VISUAL AND MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING
A digital story made in Victor, Idaho of from early story interviews
Why Choose Visual Stories
- Single Images (Still photos, paintings, etc) convey strong emotion, a single point or mood
- They can speak more loudly than words, especially in this image-centered era
- Images can show things differently, and show different things.
- Easy to place in the landscape for an ongoing presence
- Terrific way to engage people in a collaborative project (see mnural project examples)
Digital Tools
Publishing
- Calendars
- Artshows (Visions of the Now and of the Future) Example of an Online Exhibition
- Photo-stories pinned to map in town (or online via Community Almanac)
- Postcards or eCards Example from Minnesota
- Slide-stories (Stories in Five Images) Example from Minnesota and from Maine
- Before-and-After Photo Displays in the library, at school, in the newspaper
- Comic stories online or in a 'zine
- Collages as Posters or Online (glogster example)
- Posters or Murals about town Example from Canada, another from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, one from Philadephia, one from Duke University's Face Up! Project, from high school students in Denver--a mural club, a series from Chemainus, British Columbia
- Digital & Mural Combinations UCLA example
- At a story klatch, bring photos to stir the conversation/story pot
Multimedia Stories
Why Choose Multimedia
Video brings viewers to the action, to the place central to see and hear.
Mixing text and image well can amplify the message: two plus two equals far more than four.
Audio and image complement one another, bringing the viewer close to the teller and to the teller's perspective.
Great way to engage youth
Tools
- Video Editing: Basic tools-- iMovie (Mac) and Moviemaker(PC) ; Advanced tools: premiere (PC), FinalCutPro (Mac)
- Picnik for image/text--example above
- Voicethread for voice/image/text; Glogster for multimedia collages, example--a whole compendium of free, easy-to-use digital tools,
- described here by Alan Levine
- Soundslide example (Many newspapers use this professional quality tool--inexpensive)
Examples
Mapping Stories
Tours
Publishing
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