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
• Important:
– Script length (Movie 2-2.5 minute)
– Number of Storyboard Slides
– Draw images instead of describing
– Focus (Address topics)
– Creativity
• Modify your storyboard based on your
instructor’s feedback

4. DIGITAL STORY IDEAS
Twelve Ways to Make Your Own Digital Scenes
• Clay Animation • In Plain English Style
• Playing with text • Purely Animation
• Video Still Cut Animations 1 • Scissors and Felt
• Video Still Cut Animations 2 • Changing Focus with
• Dress Up and Videotape Popping Objects
• Act Out with Your Voice • Screen Recording
• Green Screen Video
Recording

5. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
Piece the digital options together with
• Title
• Narration
• Captions
• Credits
How to get to resources to make the movie
• Library http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=3757
• ETS https://info.educ.indiana.edu/ttlreserve/Default.aspx
• TTL

6. 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.

7. IMAGES
• Collecting Images
– Copyright (Class Prep#3)
– Choose images with appropriate Creative
Commons Licenses
• In this project, only 3 external images are allowed.
• It is your story, so be CREATIVE… but
PROFESSIONAL at the same time…

8. IMAGES - SEARCHING
• http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search
• http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/
• http://search.creativecommons.org/

9. IMAGES - CITATION
• Right click on a selected image and copy & paste the
location information (= citation info) to the citation
template (next slide!)
• Save image as “sequence_image content” to your
flash drive
Try this on your own!

10. Citation Template Example
No. Image/Music Name Web Location Retrieval Date
Image1 Flower1 http://www.stanford.edu/~grg/images/orange 09/01/2012
_flower.jpg
Image2
Image3
Music
* Once your citation is complete, you can export the slide as an image
and add it as a scene to the movie.

11. 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.

12. 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

13. HOW TO SAVE YOUR NARRATION IN .MP3
1. Click the File menu
2. Click Export As MP3 or WAV
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
• Other audio-recording programs can be used as well (MP3)
E.g. Digital sound recorder

14. MUSIC (ROYALTY-FREE)
• Do not use commercial music
• Royalty-Free Music
1. INCOMPETECH
2. The Free Music Directory
3. Jamendo
Choose music with
appropriate Creative
Commons Licenses

15. FOR NEXT WEEK (WEEK #4)
1.Create at least 5 of your own images; video; screen
recording
1.If you use external online images (max 3). Find them before
week 4 and keep them in your flash drive with the URL info.
2.Record your narration using audacity or other audio-
recording tools (Remember quality, mp3 preferred)
3.Make sure to keep all the files on your flash drive. Bring
your flashdrive to week 4 class.

16. FILE MANAGEMENT
This is important, and will help you greatly when you are working with the
files in Windows Movie Maker or iMovie.
• 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.
Visuals