Online Workshop 3 – Pre-Production

Pre-Production – story

Centrality of story (slides 1 – 4)

  • the danger of a single story
  • how do we convey a message
  • investigating different genres and gathering ideas for storytelling on ‘Care, Community and Hope’

Storytelling activities (slides 5 – 8)

  • storytelling circle with a digital story to explore how a story is told
  • examining the opening of three different digital stories
  • paratextual activity on book cover or film poster
  • identifying key elements of a story

Multimodal storytelling (slides 9 – 17)

  • the power of storytelling
  • multimodal texts and making meaning across modes
  • transmediation
  • transmediating a story
  • four examples of transmediating stories into digital stories
  • planning to share with a global audience

Different roles in filmmaking (slides 18 – 20)

  • what sort of roles are there on set?
  • what is your role in the filmmaking process?
  • writing a film script