A story in 60 minutes

Today was a day of intense hands on work on the computers. Participants were introduced to Microsoft's Photo Story software. Through this very user-friendly software, they learnt how to sequence images, add voice-over, apply motion - pan and zoom and use inter-slide transitions.




Next was an exciting exercise. Participants were given a set of 20 images and 5 soundtracks (of various moods) for background music. Each had to select any 6 images of their choice and, using voiceovers, transitions, movements and other techniques learnt earlier, had to make a short story.



It was interesting to see the different stories than came from the same set of 20 images!

Fun by Joseph


Lonely by Nileema


Hope by Pamela


Musings by Milan


Confusion by Preeti


The above videos are first-time efforts by participants as an exercise in digital story telling and were completed in one hour. More to come as the workshop progresses.

GoCreat Workshop on DST

Today, May 26, GoCreat begins a 5-day workshop on Digital Storytelling (see brochure). We have 5 very enthusiastic participants with varying backgrounds, all raring to go! Among us we have, a journalist, an artist, two MA students of Sociology and one 14-year old student of std 9.



Alito started the participants off with an introduction to the concept of DST and the film "Mom Not Mom" was screened (watch the film on the Digital Storytelling Center website).



The participants then expressed their feelings after viewing the film using crayon on paper. And boy, did we get variety!


- Pamela


- Joseph


- Milan


- Nileema


- Preeti


- Alito


- Gasper

Next everyone got hands on experience in basic photo editing using the free Google software - Picasa.

By the end of the day, participants put together their first draft story in about 250 words. They then evaluated their own stories using the Seven Principles of Storytelling. This is the story they will be working on, over the next 5 days, converting it into a DST.



The current DST workshop is a followup of our experiences working with the Siolim Diaries project viewed at: siolimdiaries.blogspot.com.