Makes Tagged "storytelling"

For this Make Cycle, we invite you to consider how the media we compose within (like print, sound, still and moving image, or objects) influence how we communicate and interpret.  In this Make Cycle, we will mediate and re-mediate and reflect on how the affordances of different media impact our choices, processes, and meanings. Ryan moved from image to words in this remediation: Remediation – as we’ll be thinking about it here – is unrelated to another use of the term in education: we are not talking about “remediating kids” as in “remedy”-ing them.  Here, the focus is on media,… Read more »

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Create a story using light. Develop a storyboard for line illustrations of a story. Transfer the images to black paper using a pin or other sharp pointed object. Place a sheet of styrofoam beneath the paper to protect your working surface. Using a backlight set up, photograph each image, noting the order of the story. Import the images into movie editing software. Create a movie using your images, share and enjoy!

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Create animated stories using ArtPad and Screencas-o-matic. Draw and paint a picture. Write a story about it. Then while replaying the painting of the picture capture it and your reading of your story with Screencast-o-matic. Voila, you have a video of your animated story with narration.

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Many young writers have trouble crystallizing their character’s main desire, secret, fear, or conflict, and how that connects to their play or story at large. This activity uses the structure of memes to help writers begin to hone in on that concept though the use of “meme sticky notes” or “meme portraits.” Version #1 – For Groups To do this activity with a group… 1. Select a meme with a formula that beneficial for exploring character. For example, the Morpheus meme, “What if I told you…” is a great meme to use if you’d like participants to explore character through… Read more »

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Streetview, walking and taking pictures. Nice way to learn to watch where you walk. Take pictures while your are walking around. Put the pictures together, and tell the story. (The story could be fictional or factional, a short story or a 400-pager) Write down something about the process of taking pictures and thinking about the story. Some people may not take pictures of the street, the stones, but of the surroundings, or people, or letters, or … Some people prefer walking inside a building. Tools: camera Olympus pen 14-42 mm lens. (any camera will do) photo software Gimp, resize all… Read more »

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