Entering the World of Mutlilingual Digital Storytelling and the Arts.

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Vicky Macleroy and Graham Salter

Creating a bilingual digital story

Starting to work with digital media

Support files for guidance can be saved on your memory stick from the desktop.

Outline of session activities:

1. Discuss an example of a photo story

2. Look at story boarding using PowerPoint

3. Create your own bilingual digital story

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Malaysian Independence Day Celebrations

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Multilingual Digital Storytelling Project

Guide to digital resources:

https://goldsmithsmdst.wordpress.com/other-resources/

Storyboards

Storyboarding

A key decision for students to make is whether they will be working with still image, moving image or both.

Storyboarding involves sketching out and developing a visual representation of the story screen by screen (still images) or shot by shot (video) working out:

• overall structure

• how one screen or shot links to the next

• how text and audio can best support the visual (a draft script may have been prepared prior to storyboarding in one or more languages)

• (in the case of video), type of shot (wide, mid, close-up) and how it is framed (camera angle, what is included or left out), other options including zooming and panning)

Shot no.

Audio texts /Sound effects

Script

Image/video description: Image/video filename:

Text on screen (subtitles):

Animation/Interaction:

Notes:

Camera directions

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Today’s task is taking the photos you already have and any others you find to create a photo story.

We would like you to create a bilingual digital story on one of the following four themes:

– Festivals

– Famous person

– Myths and Folk Tales

– Personal Interests/Hobbies

Use between 4 to 6 photos, and add a voice over in the target language and subtitles in English, or vice versa. You can add some special effects and background music

Creating your bilingual digital story

Demonstrating Photo Story 3

Personal interest

Sailing along the Thames and around the British Isles

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Chinese Club

Sharing your bilingual digital story

– What makes a good bilingual digital story?

– How could you use digital storytelling in your own classrooms?

– What further support and guidance would you like?

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The Critical Connections website

https://goldsmithsmdst.wordpress.com/

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