I recently discovered digital storytelling. I was introduced to it by a man called Daniel Meadows. He spent quite a lot of his youth driving a bus around England taking photos of people. He has a great website:
www.photobus.co.uk
On it you can also watch some of the digital stories he has created.
Digital stories have a strict format:
1. a script of no more than 250 words
2. no more than 20 images
3. no more than 2 minutes
You'd be amazed how profound a story can be when told within these boundaries.
the BBC got him to do a project in Wales called Capture Wales:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/galleries/pages/capturewales.shtml?page=1
The idea was that everyone has a story and Daniel and his team went around to towns and villages and ran workshops to help people find their story and then tell it using the digital story telling structure. The results are funny, emotional and surprising. Most of all though they are familiar.
daniel finished his presentation to the conference by saying 'By now you will have realised that this in fact is not something new. It is a new way of doing something that we have been doing since the dawn of time.'
Our humanity lies in the stories we choose to tell.
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