Research Methods: Digital Storytelling

DIGITAL STORYTELLING                                                                                        
Bea Staley
http://www.youtube.com/user/bxs018
http://www.storycenter.org
Joe Lambert

Point of View
- meant to be your personal point of view
- why are you telling this story?

Dramatic Questions
- if you have a "reveal" in the story, i.e. who did it??, is there a way to build up dramatic tension by building suspension?

Gift of Voice
- you are telling a story in your own voice

Power of Music
- Jamendo (http://www.jamendo.com/en/)

Economy of Words
- let images do the work; 500-1000 words (about 2 pages double-spaced MAX)
- take your time reading slowly

Pacing
- good stories BREATHE 
- can change the tone of a story by changing your pacing

Creation Options:
iMovie, MovieMaker
- iMovie wants you to put in the images FIRST - it will keep the audio recording to the IMAGE (put a 5-minute image in first and layer other images over the base)

"A shitty story is still a shitty story, even if you put technology into it."
Put a lot of time and editing into the story itself
Eliminate redundant words

"Fonto" for text...?

Keep transitions consistent otherwise they tend to be distracting
MAKE SURE that all of your images are saved in ONE PLACE until the video is RENDERED/SAVED otherwise they will disappear