Using Technology to Tell Stories

I’ve been tinkering with quickfiction (or flashfiction) and using the use of my podcasting voice as a way to edit my writing. I am literally writing, then reading out loud, then editing, then revising, then recording, as I go along — trying to be conscious of how my voice might influence my writing.

Bonnie suggested that perhaps there could be some marriage between the use of short fiction and some techniques of digital storytelling — i.e, writing quickfiction and then presenting in movie-form.

Here is my first attempt. I used my podcast from this short piece — called Remote – an used a Creative Common search engine called FlickrCC to grab some images that can be used with attribution. This was not easy, as the images brought something new and somewhat disjointed to the storytelling process. Perhaps more experimenting will help.

Anyway, here you go:

This comes following a workshop I attended (as a helping hand) at Bonnie’s site that used poetry and photostory3 to make a visual poem of sorts. I feverishly wrote a poem that day while others were also writing and then I felt the digital poem come together in my mind (I had to wait to get home to work on it because I was too busy helping others in the workshop).

I realize that I need a better way to list the credits for the photos I am using in these stories. Any ideas?

Kevin