creativity/machine

urban nostalgia and wonton soup

I’ve been having a great time working as a digital storytelling trainer at Visible Ink (see below) and have been inspired by the creativity of the young participants, and the diversity of their approaches to what a digital story can be about and for.

So while I’m on the show and tell kick, and to explain my inconsistent blogging over the last weeks, I thought I’d be brave and make my own recently completed digital story (which is about music, a changing Brisbane and dodgy chinese food) available for download:
Watch it here (RealMedia, 10 MB).

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2 responses to “urban nostalgia and wonton soup”

  1. Hi Jean,

    I came across your digital story today. I loved it – a nice combination of refelction, memory and astute comment and clever use of simple graphics. I loved the way the table came alive with colour through the simple sequence near the start of the film.

    I wish you well with your storytelling at Invisible Ink. Is it just a short project or does it have some legacy?

    All the best

    Barrie

  2. Thanks so much for the feedback and the kind works Barrie – I appreciate it. I’m thinking of reworking the drawing section though – too many missing pixels at low resolution.

    Yes, the workshops are ongoing – it is the first major phase of content creation as part of the Youth Internet Radio Network project here at QUT, although I won’t always be involved in the training for that. Digital Storytelling is a case study for my PhD, however, and I’m also hoping to do some workshops with older people in the local community – we have things in the works; let you know how it goes.

    What’s your involvement with Telling Lives? Just as a point of interest, we here at QUT got into digital storytelling because we were fortunate enough to be involved in a ten-day “train the trainers” workshop with Daniel Meadows.