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

• In general, good job! • Issues:

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

GENERAL FEEDBACK ON STORYBOARDS

• Creating & Collecting Images– Copyright– Ways to create images – will be addressed

later

• Recording Narration – Audacity

AFTER STORYBOARDS

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.

HOW TO COLLECT A CITATION FOR AN IMAGEDemo (Try it on your own as well)

1. Learn different CC licenses: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

2. To search external images, you can use Google Advanced Search > usage rights > choose “free to use share or modify” https://www.google.com/advanced_image_search?num=10&hl=en&biw=1036&bih=601&q=flowers&tbm=isch

3. Or, go to a copyright free website and keyword search“flower” e.g. http://search.creativecommons.org/

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

5. Save image as “sequence_image content” to your flash drive

* Other copyright-free websites are at the bottom of the W200 Week 3 details

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.

So… YOU are going to create your OWN images. HOW?

In this project, only 3 external images are allowed.

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

Here are some ways to create your own images…

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 MP33. 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 – not

recommended though… • Other audio-recording programs can be used as well

(MP3)E.g. Digital sound recorder

FOR NEXT WEEK (WEEK #4)

1.Create at least 5 of your own images. Review how you can create your own images.

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)

4.Make sure to keep all the files on your flash drive. Bring your flashdrive to week 4 class. (That is, +5 new images, 3 searched images, 1 narration.mp3)

IMPORTANT NOTES FOR YOUR DIGITAL STORY

• 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