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.