The Power of Digital Storytelling

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The Power of Digital Storytelling

• Velma Robinson
• ITEC 715
• October 28, 2003

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History

• Origin in off-beat Theater
• Dana Atchley Bay area Artist guru
• Collaboration with Joe Lambert 1990
• Transformed Analog Video Theater into Completely
  Digital Work
• Next Exit

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Founded Center for Digital Storytelling

• 1994 San Francisco Media Center
• 1995 San Francisco youth Training
• Coca-Cola Calls Dana to Las Vegas

Dana Atchley - Next Exit
Joe Lambert Co-founder
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Wide Range of Applications
Industry Training Tool
Digital Story Bee
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Moved to Berkeley
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What is Digital Storytelling?

• A Process that incorporates multimedia to tell a
  story.
• Still Photos are digitally manipulated giving the
  appearance of movement.
• Short clips of video footage is often used
• Audio tracks of music and narration
• Tracks are Layered (photo shop project)

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Seven Elements

• Point (point of view)
• Dramatic Question
• Emotional Content
• Gift of your voice

• Power of the Sound Track
• Economy
• pacing

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Software Commonly Used

• Macromedia Director
• Adobe Premiere 6.5
• PhotoShop
• Final Cut Pro

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CDS Events

• Monthly Workshops 3 days
• Storytelling Bootcamps
• Internships Tina Silverstein (ITEC)
• Digital Storytelling Capturing Lives,
  Creating
  community
• by Joe Lambert
• The Dawn at my Back
• by Carroll Parrott Blue

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Credits and Acknowledgments

• Digital Storytelling of the New Millenium by
  Corey Hitchcock
• Digital Storytelling - Capturing Lives, Creating
  Community by Joe Lambert
• digital_storytelling2.jpg150 x 150 pixels -
  14kThe Dawn at My Back by Carroll Parrott Blue
• The Gate ww.sfgate.com/technology/special/1997/dst
  orytelling.html
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• www-gse.berkeley.edu/.../fall99/
  digital_storytelling.html
• www.infomotions.com/travel/ sigir-99-notes/
• www.ergotron.com/markets/
• www.seas.upenn.edu/be/undergrad/industry.html
• www.storycenter.org/
• www.well.com/user/sfdmc/
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  ashions.com/ PR001/pr001.asp