Sunday, February 8, 2009

New Media Literacy

Here are some notes from Dr. Jason Ohler's workshop at Pete&C. (New Media Literacy and Narrative in Education)

The Overuse of Music

The #1 Infraction of Digital Storytelling is the overuse of music. To prove this point, you can shoot 30 seconds of video and remove the sound. Show the video and ask everyone what they think the story is. Now, add three different types of music to the video to prove how the music can change the story. You don't always have to have music in a story.

New Approach
1. Story Idea
2. Story Mapping
3. Story Boarding

Why? All story boarding does is make sure you story flows logically. So, if you have a boring story, you will end up with a boring story that flows logically.

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