I hope you keep revising your storify.

Please follow the twitter @multi_journo

You will start creating your own story today.
Next assignment is audio slide story due Oct.7
Lets review the basics of storytelling first.

International impact of digital media

Case of Kony 2012
Campaign group Invisible
Children Inc. and Jason
Russell released a 30minute documentary titled
Kony 2012.
More than half of young
adult Americans heard
about Kony 2012 in the
days following the video's
release.

Controversy
Hypocrisy?
Slacktivism?
Justification of military intervention?
Even an embezzlement accusation.

Global awareness? Global

citizenship?

BONG HiTS 4 JESUS

2007-Morse v. Frederick BONG HiTS 4 JESUS

The high school principal confiscated the banner and

suspended John Frederick.

This was not a conduct. No actual disturbance.

The student sued alleging his First Amendment rights were

violated.

6-3 majority. "It was reasonable for (the principal) to conclude

that the banner promoted illegal drug use-- and that failing to
act would send a powerful message to the students in her
charge.

Give me a dissenting opinion?

The Forum Theory

What is a public forum?
Government facility where a free exchange of ideas is a principal
purpose. But it is rather a legal status than a physical place.
Exs.-public park, speakers square, auditorium, or in some cases, media.
If a public forum exists, any attempt to denial access to a particular
speaker based on the content is a presumptively invalid prior restraint
Suppose city allows dances, speeches, plays at its civic auditorium, it
would be unconstitutional to deny access to a speaker for their views
or message is unconstitutional.

Students right limited?

1988-Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier
-High school newspaper is not a public forum. The majority of
the USSC characterized the school paper as a laboratory.
-Interest in education provided sufficient basis to allow
censorship.

What about university newspapers?

2001- Kincaid v Gibson at Kentucky State University.
The school year book as a limited forum.
Other cases of student expression did not apply with the
forum theory.

Find a story
You already know how to tell a story. Everyone has stories.
Stories come from a variety of places, from a persons past to their
imagination. Some can be funny, some can be painful, but all are personal.
Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of
storytelling. Throughout history, storytelling has been used to share
knowledge, wisdom, and values. Stories have taken many different forms.
Stories have been adapted to each successive medium that has emerged,
from the circle of the campfire to the silver screen, and now the computer
screen.
The Digital Storytelling Association
*Brain storm and look for story examples.
Storycenter. www.storycenter.org

You may find ideas but they are not stories

Stories are presented in narrative styles. Typically they
have beginning middle end.
You need to set up your story, characters, issues,
location
-in a way that allows events to unfold so that audience
wants to know more and more about it
-tell how are your characters are affected
-how they develop a solution (or not) and finally where
they go from there.

Compare narrative story with

reports.

*Freytags Pyramid: originally developed to analyzed Greek and Roman plays.

Exposition: Introduction to the characters, the conflict and basic setting.
Rising action: More detail. Reveal the nature of the conflict.
Climax: the moment of greatest tension. Turning point for better or worse.
Falling action: heading to the conclusion. Sometimes continued tension.
Denouement: where complications are resolved and the story comes to end.
*Compare it with the reverse pyramid.

Shaping a story (3 act principle)

-Almost all storytellers think of story structure as three
act play.
And this is recommended for your project.
Act 1. Introduce your characters. Let us meet them.
Show location and time. Give a reason why we should
care about them.
Act 2. Reveal the complication. Usually the longest part
of the story. Let the complication intensify.
Act 3. Resolve the complication. And finish the story in
a satisfying way. What choices were made in the crisis?

Point of view (POV)

First-person POV. e.g. Greys anatomy. Many of bio
videos.
Second-person POV. Direct address by the actors to the
audience. e.g. Think of on-spot TV anchors.
Third-person POV. Most common in storytelling.
Audience are detached observers.
Character POV. One character is dominant in a series of
stories. e.g. sit com Seinfeld.
Conflicting POV. Mixture of different point of view.

Exercise: identifying structure

and POV
Hungry: Living with the Prader-Willi Syndrome
Identify the three part acts.
https://vimeo.com/5717103
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5BSpxvqL2A
Sofa by Wayne Richard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPrnDD51Y5s&list=PL7AC307C
5535EF045

Snowfall by the New York Times

The 2012 Tunnel Creek Avalanche occurred on February
19, 2012, at about noon in the Tunnel Creek section of
Stevens Pass, Washington, U.S. World class skiers were
killed. Three fatalities and one injured.
December 2012, the New York Times published an
interactive multimedia feature piece called "Snow Fall
winning the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=
tunnel-creek

Tips: Generalize what you see

around you
Example story: Age of Uncertainty
https://vimeo.com/1229405
Photo by Josh Meltzer, Roanoke Times
The photographer saw a woman who assists her fellow
church members. A colleague encouraged him to think
more broadly about what this lady did a story on caring
for elderly people in general.

Tips: Localize and personalize large

issues
Example story: Robert Krulwich and Will Hoffman, NPR
Online
To tell the complicated story of health care for NPR
Online, Krulwich and Hoffman zeroed in on the personal
tales of a few individuals.
http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/06/01/1211581
90/a-locksmith-s-tale-and-other-health-care-stories

Tips: Visualize a long history

Manage a long time period with digital story telling. You cannot tell the
whole story with writing or just still photos.
But mix them with interviews, graphics, archival footage makes them
manageable.
Gather the materials and edit them, you can take audience back in time.
Think of the great story book chapters.
Video: mix A roll and B roll.
Photos: new and old.
Audio: music, narration and interviews
Example
Take care Media Storm
http://mediastorm.com/training/take-care