The Digital Storytelling Guide

The Digital Storytelling Guide, by Greg Beck and Zoomable Media, is the ideal multi-touch digital owner's manual for anyone who wants to use the iPad as a portable studio. The Guide contains over 50 video examples of video techniques and tips, focusing particularly on the "grammar" of video. In nine chapters, students will learn the technical capabilities of the iPad as well as how to best light, record, and edit video and sound with a studio they can carry anywhere. Interviewing techniques are also discussed and modeled, as well as tips for generating story ideas and planning to capture the right video for editing. Practice activities are included, along with interactive review questions of key concepts, and a complete interactive glossary of video storytelling and editing terms. Since the Digital Storytelling Guide is a multi-touch textbook created with Apple's iBooks Author application, students also have the ability to highlight text, take notes, and review notes and key glossary terms on interactive "study cards."