A
History of Digital Storytelling Through Story
(To
play see note below)
The
Center for Digital Storytelling has many examples of stories created
during our workshops. These examples represent a history starting
with Dana Atchley's Home Movies in the top left corner and moving
clockwise around the circle to a recent piece from Amsterdam. The
work spans a more than decade of practice from 1990-2007.
Home
Movies (1.5 MB)captures the essence of the work of Dana Atchley,
mixing an effective tale with humorous and familiar home film footage.
Tanya
(1 MB)by Monte Hallis, was from the first workshop at the American
Film Institute in Los Angeles, and demonstrates a profoundly moving
and economic piece of writing.
Redheads,
(1.7 MB)was created by Dana's mom,with his and his daughter's help,
showing how multiple generations can share in the storymaking process.
Racism
(1.2 MB) by Margarita Mele is from an early youth workshop in San
Francisco, an example of how creative writing and visual research
help a student address an important social issue.
Baron
(1.6 MB) by Kirk Cunningham is both a story about disability, and
a story from our work developing the Digital Clubhouse, a community
center built around sharing stories and bridging the digital divide.
Friends
(.8 MB )is a story created by two 11 year olds, showing how illustration
and imagination can capture create a modern fable.
In
Our Shadows (1.6 MB) by Kelly Barnett is another illustrated
fable, created in the context of a corporate project, and addressing
diversity.
Mo'olelo
(1.7 MB) by Kalani Flores melds the ideas of traditional Hawaiian
storytelling with the digital present.
Evolution
(1.9 MB) is a story by Anne Jaeger, looking at her own history as
a form of archaelogy for those families/communities who share a
familiar historical amnesia.
A
Fish Story (1.3MB) by Bob Morse, demonstrates how a professional
communicator shared a personal story that captures his approach
to serving his marketing clients, "it's not enough to know
the fish, you have to become the fish."
Up
in Smoke (3.6 MB) by Maggie Sokolik, our former co-teacher of
our semester long-course at UC Berkeley, deals with the topic of
smoking, and about a lost relationship with her grandfather.
The
Dreamtree Project (1.5 MB) about at teenager coping with tragedy,
part of our developing a project with the Kellogg Foundation, Managing
Information in America, which took us to rural communities around
America.
Ernesto Ayala's Sacrificios,
(1.9 MB) a powerful look at rural Texas Chicano history, came from
the same project.
In
1999, we had many clients at the tail of the dot.com boom, including
our current associate, Daniel Weinshenker, whose Falsies
(2 MB) remains one of our great inspirations.
In
2001, we helped to initiate a project with the National Writing
Project in Berkeley with "teacher-researchers" capturing
stories about approaches to the classroom, where And
We Learned to Sing (3.8 MB) was created.
That
same year we went to Wales to establish a program with the BBC,
Capture Wales. The creative director of the program, Daniel Meadows,
created "For
Stanley" (3.6 MB) in our workshop in Berkeley.
Now
I Know (2.8 MB) by Tommy Xiang, was a project with Hmong Youth
in California's Central Valley organized and taught by our Community
Program Director, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, who later formed Third
World Majority.
Renaissance
Memory (1.5 MB) captures a story of art, personal history and
the Harlem Renaisance, as part of 2003 project at the National Gallery
of Art.
Limbo
(1.7 MB) by Kara Kotler represents a section of work on healing
and life process.
And
finally Geen
Antword (1.3 MB) by Frank van Dixhoorn, is a recent work capturing
a look back on the questions are children asks us, a piece in Dutch,
by the director of the TEALEAC-NOT (Dutch Educational Television)
new Digital Storytelling Program.
For
background about the workshop process, also check out two news stories,
CNN
(1.7 MB) from 1997, and MSNBC
(4.6 MB) from 1996.
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