Digital Story Workshop

WEEK 3

WHERE ARE WE?

Completing the files, adding the music

Produce NARRATION and IMAGES

Create a Storyboard

Create a Script

Select a Topic

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Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

• Important:– Script length (Movie 2-2.5 minute)– Number of Storyboard Slides– Draw images instead of describing– Focus (Address topics)– Creativity

• Modify your storyboard based on your instructor’s feedback

GENERAL FEEDBACK ON STORYBOARDS

Twelve Ways to Make Your Own Digital Scenes

• Clay Animation• Playing with text• Video Still Cut Animations 1• Video Still Cut Animations 2• Dress Up and Videotape• Act Out with Your Voice

DIGITAL STORY IDEAS

• In Plain English Style• Purely Animation• Scissors and Felt• Changing Focus with

Popping Objects• Screen Recording • Green Screen Video

Recording

Piece the digital options together with• Title• Narration• Captions• Credits

How to get to resources to make the movie• Library http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=3757 • ETS https://info.educ.indiana.edu/ttlreserve/Default.aspx • TTL

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

COPYRIGHT GUIDELINES(No more than 3 external images for this assignment)

Purpose : Non-commercial and educational purposeMedia Faire Use

Text Material

Up to 10%of the total or 1,000 words, whichever is less.

Motion Media

Up to 10%of the total or 3 minutes, whichever is less.

Music Up to 10% of the work but no more than 30 seconds of the music or lyrics from an individual musical work.

Illustrations or Photographs

No more than 5 images from one artist or photographer. No more than 10% or 15 images, whichever is less, from a collection.

• Collecting Images– Copyright (Class Prep#3)– Choose images with appropriate

Creative Commons Licenses

• In this project, only 3 external images are allowed.

• It is your story, so be CREATIVE… but PROFESSIONAL at the same time…

IMAGES

IMAGES - SEARCHING

• http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search

• http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/

• http://search.creativecommons.org/

IMAGES - CITATION

• Right click on a selected image and copy & paste the location information (= citation info) to the citation template (next slide!)

• Save image as “sequence_image content” to your flash drive

Try this on your own!

Citation Template Example

No. Image/Music Name

Web Location Retrieval Date

Image1

Flower1 http://www.stanford.edu/~grg/images/orange_flower.jpg

09/01/2012

Image2

Image3

Music

* Once your citation is complete, you can export the slide as an image and add it as a scene to the movie.

HOW TO RECORD YOUR NARRATION USING AUDACITY

ULA Demo:Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.

You can use Audacity to:

• Record live audio• Edit MP3 and WAV sound files• Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together

1.Go to programs on your computer and type audacity.

2.Start the program.

HOW TO RECORD YOUR NARRATION USING AUDACITY (Job-aid)

Click on the red Record button to begin recording.

Click on the blue Pause button to pause the recording. Press it again to continue.

Click on the yellow Stop button to cease recording. The cursor will return to its previous position, before the recording was started

HOW TO SAVE YOUR NARRATION IN .MP3

1. Click the File menu2. Click Export As MP3 or WAV3. Click OK on the opening panel4. Save the file to your flash memory into the narration

folder. See the Audacity job aid on the week 3

Important Notes:• Quality of the narration is EXTREMELY important • You can use TTL to record your narration • Other audio-recording programs can be used as well

(MP3)E.g. Digital sound recorder

MUSIC (ROYALTY-FREE)

• Do not use commercial music•Royalty-Free Music 1. INCOMPETECH2. The Free Music Directory3. Jamendo

Choose music with appropriate Creative Commons Licenses

FOR NEXT WEEK (WEEK #4)

1.Create at least 5 of your own images; video; screen recording

2.If you use external online images (max 3). Find them before week 4 and keep them in your flash drive with the URL info.

3.Record your narration using audacity or other audio-recording tools (Remember quality, mp3 preferred)

4.Make sure to keep all the files on your flash drive. Bring your flashdrive to week 4 class.

FILE MANAGEMENT

This is important, and will help you greatly when you are working with the files in Windows Movie Maker or iMovie.

• Create a main folder in your flash drive, and name it as “Digital Story”

• Create subfolders for your: “Images”, “Music files”, “Narration” and “Others”

• All your files need to be saved on your flash drive.

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