Digital Narrative

Advancing technology has provided a robust set of tools to weave the linguistic pleasure of story with the evocative powers of voice and image. The result is a video genre known as the digital narrative that combines narrative with motion graphics to create an instructional, historical or reflective story. Constructing a narrative and communicating it effectively requires the producer to think carefully about the topic and consider the audience’s perspective.

In the production shown below, the narrative script was written from British author Virginia Woolf’s diaries, letters, memoirs, essays, novels and short stories. Compiled from Woolf’s words and archival photographs of family and friends, the digital narrative mines her vast quarry of feelings, thoughts and ideas.

Smith College Sophia and Austin Smith Professor of Psychology and Philosophy Jill de Villiers performs the role of Woolf.

Written by Kate Lee, Smith College Senior Media Producer

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