Aberth Digital Storytelling

Cuts or cross-fades are the video transitions I recommend, unless there’s a good story-related reason to use something else.
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Joe Lambert of the Center for Digital Storytelling has written with news of workshops he’s holding in Copenhagen this summer and of exciting plans to establish a European Center for Digital in conjunction with Copehagen Business School.
Joe’s team will be joined for the workshops by guest trainers Lisa Heledd Jones (BBC Wales and George […]

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When you’re working on storytelling with a group of people in a situation like the Digital Storytelling Storycircle, there’s one game that often really helps people to come up with ‘their story’. It’s the Match Game and it’s Gilly Adams who pioneered its use in Digital Storytelling. Gilly wrote instructions for this game to be […]

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It’s by the BBC Capture Wales team and we wrote it to coincide with the Digital Storytelling Gathering tour around Wales last month. It’s on the BBC Wales Digital Storytelling website. Hope you find it useful.
Here’s a link to the html menu page on the BBC website. And here’s a link to the pdf download […]

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The Capture Wales team has been holding a series of five Digital Storytelling Gatherings around Wales. We’ve held them in Caernarfon, Aberystwyth, Swansea, Merthyr Tydfil and Cardiff. The final one - in Cardiff - was held today and it was fantastic!
More than 100 individuals who are actively involved in or interested  in facilitating digital storytelling […]

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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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I’m hoping this is useful to people working in museums or with film archives….
I’ve written about Rhondda Lives! here before. This is a Valleys Kids Project, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, BBC Wales and the National Sound and Screen Archive of Wales.
I led a workshop held at Valleys Kids’ Soar Chapel at the end […]

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I had an email this morning from a student at Albany, NY, USA, who’s making a digital story for a college assignment. He was writing to ask about online tutorials. Here are three that came to mind:
1. www.photobus.co.uk > DS > DS Tutorial. Daniel Meadows goes into the software and the key steps to building […]

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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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I’ve just been looking at the new Highland Lives website. The Flash video tutorials look really good and there’ll be an uploader there soon. Editor Liz Leonard is coming to Aberystwyth for DS2.
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Dr. Jason Ohler, University of Alaska (www.jasonohler.com) wrote to me today to let me know about his… “…new web journal, subTechst (like subtext, just more digitally inclined); it’s low impact (a few short postings a month), and is about technology and learning, with an emphasis on my work in new media and digital storytelling. Right […]

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Here’s a link to a new digital storytelling manual by KQED:
http://dsi.kqed.org/index.php/workshops/about/C66
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If you’re planning to train people to include video clips in the form of ‘pieces to camera’ in their digital story or ’short’, there’s a lot people need to learn:
- how to feel comfortable and come across as well as they can on camera
- how to say something that’s engaging for the viewer
- how to […]

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Someone asked me this week about setting up and training people to run audio storytelling workshops on someone else’s equipment. It’s best to be prepared for the unexpected. The biggest challenge is often the fact that machines are ‘locked down’ by the administrator.
To work around potential permissions issues when working on computers in community cyber […]

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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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When helping others to make their first Digital Story, you may work with people who’ve never used a computer before. Here’s a checklist of ten of the first things you need to know about if you’re unfamiliar with computers:
1. How to switch your computer on and off.
2. How to sit comfortably; tilt the screen to […]

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Presentation at Streaming Media Europe 2006 about Managing Digital Assets, taking Digital Storytelling as a case study, by Gareth Morlais - BBC Wales Digital Storytelling.
Digital Stories are two minute personal films created by the storyteller, using their own photos words and voice.
Slide 1 - The Any List
Rights management becomes easier if you brief authors before […]

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I’m speaking in London on Friday and the subject of the session is Managing Digital Assets, taking Digital Storytelling as a case study. A new concept I’ll be introducing is that of Dream Deliverables. I won’t say too much before the event, but here’s a link to two of the presentation’s key slides.
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