Digital Storytelling - How to create engaging Audio-Visual shows.
How to obtain the book
To obtain your own copy of the Digital Storytelling book, please follow the [link] Digital Storytelling.Alan's books are available [link - opens in a new window] here.
But keep and eye on this page, there are often discount codes provided by the printer.
Introduction
Audio visuals are a popular form of entertainment and used extensively in education and training. In the past, audio visual often consisted a pair of projectors with a control unit that caused the slides to change in time to a sound track. Crossfading from one projector to the other enabled a limited range of special effects. Today, the same results can be achieved with a variety of software, that offer a much greater range of special effects.Audio visual slideshows of the nineteen-seventies, have evolved into a new genre: Digital Storytelling.
Format
The presentation can be either over Zoom (or similar) or in your clubroom.For a clubroom presentation - the first part introduces the concept of stories and how to construct one. A workshop exercise adds a bit of fun. After coffee-break a second demo illustrates how to choose and use transitions support your story. (Avoiding those eyeball scorching wizzy effects).
For a Zoom presentation the workshop element is missed out.
Objective
The objective of this presentation is to introduce the key features of a modern audiovisual show.Outcomes
Club members learn the core principles of a digital story.Encourage members to create Digital Stories of their own.
The small-group working means that members have the chance to speak with each other throughout the evening.
Preparation
There is some preparation needed by the club. A Planning sheet is available.Storytelling for AV
For years, old sages and similar authority figures have been offering advice to tell a story. What they don't say is what a story is, nor how to construct one.What these less than useful advices should have said is "to tell it AS a story" .
- The storytelling book introduces the underlying structure of a story.
- Offers 25 templates that you can adapt and use in your next project.
Transitions
Image-to-image transitions are a mainstay feature of modern audio-visual sequences.The challenge for a AV worker is how to select transitions from a bewildering choice — some AV software has hundreds to choose from.
Randomly using too many, or those wizzy flying all over the screen degrades a good AV into something like a low-budget daytime TV quiz show.
The book introduces a way to select transitions to support your story.
