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Sharing Stories Redux
I’ve just finished work (with Helen Klaebe and an absolutely crack pair of research/production assistants) on the second series of digital stories for the Kelvin Grove Urban Village Sharing Stories project. This time, we were working mostly with older current and past residents of the Kelvin Grove area, and we’d discovered early on (with the…
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first person: international digital storytelling conference
I’m going to be presenting at this – should be an interesting collision of practitioners and researchers (and people who are both): First Person: International Digital Storytelling Conference Friday 3 February – Sunday 5 February 2006 The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia First Person will showcase Digital Storytelling as a new cinema…
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iPod video
One of many interesting discussions about the affordances, limitations and possible uses of the video iPod is happening at Adrian Miles’s blog. As I say in the comments, I’m quite positive about the implications of the iPod for small-format, visually humble and sonically rich cinema – like what my team had in mind with the…
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Daniel Meadows: Digital Storytelling Lecture
Daniel Meadows is a world leader in the Digital Storytelling movement and is here at QUT to offer a master-class workshop on new directions for digital storytelling. Come and join us… Public Lecture: Digital Storytelling: the journey from ‘doing media to people’ to ‘enabling people to do media’. When: Tuesday 1st November (THIS COMING TUESDAY)…
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Daniel Meadows Interview
J.D. Lasica has posted the video of an interview he did with Daniel Meadows at the Digital Storytelling Festival at KQED in San Francisco. In the interview, Daniel – who started it all here at QUT with a “train the trainers” workshop back in April 2004 – talks with characteristic passion about the social power…
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tales of small things
The BBC digital storytelling program has been exploring themed workshops (or at least thematic collections of digital stories) for a while – mostly pretty “big” stuff like family history, and there are some truly epiphanic experiences shared in those stories: revelations that recover lost histories, therapeutic moments of catharsis, and so on. It seems that…
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Mobile digital storytelling…
I’ve been ranting on and on about mobile phones as media production tools for ages – luckily, I never have to actually develop products to back up my rants, because time after time someone else has been doing it in the background all along…witness HP StoryCast: Simple, digital storytelling with photos and narration StoryCast is…
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60 second story
The 60 Second Story Competition is an excellent idea, especially in encouraging people to use the video recording capabilities of mobile phones. Reminds me of my MMS haiku idea (3 images, 3 captions with correct no. of syllables and all – voila!) Anyway…. We need more stories in our lives, yet we don’t have much…
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Archaelogy of the Voice
Ever since MIT4 last week, I’ve been exploring a recent epiphany to do with the sonic characteristics, and not only the visual ‘construction’ of digital stories In this article from 1997, performance theorist and archaeologist Mike Pearson reflects on some of the issues raised by the Centre for Performance Research, Aberystwyth’s (then) recent conference on…
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distractions
I’ve been quiet because we have all been derailed by this for the last two days. Thankfully, I get to leave that headspace this afternoon when I get to help a handful of Creative Writing students begin the process of constructing their digital stories out of an assemblage of voices, images, and lived experiences.