Defined, digital story telling is the art of combining narrative with digital media such as images, sound, and video to create a short story.
More than a simple slideshow set to music, digital storytelling weaves together various media to enhance and deepen the experience of telling a story.
The Seven Key Elements of Digital Storytelling...
1. Point of View: Outlines the point of the story and the perspective from which the story is told.
2. A Dramatic Question: Sets the tension of the story by identifying issues to be resolved.
3. Emotional content: Engages the audience through common emotions and themes [love, pain, humor].
4. The gift of your voice: Helps the audience make meaning of images.
5. The power of the soundtrack: Sets the mood of the story.
6. Economy: Balances the auditory and visual tracks of meaning.
7. Pacing: Sustains the attention of the audience by establishing and modifying the rhythm of the story.
[adapted from Digital Storytelling Cookbook, Lambert, 2006.]
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