Digital+Storytelling+Project+JD

The point of the digital storytelling project was to communicate an experience we had while learning a new technology. My story consists of a trip I took last summer. I used Photostory, pictures from the trip, narration from a usb microphone music to bring the project together into a video.

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The skill I learned for this project was essentially learning how to navigate and create a video using a program that was brand new to me. The generic program to be used to create this project was iMovie, which is an apple exclusive program. Being that my PC could not run that program, my next best choice was Photostory. The program proved to be very easy to navigate and I caught on very quickly how to use it. There were two problems I ran into when using this program, one that was solved easily and another that I could not find a definite solution to. The first problem I ran into was figuring out how to re-record over a slide that I had already recorded over. This problem showed up when I made a mistake during my narration. However after a few minutes for looking around on the program interface I was able to find the delete audio button and all was well. The second problem was that there is no option to insert a title or credit slide. To bypass this option I used Microsoft Paint to create a black background. I then saved the file and imported the image into Photostory twice, once for the title slide and once for the credits. After I imported the file I put the appropriate text on the slide and I moved on to the next step in creating my video. Although there were a few issues the adaptability of the program and small learning curve made it very appealing to me and I will more than likely be using it again.