Digital Story: Mayumi J. Age 12

Middle school students in DAVAs Job Training in the Arts and Computer Art Lab worked with guest artist Daniel Weinshenker of the Center for Digital Storytelling in Denver. This summer, students had the unique opportunity to create their digital stories from their digital photo essays developed with guest artist Josh Schachter from Tucson, Arizona. While the origin of each photography project was in students views of their community, many of the digital stories delved further into the students personal lives.

After editing their collection of photographs, students began the digital story process by fine-tuning their creative writing skills to develop a script that best communicated their personal stories. They each narrated their own story and added digital photographs to create their own mini-movies. In a culture where youth are constantly bombarded with messages from television, music, and movies, DAVA youth seized the opportunity to self-produce their own media and broadcast their unique voices and experiences.

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