Contents
- 1 How to participate in this CoP:
- 2 Information, Tools, and Resources on Storytelling
- 3 Support and Sponsorship
How to participate in this CoP:
- Contribute to the Storytelling group meeting notes (Google Doc)
- Add your storytelling project to this wiki!
We want to hear from you! Please take a moment to share a few thoughts about storytelling projects you are working on (or have worked on) at your organization. What kinds of projects? Anything that involves audio-visual storytelling, crowdsourcing stories, community stories, VR/AR and storytelling, digital storytelling, publishing, etc. It’s easy to upload. Learn how. - Add to the list of resources below! Add articles, services, software tips, etc.
Information, Tools, and Resources on Storytelling
Storytelling in the MW Archive
- The museum as digital storyteller, 2015
- Big and slow: Adventures in digital storytelling, 2016
- The whole story, and then some: ‘digital storytelling’ in evolving museum practice, 2015
- The X, Y, and Z of digital storytelling: Dramaturgy, directionality, and design, 2015
- The Art of Storytelling: Enriching Art Museum Exhibits and Education through Visitor Narratives, 2008
- Emergent Storytelling: Interactive Transmedia Installation for Digital Cultural Heritage, 2014
- The Immersive Period Room: Historic and Contemporary Approaches to Interactive Storytelling, 2014
- Storytelling, learning, and adaptivity: A difficult mixing, 2014
- Hi-storytelling: Street Museum & Speaking Stones! A Study Case, 2014
- Particle or Wave? Linear and Non-linear Storytelling in Museums
Articles on Audio Storytelling
(Thanks to David Markowitz at ListenUp Audio for providing a number of these links in his MW 2017 workshop The Year of Listening)
- Tips for Storytellers: How and Where Do We Get Them Talking
- Storytelling Tips from WaterBar
- Your Brain on Fiction
- Inside the Podcast Brain: Why Do Audio Stories Captivate?
- Seizing the Opportunities of Immersive Audio Storytelling
- Radio storytelling: Engaging audiences in long-form audio stories—and keeping them engaged. The role of surprise
- Listening to Visitors: Research Findings on Mobile Content
- What Makes for Great Audio Storytelling
- Lessons Learned: Evaluating the Whitney’s Multimedia Guide
Articles on Audio Guides and Media
- Museum audio guide project
- An audio state of mind: Understanding behaviour around audio guides and visitor media
- The effect of audio tours on learning and social interactions
- Our Work Is Never Done: Evaluation And Iteration For A New Audio Guide
- Improving the Audio Guide: A Look at Our Visitors
- Guided Expectations: A Case Study of a Sound Collage Audio Guide
- A new look at an old friend: Reevaluating the Met’s audio guide service
- >Measuring the usability of a Smartphone-delivered audio guide
- The Influence of new media projects on the success of exhibitions
Audio Guide Platforms and Producers
- Roundware
- Guide ID
- Detour
- CloudGuide
- My Tours
- Acoustiguide
- Antennae International
- Audio Conexus
- GuideOne Mobile
- Orpheo Digital Audio
- Q Media Productions
Fee or Low-Cost Walking Tours (Geo-Located Content)
Services
Narrator Services
- Voices.com
- Voice Archive
- Finding an audio book narrator
- Voice 123
- Voice Bunny
- Other options: Volunteer community theater actors, theater students, your institution’s resident voice
Transcription Services
(Should charge around $0.80 to $1.20 a minute)
Software, Apps, and Tools
- Audacity audio editing – powerful, free, open source
- 10 best audio editing tools of 2017 (paid and free)
- The best free audio editors of 2017
- Rev Voice Recorder for iPhone
- Story Spheres: A tool for enhancing 360 images that lets you position audio within a scene, to easily create interactive experiences.
- Sutori: A tool for creating interactive digital timelines
Virtual Reality Storytelling
- Lessons Learned from Experiments in Creating VR Content
- How Virtual Reality is Changing Storytelling
- Virtual Reality is Changing Story
- 360 Virtual Reality: The Ultimate Storytelling Platform
- How Virtual Reality Will Change Storytelling and Marketing in the Next Decade
- The Storyteller’s Guide to the Virtual Reality Audience
- The Use of Narrative and Storytelling in Virtual Reality
- The Many Challenges of Storytelling and Virtual Reality
- VR Storytelling: A Guide for Marketers
Video Editing and Production
- Filmorago App
- Magisto App
- Adobe Premiere Clip App
- Adobe Spark (This is a free tool, and there are limitations, but the stock library is killer and so are the motion effects).
- WeVideo (used by many classroom teachers and it very moderately priced)
Support and Sponsorship
Community Mentor: Nancy Proctor, MuseWeb Foundation, USA