Share your story

You don't have to attend our digital storytelling workshops in order to submit your story. If you can create your own Queensland digital story and you can meet the following requirements then send us your story for consideration for publishing on this site.

Requirements for Queensland digital stories

1. Technical

• Video file (DV format) (.avi) 
  • embedded audio narration;
  • PC compatible;
  • maximum run time of 4 minutes (including titles and credits);
  • PAL standard;
  • either 4:3 or 16:9 screen ratio.
• A representative still image from your story – 400ppi tiff, 4,000 pixels along the widest dimension. If this is not possible please supply the highest resolution as tiff format. (.tif)
• A thumbnail version of the same image for use on the website – 72ppi jpg, 150 pixels along the longest dimension. (.jpeg)
  
• An “About my story” form [new window 201 kb ] that helps us to describe your story and catalogue it in the Queensland Digital Library.
• A story transcript (maximum 250 words) as a text file (.txt)

2. Copyright

Queensland digital stories can be created using text, photographs, graphics, video or audio. The copyright and intellectual property rights on these mediums vary. The responsibility to identify the copyright owner and to obtain permission to use the text, photographs, graphics, video or audio to create your Queensland digital story, rests with YOU (the creator).

When submitting your Queensland digital story you must include a completed copy of the form – Library Board of Queensland Deed of Gift [new window 105 kb ]. This form gives options for copyright and permission for the State Library of Queensland to publish your Queensland digital story on this website.

If your Queensland digital story includes interviews with other people, photographs or video of other people then you will need each person to sign a Consent & Release Form [new window 32 kb ].

If your Queensland digital story includes music that is not your original creation (ie. composed and recorded by yourself) then you must obtain clearance to use such music.

More information on Copyright and Intellectual Property is available from:

• Australian Copyright Council
• Australian Performing Rights Association

3. Criteria for selecting Queensland digital stories

Your Queensland digital story:

• should relate to any of the following themes – memories, arrivals, special people, favourite places, strange and everyday tales, politics and communities, stories from the State Library;
• must not infringe the copyright or other rights of any third party, and
• must not contain any unlawful, obscene or immorral, defamatory or libellous material and will not constitute derogatory treatment of any work or any person.

4. Submission process

Use the following checklist to make sure that you have gathered all of the information needed to include your Queensland digital story on the State Library’s Queensland Stories website:

Does your story comply with the format requirements?

 Have you completed the ‘About my story’ form?

 Do you have copyright clearance on all mediums used to create your digital story?

 Have you obtained signed consent forms from each person if you have interviewed, photographed or videoed people and included that material in your story?

 Does your story comply with the Criteria for selecting Queensland digital stories?

 Have you completed the ‘Library Board of Queensland Deed of Gift’ form?

If you can tick all of the above boxes, forward the DVD containing your Queensland digital story and all of the required forms to:

Queensland Stories
Public Programs
State Library of Queensland
PO Box 3488
South Brisbane, Qld. 4101

Please note the State Library regrets that it is unable to return Queensland digital story DVDs to the creator, but will advise in writing if the story doesn’t meet all of the above criteria.

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