Digital Storytelling
| Despite the fact that children are media savvy and confident using new technology, they are underrepresented and often voiceless in the media – we mostly hear adults speak about children, or on their behalf. Scandinavian Stories employs the method of digital storytelling, which incorporates new technologies and multimedia in the telling of real life stories. We meet the children and youth half-way – in the digital arena they are already producers, working creatively and communicating through media. They will be able to build on their technical skills, as well as the understanding of narrative structures they have from TV, film, and commercials Digital storytelling is an emerging media production practice that can refer to a variety of different narratives that incorporate digital tools. We approach digital storytelling in the tradition established by the Center for Digital Storytelling as a method to help people without advanced technical skills or a background in filmmaking to produce a story. The end result is a digital story, a short film, that consists of a stream of edited photographs, moving images, text, illustrations, audio and music, driven by the narrative of a voice-over. The method is used as a means of building engagement, developing multimedia literacy and emphasizing the power of a personal voice. The idea is to democratize media. For more information on digital storytelling: www.storycenter.org and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_storytelling |
