-Name(s)/Country Origin(s) of Presenter(s):
Peter H. Rosen (USA)
-Title of Workshop:
Multimedia Storytelling: Personal Expression in the Digital Age
-Goal/Description of Workshop (approximately one paragraph):
To give students and teachers an opportunity to create a personal movie on
VHS or the Web featuring photos, music and home video illustrating peak
life experiences. Participants will write and record a narration
illustrated by combining source files in Adobe Premiere after using Adobe
photoshop, KAI's Photo Soap by Metacreations, and Macromedia Director. This
workshop teaches multimedia technology skills to prepare students and
teachers for job opportunities in the 21st century.
-Outline of Workshop (approximately one page):
Throughout history, humankind has communicated it's cultural heritage by
telling stories and singing songs. In today's digital age, storytelling is
not only on an oral art practiced around the kitchen table, but around the
world. We pass our vision and ideas from one generation to the next
through radio and television, in movie theaters and now in Cyberspace;
where everyone can easily (relatively) "talk story" with a global audience.
Participants are asked to bring autobiographical data consisting of family
video and audio tapes, photographs and treasured momentos for creating an
Electronic Family Album. You will become aquainted with the digital tools,
multimedia and computer resources you will need to digitize sound and video
from your tapes, your photos and momentos, and to produce a digital movie
of your life story you can share on videotape and/or the Internet.
The workshop cuncludes (time permitting), with transferring your Quicktime
movie to videotape, and possible presentation of your movie on a big screen
in a gala evening event at the conference celebrating you as a certified
"digital storyteller."
Workshop OUTLINE:
1. Why tell stories?
2. Analog and Digital Tools for Storytelling: Overview
3. The big picture: The World Wide Web; digital publishing and personal
broadcasting
4. Collecting memories, materials and writing a narrative of your peak
experiences, ie., school accomplishments, family and friends, marriage,
professional awards, personal art and photography, etc.
5. Digitizing materials: sound digitizing and scanning technology
instruction; recording of narrative; audio and video techniques.
6. Digitizing materials: video, music
7. Photoshop instruction
8. Director instruction (titles and credits) After Effects instruction
(Quicktime Movie production)
9. Production of Quicktime Movies and Transfer to Video
10. Optional web site building and publishing digital movies on the Net
11. Celebration, certificate of completion and showcase of movies
NOTE: If this is to be a hands-on workshop, I suggest a 3 hour least block
of time, minimally. Prerequist is computer experience, Macintosh preferred.
Rather than tell a life story (since time is short), participants can be
asked to use whatever photos/audio/video they have on hand, write a
narrative and just experience the steps and tools rather than expect a
completed piece. This workshop was first given in Graz, Austria:
http://creativity.net/austria.html. If a 75 minute schedual is mandatory, some adjustment will need to be made. The outline reflects a 6 week course, that I will compact for your conference.
-Connection with the theme of the conference (approximately one paragraph):
This workshop prepares students to participate in "KidCast For Peace;
Solutions For a Better World" a telecommunications activity in which kids
meet in videoconferences several times a year (Earth Day is next) to share
their heart and ideas, art, animation, web sites, etc. that demonstrate
suggestions for improving the planet and its peoples.
-Technology needs (i.e. Computer/LCD, Mac or Windows, Overhead, Video etc...)
Macintosh with video-in and out
VCR
Color Scanner
microphone for computer above
video projector
projection screen
Video Camera for recording narrations
Tripod for above
Audio Cassette Machine
10 Macintosh Stations networked to above machine. Students to work in pairs
(20 Students Max).
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