Intro to the new unit we'll be going through

1. Digital Narratives
Mr McCabe
Lead Teacher
CORE Charter School
IP: August 20, 2009 (Freely use, distribute, & modify)

2. Defining Digital Narratives
: Capturing personal stories using devices
which allow for the retelling of events :

3. Getting to Work...
1. Planning - Fiction or
Who has a story
Non-Fiction
to tell?
2. Story
Do you? 3. Characters/Roles
Does 4. Interviews
someone in
your family? 5. Construct Narrative
Someone -Remember Plot Line
else?
-Peer Review before post

4. Traditional Plot Line
Climax
Falling Action
Main Conflict
Rising Action Resolution
Exposition

5. Traditional Plot Line
Climax
Falling Action
Main Conflict
Rising Action Resolution
Exposition

6. Traditional Plot Line
Climax
Falling Action
Main Conflict
Rising Action Resolution
Exposition

7. Traditional Plot Line
Climax
Falling Action
Main Conflict
Rising Action Resolution
Exposition

8. Traditional Plot Line
Climax
Falling Action
Main Conflict
Rising Action Resolution
Exposition

9. Traditional Plot Line
Climax
Falling Action
Main Conflict
Rising Action Resolution
Exposition

10. Planning
What story do you want to tell?
Genre:
Determine Characters
Setting - Time & Place

11. Devices
Flips
Phones
Cameras
Camcorders
Software - Suggestions? (Movie Maker, iMovie, cloud
based applications)
Sites - voicethread, Jaycut (get parent approval), other?

12. Narrative Genres
Memoir
What does this commercial make you feel?
Interview
Commercial - Gatorade & Nike
Song - Jay Z, Garth Brooks, Pearl Jam

13. Memoir
A Memoir is an autobiography which focuses on a
specifc time period in the author’s life
On your sticky note,
name at least one
memoir

14. Interview
Narrative & Interview
Dialog
Slant & Angle
What story is told by the interview?
Why do an interview?
Mike Vick & 60 Minutes

15. Commercial - Gatorade

16. Commercial - Gatorade

17. Song "Off He Goes"
1, 2, 1, 2...
know a man, his face seems pulled and tense
like he's riding on a motorbike in the strongest winds
so i approach with tact
suggest that he should relax
but he's always moving much too fast
said he'll see me on the flipside
on this trip he's taken for a ride
he's been taking too much on
there he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes
there he goes...
he's yet to come back
but i've seen his picture
it doesn't look the same up on the rack
we go way back
i wonder about his insides
its like his thoughts are too big for his size
he's been taken... where, i don't know?
off he goes with his perfectly unkept hope
and there he goes...
and now i rub my eyes, for he has returned
seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned
for he still smiles...
and he's still strong
nothing's changed, but the surrounding bullshit that has grown
and now he's home
and we're laughing like we always did
my same old, same old friend
until a quarter-to-ten
i saw the strain creep in
he seems distracted and i know just what is gonna happen next
before his first step
he's off again

18. Song "Off He Goes"
1, 2, 1, 2...
know a man, his face seems pulled and tense
like he's riding on a motorbike in the strongest winds
so i approach with tact
suggest that he should relax
but he's always moving much too fast
said he'll see me on the flipside
on this trip he's taken for a ride
he's been taking too much on
there he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes
there he goes...
he's yet to come back
but i've seen his picture
it doesn't look the same up on the rack
we go way back
i wonder about his insides
its like his thoughts are too big for his size
he's been taken... where, i don't know?
off he goes with his perfectly unkept hope
and there he goes...
and now i rub my eyes, for he has returned
seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned
for he still smiles...
and he's still strong
nothing's changed, but the surrounding bullshit that has grown
and now he's home
and we're laughing like we always did
my same old, same old friend
until a quarter-to-ten
i saw the strain creep in
he seems distracted and i know just what is gonna happen next
before his first step
he's off again

19. What story do
you have to tell?
List @least 3
ideas