DSF San Francisco 2005The digistories blog of the 8th Digital Storytelling Festivaltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175683792006-05-22T08:15:13ZBlogger
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trueThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.Dawnriser2005-11-22T12:24:00+00:002005-11-22T16:41:00Z2005-11-22T12:50:48Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17568379.post-113266384823655531The end of televisionI've heard him say it before and since - but it still sounds almost too big a statement. "We are witnessing the end of broadcast television." Joe Lambert also goes on to say - "Broadcasting was a mistake."
"If it was not for television we would not have George Bush." 'as president' is implied. Unless of course you think that his birth was also a mistake of broadcasting.
Joe, the ExecutivefalseDawnriser2005-11-22T12:10:00+00:002005-11-22T13:12:41Z2005-11-22T12:16:24Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17568379.post-113266178439370839The KQED manualIn the second week of the festival I ran a workshop with Leslie Rule of KQED. Ten participants worked hard to make digital stories, each producing their own short film. Together we learned to make short stories out of some of the most diverse and long oral narratives I have ever heard in a workshop. The workshop was based on a manual produced by Leslie and Denise Atchley. It is now online so youfalseDawnriser2005-11-21T18:01:00+00:002005-11-22T12:01:17Z2005-11-21T18:09:52Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17568379.post-113259659229004090You did this? You're brilliant!Digital storytelling in Education
Feature Presentation: Jeanne Biddle and Leslie Rule
This session on Sunday morning was the most inspiring of all the presentations. Leslie and Jeanne showed digital stories made by school pupils and they engaged me more than anything else I saw at the festival.
Swim Fishy, Swim was made by Rachel, a first grader. It contains a level of wisdom that confirms thatfalseDawnriser2005-10-23T18:46:00+01:002005-10-23T17:51:27Z2005-10-23T17:49:30Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17568379.post-113008977080697621Show on the busThere was a golden moment on the bus ride back to KQED. A large man wearing a yellow vest top and tight bright green shorts got onto the bus somewhere in the Castro area. He sat next to a woman he appeared to know. The conversation was loud, camp and entertaining. He'd just been watching the British TV series Keeping Up Appearances on cable. His female friend asked if that was the one set in afalseDawnriser2005-10-23T13:31:00+01:002005-10-23T17:46:25Z2005-10-23T12:39:39Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17568379.post-113007117986250917California DreamingI look out across San Francisco Bay from the Golden Gate Bridge. I am in the saddle of a rented bike on a sunny day in California. It's Sunday and the crowds are out to see an air display by the Blue Angels. I've escaped the festival for a few hours to see the bridge. The context exhilarates me and I sing California Dreaming as the pedals turn beneath me. The leaves are not brown nor the skiesfalseDawnriser2005-10-18T21:45:00+01:002005-11-22T14:12:38Z2005-10-18T21:10:59Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17568379.post-112966985914238072Telling Stories, Taking ActionDescribed as a Feature Presentation by Natasha Freidus and Thaddeus Miles -a curated look at excellent works in community building
Mass Impact - Community Building - Self Expression and Healing
What makes good community building? What makes good multimedia?
Answer: Story.
How do we use the stories we have made to make change? How do we integrate stories into social justice work How canfalseDawnriser2005-10-18T20:59:00+01:002005-10-18T20:41:26Z2005-10-18T20:41:26Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17568379.post-112966808621124228Winning HeartsThis was a panel presentation moderated by J.D. Lasica
Panel Participants: Josh Goldman, Richard Prelinger, Ezra Cooperstein, John W. Higgins
Digital Storytelling remains the best-kept secret in the media world. But new channels from Internet television to the Web to traditional cable offer a chance for digital storytelling to break through into the mainstream. Here's how to get visibility forfalseDawnriser2005-10-18T20:24:00+01:002005-10-18T19:55:55Z2005-10-18T19:54:45Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17568379.post-112966528508469910Neighbourhood narrativesMore situated storytelling.
Hana Iverson introduced Neighbourhood Narratives from a project in the Eldridge Street Synagogue in the Lower East Side, New York. It became the place for an installation called View from the Balcony
She described her work with Jewish women, "My story is more Life in the Fragment. Dealing with layers of the community."
From the website. The central motif of the videofalseDawnriser2005-10-17T10:11:00+01:002005-10-17T09:13:35Z2005-10-17T09:13:35Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17568379.post-112954041572099212DiscoveryWe shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our knowing
shall be to arrive where we started
and know it for the first time.
TS Elliott
Thank you Natalie and Leslie who gave me this quote on separate occasions.
falseDawnriser2005-10-11T16:40:00+01:002005-10-14T12:42:30Z2005-10-11T15:50:11Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17568379.post-112904581164415082Situated StorytellingThe presenters were Abbe Don, Jo Reid, Hana Iverson, Nick West
You can read their biographies here.
"In our culture we have moved the stories from the place where they occur into the living room - TV Internet Video"
Creating stories in the place where they occur requires the development of mobile social software. Something called psycho geography has also been devised as a new way of exploringfalseDawnriser2005-10-09T18:38:00+01:002005-10-09T17:49:42Z2005-10-09T17:48:30Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17568379.post-112888011094591026Good food - Osha ThaiBetween the afternoon and evenings sessions - and a few of us wanted to be back for the Apple presentation - we found the fabulous Osha Thai restaurant in the Mission distract. Good food, delivered quickly with the kind of service only found in the US.
It's on Valencia south of the junction with 18th Street. Worth a visit. Good company too. We were late for the Apple Presentation! Sorry Bill.falseDawnriser2005-10-09T14:47:00+01:002005-11-25T10:24:44Z2005-10-09T14:50:36Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17568379.post-112886943677011489Multimedia Sonnets from the peopleDaniel Meadows or Dr Dan, as he now is since he presented his years of experience in digital storytelling for his PhD, inspired us all with his keynote speech at the Festival on Saturday morning.
He began in serious mood and at the start seemed less optimistic about digital storytelling. None of the jokes and light hearted stories that marked his presentation last year. The doctor was infalse