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Part II. Storytelling in the Information Age | 81 4. The Gift of A means of personalizing the story to help the audience Your Voice understand the context. 5. The Power of | Music or other sounds that support and enhance the story. the Soundtrack 6. Economy Using just enough content to tell the story without overloading the viewer. 7. Pacing The rhythm of the story and how slowly or quickly it progresses. The most important characteristic of digital stories is that they all reveal a narrative pattern, the key dramaturgical elements of which are visualized by Ohler (2013) using the Story Map (Figure 7). Middle (Tension) A (Resolution) fr N Problem Solution — question — ques. answered — opportunity — opportunity met — challenge (Conflict, growth) — challenge met — goal — goal met “The call to adventure..." Closure "Life" resumes... Ordinary life... Transformation? x > Beginning End Figure 7. Story map. Visual representation of a narrative (Ohler, 2001/2013) The elements of the narrative outlined above are in a causal-logical order. In the exposition, the initial situation is presented which is changed by an obstacle, a conflict, an opportunity, or a problem. The challenge escalates and culminates in the middle of the narrative. In a digital story, the main character attempts to resolve the situation, even from multiple perspectives and the development of the characters can be observed as the problem is solved and the digital story concludes. Digital stories can be differentiated based on the subject matter of the narratives and the author's relationship with the narrative. Lambert (2002/2013) grouped the digital stories produced in StoryCenter workshops by theme, classifying them into the following categories: (1) Personal Stories (Digital stories about important individuals which - reveal the creator’s relationships; these include Memorial Stories, Recovery Stories, Coming- of
