Digital Story 2 version 2

I chose to add my wife's laughter at the beggining of the video and fade it out as well as leaving it at the end so it kind of brings the story all together. Thanks for the suggestions!

My second story revised from Michael Schwind on Vimeo.

Digital Story 2 Version 1

Here is my second digital story. It's about a letter I wrote to my wife (she was my girlfriend at the time) while I was at the Army Infantry Officer Basic Training Course at Fort Benning, Georgia in the fall of 1981. I used Soundbooth to record my narration and blend in some sound effects I recorded. I built the animation in Flash and then imported both the MP3 file and SWF files into After Effects to produce the .mov video file. Let me know what you think.

My second story from Michael Schwind on Vimeo.

Digital Story 1 Version 2

Here is my updated version of my first digital story. I took the suggestions of so many of you and removed the headstone scene from the beginning. I can understand how you thought it was out of place with the rest of the video. I also took the suggestion to add a bit more time at "the moment" with more pause in the video and a different transition with a picture of my mother slowly fading away. Thanks for all of your inputs!

Digital Story 1 Version 1

I created this digital story using Soundbooth for the narration, Flash for the animation, and combined both files in After Effects to render the video.

This story is about the death of my mother and how it affected me. I want to start out by saying thanks to all of you who told me they were sorry for my loss. But this happen 32 years ago so the wounds aren’t really fresh. I guess the reason I told this story is because I’ve never really talked about it much over the years and this ended up being a good way to get some feelings out……me not being much of a touchy feely type of person. :)

The story turned out to be a bit longer than I anticipated; I guess I had a lot to say. I appreciate the feedback on my storyboards and incorporated some of the ideas such as cutting down on some pictures and just letting an image do the talking in some parts. I also liked the suggestion that Cindy had about looking at it from my mother’s point of view and is this the way she’d want me to remember her? For me this is more about my feelings of her leaving unexpectedly. I think in the next version I may incorporate looking at it from her point of view somehow.

My Story from Michael Schwind on Vimeo.

Week 4: Digital Storyboard Upgrade

Owning your insights. This confirmed that my topic would make a good story. The death of my mother was one of the most, if not the most, traumatic events of my life. Telling it in this form is kind of therapeutic.

Finding the moment. This step caused me to rethink how I was going to transition at the moment of my mother’s death. For more of a dramatic step I will use a sentence that kind of hangs there and then silence with the screen going blank. This will signify the change in my life and the following narration will be different than the lead in.

Seeing your story. Initially I wasn’t going to use very many pictures to portray my story but after reading this section I decided that many images from my childhood would portray the relationship I had with my mother in a more effective manner.

Here's the link to my storyboard on Google Docs.

Week 2: Picture Story

Here is the link to my picture story. It's a tribute to fathers for the upcoming Father's Day. I used Adobe After Effects to create the video. I used Soundbooth to record and edit my audio.

http://www.vimeo.com/12660432


Here is the link to the script for my story.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcFaAyOk8e3aZHp4ODZyN18xZmhjZHdqZjg&hl=en

Mike Schwind's Audio Story

Here is my audio project for this week. I’m looking forward to your comments and feedback.

http://mschwind.podomatic.com/entry/2010-06-11T16_36_12-07_00

I started out by writing a script for my story which really was easier to do than I thought it might be at first. I had researched some of the resources that Dr. Howell has listed and decided the best approach was to tell a story that had meaning to me so I decided tell the story of my daughters and I getting a tattoo during our vacation this past month. I had initially thought of only having narration but then decided to add a few other sounds such as smooth, low level background music and the sound of a tattoo gun in the appropriate places throughout my story.

I used Soundbooth to record and edit my file.
I found the tattoo gun sound at http://soundbible.com/530-Tattoo-Gun.html which offers free sound effect files.
I found the background music from Video Helper which I have a copy of. I has several types of background music to choose from.

Hello!!!

Hello all! I'm looking forward to this Digital Storytelling class and learning from each of you.