About
Communicate what’s important to you
through a multimedia story.
Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling.
When we speak of storytelling, we do not mean the “once-up-a-time” fairy tales that we think belong only to the domain of children. Stories are the stuff that life and memories are made of — the stories of our lives shape us. History is story.
The easy accessibility of digital devices and tools make is possible for anyone to tell a digital story. We weave voice narrative with any combination of images, video clips, music, and sound to create a short 1-3 minute video.
Uses of digital stories
Market Place
Education
Communities
Personal
Market Place
“A big part of a CEO’s job is to motivate people to reach certain goals. To do that the CEO must engage their emotions, and the key to their hearts is story. Forget about PowerPoint and statistics. To engage people at the deepest level, you need stories…” – A Conversation with Screenwriting Coach Robert McKee, Harvard Business Review
Education
The Ministry of Education implemented a new framework to better prepare our students to thrive in a fast-changing and highly-connected world. The diagram released by the Ministry of Education illustrates the 21st Century Competencies and Desired Student Outcomes.
The process of telling and crafting a story and then using digital media to present the story is a great way to realise many of these desired learning outcomes.
Communities
Storytelling can help to influence and unify communities by linking the past to the future. It gives communities a face and a voice. It can help people outside the communities step into the world of the storyteller. Listeners walk in the shoes of the storyteller. It helps them understand with their minds and feel with their hearts. Stories can move people to action.
Some examples include post-national calamities (earthquakes, tsunami, fires); voices for minority groups, migrants, prisoners; give voice to causes like environment and conservation issues, faith groups, etc.
Personal
Our stories shape us. They can be painful ones like seeing a loved one through cancer, or happy ones like remembering the old kampung house we grew up in, or silly ones that make us laugh at ourselves.
We have personal, family, community and national stories, which engage not just our minds but our emotions and which glue us together. Stories are heritage that we leave with our children and our children’s children.
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About Digital Storytelling Asia
A social enterprise established in Singapore in 2010, Digital Storytelling Asia (DSA) broke new ground in digital storytelling (DS) in Asia where little or no sustained digital storytelling work has been done. The DSA team has facilitated workshops and given talks in Singapore, the Philippines, and the USA.
DSA has provided services for:
- Art House
- Canossa Convent Primary School
- Civil Service College
- Creative Communications
- Institute of Adult Education
- Institute of Certified Public Accountants Singapore
- Institute of Technical Education
- Ministry of Education
- National Book Development Council of Singapore
- National Library Board
- Singapore Memory Project
- Singapore Prison Service
- The Navigators Singapore
- The Navigators Philippines / Community of Hope Alternatives, Inc
- The Navigators USA / Via Affirmativa USA
DSA stories have been screened on OKTO, one of Singapore’s national TV channels.
Co-founders Angeline and Aurelia were appointed co-directors of the Second Asian Digital Storytelling Congress 2010 by the National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS). They are volunteer co-directors of Digital Storytelling Circle (DiSC), a support group for digital storytellers jointly initiated by NBDCS and DSA.
As Singaporeans and a Singapore based company, we see nation building as a privilege and responsibility of every citizen. Digital Storytelling Asia’s vision is to transform our world by:
Empowering ordinary people to tell extraordinary stories.
Creating communities of storytellers.
Leaving a heritage for the next generation.
Seeding storytelling movements everywhere.
Digital Storytelling Asia is endorsed by the Center for Digital Storytelling (USA) and Digistories (UK).
