What’s your story? Book now for October Digital Storytelling workshop

by pam on September 26, 2011

Have a story you’re burning to tell? Want to create a unique tribute to someone who has influenced your life? Struggling to communicate the value your organisation brings to the world? Digital storytelling is a powerful way for individuals, NGOs and businesses to tell the stories that matter to them.

This three-day course will give you all the skills you need to create your own short film, from beginning to end. No previous experience is needed – so long as you have basic computer skills, we will teach you all the rest.

Dates: Thursday 13 – Saturday 15 August, 9-5pm
Venue: Constellation House, Rondebosch
Fee: R 2,400 including snacks, lunch, equipment rental and final DVD production.

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My Name is Minah: A digital story

by pam on September 26, 2011

“My name is Minah” — personal narrative made during a digital storytelling workshop I facilitated, August 2011.

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Bookings now open for August Digital Storytelling Workshop

July 12, 2011

… digital storytelling workshops never get old. Like all healthy practices, storytelling renews and changes everyone involved in the process. — Joe Lambert Everybody has a story: Every person, every business, every NGO. And storytelling is an incredibly powerful way to get a message across, whether that message is “Gran, you rock,” “Our employees really [...]

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I made an explainer video with Blinktower

June 14, 2011

I’ve been having great fun writing explainer video scripts for the incredibly talented team at Blink Tower. Here’s the first finished one:

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“But you must be starving”

March 14, 2011

Clueless aid worker goes to “Africa”:

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‘Only Connect’

March 10, 2011

From Howards End by EM Forster: "Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man. With [...]

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Storytelling as a matter of national security

February 11, 2011

The US military is now taking an interest in storytelling as well: “Stories exert a powerful influence on human thoughts and behavior. They consolidate memory, shape emotions, cue heuristics and biases in judgment, influence in-group/out-group distinctions, and may affect the fundamental contents of personal identity. It comes as no surprise that these influences make stories [...]

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First Digital Storytelling workshop for Cape Town, 2011

January 17, 2011

I’m running Cape Town’s first digital storytelling workshop for the year over three days from Friday February 4 to Sunday February 6 Constellation House in Rondebosch. Digital storytelling transforms memories, photographs, ideas and documents into short movies that capture the essence of a personal story. It’s not about reportage or documentary – it’s about each [...]

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Making a movie at Geek Retreat 2011

January 13, 2011

In the run-up to this year’s Geek Retreat, Elodie Kleynhans of Blinktower and I hatched a plan – to make a three-minute movie that would explore the essence of geekdom and (we hoped) inspire young people to be geeky (by which we mean being curious, passionate, hands-on and building things). Between Elodie’s corporate video background [...]

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Unpacking the myth of the “digital native”

May 14, 2010

Arthur Goldstuck of World Wide Worx shared some very important data about the South African mobile internet at yesterday’s NetProphet conference. Sponsor White Wall Web did a brief summary, and here is some additional information from my own notes*: First up, a useful set of distinctions between different tiers of “the mobile internet” in South [...]

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