Personal Storytelling

August 08, 2003

Personal Storytelling: A great article on how technology is enabling individuals to share their lives with the world. Thousands of people share their lives with the world by using words on their web logs but an increasing number are also using images to tell their stories through digital video technology. (via CH)

Excerpt:

Kiok Gruttend, an emergency room nurse at Kaiser Permanente, sat nervously at the pockmarked table as a dozen strangers sat and waited. "Pardon," she said, "my English not too good." Her fingers trembled slightly as she began reading her two-minute script.

Gruttend told of her upbringing in South Korea, of her marriage to a Swiss man, of her yearning for a diploma, of the frailties of an immigrant family in Marin County. By the time she finished, more than a few eyes were moist.

The premise of the center is simple: We all have a powerful story to tell. And so these 12 individuals gathered for the three-day workshop to put together short, personal films from a point of view not often permitted in the field of journalism: first-person singular.

About the image above; still having fun with Lomoize