It’s time to enrol for the Digital Storytelling Festival in Aberystwyth. The date for this year is 17th June 2009 at the Arts Centre on the campus of the University of Wales. It’s always good value and if you’re travelling you can stay overnight on the campus for a very reasonable rate.
There’s more information here
Sadly I can’t be there this year as I’m running a workshop in Dorset on that date.
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DS4 – Aberystwyth
Monday, April 20th, 2009Engenious Stories – Presentation
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009This is the presentation explaining the Engenious Digital Storytelling Workshops
It’s in three parts
(Please note that the Salford workshop will now be held on May 7th, 14th and 21st and not t as indicated in this presentation)
Part 1 What is Digital Storytelling?
Part 2 How does Digital Storytelling work?
Part 3 How do you prepare?
The EWB workshop will also be held in Salford be held in Birmingham
To enrol for either workshop contact Dr Zoe Stec L.Z.Stec@salford.ac.uk
Graduate Engineers – free workshop in Salford
Friday, April 3rd, 2009The next digistories workshop in the North of England is in Salford on three Thursdays: April 30th, May 7th & 14th. It’s for graduate engineers – part of the Engenious Stories programme.
Places are free but have to be booked. Contact Dr Zoe Stec L.Z.Stec@salford.ac.uk
Southampton digistories workshop update
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
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, 2009The 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, 2009I’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
A new name for the stories produced in the Engineers workshop – Engenious Stories. I’ve assembled them into a single playlist. Take a look
The workflow continues
Sunday, February 8th, 2009I spent Friday morning in East Dorset explaining to a group of people in Wimborne Minster how digital storytelling works. These sessions do me as much good as the people I’m presenting to. Somehow it re-ignites my vision for the whole process, and as the group start to tell stories of their own I get a new sense of how many stories are waiting to be told.
So sometime this spring I shall be in Dorset Training Trainers to deliver workshops of their own.
And on Monday I am at the National Media Museum in Bradford to start a workshop for Broadcast Engineers. The weather’s not looking too kind at the moment (Sunday evening) but hopefully the train will take me there – and those participating.
Useful first look at iMovie ‘09
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009iLife 09 continued: My first iMovie 09 video | The Download Blog – Download.com
You also have better control over the audio track, the title animation, and the sound effects–you can change them or move them around, for example. But we still would prefer a more precise manipulation. For example, we wanted to match up an exact part of a song to a specific point in a video clip. We could only do this after a lot of dragging and dropping and trial and error. If we had a timeline, lining them up would be a lot easier. For better transitions and edits, the precision editor works great, but we still miss the timeline.
While it seems that the new iMovie is better than the previous version the lack of a timeline still concerns me. I will update my views after I have installed iLife ‘09 for myself – still waiting for the postman to delever.
Get iMovie HD while you can
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
iLife ‘09 was released today. It was also the day that the free download page for iMovie HD 6 was removed.
Apple allowed users to download the earlier version because iMovie 08 was such a radical change that many users were left without some essential functions – timeline editing to name just one.
I can only assume that because iMovie ‘09 has more functions Apple thinks that the old application is no longer needed. What they will have failed to take into account is the way that Digital Storytellers use iMovie using a narrated voice track and still images compiled on a timeline. Even if ‘09 is capable it will take time for workshop leaders like myself to devise new workflows and update their user manuals.
It seems that iMovie HD is still on the Apple Support servers and can be downloaded by following this link. iMovie HD So get your copy now and keep it somewhere safe. You may still need it for a while yet – you may even prefer it.
Story first seen on MacRumours.com
