Digital storytelling
I found this paper on digital storytelling, as I rummaged around the internet today. It talks about “Storytelling as a powerful means of remembering, reshaping identity and sharing cultural values”, but further “Digital storytelling, which is both a powerful process for reflection and a tool for sharing”
You may like to have a read, but if you don’t have the time, then here are some of the juicy bits…
“Storytelling is rooted in our cultures. The stories we tell shape our lives and our cultures. They help us define who we are and craft our identity. Kineo (2006) says that stories ‘engage the heart before the mind’ and suggests we use stories in teaching and learning. The power of storytelling is in who owns the story, who tells it and who hears it.
While digital storytelling uses technology to tell stories: the story remains the focus. Images audio and pacing add other sensory dimensions to the telling.
Depending on the type of story we tell, sorting through photos and trying to shape a story allows us to re-evaluate the memories of the past. We sort through images, remembering the events, deciding what our story is and who will hear it. We see things we may not have seen before—background images, trees, garden seats—cultural markers that sit in our memory and tell us how we got to be who we are.
Part of the process of creating a digital story involves gathering together images, writing a story, recording the story and any other appropriate audio. Digital stories engage us because we use at least three senses to ‘read’ them: sight, sound and touch. In this way they are more involving.
But digital storytelling, using what is now accessible technology, democratises this process, makes it available to all of us, gives us the opportunity to reflect and to consider who we are, what we want to say and what and how we want to present our story and ourselves. Digital stories fall somewhere between the fixed story that exists in print and the constantly changing story that is an oral story. While on one hand the story is ‘fixed’ on the other we can amend and remake the story as often as we want and upload it to a website everyday should we wish. It offers greater agency.”
In other news, i will start a video blog very soon, with me talking about project goings on. I will try and update this weekly. Is there anything you want to know about Stray Cinema? Please ask questions (in the form of comments) which I will answer in my first video. Thanks :)
By michelle, 5 years ago