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 explore good practice when taking and printing photographs, especially in relation to working with young people Sessions are FREE. There are a limited number of spaces available. For more information/to book a space please contact sob@aber.ac.uk Tel: 01970 622338 The workshops are made possible by ‘Reach the Heights’ – a major Welsh Assembly Government initiative aimed at reducing the number of young people in Wales aged 11 – 19 years…
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Digital storytelling in the cloud
The ideal solution for a touring digital storytelling project, using existing, available digilabs at community centres, libraries, schools, colleges, etc. would seem to be to use web-based editing applications. This would remove the need to install individual programs or to have carrier bags full of training handouts for different combinations of pre-installed software. I’ve been discussing this recently with Umbrian home movies specialist Simona Bonini Baldini, who’s just returned home to Italy after spending the summer with us at the BBC here in Wales. Simona too liked the idea of editing in the cloud. One of her must-haves though was the ability to help digital storytellers to make broadcast-quality videos.…
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News of three BBC media literacy projects
I’ve just been reading an info pack from BBC Learning Campaigns and these three items on the slate caught my eye: 1. My Story Fifteen of the thousands of stories submitted will be showcased as five half-hour programmes, starting 7th Sept, 10.35pm, BBC One. www.bbc.co.uk/mystory 2. CBBC Me and My Movie This fourth year, Me and My Movie – the film-making initiative from CBBC and Learning – is teaming up with Tate, Aardman, Fallon, BAFTA and Film Education to deliver the Tate Movie Project, an ambitious Legacy Trust initiative. Children aged 5-13 will supply the drawings, storylines, characters and everything else needed to create an animated video. BBC Learning will…
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Four strategic questions to ask yourself when planning digital storytelling projects
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