Digital Storytelling for Audio Visual sequences
This is the supporting web page to accompany the book Digital Storytelling for audio-visual sequences
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Downloadable resources
The links in the book bring you to this page:The downloadable resources include:
- The Best and Worst grid, — this is a planning and self-assessment tool.
- A combined list of all the notes and suggestions contained within the book. All fifty of them in one place.
- An additional story-arc which is almost a universal format and can be applied to fiction and non-fiction sequences.
About the book
During the dark days of Covid lockdown. A workshop originally designed for a photographic club's programme, had to be redesigned to make it suitable for on-line event. The event had to be split into two on-line events.As we reached the end of the first event some enthusiastic club member asked if there were any accompanying handouts/notes. I made the promise that I'd prepare some and make them available for part 2.
Then, as I was writing the notes, a family member looked over my shoulder and made the comment that I was writing too much for a cheatsheet — it looked as if I was writing a book. And that's what it became.
The on-line presentation concentrated on just two aspects of audio visual. The two aspects are Storytelling and Transitions; both selected because as a judge, these are the two features that most often missing in an AV sequence.
The book is now written and available.
It is a nice short volume of just 50 pages, together with links to downloadable resources.
How to obtain the book
To obtain your own copy of the Digital Storytelling book, please follow the [link] Digital Storytelling.This link shows all books published by Alan.
Following the link, takes you to a summary page, where you can follow the links to peruse individual titles.
Storytelling for AV
For years, old sages and similar authority figures have been offering advice to tell a story. What they don't say is what a story is, nor how to construct one.What these less than useful advices should have said is "to tell it AS a story" .
- The storytelling book introduces the underlying structure of a story.
- Offers 25 templates that you can adapt and use in your next project.
Transitions
Image-to-image transitions are a mainstay feature of modern audio-visual sequences.The challenge for a AV worker is how to select transitions from a bewildering choice — some AV software has hundreds to choose from.
Randomly using too many, or those wizzy flying all over the screen degrades a good AV into something like a low-budget daytime TV quiz show.
The book introduces a way to select transitions to support your story.