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My 4 year-old daughter Alissa screams “I want to waatch teeeeveeee nowwwww!” and I say “You were mean yesterday when I turned the tv off, so no teeeveeee, todaaaayyyy!” and I insist she comes with me to the hardware store to find a 3/8″ compression to 1/2″ pipe adapter hose for the sink, the outing ending with no hose but plenty of Gee bubble gum.
If that isn’t a rich dialectic providing fodder for an artistic endeavor, I don’t know what could be.
Within all our lives, close to home, and without extreme drama, there are magnificent stories of powerful emotional appeal that can be pulled into focus using various, easily accessed, methods.
One of those methods is “digital storytelling” as promoted by the Center for Digital Storytelling (http://www.storycenter.org). Using still photographs, your own voice, and some movie software like iMovie, your personal stories can be illustrated and published near and far.
Though everyone tries to be a Youtube filmaker these days, it is informative and important to explore CDS’s storytelling cookbook to discover some subtle, helpful elements to keep in mind.
Here is my 2005 story for my then 5 year-old daughter:
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