RESOURCES: Planning & Developing Strategies | Digital Writing 101

If you start looking up resources on how to compose a message with multimedia, you’ll find lots of info on the “how to” part but not nearly as much on …

Below are a few extended excerpts from “The Art of Storytelling,” by Jason Ohler. The page they come from is incredibly long, so I’ve pulled out some excerpts here to …

If you choose to use a writing-based method as a planning strategy (such as a synopsis or screenplay), you’ll need to take extra care not to stray into “telling” the …

Before you start thinking about how to bring your story “alive” via multimedia, make sure you actually have a good story to tell. A compelling story told through stick figure …

The resources below help you learn more about using writing to plan a visual project. But before you try these strategies, make to explore the variety of cinematic techniques available …

Many of the prompts below come from a book by Joe Lambert, the author of the Digital Storytelling Cookbook, which means that Joe thinks at least a few of these …

Explore these resources to learn more about strategies from creative writing and digital storytelling that can help you develop your storytelling project. STRATEGIES FROM CREATIVE NON-FICTION More Ways to Use …

UNDERSTANDING THE SYNOPSIS Overview To pitch a screenplay to a potential producer, the most important task the writer faces is preparing a synopsis. The purpose of a synopsis is to …

(the material below is from a calendar entry for my Fall 2013 digital storytelling class, but I plan to develop it further to suit a broader variety of video storytelling …

Although the info below refers specifically to images, the general concepts apply to all forms of digital media you plan to use in a project you’ll be posting on the …

NOTE: I wrote the material below for a previous semester, when I asked all students to write synopses. If you decide to try writing a synopsis this semester, use the …

“If you’re sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that’s entertaining you as you drive and listen? …

If you’re planning to develop a project that conveys a message visually, whether it has an audio narration or not, the traditional method of outlining may not be sufficient for …

Most of these techniques work for stories in any format, but some are specific to stories that draw on both voice over and visuals USE TECHNIQUES FROM FICTION Below are …

OVERVIEW Below is an ever-expanding list of the software applications I recommend you have available, even if only in free trial mode, in order to work on digital composition projects. …

(I wrote this handout to address the value of planning a written project, but the the principles apply equally well to the value of planning a digital composition project.) Sometimes …