DIGITAL STORIES:
​Moving. Visual. Narrative.

Digital stories turn the short story form into a multimedia experience. A moving narrative becomes a moving short movie, complete with audio, voiced narrative, images, thoughtful transitions, climax, and resolution. 
Your assignment: create a 3-5 minute* digital story, complete with the seven elements of digital storytelling. Make sure that you honor copyright; look for public domain, creative commons, and royalty-free resources. Once you finish your story, upload to youtube and share on the Peer Publications blog.
*WeVideo has a 5 minute maximum video length per month for free account users.
"Every story had to have some moment that was there to amuse me — a funny moment, an emotional moment, some original observation I’d made on the scene that no other reporter had. It could just be a nice moment in the script. Every story had to have someone who was more than a talking head, spouting out their point of view on the issue of the day. To make them more human, it sometimes only took a line of description, an original thought about who they were and why they believed what they believed, a surprising moment, a funny moment on tape."
​- Ira Glass, host of This American Life, National Public Radio

Videos to Inspire your Storytelling

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Pixar Filmmaker Andrew Stanton shares what he knows about good storytelling.
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Ira Glass talks about the creative process, and the constant work that goes into creating truly good work.
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Storycenter hosts personal, moving stories about struggle, growth, acceptance, and challenge.
"Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds." 
- Doris Lessing, Author and Nobel Laureate

Resources

Write Your Script
Record Your Story
Create Your Video
Find Your (Royalty Free) Music and (Creative Commons) Images