A digital story by Olivia Ho
Telling personal stories does not mean sharing heart-wrenching, soul-baring stories. See if you can relate to today’s story. Enjoy!
I love how Olivia tells about her buddy Comfort Zone in a conversational way. Her story has a nice touch of humour.
A pharmacist by training, Olivia is a Senior Lecturer at one of the polytechnics in Singapore. She is skilful in media design. The images in the video were illustrated by her.
This is what Olivia had to say about learning to tell her story:
Dear Angeline,
Thank you for taking time to edit our stories and perfecting mine! Before the workshop, I didn’t expect I’ll be able to create a video like the one I did. I could never imagine.
I went back and shared my video on my Facebook with my friends and received nice encouraging words! 🙂 Overwhelming response I would say (I’m not one who often gets a lot of likes!).
It was quite an eye-opener for me to see how the story itself is such an important element. I always thought the visual stuff (the video itself) was more important.
I’m taking the opportunity to do a short sharing with my colleagues tomorrow on digital storytelling and hope it inspires them to do one on their own!
Story Coach’s Digital Story TIP
- How does Olivia open her story?
- Meet Comfort Zone – how does she describe CZ?
- Give an inanimate object a personality
- What was her past experience with CZ like?
- Can you identify the “Moment of Change” in her story?
- The trigger moment that changed the trajectory of her life
- What was the transformation that took place in her
- The before and after (once upon a time, happily ever after)
- Who is her new companion?
- Goodbye _______, Hello _______