While I have created several PhotoStories for friends and relatives for anniversaries, births, and graduations that were stories told through music, I have never created one that focused on one of my stories - and certainly have never narrated one. This was much harder than anticipated. I found the writing area very helpful for narration. Usually an "ad-libber," I used this as a jumping off point for each picture. As mentioned in Mr. Lambert's digital story cookbook, telling one's own story is difficult because of all the media saturation that exists in our heads today. (Lambert, 2007). And I could very well be the person he mentions that works hard to incorporate everything possible within the creation, at the expense of just telling the story. I get overwhelmed but i know just enough about editing, visuals, adding music and special effects, etc., to know nothing about putting it all together.
This is the one class I have looked most forward to - and unfortunately, this week has had me bound in chains. I hope to review the readings a little better later - because it was all I could find time to do was to complete the assignment. I guess that's telling on myself.
All in all, I enjoyed the process, and hope to recreate it better each time. What do I want to learn from it? I always have great issues with how to save. This is compounded by the fact that I work from a MAC. I created it on my husband's PC. I want to learn to use my MAC video software - just haven't had the time.
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