This is the first digital storytelling "textbook" originally created for students in the Center for Digital Storytelling's workshops and has been used throughout the years to help those new to digital storytelling understand the medium and begin the process of making their own digital story.
You can download the first five chapters of the cookbook:
1. Stories in Our Lives: Discusses the importance of stories in our lives and how to find the story you want to tell.
2. Seven Elements: Describes the basic elements of multimedia story, from writing a considered narrative to choosing an appropriate soundtrack.
3. Approaches to Scripting: Writing exercises and ideas of how to start telling your story.
4. Storyboarding: A guide to matching your script to images, sounds, and music.
5. Digitizing Story Elements: Oulines how to digitize the various elements of your story: scanning images, capturing video and audio, and recording your voiceover.
- Download cookbook.pdf - 2.57 MB
