Day 2: Digital Storytelling training(Part II)
From HarambeeWiki
Digital Storytelling AAR
What I liked about the digital storytelling sessions?
- Learned something valuable and looking forward to future
- Liked different ideas and techniques in stories
- Able to express messages big time with digital stories
- Within a very short time you can get an idea, access and share knowledge
- Training – within 24 hours we had products and new skills
- Liked atmosphere/environment, ongoing translation
- Discovered something new on my computer (Kawive)
- Discovered new, easy to use tools
- Liked small group
- Training style made it easy for everyone to do a digital story
- Top quality outputs produced quickly and safely
- Short time requested to make a video
- Riff took us where he wanted to go, but in a nice way
- Start of training, showing movies from previous workshops which was encouraging
- Not tough trainers, participatory style
- Emphasis on “I” (personal story)
- Liked time constraint, forced us to move quickly and solve problems
- Everything
- Availability of organizing committee
- Trainers could not communicate in French, yet there were excellent Franco-phone stories
- Initially confused, then excited to produce something and have a very good communication/knowledge sharing tool
- New skills can be shared with others
- Did a tactical approach, very short explanations, most time hands-on work and coaching
- Liked simplicity and easy doing facilitation
- Didn’t think about Francophone from the start e.g if Francois would not have been here, Victorine would not have been able to do something
- People had fun
- Seeing everyone’s movies
- Everyone helped each other
- People were willing to experiment
- Able to finish on time
- Great to see motivation and commitment
What I did not like?
- Moviemaker was frustrating (hanging, reboot, e.t.c)
- Poor location of facilities (log to far away)
- Time so short
- Pity that sound quality was not so good in some cases
- Not enough info about image quality
- Did not use storyboard form
- No opportunity to talk/think about political choices we are making as we build stories
- Didn’t work together online in advance
- Could not point to flickr for some photos
What I would do different next time?
- Pay more attention to ensure sound quality
- Increase attention to picture quality e.g guidelines, picture size
- Raise copyright issues at beginning so peoples can think ahead
- Emphasize need to frequently save files
- Possibly indicate sources of copyright-free content
- Not record directly into windows movie maker
- Prepare more online
