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- 1. The Five Essential Steps of Information-based Digital Storytelling Prof Anna Feigenbaum Professor in Digital Storytelling Co-Director of the Centre for Science, Health and Data Communication Research Bournemouth University @drfigtree
- 3. 5 Steps of Information-based Digital Storytelling 1. Conceptualising 2. Writing 3. Visualising 4. Publishing 5. Promoting CComics art by Alexandra Alberda Graphic Design by Minute Works
- 5. Create a collaborative space Having an open and shared archive is crucial for building a collaborative environment, catering to people’s different work styles and time frames, and creating a collective memory of your project. It is worth the time to set this up so that it works best for your team. Talk about working styles early on.
- 6. Gather Technical and Archival materials
- 7. 2. Writing
- 8. Simplify, Don’t ‘Dumb Down’ The thing explainer is a project by comics artist XKCD that uses only the most common 1,000 words (in English) to explain technical devices
- 9. https://chat.openai.com/ https://splasho.com/upgoer5/ Ask yourself not just ‘what words should I use?’ But also ‘what tools exist to help me find the words?’ https://chat.openai.com/
- 10. Visualising experts and collaborators can also make new ideas more relatable and helps create a sense of ‘embodied accountability’ for information. https://medium.com/nightingale/covid-19-data-literacy-is-for-everyone-46120b58cec9
- 11. Pick your Details Writing teacher Stephen Koch (2003) argues in the Modern Library Writer’s Workshop: “Every story—like every human situation—swims in a vast shoreless sea of possible information and detail. Almost all that information is totally uninteresting. Some small—very small—part of it is revelatory” Leonardo Ai - Prompt: ocean made out of many sheets of paper. One sheet of paper in the ocean is shiny and bright.
- 12. The ‘Two Ticks Minimum’ is adapted from Marcy Kennedy (2016) advice in her book Description: A Busy Writer's Guide. In order to justify its existence, every passage of description should do two or more of the following things. While you don’t need to include all of these elements, like a two-drink minimum, it is useful to follow a two-ticks minimum principle. ❏ Provide background information on context ‰ ❏ Add further evidence to the main insight ‰ ❏ Add depth to the broader context ‰ ❏ Show something unique about the information‰ ❏ Add conflict or complicate the information‰ ❏ Provide significant backstory
- 14. v Is there already a visual language you can use for the stories you are telling or is it important to create one?
- 15. What is the emotional state or mood you are trying to convey to your intended audience? How can you use visuals to ‘meet your audience halfway’? @caretimeCovid19 offers a series of simple interventions to help our overwhelmed and stressed-out bodies. They are based on research evidence and practitioner expertise, selected to help us stay grounded and to eat, sleep, move and connect a bit better. Research shows that the closer we get to nature, the happier we are, the more worthwhile life seems, and the more we are willing to take action to help our wildlife and the environment. In the context of the problems our climate and wildlife are facing, closer relationships with nature are more necessary than ever before.
- 16. v Don’t have the budget or time for designers? Want to play around with ideas? Try tools like Canva and Leonardo Ai Students from Prof Feigenbaum’s Social Media Management class using Capcut and Canva PROMPT “an animated scene of a hospital where staff members are holding a sign that reads "safeguarded patient privacy and contributed to the advancement of medical knowledge"
- 17. What platforms are you using to share your digital story? How can you best optimise your visual assets for multi-platform dissemination? Layout
- 18. Optimisation
- 20. Design for Translation Think about if translation is important to your digital storytelling project from the beginning and design to help enable translation.
- 23. 4. Publishing
- 24. Publish in the best formats to maximize your budget, distribute to your networks and reach your target audiences. Take away posters for an in-person event Social Media optimisation for Twitter/X
- 25. 5. Promoting
- 26. Fit your message to your media outlet – what I like to call, meeting your audience half way.
- 27. Go to where your audience is, don’t just expect them to come to you.
- 28. If the primary purpose of a project website is to showcase and archive your content – keep it simple and keep it static.
- 29. Follow for more tips and techniques Prof Anna Feigenbaum Professor in Digital Storytelling Co-Director of the Centre for Science, Health and Data Communication Research Bournemouth University @drfigtree