Archive for March, 2009

Southampton digistories workshop update

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Engineers have a digital story to tell

The plan for Southampton is being updated. I will be in Building 27, Room 3059 on Highfield Campus at Southampton University next Tuesday giving two taster presentations.

If you want to know more then come along at either 11am or 1pm when I will be expalining how it all works, how much you will get out of it, how it will help aspiring engineers and to answer your questions. No need to book for tasters – just turn up. Enquiries to Dr Steve Dorney

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The workshop will now run on the following Tuesdays – April 21st 28th and May 5th. You need to attend all three days to complete your story. Otherwise the details already published still apply.

Graduate Engineer near Southampton?

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

The next Engenious Stories workshop is in Southampton. If you are interested you have only a short time to register, but it’s free and you will find the experience very rewarding. More about the project here. Click on the flyer below to download it.
To register contact Dr Steve Dorney today if possible.

Faith Stories

Friday, March 20th, 2009

I’ve just finished uploading more stories to the digistoriesuk YouTube channel. This latest batch is from two workshops which were run for faith communities. A church called Harrogate New Life and the summer school of Riding Lights Theatre Company. There are some quite remarkable stories here as well as others that are gentle and reassuring in the sense that not every story has to be defined a crisis or disaster. This one is from Ann Bentley – a school teacher in Harrogate.

There are also a couple of my stories in there. “Sleeping Under Cover” is the first digital story I made whilst training at the BBC. It, too, is about faith.

Engenious Stories

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

youtubelogoA new name for the stories produced in the Engineers workshop – Engenious Stories. I’ve assembled them into a single playlist. Take a look

The digistoriesuk YouTube Channel is live

Monday, March 9th, 2009

I have created a YouTube channel called “digistoriesuk” to display digital stories created in my workshops.

I had to add the uk on the end because there is already a digistories channel which is being used by someone in California called Fred Mindlin who is running workshops over there.

The first stories to be uploaded are from the Ingenious series of workshops funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering with the Universities of Salford and Southampton.

Watch one of them here

How to Export 720 HD video from iMovie ‘09

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

This a rather techy article from Macworld but it is very useful. The quality of exported video from iMovie is often disappointing for a number of reasons. This article tackles only one format, 720 line HD, but the principles can be applied to others too. It’s well worth a read. If you understand it, fine. If not you may need a more elementary lesson in video formats.