Video Project

Unit 1: Be­lief — Story — Oral­ity
Project: Dig­i­tal Sto­ry­telling video

    » over week­end:
  • consider/choose non­fic­tion story for video (out­line nar­ra­tive for work­shop)
  • Read (Re­source): Cen­ter for Dig­i­tal Sto­ry­telling (2010) “Script­ing” & “Sto­ry­board­ing” ex­cerpts (PDF )


Week 4
 
M 01-Feb  Project 1 Work­shop:

  • We­V­ideo intro/overview (au­dio record­ing, im­ages, videos)
    re­source (watch before/after class): Overview Video
     
    → We­V­ideo Guide Page (links to tu­to­ri­als, help­ful dur­ing com­pos­ing process)
     
  • Discuss/review: Project ob­jec­tives & strate­gies
     
    → Write/start in class: Sto­ry­board your video (Project 1)
    + publication/circulation map (for blog en­try)


W 03-Feb Hy­brid work:



F 05-Feb Project Work­shop:

  • Video work-in-progress
    — for peer feed­back + tech/design sup­port
     
  • look­ing ahead: fi­nal­iz­ing & pub­lish­ing video (stage 4 of progress time­line)


    » Project due dates:
  • Video Fi­nal­ized 02/08 class-time
  • Com­po­si­tion Sum­mary 02/08 evening


Digital Storytelling

Unit 1: Be­lief — Story — Oral­ity
Project: Dig­i­tal Sto­ry­telling video

  • up­com­ing: Ex­er­cise 1 (due F 29-Jan)

week 3

M 25-Jan  Dis­cuss: dig­i­tal nar­ra­tive se­lec­tions from
This I Be­lieve
and Cen­ter for Dig­i­tal Sto­ry­telling (choose one from each, min­i­mum)

  • Fo­cus: con­ven­tions of nar­ra­tive, ob­served in ex­am­ples
    —ideas for Ex­er­cise and for com­pos­ing



W 27-Jan Dis­cuss: ex­cerpt from The New Dig­i­tal Sto­ry­telling by Alexan­der (2011) PDF in D2L

  • fo­cus: me­dia + genre con­ven­tions, tech­niques, choices

Watch: Shipka, “On the Process of Com­pos­ing Other People’s Lives” En­cul­tur­a­tion 2012 



F 29-Jan  Due: Ex­er­cise 1 (500 words, 10 points) — In­struc­tions Page

  • Con­ven­tions of Nar­ra­tive & Be­lief (Dig­i­tal Sto­ry­telling Project warm-up)
  • Fo­cus: ideas & lessons iden­ti­fied from ana­lyzed sto­ry se­lected + prospec­tive tech­niques for ap­pli­ca­tion



New Digital Storytelling

*Look­ing ahead (over week­end): choose non­fic­tion story for video (out­line for work­shop)
+ reg­is­ter for We­V­ideo

Re­source: Cen­ter for Dig­i­tal Sto­ry­telling (2010) “Script­ing” & “Sto­ry­board­ing” ex­cerpts (PDF in D2L)