I listen to the audio story “Eat Cake.” Having little experience even listening to audio stories I thought it was great, just because it kept my interest. I then listened to Howsound’s “Dissecting Joanne Rosser, Papermaking” and figured out what makes me like this story and how it keeps my interest. Eat Cake starts with immediate action and layered sounds. A lot is going on, the cat is purring and meowing, while Elizabeth is talking to it, then this track quiets (but is still audible) while Elizabeth begins the introduction.  The next “paragraph” starts by a third layer of audio, music starting to play while she talks about her Valentines ...

So I just watched the four part series of “Ira Glass on Storytelling” (2, 3, 4), where Ira Glass, gives what he thinks are the things you need to know when starting audio storytelling (broadcasting). He seemed to have four main points, one in each video: First- Audio storytelling has 2 main building blocks: -The Anecdote: A sequence of actions -with “Bait” -raising questions from the beginning and answering them along the way -The moment of reflection: the point of the story Second- Finding a great story takes time, be strong enough to “abandon the crap”, failure is a big part of success Third- If you want to be and audio ...

If I defined storytelling in my own words I would say it’s: an expression of events told with presenter bias, directed at a general or specified audience. Storytelling doesn’t make me think of specific images, people, places or sounds because it’s very broad and can entail almost anything; real, imaginary, exciting, boring, detail, generalizations, it depends on the storyteller. When adding digital to the word storytelling I think the definition becomes slightly more specific, I think the definition would then become: an expression of events told with presenter bias through digital medias, directed at a larger, possibly online audience. I think storytelling in general is usually presented to known audiences, while ...

Digital Storytelling bootcamp this week was slightly intimidating on Monday. I just got back in town, I’m trying to finalize my schedule, and get my books, and set up my apartment, this is supposed to be syllabus week! I tried to jump right in an...

Here is my first daily create! It is an explanation of the keys on my keychain. I never thought about the story your keys can tell about yourself. I have my car key, which goes to my bright blue ford focus, my baby that I just finished paying off. Then I have a key to my dad’s house that I was born and raised in, moving to college was the first time I had ever not lived in that house. Then the key to, my best friend, Michelle’s house. It is actually her birthday today.. too bad she’s four hours away right now :/ and lastly I have a key ...