What is Digital Media Composition (a.k.a. Digital Storytelling/Video Composition)?

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(See DMC Gallery for examples of digital stortytelling and other digital media by genre, including pieces by students and professionals)

 

 

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DMC & Digital Storytelling in the classroom:

 

Book Trailers

 

Digital Storytelling 

• Digital Storytelling in 10 Easy Steps -- A comprehensive set of steps with much emphasis on the writing of the story.
  

• Digital Storytelling Resources  (from Larry Ferlazzo's teaching ELL blog)

• Digital Storytelling for Language and Culture Learning (2009) by Judith Rance-Roney

• Step-by-Step Lesson plans for Digital Storytelling workshops --

• Four part series on "The Art of Storytelling" by Ira Glass from This American Life

• Part 1 (5:24): The Anecdote (the action) & The Moment of the Reflection (the point)  

• Part 2 (4:02): Knowing how to "find" and "kill" stories 

• Part 3 (5:20): Nurturing good taste: It takes a while  ("Ira Glass on Storytelling" -- 2:00 Text illustration of same talk made using Illustrator & After Effects)

• Part 4 (2:47): Two Pitfalls: Too much you or Too much of the interviewee

• "Every Filmmaking Form You'll Ever Need" (August 2016) - No Film School blog post featuring 99 charts needed for planning and organizing films from storyboards, shot lists, to budget planners

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Documentary 

• Planning for the process -
  

• Researching the topic -
  

• Doing interviews -

• Filming interviews and related b-roll
  

• Writing the Voice-over -
  

• Selecting Media -
  

• Video Editing -
• Teaching Documents:
• "The Production Passport" - a step-by-step research and writing process developed by Ms Ina Ziegler influenced by media research process of Mr. Mayo's Documentary class.  See also other resources created by Ms Ina: DOC production workbook A (Ms Ina).docx (Using student-made documentary Sligo Creek () or DSt production workbook using A Failed Rap (3:18)
  
• DSt Student SelfAsses (Ms Ina).docx DSt RUBRIC (Ms Ina).doc
• Bill Nichols -- 6 Modes of Documentary -- PDF document explaining modes
  

 

 

Podcasting & Radio Writing

 

Video Remix / Media Mashups

 

 

Digital Humanities (movement in higher ed)

• Getting Started in the Digital Humanities -- blog entry with many resources
• National Institute for Technology in the Humanities --
  
• Examples:
• Digital War Washington -- archive of resources, print, visual and video, project sponsored by Center for Digital Research in the Humanities @ University of Nebraska: Lincoln
• Looking for Whitman -- collecting or resources nonfiction and creative writing related to Whitman's Leaves of Grass

• Digital Show and Tell -- using visual assignments to deepen understanding in post-secondary classrooms (56 minute video)
  

 

More Genres of Digital Media Composition 

 

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Online Tools and Tutorials for creating Digital Media Texts:

• VoiceThread -- a software device for adding voices to pictures
• Little Bird Tales -- software that allows one to create picture slides shows with voice-over.
  

 

web-based video editing sites:  

• WeVideo.com

• YouTube video editor -- (expires 9/2017)

• Filmora -
• Animoto -
• MovieMasher - 

 

• Sites for downloading videos for mashup

• Keepvid.com

• Savefrom.net 

 

• Movie Maker tutorials -- Chet Purple MM2 tutorials --

• Photo Story 3 -- Tutorials (Compliments of Jake's Online)

• iMovie Tutorials -- Lynda Tutorials --
  

 

 

 

 

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Sites that support the practice & teaching of digital media composition:

 

• Stories for Change (Home) other links compliments of Stories for Change ....  
• Scenarios USA -- (Check out the Film maker's Guide at the bottom left corner)
• ASPECT -- Digital Stories about Climate Change (ASPECT blog where stories are posted)
  
• Digital Narratives @ University of Wisconsin Madison -- Higher Education use of digital media writing
  
• More Digital Storytelling Sites (compliments of TechLearning.com)

 Center for Digital Storytelling -- www.storycenter.org

At the CDS Web site, you can read interviews, download articles about digital storytelling, see sample stories, and order Joe Lambert's book, Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community.

DigiTales -- www.digitales.us

Check out Bernajean Porter's site for ideas, resources, and storytelling examples. You can also order her new book, DigiTales: the Art of Telling Digital Stories.

JasonOhler.com -- www.jasonohler.com

Visit Jason Ohler's site for information on his upcoming book and links to other digital storytelling resources.

Sara Armstrong Consulting -- www.sgaconsulting.org

Sara Armstrong's site offers links to resources related to a number of education technology topics, including digital storytelling.

Techszewski -- techszewski.blogs.com

Teacher and researcher Tom Banaszewski's blog is a great place to read about — and see examples of — his experiences with digital storytelling over the years. He also includes links to other valuable resources in the field.

• School Programs (K-college) that foreground Digital Media Composition

 

 

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books for teaching DMC

• Mics, Cameras, Symbolic Action (2012)- Bump Halbritter
• Introduction to Documentary -- Bill Nichols
• The Subject of Documentary -- Michael Renov