Digital Storytelling

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Using Digital Storytelling techniques allows you to create a digital video that provides the viewer with a unique and personal reflection about a topic that you find meaningful. It could provide the viewers with insights about a topic that you find important. Here are a couple of ideas to consider:

• It tells the story of a personal reflective journey, passage, or experience.
• It tells the story or describes an important societal topic.
• It tells the story of a hero or an individual that you find inspiring.
• It tells a story that moves people to action.

Although the topic is somewhat wide, here are some criteria to consider:

• It uses still or video images
• It includes a voice over narration, based upon a written script
• It includes background music soundtrack (copyright free)

Resources

• Here is a web site by Helen Barrett with great resources and examples.
• Check out these most powerful Digital Stories from the Capture Whales Project.
• Here is the Script File.
• Short Movie Files.