What is Digital Storytelling?

Digital Storytelling integrates spoken narrative with media such as music and still and moving images to creative an evocative personal story.

Joe Lambert’s Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling

1. Point (of View)
2. Dramatic Question
3. Emotional Content
4. The Gift of Your Voice
5. The Power of the Soundtrack
6. Economy
7. Pacing
(Read the cookbook for more details.)

Why Digital Storytelling?

By compressing the key elements of a piece of writing into a script for your digital story, you learn to pare words down to their essentials. By setting Austen’s words to music and visual media, you better understand not only her words, but also, the art of making films. By choosing, manipulating, and juxtaposing various media, you will make better-informed choices in your writing. And, it’s fun.

What do I need to start?

* Text from Mansfield Park–(150-300 words may be continuous in the novel in one place or scattered through the novel from many places)
* 10-15 photographs or (1-2 minutes of video)
* Music on CD or in digital form

What is the timeline for this assignment?

October 24-26:

• Introduction to Digital Stories & choosing text

October 27-November 3

• Meet with Julz to record sound.
• Choose and assemble photos and sound.
• Meet with Neli for tech support.

November 4

• Workshop with Mack: save and burn

November 7

• Present Mansfield Park one to two minute imovie.

Continue reading “i-movie”

http://www.storycenter.org/whatis.html

http://www.storycenter.org/principles.html