The details of the forthcoming Digital Storytelling Festival in Aberystwyth are now on the website of the town’s Arts Centre. I’m sure it’s not too late to book if you can get yourself to the west coast of Wales for the event on June 17th 2009.
I don’t like missing this event but I’m in Dorset for most of June delivering workshops in Wimborne Minster.
Video tools list for journalists – Jumpcut is closing down. Yahoo bought it about 18 months ago and now they’re pulling the plug as “part of the ongoing prioritization efforts at Yahoo!”. So I went on a search for other sites that offered slideshow and video editing services. None appear to be as versatile as Jumpcut, but there’s a list here if you want to plough through and give them a try. If you find one that suits the digital storytelling process come back here and comment. After a quick browse through the list Movie Masher appears to be best suited.
7 Minutes to Reinvent the Internet – The web has turned advertising principles on their head. The money is flowing in new directions and who knows where it will all end up. Seven people look into the not too distant future to suggest how advertising can be reinvented to fit the internet. Whilst these presentations are largely about making money, the lessons about how people use and experience the internet are valuable to all content creators.
This event is this weekend May 16th. There are many storytelling events scattered across the globe – although not many in the UK. I am gathering stories at a digital storytelling workshop in Birmingham for engineers, but it’s not open to the public so it doesn’t qualify as an event for the International Day.
If you want to take part in a passive way why not treat youself to watching a few digital stories on the digistoriesuk YouTube Channel?
…but do you have the communication skills?
One of the most powerful ways of delivering a message is to tell a story. Being able to create a logical and captivating narrative is essential to this, and these same skills apply equally to writing a grant application or speaking clearly at conferences.
We are offering free digistories workshops run by someone who originally developed the concept for the BBC. These are based around creating short video, telling a personal engineering-related story, from photographs and a recorded script.
The films you create will be used to promote public awareness of engineering, influencing potential engineers of the future and showing them what we really do.
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