tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92118942641695634122011-07-08T09:38:07.697-07:00My adventures in putting together a visual storytelling project based on Tasmanian historyMike Marinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16618727138258617722noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211894264169563412.post-62334685811734703232010-04-27T05:15:00.000-07:002010-04-27T05:51:45.724-07:00<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Its a little amazing to look back on the this project, begun back in 2005, and realise that it was a "Transmedia" project before the word had even been invented - but thats getting ahead of the game.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">The Aurora Effect blog will be used by myself - </span><a href="http://mike.marinos.posterous.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Mike Marinos</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> and </span><a href="http://theartofcomics.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Mark Richards</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> to chronicle the Aurora Effect as its weaves around Tasmania.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">The Aurora Effect is a combination of community arts training in storytelling skills using drawing, visual narrative and claymation and local history project to collect local stories and produce comics and other media based on those stories.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Since 2005 over 50 workshops have been carried out around Tasmania in schools, libraries, and online access centres by Mark and the Art of Comics. We have had a great time, learnt a lot about preparing and delivering short media training courses, refined the project a hundred time until its has become something manageable and got to learn that there is a life time of stories in Tasmania.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">So, 10 locations around Tasmania to fully explain the Aurora Effect. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">First stop ... Evandale</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Art of Comics Flyer</span></span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6xUGkQ8NW1Y/S9bcf6TbWPI/AAAAAAAAAWY/zc0mkX5VN0k/s1600/theartofcomics.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6xUGkQ8NW1Y/S9bcf6TbWPI/AAAAAAAAAWY/zc0mkX5VN0k/s320/theartofcomics.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464797638645471474" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9211894264169563412-6233468581173470323?l=theauroraeffect.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mike Marinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16618727138258617722noreply@blogger.com0