In this, our last writing workshop of the project, we get inspiration from poems and prose memoir that takes clothes and objects as the starting point for describing life events. https://videopress.com/v/0B1MZHHC?preloadContent=metadata
Tag: digital storytelling
Moodboards and Storyboards
Two great ways to plan what your digital story is going to look like before you even pick up your camera! Find out more about why the film starts way before filming... https://videopress.com/v/vjwINB97?preloadContent=metadata https://videopress.com/v/I5yWPulX?preloadContent=metadata
Choosing the right angle
In this short video tutorial, Laura looks at the impact on different shot types on the feelings and understanding of your audience. https://videopress.com/v/dyINKpeS?preloadContent=metadata
Writing shared values
In this episode of our free life-writing class, we look at pieces by Langston Hughes and Naomi Shihab Nye and ask ourselves and each other - what are the Big Values that drive us? How does the individual relate to the communal? In what small, detailed ways have ethics and values shown themselves in our … Continue reading Writing shared values
Life lessons shared through poetry
In our March writing session, Kirsten Luckins took us through an intensive idea-generation brainstorm and then couple of great poetic structures that together will allow you to articulate what YOU have learned in life. https://videopress.com/v/aHMI6t5R?preloadContent=metadata
Take a better, more meaningful photo
In this month's digital workshop, film-maker and storyteller Laura Degnan takes us through some essential photographic techniques that will help you add layers of meaning to your images, which will ensure maximum impact when you combine them with your written or spoken words. Follow along with these exercises as we look at the impact of … Continue reading Take a better, more meaningful photo
2021 writing creative memoir #1 – your wibbly, wobbly life path
In this session, Kirsten guides you to think about the shape of your life path, and gives you three ways of writing that might help you create an overview. Using 'anaphora' poems by Sara Dennis and Amir Darwish, and an extract from Michelle Obama, you should end up with a summary or prologue piece that … Continue reading 2021 writing creative memoir #1 – your wibbly, wobbly life path
Making that Christmas film, and linking Dropbox to iMovie
In this video, Laura revises some of our key editing tools, and then teaches our core participants how to access the Celebrating Change Dropbox app in order to Export a soundtrack into their digital stories. Although some of you watching won't have access to our particular Dropbox, this should still give you an idea of … Continue reading Making that Christmas film, and linking Dropbox to iMovie
Digital basics #6 – adding a soundtrack
In our final intro session of 2020, our films are nearly finished. All that's needed is a soundtrack! Laura shows you how to add music from the iMovies audio library, and how to fade it in and out. If you've been following along with these tutorials, we'd love to see your work on our Facebook … Continue reading Digital basics #6 – adding a soundtrack
Digital basics #5 – adding voiceovers
In this session, Laura will lead us through recording a voiceover directly onto your iPad, and then how to trim and re-position it in order to get the words aligning with your chosen images. https://videopress.com/v/gnIUSXzG?preloadContent=metadata
Building your writing muscles #5 – in which we reply to Mary Oliver
Use this tutorial video to inspire a series of short free-writes inspired by lines from the famous poem Wild Geese, which contains within it ideas of goodness, guilt, repentance, the physical body, and our relationship with nature. https://videopress.com/v/OkU2VCkI?preloadContent=metadata
Digital basics #3 – how to start a movie project in iMovie
In this session, we open the iMovie app and learn how to create a new project. We learn what each area of the editing screen is called and what it does, how to insert a video clip onto the timeline for editing, and how to delete it off again. We also learn what a playhead … Continue reading Digital basics #3 – how to start a movie project in iMovie
Celebrating Change 