The Digital Bootcamp is a three day intensive hands-on workshop held concurrently with the Digital Storytelling Conference and structured to provide students with an introduction to the tools of desktop video in a production context. Course instructors Joe Lambert and Nina Mullen of the Center for Digital Storytelling, guide students in the production of their own stories using corporate, personal, or artistic materials. Each student is assigned a workstation and will use iMovie, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere software to create a finished three to five minute story. Finished stories will be presented to the Digital Storytelling Conference & Festival audience. Participation in the Digital Bootcamp is limited to 24 students.

"These "digital boot camps" take participants who've often had little or no experience with computers and teach them how to turn personal artifacts -- photos, clippings, and hand-me-down tales -- into five-minute QuickTime movies. The work that emerges -- love stories, memorials to dead relatives, ghost tales, road sagas -- is rarely revolutionary and often unpolished. But it is consistently surprising and frequently moving... you can feel the fledgling filmmakers' pleasure and freedom." Scott Rosenberg, Salon Magazine

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• Center for Digital Storytelling
• The Digital Storytelling Cookbook
• The Story Within by Liz Zack of Fast Company Magazine–"The Digital Storytelling Boot Camp produces fierce soldiers of communication."