Letter home – week five
This week – an audio letter for my review of DS106 and all the audio assignments I’ve been working on.
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Ira Glass: an expert storyteller
Ira Glass has three things you need to be likeable on radio: firstly, a soft, intimate voice that makes you feel like he’s talking directly to you across your kitchen table; secondly, the humility to discuss his own work as something not innately brilliant, but as the culmination of many years of hard graft; and […]
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Photography in the mirror – DS106
“…the act and process of being deliberately thoughtful about what you are seeing. To see what you are looking at.” D’Arcy Norman on Mindful Seeing That was a powerful lesson at the beginning of this week at DS106 the digital storytelling course. The concept of mindful seeing seems to me to be at the heart […]
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DS106: Letter home – week three
Hey folks Have to admit – I’m missing you a lot less! The lake’s really warming up now so me and my bunkies (the naked lunch bunch) have been dipping in almost every day. Shannon’s given me great feedback this week on all manner of things, and Axroma’s been brilliant inspiration; it’s been great to […]
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Caught mid action
It’s been interesting to see what effects I can get to enhance a moving image. It wasn’t quite ‘caught’ mid action as this scalextrix train was evidently on the move in the pic (the idea was to freeze the face behind it instead). But by adding intelligent blur and asking the software to enhance the […]
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Demotivation, anyone?
It was great fun making my own demotivating poster using these instructions and it appealed to my cynical side. I thought that the photo I took of the archer at a medieval reenactment might come in handy at some point and here we are, the perfect metaphor. The second line was more of a challenge – I […]
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A Whole New World
This challenge is about placing members of your family in a world that’s too big for them. I chose to place my mum next to some daffodils. The two photos were taken metres apart within seconds, but in this photo they juxtapose well. I used this video from Serif’s own bank of tutorials to help […]
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Turning a photo into a drawing
Task for digital storytelling course DS106 was to transform a photo into a drawing. Here’s the original – I chose a photo that meant something to me (this is a friend’s baby) and that had plenty of light and dark areas. Using Serif PhotoPlus (don’t ask, it came with my computer), I wanted to […]
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The new audience for stories
The best storytelling on the web won’t come from the author. That’s the lesson for me coming out of Bryan Alexander’s fascinating book and post on the subject of digital storytelling. When a book is published, it grows little angel wings and flies out into the world. It might have 4999 little brothers and sisters […]
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DS106: Letter home – week one
Hey folks Missing you loads from over here by the lake, with the conifers humming and guitar strings waving in the breeze…. First week at camp! As you know the flight from England was a little delayed so I arrived after everyone else, but the camp directors have been great at welcoming me and making ...
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Storytelling, digitally #ds106
You can see my ‘daily creates’ for the digital storytelling event ‘isd106′ on Flickr. It’s run like a summer camp, so I’ll be blogging a weekly letter home on my blog, too.
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