Bulletin Board

Although the final product didn't exactly match what I visioned it to look like, our bulletin board is still colorful, fun and informative. If you notice the sloppy pink sign on the left - I spent a decent amount of time making a nice sign over spring break... and I forgot it back at my apartment. We were pressed for time so I had to quickly make one. I took it as a learning experience, sometimes teachers have to improvise. A border would have looked nice too. Oh well, next time!

Digital Story Reflection

Creating a digital story it not an easy process. It requires a lot of thought, time and preparation. The first step is to think of an idea. For me this was a one sentence idea that I built off of. I knew I wanted to follow a person in their journey to becoming healthy but I had no idea how I was going to go around this. Luckily Kevin volunteered to help me by being the main character in the story and we ended up working on the whole project together. Initially I was going to work alone but I'm happy I ended up having a partner in the end because this was such a large project.

After I had the idea set it was time to come up with the actual story. I wrote up something briefly and Kevin helped me to perfect it. After we had the story set, we thought of what pictures/videos could be used with each line. We created a script with the picture and video notations next to each line. This preparation made the actual process a lot easier.

One Saturday Kevin and I took all the pictures and videos. It only took about an hour or two because we had direction; we knew exactly what we needed.

To be continued...

It's finished!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6vWeFYiz6Y

End of Day 2

Kevin and I feel confident about our digital story so far. We think everyone is going to really enjoy it. Today we brainstormed all the pictures and videos we are going to need and plan to meet tomorrow to actually bring our ideas to life. We even created a list of props we are going to need so everything goes smoothly tomorrow. I began listening to some music today that I may incorporate into the video. I'm excited to see how all our ideas turn out.

Digital Story Day 2

It's been a busy week for me so unfortunately I didn't get to put in much work since last class. We have our story finalized and we pretty much know of the pictures and videos we will be using. I plan to record my voice today and get together with Kevin over the weekend to take pictures. If we can get all of that out of the way by Sunday, we will have all of next week to put the video together. I feel that we are right on track.

End of Day 1

Today we worked on the script and brainstormed ideas for the pictures and videos we will take. We discussed schedules and plan to meet up over the weekend to take the pictures/videos. Until then we will work on a script that includes which clips we will be using along with each line of dialogue so when it comes to taking the pictures and actually putting together the project- we will hopefully be stress free!