Asking yourself these four questions should help you when strategically planning digital storytelling projects: 1. how will you address consents? Privacy laws in the UK are more relaxed than in other countries like France. Setting laws to one side, ask yourself: if that was me/my child in that story, would I be happy? What will be the wording of your formal release form or contract which makes the storyteller’s consent explicit? 2. who will own the copyright of the finished stories and will exhibition licences be explicitly attached and will they be exclusive or non-exclusive licences? You can have the intellectual property resting with the storyteller, with a licence granted to…
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Digital storytelling on the high street
Wouldn’t it be great if you could pop in to get some expert help and make your own digital story while shopping in town? Well, during August 2010, if you’re lucky enough to live in Newcastle in the north-east of England, you can. Culture Shop is Culture Shock‘s empty shop arts project which not only screens digital stories but also offers expert facilitation for people who’d like to make their own digital story. Some take their own photos to tell their story; others choose from a range of artifacts from museums and galleries of the North East England. I visited Culture Shop while we were visiting my wife’s friend Grainee…
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Glamorgan GATES hiring digital storytelling tutor
Glamorgan GATES is looking for a digital storytelling tutor for its www.merthyrstories.org project. Thanks to Karen Lewis of StoryWorks for passing this on to me. Here’s the text of the message: Glamorgan GATES is looking for a digital storytelling tutor for our merthyrstories.org project. Our current tutor is moving on. We have a core group of four/five older storytellers who are well skilled in digital storytelling but we are looking for someone who is knowledgeable and vibrant and will bring something new to the class and generate some new students. A recent graduate or postgraduate student would be ideal. We have approximately 5 hrs per week on offer. Please…
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Breaking Barriers is hiring three digital storytelling workers
Some great news: the Breaking Barriers Community Arts digital storytelling project, based in south-east Wales, has just had confirmation of funding from the Coalfields Regeneration Trust. This is of major importance to digital storytelling in Wales. So now Breaking Barriers is recruiting three people to take the project on to its next strides between now and March 2012. As far as the duration of funding goes, Breaking Barriers’ Ruth Garnault says: “Part of the role of these posts, however, is to ensure the long-term viability of the organisation which will lead to the posts being extended.” Here are the recruitment details Ruth sent me: JOB ADVERTISEMENT Breaking Barriers Community Arts…
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The Cardiff Story digital stories
I went to the screening last night at the Atrium in Cardiff of 13 new digital stories, made to be exhibited at The Cardiff Story – a museum about the city which opens in autumn 2010. The stories were broadly all on the theme of the views about Cardiff of people living in the Valleys of south Wales. They’re a collaboration between The Cardiff Story, University of Glamorgan’s George Ewart Evans Centre of Storytelling, Cardiff Council and the AHRC. Only 13 of the stories were screened last night but they’ll all be exhibited at the Cardiff Story later in 2010, and on their website. What’s remarkable about this is that…
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Seven things to avoid when making a digital story
1. Telling your story in a straight line 2. Fancy video effects 3. A less than perfect voice recording 4. Corny visual cliches 5. Nothing but show and tell 6. Twee rhyming poetry 7. Using other people’s stuff As you can see as you follow the links, I’m doing a little recycling here because the individual articles are reprised. But this is the first time I’ve laid these out as a Top 7 of digital storytelling tips. If you find this Top 7 useful, tell other people by linking to it, re-tweeting or pasting the address into your Facebook update. And happy digital storytelling. Thanks. Written and first published by…
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Digital stories and emergency management for schools
Digital stories about bush fires in Australia are now being used as learning materials in that country’s schools. There are ten stories about natural disasters like fire and flood – all based on actual experiences. There’s also a freely-downloadable pack for teachers. The digital stories were facilitated by ACMI, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and it’s great to see digital storytelling being used in this way. To see the stories and read more about this: http://www.ema.gov.au/… Source: http://www.psnews.com.au/Page_psn22411.html
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Home movies meet digital stories
Do you know of examples of media forms that mix home movies with digital storytelling to add a personal-viewpoint narration to a home movie? If you do, please can you add a link to the comments below? (Don’t worry about the error message when you send the comment; I seem to be picking up all the coments OK, This is one of the joys of my WordPress comments plugin). I’m asking the question because an Umbrian researcher called Simona Bonini Baldini is spending the summer based here at BBC Wales investigating the BBC Capture Wales model and seeing if this kind of digital storytelling method might be mixed with the…
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wearecardiff
Interesting new multi-format digital storytelling about ‘place’ project – and it’s here in Cardiff. I’m looking forward to finding out more: The background is in this WalesOnline news report. The organisers (including Helia Phoenix, Roath) have already staged an empty shop project in town: via Google news alerts
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DS5 digital storytelling conference cribsheet 2010
This is my look back at DS5. It’s something I did after previous conferences DS4 (2009), DS3 (2008) and DS2 (2007) too. Unfortunately, the record of DS1 is no longer online. At this year’s DS5, Diego Vidart – Historias Digitales del Uruguay (HDUY) – gave the opening speech of the day. Diego had worked with Breaking Barriers in Wales a few years ago and now he’s now working at the Catholic University of Uruguay in Montevideo on a USB-based video capture and editing application that enables children to capture and edit a digital story. The One Laptop per Child (OX) initiative is up and running in Uruguay. Because the OX’s…