1. Digital Story Workshop
WEEK 3

2. WHERE ARE WE?
 Select a Topic
 Create a Script
☐ Create a Storyboard Week 3
☐ Produce NARRATION and IMAGES Week 4
Completing the files, adding the music Week 5
☐

3. GENERAL FEEDBACK ON STORYBOARDS
• 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

4. AFTER STORYBOARDS
• Creating & Collecting Images
– Copyright
– Ways to create images – will be addressed later
• Recording Narration
– Audacity

5. COPYRIGHT GUIDELINES
(No more than 3 external images for this assignment)
purpose : Non-commercial and educational purpose
Media 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 No more than 5 images from one artist or
Photographs photographer. No more than 10% or 15 images,
whichever is less, from a collection.

6. HOW TO COLLECT A CITATION FOR AN IMAGE
Demo (Try it on your own as well)
1. Go to a copyright free website
e.g. http://search.creativecommons.org/
2. Enter search word to find images for your story
e.g. <computer>
3. Select the image that you like. (Click on the image until the
browser only shows the image. Then, copy and paste the
URL for future citation)
4. Right click on the image
5. Save image as “image content/sequence” so you recognize
easily later on
* Other copyright-free websites are on the W200 Website

7. So… YOU are going to create your OWN images.
HOW?
In this project, only 3 external images are allow.
It is your story,
So be CREATIVE… but PROFESSIONAL at the same
time…
Here are some ways to create your own images…
REMEMBER THERE ARE OTHER WAYS AS WELL…

8. 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.

9. 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

10. HOW TO SAVE YOUR NARRATION IN .MP3
1. Click the File menu
2. Click Export As MP3
3. Click OK on the opening panel
4. 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

11. 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)

12. 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