Telling a digital visual story in a digital age: Rethinking digital narrative and digital aesthetics

摘要

As regards the artistic properties of digital video, color, time, image, video footage, word and sound will be taken into consideration. As regards the narrative properties, character/actor, time, point of view/narrative voice, sequential events and actions, canonical frame of reference, scene/setting, and audience perspective will be taken into consideration. Artistic strategies for creating digital videos involve appropriation, re-formatting/Re-contextualizing, adapting literary devices, collage. These three facets of digital video production are interrelated and inform each other. Thus digital learners can choose a template, overlay certain kinds of color schemes and transitions, and juxtapose images with sounds based on how a story unfolds in an artistic manner. Art educators need to educate students about all aspects with respect to digital storytelling, and link all these aspects in ways that create intended meanings in particular digital video productions.