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:: the therapeutic art of storytelling
My name is Camille Turner and I am an artist. I've worked in a variety
of areas and I've been involved in digital storytelling for several years.
One of my projects is the creation of a Community Digital Storytelling
Lab with Jennifer LaFontaine. Our work involves creating a supportive
environment to allow participants to feel safe enough to share their stories.
We have witnessed Story Circles in which stories urgently bubble up from
grief, sorrow, pain, and joy demanding to be told. Some stories have never
been told before. Some have finally found a place where they are acknowledged
and valued for the first time.
Here is an introduction
to our work.
http://www.thestoryproject.ca/menu.html
http://www.year01.com/forum.htm
The methodology
was adapted from Center
for Digital Storytelling in California
:: 7 elements of digital storytelling
1. point
(of view)
In digital storytelling, we have combined the idea of point—the
reason the story exists—with an emphasis that it come from a first-person
perspective. These are personal stories and have some relevance for the
storyteller, which is passed on to the audience.
2. dramatic question
Digital stories are structured around a question, and the body of the
story is the attempt of the storyteller to answer that question. The traditional
arc of the digital story begins with the dramatic question, rises and
falls around personal experience, and climaxes with a realization, which
is often the result of critical reflection.
3. emotional content
In the digital storytelling workshop, we often ask participants to tell
powerful personal stories, and this emotional access to another’s
experience is a major part of the story’s impact for an audience.
The storytelling process allows the storyteller to make (new) meaning
out of personal experience.
4. the gift of your voice
An important part of the experience of a digital story both for the storyteller
and the audience is the voice of the storyteller. The sound of the storyteller’s
voice adds a level of vulnerability and authenticity to the story.
5. the
power of the soundtrack
New media allows for easy access to musical recordings and ambient sounds
to add layers of production to the story. The musical soundtrack is often
called the manipulative part of the story, because music has such power
to influence an audience’s emotional connection to a story.
6. economy
The normal digital story is 4-5 minutes long, and the written text is
less than one double-spaced page of text. The typical story has approximately
30 visual images. This relatively small asset bank forces the storyteller
to make critical choices about what and how to communicate layers of meaning
in the story.
7. pacing
Successful stories make successful use of pace. The storyteller carefully
considers how much to tell, show, or put in front of the audience at any
given time, and also lets the story breathe, or pause, from time to time,
especially at transitions
:: stories
to watch
stories from hamilton
centre for civic inclusion http://www.thestoryproject.ca/HCCI/index.html
nancy's story http://www.thestoryproject.ca/CNH06/Video/Nancy.mov
salma's story http://www.thestoryproject.ca/CNH06/Video/Salma.mov
jennifer and camille's stories http://www.thestoryproject.ca/Jen_Camille/index.html
andre's story http://www.thestoryproject.ca/container_stories/video/Andre_small.mov
(from the container project in jamaica)
:: story-prompts
Tell me the story of a hero
Tell me a story about
a time when it just didn't work out, when things just fell apart
Tell me the story of a first ... eg. first kiss, first job, first trip
etc.
Tell the story of your name
:: story-games
Pass the story: Sitting in a circle, one person starts a story and stops
just before an exciting act is about to occur. The next person continues
the story. The story cannot end til the last person who wraps it all up.
Draw a map of the neighbourhood
you grew up in
:: digital
storytelling sites and tools
http://captura.llanogrande.org/introduction.html
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/lasica/1034121182.php
http://www.storycenter.org/
http://www.jakesonline.org/storytelling.htm
http://www.storycenter.org/
http://www.storycenter.org/cookbook.html
http://digitalfamilystory.com/
http://www.digitalherobook.org/toolkit/plan_script.html
http://electronicportfolios.org/digistory/howto.html
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