Using ‘open’ resources for digital storytelling | Zemedia. The recent release of previously unpublished performances by Bob Dylan and the associated Pretty Saro video, produced by Jennifer Lebeau, which makes extensive use of archive photographs hosted by the US Library of Congress, has highlighted the usefulness of ‘open’ resources for digital storytelling. In the examples at the top of this post you can see Bob Dylan’s version alongside a version I’ve produced using some of the same ‘open’ online content and simple online tools.
In this post I aim to provide advice on using these types of resource to create digital stories. (Please note: I am not a legal expert and this is not legal advice). There are a huge number of photographs published on the internet. Like all intellectual property, these images belong to someone, and if you want to re-use them you need to find out if the use you have in mind is permissible. What is ‘open’ content? With thanks to Theo Kuechel for inspiring this post. Like this: Like Loading... How I made my version of ‘Pretty Saro’ | Zemedia. In this post I present a screen recording (screencast) that demonstrates the tools referred to in my previous post, ‘Using ‘open’ resources for digital storytelling’. To set the scene, here’s my video, Pretty Saro, that I refer to in the demo: In this 10 minute screencast I talk through how I approached making the Pretty Saro video and demonstrate using Creative Commons licensed audio on Soundcloud, archive photographs from Flickr Commons, and the online editing tool WeVideo: Sources: Music: Pretty Saro by Piers Cawley on Soundcloud – CC-BY-NC-SA.
Photographs: ’1930s – 1940s in Color’, Library of Congress on Flickr – No known copyright restrictions. Like this: Like Loading... This work, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.