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What
is Digital Storytelling?
Many individuals and communities have used the term "digital storytelling"
to describe a wide variety of new media production practices. What best
describes our approach is its emphasis on personal voice and facilitative
teaching methods.
We
all have stories about the events, people, and places in our lives. In
a group process, the sharing of these stories connects people in special
ways. People often come to our workshops feeling insecure about their
writing, about the technology, about their design sensibility. Many of
the stories we show as examples in our workshops are directly connected
to the images that one collects in a life's journey. But our primary concern
is encouraging thoughtful and emotionally direct writing. At the end of
the workshops, when the stories are presented, there is a bit of magic
as the fruits of their own work, and those around them, surprises and
inspires the participants.
MOMNOTMOM
- A Story
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Take
a look at a movie created by our former Community Programs Director
Thenmozhi Soundarajan, Momnotmom. The movie tells the story
of Thenmozhi's mother and is used as the basis of our workshop tutorials.
As
in Momnotmom, we have found that writing into the images, narrating
the story, and bringing the images to life using the power of digital
media design tools, creates a powerful medium for presenting a story. |
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Quicktime Version (2.4 MB)
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