This is a work week in the Mac Lab. Time for consultations and story planning. Final stories are due on Tuesday, April 30. Be prepared to present. Continue reading

DS story examples is a list of stories about Blagoevgrad places created by students who took this class last semester. It is also a list of stories using about a half dozen common publishing platforms: Vimeo, YouTube, Esri StoryMaps, Medium, Wix, WordPress. You can see a mix of approaches, lengths, media, publishing platforms. This may help as you work on crafting your place pieces and selecting … Continue reading Story Examples: Place

  ACMI Generator investigate the Storyboard Generator Bubblr Capzles MakeBeliefsComix MapSkip PicLits Anchor Wonderboarder.com/storyboarder Piktochart Timeline.JS Juxtapose.JS JamSnap Adobe Spark Flourish.Studio   Storyform Storymap JS Esri Story Maps Sway Soundcite Travel Wirewax The purpose of AppLab is to test drive free digital storytelling tools and to write an honest review so that you and others might use some of these in the stories you are … Continue reading AppLab 1

Future Cities (which you can listen to in Dutch, English or Spanish) is a project that is five stories of five places: Lima, Medellin, Addis Ababa, and Kinshasa. Each city story is a web documentary of about 15 minutes. Each uses sound, image and text to show some specific aspect of each of these cities. Choose two of these cities and watch the stories. Then … Continue reading Stories about Place: reflection exercise

Place Story: Written idea pitch due 5 March Place story due for presentation April 4 The place in this place story can be the focus or the envelope. You can do a story about the bus station, which is a place. Maybe you decide to do a time lapse video and add a voiceover that goes with it to talk about this particular place and … Continue reading Place Story

This is a story about someone doing something. A person or persons in action doing something that shows us some little insight into the daily machinery of Blagoevgrad. Here is the Process Story Rubric that might help guide you when making decisions about your story. –Take dozens and dozens of shots. Wide range, mid range, close-ups, details. Shoot from all angles. Shoot horizontals/landscapes. Watch the … Continue reading The Someone Doing Something Story

Your street portrait portfolios will be showcased on a digital space of your making. Use any digital site you choose; free blog sites that showcase photography were written in the post from last week’s class. Put the setting onto private on your site. On/in your portfolio put the name of your subjects with their image. Make a separate Word doc that lists your subjects, a … Continue reading Street Portrait Portfolio

This is a reflection journal assignment to be completed during this class period while story ideas are being pitched individually to me/your editor. Look at these three versions of the same digital story linked below. Look at each thoroughly. What is it that you see about each? Comment on these four areas as you read and view these stories: –Photography (composition/quality/proportion of the story told visually … Continue reading About A Place: In-class assignment

Come to class on Thursday with your process story idea. You must have checked with your subject and gotten their approval to be photographed and interviewed. This idea deadline is part of the overall mix of deadlines that make the final grade for this piece. Have a Plan B in case your subject is not accepted or someone else pitches the same idea and gets … Continue reading Deadline: Process story idea

This project combines your skills in visual storytelling with photographs that show a sequence of events, conducting an in-depth interview, editing images for flow and continuity, selecting music to support a story and creating a story that shows a worth subject making something. The primary tool will be an interview. An interview is a human interaction. Prepare. Read about what it is your subject does. Think … Continue reading The Process Story