Why Choose Multimedia
Video brings viewers to the action, to the place central to see and hear.
Mixing text and image well can amplify the message: two plus two equals far more than four.
Audio and image complement one another, bringing the viewer close to the teller and to the teller's perspective.
Tools
Video Editing: Basic tools-- iMovie (Mac) and Moviemaker(PC) ; Advanced tools: premiere (PC), FinalCutPro (Mac)
Picnik for image/text--example above
Voicethread for voice/image/text; Glogster for multimedia collages, example--a whole compendium of free, easy-to-use digital tools, described here by Alan Levine
Soundslide example (Many newspapers use this professional quality tool--inexpensive)
Examples
(text and image)
Joe Lambert's Digital Story about saving the Albany Bulb
(narrative made up of several individual stories--note the simple use of image, sound and text)
Perspective on the U.S. Criminal Justice System: Background, Timeline, Stories and Discussion
NYT Project:
Mediastorm --
Stories for Change Digital Storytelling Portal
Storytelling Project in Oakland, CA, The Organic City
Mapping Stories on Community Almanac
Examples from other sites to give you ideas:
Mapping the stories using Wayfaring
Bay Area Map of Dangerous Intersections
Travels of Marco Polo and Google Maps
Storymapping Example from Ukiah, California
Publishing
Interactive storytelling events: theater. See Ukiah project above
Heart of the Town Festival
Local television
Geocaching/Vision quest stories
website/wiki/blog
Community Almanac
Ways to curate the stories from ACMI Museum in Melbourne, Australia
A way to screen stories that include letters, old pictures, scrapbooks
City of Memory Project in New York City (StoryCorps)
Place Stories in Australia: Software and Server hosting stories combined into one
Tips and Resources
Storyboardingfrom Berkeley's Knight Media Center
Berkeley's Knight Center for Media Tutorials on Multimedia
The Center for Digital Storytelling's Cookbook
WQED of San Francisco's Guide to Digital Storytelling
The University of Minnesota has done excellent work both in digital storytelling and in facilitation