3.+Assignment+Three+-+Digital+Story

= __DIGITAL STORY__ =

Final Product - Digital Story

Original Recording

Transcript

=SUMMARY=

**The Story:**
====I believe the story is an engaging one with a story of one persons ups and downs in the sport of Football. I ended up using some headings throughout the story to keep the viewers up to date with what the person was answering as sometimes it was unclear. The engaging first question was about his home-life and family which can be emotional sometimes. The story moved on to being drafted into the AFL system and then being delisted. The story ended with him winning the Magarey Medal and what the future held for James. The emotional content was him being delisted from his AFL club so therefore it was a sense of loss and change in his life however there was some redemption involved as he wanted to prove people wrong. Overall I believe the story is a successful one which is well placed and has the audience engaged and their are numerous issues in the story.====

**The Sound and Images:**
====The device I used was an expensive one which made the voice very clear to understand. The sound levels are fairly consistent and the majority of the edits are clean. There are some small silences when the story changes to a different question which I believe is suitable to to the production of the story. I didnt believe that music would enhance the story and therefore this wasn't used. I found a wide range of images which all help the story in certain ways. From his younger ages with his family, to playing for Port Power and then finally his playing days at West Adelaide, these images all tell a story. However, on reflection, some of my photos needed to be cropped and enhanced to fit the screen. As I am not efficient in this area and with time constraints, the Digital Story was published. In future I look forward to working with enhancing photos so that next time I can produce an even better Digital Story or I can pass this knowledge on to classes I teach.====

**The Digital Story Production:**
====I didn't realise how lengthy the process would be to make a digital story. It took me numerous weeks to decide what I was going to do my story on and once I settled on the idea of doing my team-mate who had a great story to tell, I got underway. Firstly I wrote down some questions that I was going to ask and once I had these all organised, I wanted to do the interview as early as possible which would give me enough weeks to edit and put the production together. As my mate lives by himself, I knew that there would be minimal distractions if I conducted it at his house. So I organised a time and made sure he had some photos organised and we did the interview which went well. I had around seven minutes of audio which at the time I didn't think was enough but on listening to the tape I knew I had some quality infromation to work with.====

====After uploading my interview to the computer and putting it in the program 'Audacity' I got underway. As I used audacity in my first assignment, I now had the knowledge to create a better audio then the first one. After talking to some friends they also gave me some useful information on zooming in on the audio which allowed me to cut out finer pieces of audio which was a great help. Cutting out when I asked questions, long pauses, times when we laughed and finally the information I didn't think would be relevant for my final digital story. I wanted the emotional content and the audio that would engage the audience and make people want to listen to it. Finally, as I had the photos stored onto my computer, they were easy to transfer and now all I had to do was put them in the right spots and make some transitions to allow for a great production.====

====The program I used to make the Digital Story was Movie Maker 2.6. It was a lengthy process to get the right pictures in the right spots but it was worth it to see the final product. The program was very easy to use however it did take me several days to get the final product how I wanted it. The final step was to upload the video onto the Wiki and once this was completed, I was very satisfied at what I had accomplished not only in this assignment, but in the whole course. If before the course somehow said I would have made my own movie, I wouldn't have believed them.====

====Finally I would like to thank Graham Taylor and Al Brocklehurst for what they have taught me in the topic. Without their little insights and knowledge this wouldn't have been possible. Secondly I would like to thank my fellow classmates who always had some useful information for me which helped me in my final production. Lastly I would like to thank my close mate James Ezard for allowing me to conduct an interview on him and also providing me with some great photos.====

**Sharing:**
====For my sharing process, I posted my video on Teacher Tube. Then, after this I had to copy the embedded link and then add it to my Wiki site. This occured through the Widget button where I pasted the link and added it to my page.====

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