{"id":124,"date":"2009-06-25T17:29:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T16:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aberth.com\/blog\/why-naming-conventions-matter.html"},"modified":"2017-12-02T09:13:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T09:13:22","slug":"why-naming-conventions-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aberth.com\/digitalstorytelling\/why-naming-conventions-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Why naming conventions matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a tip that will make post-production, storing, archiving and finding individual digital stories easier.<br \/>\nWhen working with workshop participants and individuals, ask them to make a final decision about which name they will use on their digital story.<br \/>\nThis seems so simple, but some people find it difficult because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>they have a name like John Smith which makes it hard to identify or make themselves stand out in public<\/li>\n<li>the name by which they&#8217;re known is not their given name<\/li>\n<li>they think they may like to keep the option of telling an anonymous story<\/li>\n<li>etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Having decided on a name. Make one folder called, say, &#8220;joe-m-bloggs&#8221;. Spelling is important, as is not using spaces in the folder name. On BBC Capture Wales \/ Cipolwg ar Gymru workshops, inside this folder we always used to make sub-folders for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>projects<\/li>\n<li>scans<\/li>\n<li>sized_images<\/li>\n<li>soundtrack<\/li>\n<li>titles<\/li>\n<li>video<\/li>\n<li>voice-over<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This folder is the storyteller Joe M. Bloggs&#8217;s special place on the workshop computer. Joe will use these folders to store the pictures and sounds that he is\u00a0 going to use in the making of his film.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of tidy housekeeping is something I learned mainly from Huw Davies when he was in charge of post production at BBC Capture Wales. When you&#8217;re working with groups of digital storytellers in workshops, having each person&#8217;s assets all within one named folder is essential. It makes it easy to to keep track of everything, give individuals a copy of not just their story but their source materials. Cleaning up the machines ready for the next workshop also becomes easier.<br \/>\nFrom the Capture Wales guide, here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/wales\/audiovideo\/sites\/about\/pages\/editing.shtml\">article on editing your digital story by Huw Davies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img title=\"Files (85) by Doug Waldron\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.aberth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/922328173_b246929f28_files.jpg?w=375\" alt=\"files photo\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Image inserted by the ImageInject WordPress plugin\" href=\"http:\/\/wpinject.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Photo<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96713863@N00\/922328173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Waldron<\/a> <a title=\"Attribution-ShareAlike License\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.aberth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-inject\/images\/cc.png?w=960\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Written and first published by Gareth Morlais on 25 June 2009<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;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 makes it hard to identify or make themselves stand out in public the name by which they&#8217;re known is not their given name they think they may like to keep the option of telling an anonymous story etc Having decided on a name. Make one folder called, say, &#8220;joe-m-bloggs&#8221;. Spelling is important, as is not using spaces in the folder name. On BBC Capture Wales \/ Cipolwg ar Gymru workshops, inside this folder we always used to make sub-folders for: projects scans sized_images soundtrack titles video voice-over This folder is the storyteller Joe M. Bloggs&#8217;s special place on the workshop computer. Joe will use these folders to store the pictures and sounds that he is\u00a0 going to use in the making of his film. This kind of tidy housekeeping is something I learned mainly from Huw Davies when he was in charge of post production at BBC Capture Wales. When you&#8217;re working with groups of digital storytellers in workshops, having each person&#8217;s assets all within one named folder is essential. It makes it easy to to keep track of everything, give individuals a copy of not just their story but their source materials. Cleaning up the machines ready for the next workshop also becomes easier. From the Capture Wales guide, here&#8217;s an article on editing your digital story by Huw Davies. Written and first published by Gareth Morlais on 25 June 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8,15,27,25],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why naming conventions matter - Aberth Digital Storytelling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aberth.com\/digitalstorytelling\/why-naming-conventions-matter\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why naming conventions matter - Aberth Digital Storytelling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#8217;s a tip that will make post-production, storing, archiving and finding individual digital stories easier. 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