Digital Storytelling Intensives

Overview

Digital storytelling is a powerful means for enabling communication and social participation. Ordinary people work with expert creative practitioners to create first-person narratives for a wide and growing range of purposes, including community building, cultural engagement, brand identification, education, and public communication. This form of co-creative media takes advantage of newly accessible technologies but is based in the ancient and universal tradition of storytelling. Who should participate

These workshops are aimed at arts managers, media and communication professionals and professionals in other service industries (for example, health and education) who wish to develop and update their applied knowledge of how digital media can be used to engage clients and end-users. Prior knowledge of digital media applications is not necessary.

This course is open to anyone over the age of 18, including international participants.

The program is suited to people who would like to:

• develop their skills in creating short, story-based, digital multimedia presentations
• use co-creative media techniques to participate in digital media projects
• apply digital storytelling techniques in community development and engagement activities, in government, non-government, community and commercial contexts
• become a digital storytelling workshop facilitator
• learn more about digital storytelling and co-creative media production practices.

Delivery

Where:

Queensland University of Technology - Kelvin Grove campus

Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove

Room details will be advised closer to course commencement date.

When:

2012 Workshops

Workshop	Introduction	Intensive start date	Intensive end date	Registration closing date
Intensive 3	19 November	29 November	5 December	19 November, 8 am

More detailed information on Digital Storytelling

Details: In addition to the scheduled workshops, it is possible for extra workshops to be delivered off-campus and customised to address specific professional, community, cultural or commercial objectives of host organisations.

Cost

• Domestic student/participant: $1,310
• Fees include GST.
• Light refreshments (including tea and coffee) are served and are included in the course fee.

Contact

For further information about course content or assessment, please contact Dr Christina Spurgeon.

For registration or payment queries, please contact the Course Manager at the Office of Continuing Professional Education.

Details

Digital Storytelling at QUT

A digital story usually combines 15-30 still images and a recorded script of 100-250 words to create an original personal digital story in the form of a two- to three-minute digital video. Digital storytelling is used in teaching and research at QUT as a platform for exploring the benefits and possibilities of social participation. These include improved digital literacy and communication skills, healthier and more resilient communities, and a public culture enriched by perspectives and experiences that might otherwise be missed. Creative Industries Faculty researchers at QUT have an internationally recognised track record in adapting Digital Storytelling to a variety of contexts and purposes, including poverty reduction, public history, and youth engagement.

This expertise is made available to the wider community through a program of short courses in Digital Storytelling from July 2012 (details available soon) and a program of five-day intensive workshops.

The short courses will suit anyone who wants to learn how to create their own digital stories. The five-day intensive workshops are designed to help individuals and organisations to build their own capacities to facilitate social participation through co-creative media production techniques such as digital storytelling. To gain academic credit, these can be undertaken as an award unit.

What will I learn in the Digital Storytelling Intensive?

You will learn how to:

• write a script for a digital story
• record and edit a voice over, and create a sound track
• manipulate images
• make your own digital story with cost-effective computer applications
• manage copyright issues using Creative Commons licensing.

Workshop Facilitators

Experienced workshop facilitators Christina Spurgeon and Mimi Tsai draw on research expertise from the Creative Industries Faculty to offer participants an exciting Continuing Professional Education opportunity in this co-creative media method.

Christina Spurgeon

Dr Christina Spurgeon lectures in Media and Communication in the Creative Industries Faculty. Her research interests converge on how media and communications can be used to develop participatory culture in a variety of government, non-government, community and market contexts. She has run Digital Storytelling workshops at QUT for over four years and is author of Advertising and New Media (Routledge 2008).

Mimi Tsai

Mimi Tsai is the Digital Storytelling Project Officer at Creative Industries Faculty. Mimi completed a MA degree in Creative Industries in 2005. Her specialties include co-created media. Her current research interests are within the arena of digital media.

Registration info

Registration

Intensive 2: The July offering of Digital Storytelling Intensives has been cancelled. Please accept our apologies. You can still register for our Digital Storytelling short course commencing 2 July.

Intensive 3: Registration closes 19 November 2012, 8 am.

This course is open to anyone over the age of 18, including international participants.

Payment

Payment is online only. Please have your credit card handy.

Cancellation

To cancel your registration, you must apply in writing to the Course Manager at the Office of Continuing Professional Education.

If you cancel prior to 10 business days before the course commences, you will receive a full refund, minus a non-refundable $100 administration fee.

No registration refunds will be made within 10 business days of the course starting.

We reserve the right to cancel the course under certain circumstances, such as low registration numbers. If this happens, we will advise you as soon as possible, and give you a full refund. We are not responsible for any expenses you may have incurred if the course is cancelled.

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