Stories today often travel through media that require craft skills which not everyone has. Story Gardeners lend those skills where needed. They might: - film a performance so that children can see and share their work - record clean audio so elders can listen without strain - layout pages for a small booklet or wiki guide so the content is easy to follow - add simple animation or visual rhythm to a video so it holds attention.
In Living Story projects this might involve using tools like Marvin, the Babelfish helper and other AI assisted workflows to speed up subtitles, translations and basic editing, all while keeping humans in charge of the final shape and tone.
In Living Guides it might mean turning rough notes into a clear online guide, adding headings and diagrams so that the knowledge is reusable by others. The gardener’s tools are cameras, microphones, keyboards and editing software, but their purpose is always in the service of the storyteller.