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What is Video & Digital Storytelling?

The use of still and moving images to create media. Forms of this media include, digital stories, video and various forms of animation and claymation.

Festivals run by the regions such as Re@ct and The Australian Teachers of Media annual ATOM awards have highlighted the creativity and excitement this media can inspire.

Who is creating Video & Digital Stories?

Portable Film Festival http://www.portablefilmfestival.com/ -The Portable Film Festival is an Australian based international festival of short films just for portable devices. PSPs, iPod and MP4 players, 3G phones, laptop screens etc. The site is also a portal to digital video resources and collections.

The Sunbakers http://www.laraps.vic.edu.au/docs/The%20Sunbakerss.sw - Marcia O'Brien led the students at Lara Primary School to win the Best Student Multimedia Production Junior K-8. The animation created with flash. 

Saving Nak http://www.abc.net.au/videolives/txt/s1483661.rt - The students at Thornbury High were stirred into action when they learned a popular student was forcing deportation. They protested, sang, and discovered politics. Their film is an outstanding and moving feature on the ABCs Video lives - Your place your story.

Australian Centre for the Moving Image – Digital Stories http://www.acmi.net.au/digital_stories.htm - The Digital Storytelling program at ACMI runs regular workshops to guide people through the telling of a personal story using multimedia tools. Participants combine the audio visual resources of their personal archives (photographs, video footage, text, music and sound) to produce a 3-4 minute personal story which they then narrate.

Thomas Marley http://www.tmarley.com.au/showreel/ - view his award winning animation “The Drop”. Tom is a graduate student from Holmesglen Institute of TAFE.

International Videos

iCan http://www.sfett.com/ - is a short film festival inspired by Marco Torres, produced by students from San Fernando, CA, USA. The movies are projects for school assignments as well as projects for community building. Digital storytelling is their way of promoting the arts, celebrating culture, and improving communications with the world.

School Shoebox Stories http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/digitalstorytelling/sites/schoolshoebox/index.shtml - A collection of shoebox stories about favourite objects made by school children and teachers.

One minute docs http://www.theoneminutesjr.org/ - Sixty-second videos made by young people, between the ages of 12 and 20, from all over the world.

How do I create Video & Digital Stories - Resources