Assignment 4, Social software and Web 2.00 – Digital Storytelling

The basic principles of digital storytelling

Digital storytelling is the practice of combining narrative with digi­tal content, including images, sound, and video, to create a short movie, typically with a strong emotional component. (7 things you should know about storytelling)

Nowadays stories can be interactive movies that might include highly produced audio and visual effects. At the same time, a set of slides with related nar­ration or music can compose a simple digital story.

The resources available to making a digital story are unlimited, giving the storyteller huge creative latitude. Some learning theorists believe that storytelling can be effectively applied to nearly any subject. Creating a narra­tive and communicating it effectively require the storyteller to think carefully about the topic and consider the audience’s perspective(Franz and Nischelwitzer, 2004).

Story idea

Idea for this story comes from one of Jalal al-Din Rumi’s stories. Rumi was a 13^th century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Rūmī is a descriptive name meaning "the Roman" since he lived most of his life in an area called Rūm (then under the control of Seljuq dynasty) because it was once ruled by the Eastern Roman Empire.

The story is about three fishes that lived in a lake and the approaches each of them used to survive from fishermen and their nets.

Media used

·         Photoshop or any other photo editing software for editing scanned photos

·         Windows movie maker V2.6 for making the video

·         Youtube.com for uploading video created

You can find lots of useful Medias to create your own story here.

Production phase/ overview of pros and cons / chosen age group

At first phase I tried to find a proper story to tell and I thought the famous stories from old literature’s books would be good choice so I referred to Rumi’s stories which are my favorite.

At second step I modified the story to make it brief and good enough for a 2-5 minutes storytelling project. After designing the storyboard, I started to draw pictures. For this step, at first I drawn pictures on the paper then using scanner converted all of them to .jpg format. I have used Photo editing software( Adobe premier CS5) for editing and coloring the pictures.

I used an mp3 recorder to make the vocal narration. For mixing the voice whit picture Scenes I tried Adobe premier CS5.

I personally think the story I told, could be good for the age group 5-10 years old children which will learn what is the power of thinking and why we need to use our brain to survive.

Final work

This is my story!

 

You can see my final digital story directly on Youtube.com at this address.

 

 

Reference

FRANZ, K. & NISCHELWITZER, A. K. Year. Adaptive Digital Storytelling: A Concept for Narrative Structures and Digital Storytelling build on Basic Storytelling Principles, Adaptive Story Schemas and Structure Mapping Techniques. In, 2004. 25.