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How to create a polished, powerful digital story for yourself or your nonprofit. Target audience: Nonprofits, social change organizations, educators, foundations, individuals. This is part of Creating Media, our ongoing series designed to help nonprofits and other organizations learn how to use and make media. With millions of videos floating around on the Web, I’d like to make the case today for a genre that has received far too little attention: digital storytelling. Digital storytelling is a craft that uses the tools of digital technology to tell stories about our lives. Done properly, storytelling can be a powerful, evocative way of communicating. InformationWeek.com: News, analysis and research for business technology professionals, plus peer-to-peer knowledge sharing. Engage with our community. Video Editing Fade In Fade Out MashedLet the people your nonprofit is helping tell their own impactful stories. Nonprofits, especially, can use this technique to convey powerful, emotion- filled messages — by letting the people you’re helping tell their own stories. If you plan to do it yourself, see our Visual story checklist to make sure you follow all the steps involved in creating a compelling story. You may also want to sign up for a digital storytelling workshop (see bottom), which can last from a few hours to a full day or two and generally costs a modest tuition fee. Either way, follow the following steps and you’ll be on your way. Decide on the story you want to tell. Step 1. You probably already have a person or subject in mind. Think small. Focus. Don’t get caught up trying to convey all the aspects of someone’s life — you’re not writing the great American novel, you’re creating what will optimally be a 3- to 5- minute work that recounts a personal tale and reveals a small truth. KQED Digital Storytelling Initiative. What form should your story take? In their decade of leading workshops, Joe Lambert and Nina Mullen of the Center for Digital Storytelling list these main varieties of digital stories: • The story about someone important. Character stories center on a person who’s touched you in a deep way. Often, these stories reveal as much about the narrator as about the subject of the piece. Memorial stories pay tribute to someone who passed on but left a lasting impression.• The story about an event in your life. Travel stories — stories about a personal journey or passage — can be effective if they result in the narrator being transformed by the experience in some way. Accomplishment stories about achieving a goal, graduating from school, or winning an honor can easily fit into the framework of the desire- struggle- realization structure of a classic story.• The story about a place in your life. Our sense of place serves as the focal point of a great many profound stories.• The story about what I do. People find value in their work, hobbies, or social commitments and can weave wonderful stories from their experiences in each.• Recovery stories. Sharing the experience of overcoming a tragedy, challenge, or personal obstacle is an archetype that always has the potential to move audiences.• Love stories. We all want to know how someone proposed, met a spouse, experienced the birth of a first child, or came to terms with a parent. Exploring these kinds of relationships helps affirm our own.• Discovery stories. These stories probe how we uncovered a truth or learned how to do something. Now, choose one type of story that appeals to you or that fits your organization’s mission. Can you think of some individuals your organization can spotlight in a positive way through storytelling? Gather your materials. Step 2. Start collecting memories. The most powerful images are often discovered during a treasure hunt in the family attic. Start gathering old photos, vintage film reels, digital video, flyers, mementos — anything that holds emotional resonance. Don’t think you have to go out and visually capture a story with a camcorder or camera. Use what you have! Older “found materials” usually prove to pack more of an emotional wallop than new footage. Begin writing your script. Step 3. Next, start jotting down ideas. Discuss your ideas with family and friends. Play out a rough story in your head. Sketch out a script that you’ll soon record with your own voice. Resist the temptation to take the easy way out and create a story with only images and music. People want to hear a personal voice. Don’t be self- conscious about how your voice sounds; we all think we sound odd on tape. Draft a short script. That’s where many people get bogged down. Get past the fear of committing words to paper. Some tips: • Get personal. Forget everything you’ve been taught about using a dispassionate, authoritative, essay- like voice. This isn’t an essay contest. People want to hear your voice. The story must be told from your point of view.• Write lousy first drafts. Don’t edit as you go. Editing and writing use different parts of the brain. Let it spill out. Get the main elements of your story down on paper, then go back and edit later.• Write short. You’ll be surprised at how much you can convey with a few words and some key images.• Read your script aloud as you’re fine- tuning it. Eschew big, fancy words (like “eschew”); use plain speech.• Don’t hold back. Be real. You need to reach an emotional depth, and sometimes that can only be achieved by revealing uncomfortable truths. Ultimately, however, it’s up to you to make a profoundly personal decision about what material you want to share — and with whom.• Look for a narrative arc for your story. All stories — even 3- minute gems — have a beginning, middle and end. The beginning tells the premise of your story: it sets up the dramatic tension that should hold throughout the story. The middle outlines conflicts along the way. The end is the destination, revealing a small discovery, revelation, or insight. This is sometimes called the desire- action- realization model. But not by anyone we know!) Will the guy get the girl? Will the hero prevail? Will the sleuth solve the mystery? With a 3- minute script, you don’t have time to indulge detours. Get to the payoff.• Work on the pace. Many consider pacing to be the true secret of successful storytelling. The rhythm and tempo of a story is what sustains an audience’s interest. Experiment. Lambert writes in Digital Storytelling: “Good stories breathe. They move along generally at an even pace, but once in a while they stop. They take a deep breath and proceed.”• Trust your voice. All of us have our own distinctive style of storytelling. Trust yours.• Read your script to a friend when you think you’ve finished. Very often, your confidant will point out glaring omissions, help firm up the language of a passage, or help you identify your true voice. Prep your equipment. Step 4. You’ll need to purchase or borrow these pieces of equipment: • A desktop computer or laptop.• Video software such as Apple i. Movie, Adobe Final Cut Pro or Express, Adobe Premiere or another software application designed to help you tell stories.• A scanner, if you want to include traditional photos in your story and need to digitize them. Additionally, if you plan to record interviews, you’ll need: • A recording device: for video, a camcorder; for audio, a portable digital recorder (preferably) or an analog cassette recorder (if you use analog video or audio, you’ll need to convert it to digital).• A handheld microphone for audio interviews (optional).• Headphones (optional). The interview route. If you want to rely on found materials in the attic and add a narrative and musical voice- over, that’s great. Sometimes, though, you may want to conduct an interview with someone, most likely the subject of your story or her friends or relatives. Or, you may want someone to videotape or interview you. Either way, make sure you practice using your equipment before you sit down for the interview. Begin with some idle conversation. A minute or so after you begin, you may want to stop, rewind and listen to the recording to make sure everything is working properly. People like to see faces and hear voices. If you have enough photos of the story subject, snippets of an audio interview with the person can often add an interesting counterpoint to your voice- over narrative. Try to find a quiet location, or one that’s appropriate to the subject. If you’re recording video, make sure the lighting is bright enough to see the subject, but not so bright that he or she is washed out, as in direct sunlight. In some cases, people find that talking into an audio recording device makes them self- conscious.
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