Sunday, April 10, 2011

Multi-media production resources

Hello all -

Here are some resources I've been finding for different aspects of producing a multi-media production for the final project. Hope they are helpful - I would be grateful to know what you all are finding, too, as well as advice/wisdom from any of you who have created similar works before.

General Digital Media Storytelling
The Center for Digital Storytelling has excellent resources (and is the service used by our speaker last week to tell different immigrants' stories. In particular, the resources section has a treasure trove of other related sites and I noticed that there will be a storytelling workshop in Denver 21 - 23 April:
http://www.storycenter.org

The Knight Digital Media Center has a cornucopia of tutorials and general digital media goodness:
http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/

Interviewing Resources
Have you ever heard the Story Corps oral histories on NPR? The stories often leave me in tears. The organization that does this, Story Corps, has an excellent website with a question generator that may help you brainstorm, especially if your subject is a family member:
http://storycorps.org/record-your-story/question-generator/

Phone Recordings

Here are some ideas for how to record a phone interview, if you need to do so:
http://transom.org/?p=1165 – general how to for a variety of phones
http://transom.org/?p=8681 – recording using iPhone apps

Production Software

I currently plan to use iMovie on Mac and I understand that for PC's, the free Windows Moviemaker is useful. Curious what others plan to use...

Finally, a random resource I find intriguing – online tools to create maps to weave into your story, particularly if you plan to create a project intended for the internet:
http://www.storymapping.org/resources.html

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