Channel 4’s Landshare and The Sex Experience. Landshare won in this category.
It was great to see Karen Lewis for the first time […]

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For 15+ years, Mandy Rose has been a champion for the individual as author/publisher. Tomorrow night, she delivers an RTS (Royal Television Society) talk called Contributors or Collaborators  . This is timely as the web’s shift from publication/communication to collaboration/social interactivity lends itself to collaboration in documentary forms. Mandy commissions multi-platform productions at BBC Wales and is […]

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Digital storytellers can pitch tomorrow (16 October) to Channel 4 TV’s 4iP commissioners. It’s an “opportunity to hear and meet Digital Commissioners from the 4iP, Education and Cross Platform teams and learn about plans for 2010.” Other UK dates and submission guidelines are here.
Thanks to Rhodri Nwdls for letting me know about this event.
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Communities 2.0 is hiring a director (£41-44k ) to help bridge the digital divide by tackling digital exclusion in convergence areas of Wales. Communities 2.0 will also try to mitigate some of the social inequalities derived from low incomes, poor health, limited skills or disabilities. Here’s the text of the job ad with […]

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University of Glamorgan is hiring a Knowledge Catalyst Employee to help ’create a raft of digital stories for use in the context of the new Museum of Cardiff the Cardiff Story’. Closing date 30 July 2009. Only people who graduated in the last four years are apparently elligible. Here’s the text of the job ad as […]

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Here’s more about how we worked with people who had stories to tell about what the heritage of the Rhondda Valleys in Wales  means to them in Valleys Kids’ Rhondda Lives project. This post follows a question from Cheryl Colan:
“…Did the individual storytellers work with and direct the video editor? If they spent only 2 […]

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$14,000 per annum is one local blogger’s estimate of how much he’ll earn in the coming year by covering local stories. Seattle blogger Justin Carder does the math(s) on this page.
Justin is one of the speakers at the free Portland Oregon Digital Journalism Camp - Saturday, August 1 at The Oregonian, 1320 SW Broadway, Portland, […]

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This is where the digital stories will be made.  There needs to be enough space, tables, chairs to accommodate all the equipment and people. Power points along two sides of the room makes safe rigging easier. It’s good if it has natural light and ventilation but’s essential it can be made dark enough for images […]

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Katrina Kirkwood has just finished archiving the Rhondda Lives films on one fantastic new website: www.rhonddalives.org.uk. There are 80 stories to view.
The rationale behind the project is explained and there’s a description of how the stories were made.
I’m a member of the Museums 3.0 Ning group and I think that group’s members will really enjoy […]

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“It excites me that I can be part of this new age.  Words, pictures and music if anything can lift the sprite and engender enthusiasm” - Joan van Oosterom (87)
More than 70 Digital Stories have been produced since the project started in January 2008 by the Coromandel Community Digital Storytelling Project. It’s an initiative to record, preserve, […]

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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
Here’s […]

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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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