This document provides an overview of digital storytelling and production planning from Inner Ear, an organization that creates alternative music and audio content. It discusses establishing objectives and defining the story, audience, narrative, and production process. This includes pre-production planning, research, scriptwriting, production, post-production, distribution, and promotion. The document uses exercises to illustrate how to develop an audience profile, storyboard, budget, and distribution strategy for a hypothetical story.
6. Objective
‣Before starting any project, it’s vital to know why you’re
doing it
‣It could be in response to a client brief or as part of a
commission
‣Even if it’s your own project, you need to understand the
motive behind your idea
7. Story
‣What is it that you’re trying to say? What’s the message?
Exercise: let's pick a story to tell and plan its production.
8. Audience
‣Who is the audience we're trying to reach?
‣Exercise: let’s profile our audience and define an avatar
10. Narrative
‣Everything has a story, everything has narrative
‣9.88 Films, narrative and the 100 meter race story
‣Linear, open, closed and interactive story forms
‣“Choose your own adventure” audio drama,
interactive audio walking tours and treasure hunts
11. Narrative
‣The difference between story and plot:
‣The king died and then the queen died.
‣Story – this is an incidence
‣The king died and then the queen died of grief.
‣Plot – this has motivation
Source: www2.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/intranet/englishbasics/Plot01.htm
14. Storyboard
‣As a pitching tool, build a storyboard with bullet points,
illustrations, photos or graphics
Exercise: make the storyboard
15. Pre-production
‣Planning the production process
‣Whether the content is audio, video, interactive, etc.
‣Crew and equipment
‣Scouting locations and obtaining permissions
16. Pre-production
‣Scouting locations and obtaining permissions
‣Budgeting
‣Examples of production budgets
Exercise: write the pre-production plan and calculate the
budget for our story
17. Research and Writing
‣What research do we need to do?
‣What methods can we use?
‣Primary and secondary sources
‣Fact checking and documentation
18. Research and Writing
‣Do we need to write a script or interview questions?
Exercise: conduct some initial research and write sample
script extracts and interview questions
21. Post-production
‣What's involved in post-production
‣i.e. mixing, mastering, dubbing, editing, grading, etc.
‣And before that administration and file management
‣What's the workflow?
22. Post-production
‣What are the considerations?
‣In terms of working with copyrighted material...
‣... especially music
Exercise: describe the post-production workflow
23. Distribution
‣How is our story going to reach its audience?
‣What channels can we use to distribute content
‣Social media platforms
‣Digital distributors and aggregators
24. Promotion
‣What options do we have for promotion and monetisation?
‣How can we track, monitor and report on its success?
Exercise: assemble the online services and platforms
we're going to use to get our story to its audience