DST guidelines and materials

•Digital Storytelling AFTERSCHOOL DIGITAL STORYTELLING Talking about your teacher identity •Elements in a digital story (DS) •A point of view (the personal ‘I’ instead of the third person singular) •A dramatic question (as a “hook” to capture the viewer as it tries to evoke emotion from them) •Emotional content •Economy (should be short and not exhaustive) •Pacing (important not to lose the viewer’s attention) •The gift of your voice (gives a sense of personal ownership) •An accompanying soundtrack (helpful in meaning making) IMPORTANT: The use of images to make meaning… AFTERSCHOOL DIGITAL STORYTELLING Talking about your teacher identity AFTERSCHOOL DIGITAL STORYTELLING Talking about your teacher identity •Images (types): •Narrative: participants or things are represented by a vector and they are doing things for or to each other •Images (types): •Conceptual:represent participants in terms of their more generalized, stable, and timeless essence.They visually ‘define’ or ‘analyse’ or ‘classify’ people, both physical and abstract things. AFTERSCHOOL DIGITAL STORYTELLING Talking about your teacher identity •Images (types): •Narrative or conceptual? AFTERSCHOOL DIGITAL STORYTELLING Talking about your teacher identity •Images (types): •Conceptual:represent participants in terms of their more generalized, stable, and timeless essence. EXAMPLE OF Analysing & classifying people AFTERSCHOOL DIGITAL STORYTELLING Talking about your teacher identity •Images (types): •Narrative or conceptual? AFTERSCHOOL DIGITAL STORYTELLING Talking about your teacher identity •Images (types): •Conceptual:represent participants in terms of their more generalized, stable, and timeless essence. EXAMPLE OF Symbolic image AFTERSCHOOL DIGITAL STORYTELLING Talking about your teacher identity •Shots and images:types and meaning AFTERSCHOOL DIGITAL STORYTELLING Talking about your teacher identity •Shots in images and social distance •Medium shots: •Everything is on the same plane. •The focus is on the whole v. the individual. •It gives you general information about the characters, their actions, and the setting. •Close shots •The focus is on the individual and their facial expressions •It gives you information about the individual’s thoughts and emotions in an attempt to generate these in viewers •It indicates aclose and intimate bond between the people in the image. •It signals that something is important AFTERSCHOOL DIGITAL STORYTELLING Talking about your teacher identity •What kind of shot is this one? AFTERSCHOOL DIGITAL STORYTELLING Talking about your teacher identity •Long shot This shot frames the two characters’ actions, heading straight for a disastrous situation for one of them. AFTERSCHOOL DIGITAL STORYTELLING Talking about your teacher identity •Wide shot The focus is on the landscape of the film, which allows audiences to experience the vastness of the desert. AFTERSCHOOL DIGITAL STORYTELLING Talking about your teacher identity •Shots in images and social distance •Long shots: •Establish setting and context •Present a character(s) •Display a character’s or characters’ wardrobe(s) •Show a character’s or characters’ actions •Show body language between characters •Wide shots •Frame characters with more space around them. •The focus is on the context and the setting. •Situates the audience and conveys meanings regarding the context and the setting. AFTERSCHOOL DIGITAL STORYTELLING Talking about your teacher identity •Images and shots •Different images therefore represent different types of meaning regarding the participants or elements of astory. •Different shot sizes have different storytelling functions and benefits. •Understanding different types of images and shot sizes can help you tell abetter story. ACTIVITY 1. Match your story with the images/videos you would like to use for your DS using any of the free story board templates at: https://www.canva.com/storyboards/templates/ 2. Decide whether they are narrative or conceptual, and whether they present aclose, medium, long or wide shot and what for. AFTERSCHOOL DIGITAL STORYTELLING Talking about your teacher identity •YOUR TEACHER IDENTITY STORY DST technologies: •Imovie •OpenShot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAD6vUfRRV4 •VoiceThread •Moviemaker •Movavi •Audacity •Photostory •PowerPoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8JV3w4TOVw AFTERSCHOOL DIGITAL STORYTELLING Talking about your teacher identity