Every person, team, business, community, campus, or society has a story to tell and share. Make yours now. Digital storytelling is a workshop-based activity (usually 2-3 days) helping participants tell and create their stories using multimedia tools. The workshop will take you to a fun, friendly, and productive process and set of digital media tools in … Continue reading “What Is Digital Storytelling”
Every person, team, business, community, campus, or society has a story to tell and share. Make yours now.
Digital storytelling is a workshop-based activity (usually 2-3 days) helping participants tell and create their stories using multimedia tools. The workshop will take you to a fun, friendly, and productive process and set of digital media tools in creating your digital story from story idea, script writing, voice-over recording and editing, gathering and editing of images, and all the way to its final stage of producing your 1-3 minute video or digital story.
The stories could be about people, ideas, events, and places in our lives that are significant and meaningful. These are stories about our families, career, companies, communities, activities, services – anything that matters to us.
Who should attend? Students, educators, community leaders, parents, retirees, grandparents, pioneers, communicators, human resource personnel, business owners and social entrepreneurs – practically anyone with a story to keep or pass on and anyone interested in learning the tool and art of digital storytelling.
HISTORY
Digital Storytelling was founded in the US by Dana W. Atchley (1941-2000) in 1993. A video producer and avid storyteller, he developed and conducted project-based digital storytelling boot camps, where people – young and old, with or without experience in video production or background knowledge in computer and editing software – can make their own 2-3 minute video based on their personal story. It later became a movement that has taken flight from the US to the UK, Australia, and other countries.
Digital Storytelling Asia (DSA) in Singapore pioneered the work in Asia facilitating workshops in public, schools, prison, corporate groups, non-profit organizations, and others in Singapore, the US, and the Philippines. TheStoryFactory Director Aurelia L. Castro, is one of the founders of DSA. She was trained at the Center for Digital Storytelling (USA)
(From left: Aurelia L Castro (co-founder, Digital Storytelling Asia/Story Director, TheStoryFactory), Denise Atchley (Co-Founder and Director of The Digital Storytelling Festival™ and Dana Atchley Productions Inc.), Mr R Ramachandran (Executive Director, National Book Development Council of Singapore), and Angeline Koh (Founder, Tyros/Digital Storytelling Asia).