F18 Week Seven Agenda

Week Seven: Digital Storytelling | Agenda

Tuesday 9 October | Digital Storytelling  

Noteworthy:

• Assignment Due Thursday 11 October in class : BlogPost | Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum
• Reading for Thursday 11 October : Lambert, J. (2012) Chapter 7: Approaches to the Scripting Process & Chapter 8: Storyboarding.
• Thinking of some digital story ideas….
• Assignment Due Thursday 18 October in class : Blog Post | Field observation I, Reflections about your students

Reading: Selected Readings in the Content Areas

Small group activity (continued) Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling

• Everyone is assigned a step to explore
• Viewing : Julia by Rhiana Wiggins | Story Center 
• Read in Lambert 5 about the main ideas of your step (relative to the digital story you just watched):
• Prepare a talking point or two based on the reading;
• Identify a brief quote or two from the reading;
• Relate the talking points and quotes to the digital story you watched;
• Ask the class about your step and discuss it with us.

Workshop :

• What is WeVideo?
• Sign up with WeVideo

Small group activity  BlogPost | Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum

Viewing: Center for Digital Storytelling

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Thursday 11 October  | Digital Storytelling

Noteworthy

Over the weekend, create a few short videos (10-30 seconds), still images, (5-10 both horizontal and vertical) and audio files as well.  The images and videos should all address a common theme, person, place, thing, event…. Upload them to a new WeVideo project. We’ll work with these next week in class during our video editing workshops.

Reading: Lambert, J. (2012) Chapter 7: Approaches to the Scripting Process & Chapter 8: Storyboarding, Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community. (4th Edition). Routledge : New York, NY. pp. 88-101.

Assignment Due in class : BlogPost | Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum

StoryTime | Tell your partner a story.

Workshop I |  WeVideo

• [Note: Mac computers cannot use Safari]
• Dashboard
• Projects
• Uploading media

Discussion 1: BlogPost | Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum

Discussion 2: Scripting for Digital Storytelling

• The 7th Step — writing for your audience
• A few notes about scripting
  • Just short enough, but not any shorter
  • Including a scene, position yourself within the narrative
  • Focus on the narrative, use visuals, SFX and music to texture the narrative with context and description.
• Dear students… 4×6
• The Story Spine: Pixar’s 4th Rule of Storytelling
• Viewing:
  • Cycle of Life – a digital story by Dany Martinez
  • An Agricultural Place –  a digital story by David Vigil

Discussion 3: Storyboarding for Digital Storytelling

Resources: There are any number of storyboarding apps to choose from including apps dedicated to the iPad. (You might just prefer using Post-It Notes on a sheet of paper).

• Visit the App store and explore the various StoryBoard tools. While I cannot recommend one or another application, there are numerous interesting apps to explore.  Of course read the reviews before spending money.
• Prezi is particularly effective for storyboarding.
• You might also consider Google Slides. (Please note: the application you choose for your storyboard needs to be well suited for representing the semiotic systems you are exploring).
• Lino – collaborative bulletin board for posting notes, images, and video

Resources: 

• What is WeVideo?
• WeVideo Academy — video tutorials
• WeVideo: video production and editing

Workshop II:  WeVideo: video production and editing (I DO, YOU DO, WE DO, YOU DO…)

1. Basic editing in Timeline Mode
2. Titles
3. Multiple tracks -> video
4. Animation
5. Video Levels (Dissolve)
6. Audio
7. Audio Levels
8. Multiple tracks -> audio