How to find and tell your story

Now available free, it is a textbook for creating participatory documentaries using social media.

 

Downloadable document: http://geniwate.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/part-doc-cookbook.pdf

Via The Digital Rocking Chair

Video games are important. They are a storytelling medium, a place for self-expression, a sandbox for the human imagination, and an extension of an ages old tradition of gaming. We play out some of the most essential aspects of our culture in games, and we learn more about ourselves and the world around us in the process. From the powerful cinematic experiences of mainstream gaming, to the hyper-personal environments of indie games, we are in the midst of an explosion of gaming activity that, as some predict, will continue to define the way we live and interact with information, and each other, far into the future.

[The Indiana Blood Center uses storytelling to showcase what they do and what the donors part in the process is]

 

Ever wonder what happens to your blood after you donate?  To learn about donating blood, follow our drop of blood.

Has our technology -- our cell phones and iPods and cameras -- stopped us from dreaming? Young artist Shilo Shiv Suleman says no, as she demos "Khoya," her new storybook for iPad, which floats us through a magical world in 7 minutes of pure creativity.

Shilo Shiv Suleman is an illustrator, storyteller and iPad book creator.

Via Gary Hayes, Jandira Feijó

Storytelling can be an effective tool to engage donors or empower volunteers,but finding the right way to collect and capture stories can be a challenge. In the short video,“Methods for Collecting and Using your Nonprofit’s Stories,” Zan McColloch-Lussier from Mixtape Communications,offers some simple,practical tips to help non-profit communicators collect and share stories.

 

Zan tells you some of the methods he's used to collect and share stories. He also tells how one organization uses stories in such a way that it keeps him donating to them.

1. Look at your staff members calendars - follow-up with them right after they've been out & ask them questions about their experiences & impresssions.

2. Provide easy ways to bring stories out.  And always be asking questions from those around you.

3. Let people tell their own stories, in their own words, in the moment (or as close to as possible)

4. It doesn't have to be perfect - use the tools you have and don't worry about the editing.

 

Organization example:  On their Facebook page they post a quick little story about who they just helped & why.

Episode One in my series of video "lectures."

Originally created as a presentation for an art history class at SCAD, loosely modeled after Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's Zero Punctuation reviews. Made to be presented on screen in the classroom.

"We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad.” (Shekhar Kapur)

 

Where does creative inspiration spring from? At TEDIndia, Hollywood/Bollywood director Shekhar Kapur ("Elizabeth," "Mr. India") pinpoints his source of creativity: sheer, utter panic.

 

Shekhar Kapur is a visionary filmmaker and storyteller who works at the intersection of art, myth and activism.

Canadian children's author and Family Literacy Day Honorary Chair Robert Munsch shares his best storytelling tips.