RELATO DIGITAL STORY TELLING

DOCUMENTS for ORAL PRESENTATIONS AND VIDEO-POSTERS

Deadline for Abstracts: 5th of November

Notification of acceptance: 15th of November

Deadline for Full-Paper: 30th January

Format: Font: Cambria 12; single spaced; Word limit: 300 words

Languages: English, Spanish and Valencian

i) Abstracts

Deadline: 5^th of November

Abstracts should include the following information:

Background: indicate the purpose and objective of the research, the hypotheses that were tested or a description of the topic being analyzed or evaluated.

Methods: describe the setting/location for the study, study design, participants and methods of analysis.

Results: present the features which the discussion of results will be centred on clearly, concisely and in as much detail as possible .

ii) Full-Paper 

Deadline: 30^th of January

Submitting the full paper is a requirement to take part in the conference.Please submit a full paper of 2,000-2,500 words including abstract, 4 keywords and bibliography by the 30^th of January.

The organizing Committee reserves the right to decline participation if a paper does not meet the objectives set by the abstract.

For the submission and review process of ABSTRACTS, FULL-PAPERS and VIDEO-POSTERS, we will use

iii) Oral Presentations.

These will deal with the formally descriptive aspects of digital storytelling and help understand the characteristics of digital storytelling as a genre.

The presentations will last a maximum of 20 minutes (including any audiovisual materials displayed) and will be followed by questions and answers. We would advise against reading entire papers and we suggest that handouts and visual support (data slides, videos/digital stories, or overhead transparencies) should be used to assist delivery. Multiple-authored presentations are welcome.

iv) Digital Video Posters.

These will consist of a video self-presentation which will include a description of the project and an example of a digital story. The whole video shouldn’t last more than 6 minutes.

Due to the nature of the digital story we have decided to substitute the traditional poster with video posters. These will be projected in a room dedicated exclusively to that purpose.

What is a video poster?

- the final product should be a video that includes a description of the project + an example in the form of a digital story.

- Step 1 You may use power point slides in order to explain the details, objectives and characteristics of the Project. You may also add voice-over.

- Or instead you may just leave a static images/s and have a voice over describing the project itself.

[This first step should not exceed 2-3 minutes ]

- Step 2 Add an example of a digital story that illustrates the previous.  The digital story itself should not exceed 4minutes

- Tools you can use  Windows Movie Maker to join images/power point slides with the digital story itself.

- Or if you use Photo-Story, you can dedicated the first one or two images to the description of the Project with a voice over.

Here is an example: