Digital Story Telling - How to make digital strories

Digital story is a short video of 1 - 3 munites
It actually tells a strory, engaging audience with a new experience.
Its delivered and exibitted online or offline using digital tools like computers and multimedia. Althouth its short the process is the same.

Write a script with first person narrative of 100-400 words , 1 to 4 minutes max
Audion record the naration, use a tool to make a video. Microsoft photo story, Adobe premire there are many...


Add Background Music, Titles, Transitions, and Effects
Present or publish finished version of story

• Freeplay Music -a good collection of royalty-free music

Step 1:
What do you want to tell
Think small.

The story about someone important in your memory.

pay tribute to someone who passed on but left a lasting impression.

The story about an event in your life. Personal journey , share your experiences

achieving a goal, graduating from school, or winning an award

The story about a place in your life.

The story about what I do, value of your work, hobbies, or social interactions

Discoveries : how we uncovered a truth or learned how to do something.

 

Collect Your Materials
Start collecting memories. Take photos, creative common photos, videos,

• Get personal. Forget everything you've been taught about using a dispassionate, authoritative, essay-like voice. This isn't an essay contest. People want to hear your voice. The story must be told from your point of view.
• Write a first drafts

• Write short.

• Read your script aloud as you're fine-tuning it. Simple words hit...

• Be real. Be emotional , touch heats. break minds
• Have a begining, Middle and End
• The beginning sets the dramatic tension to hold throughout the story. The middle outlines conflicts along the way. The end is the destination, revealing a small discovery, revelation, or insight.
  
  desire-action-realization model.

Work on the pace, rhythm and tempo of the tory to sustains an audience Experience.
Trust your voice. All of us have our own distinctive style of storytelling. Trust yours.
Read your script to a friend
Create a Storyboars - plot out the sequences of events and visuals (camera shots) in the movie

Produce Your Media

720x540-pixel range photos should be the minumum size

Record a Voice-Over

Add Music

Consider Copyrights
Edit Your Story
Share Your Stor