Generally speaking it entails getting work creating or helping other people create and publish digital stories.
I like the more specific definition of digital stories as being a short movie created by recording an audio VoiceOver and adding still photos, art work, documents and some video clips to compliment and support the voice over.
This form of digital story has both power and advantages of accessibility of technology. It is also cheap - a big advantage when you are working with community.
I've just put one of my own digital stories that fits this definition very well. It's a homage to my father called 'Making a Life'. http://vimeo.com/39613712
My most recent project that used digital stories was the Riverview School Artist In Residency Project. One of the outcomes was a DVD of digital stories of the stories that I created with the primary students. We created orally and recorded as we went, some on an iPad and some on a laptop but in both cases projected to a smart board for the students to watch and help edit. From the voiceovers the students worked with a visual artist colleague, Narelle Oliver, to create foam board prints which were then scanned.
I then created digital stories with voice over and prints and published to DVD. Some draft versions of them can be found on ourriverviewstories.blogspot.com .
'Yarns and Life Stories - Inala Elders' is a DVD of digital stories and video stories that I produced and created for and with a group of I digenous community Elders. Some of them such as Aunty Edna Bond's 'All Together' has only a couple of short video segments and I'm happy to call them digital stories others are all, or nearly all, video and I'd rather say video story.
I had a meeting this morning with an Indigenous community leader who is publishing a book of Dream Time stories and wants to add a DVD of 'digital story' versions to them. I hope this project works out. Will depend on a couple of grant applications however.
Well there's some of my practice.
Regards
Daryll.
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