Digital StoryTelling for Exchange: Worksheets

iEARN Educational Project

PRACTICE/ WORKSHOP ONE: Example of 2mn digital story.

Student watch: https://youtu.be/JsghcJ_OnAc . This Digital story is produced by iEARN Stevens Initiative

project Students from Morocco and USA It is entitled “True Beauty”.

1. First Viewing: Students watch the digital story and answer the following questions

A. Who tells the story? What is the problem? What’s the structure of the story? Beginning, middle

and end? What happens in each phase of the story?

B. Discussion of the plot (the sequenced events of the story). The hook, introduction, rising tension,

climax, falling tension or and conclusion.

The story plot includes the following steps:

The hook: The part of a story that introduces important background information to the audience. It can be

conveyed through dialogues, flashbacks, character's thoughts, background details …

Introduction/ Background/ Exposition: Information about the setting, events occurring before the main plot,

characters' back stories …

The Rising Action: The part where a series of events that begin immediately after the hook. These events are

generally the most important parts of the story since the entire plot depends on them.

The Climax: It is the highest point in the tension

of the story. It may also be the turning point,

which changes the story’s fate. It’s the moment

when solutions are finally looming up to resolve

the problems.

Falling Action: Things which have gone badly

up to this point; now, the plot will begin to

unfold in the positive way. It may contain a

moment of final suspense, in which the final

outcome of the conflict is in doubt.

The denouement: It constitutes the back of

peace and serenity to the story and it’s the

moment when things are getting normal again.

C. Exercise: Read the story and highlight

each element of the plot with a different colour in the following written story.

Everything around me was moving so fast. It was so different; I felt like moving through slow motion.

Things were getting tough, and I couldn't keep up. My name is _____________. I am from El jadida,

Morocco. And I'm 16 years old. When I was 13 I started suffering from body shame and low self-esteem. I

felt uncomfortable in the body I lift him in ashamed of the person I was. People thought that I was doing this

for fun, but it wasn't; it was like a way for me to express my own pain. I couldn't eat anymore; I couldn't sleep;

I couldn't even breath. I didn't interact with people anymore and prefer to stay by myself and to play all day in

my bed.One day, my cousin came to visit my family. He came up to my room and asked me what happened to

me and why did I change to become there that stranger. it really impacted me to see that somebody carred

and noticed my pain. I realized that this was no way to live and I needed to start believing in myself again.

That’s why I finally decided to speak up and ask for help. I asked my family in France for help. And this

experience taught me a lot about life and made me realize that what we see in magazines isn't true beauty; true

beauty is within yourself after all we won't remember our physical appearance; we remember whether or not

we had the courage to stand up to our beliefs and never forget that you're beautiful.

2. Second Viewing: Watch the video and Fill in the empty storyboard template from the digital story.

(make a photocopy for future use) 1

The Storyboard / Story Script template (make photocopy for future use)

(C) iEARN Digital StoryTelling Project 2019

Narration / text Audio/

music

Images /

shots

Visual

effects

Timing

Hook

10

seconds

Intr

od

uct

ion

30

seconds

Ris

ing a

ctio

n

30

seconds

Cli

max

10

seconds

Fall

ing A

ctio

n

30

seconds

Den

ou

emen

t

10

seconds

2

Digital Story “True Beauty” Storyboard

(C) iEARN Digital StoryTelling Project 2019

Narration / text Audio/

music

Images /

shots

Visual

effects

Timing

Hook

Everything around me was moving so fast. It was so different; I felt like moving through slow

motion. Things were getting tough, and I couldn't keep up.

Slow

music

Video 1 +

Speech no

10

seconds

Intr

od

uct

ion

My name is _____________. I am from El jadida, Morocco. And I'm 16 years old. When I was 13,

I started suffering from body shame and low self-esteem.

No

music+

voice

Video2+

speech+

video3

no

30

seconds

Ris

ing a

ctio

n I felt uncomfortable in the body. I lift him in ashamed of the person I was. People thought that I

was doing this for fun, but it wasn't; it was like a way for me to express my own pain.

No

music+

voice

Speech+

video

no

30

seconds

Cli

max I couldn't eat anymore; I couldn't sleep; I couldn't even breath. I didn't interact with people

anymore and prefer to stay by myself and to play all day in my bed.

No

music+

voice

Video +

speech no

10

seconds

Fall

ing A

ctio

n One day, my cousin came to visit my family. He came up to my room and asked me what

happened to me and why I did change to become there that stranger. It really impacted me to see

that somebody cared and noticed my pain. I realized that this was no way to live and I needed to

start believing in myself again. That’s why I finally decided to speak up and ask for help. I asked

my family in France for help.

Short slow

music+

voice+

happy

music

Black gap +

family

picture +

speech+

video

no

30

seconds

Den

ou

emen

t And this experience taught me a lot about life and made me realize that what we see in magazines

isn't true beauty; true beauty is within yourself after all we won't remember our physical

appearance; we remember whether or not we had the courage to stand up to our beliefs and never

forget that you're beautiful you

Soft

music+

voice +

loud music

Video +

speech +

dancing

video no

10

seconds

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PRACTICE TWO: Students watch the digital Story entitled ‘Paying Respect’:

https://youtu.be/RW7Uksus1l8 and fill in the storyboard template (page2) . The written story is as follows:

As a Muslims, we believe that those who died out are alive but we are not aware of them. My name is

Mohammed and I'm 17 years old. I'm from Zagora, a small city in South East of Morocco. I really like

my town because it's beautiful and people are nice. But every day, I walk past a cemetery that was not taken

care of. They were weeds everywhere; and at night, animals get in and just leave a mess. It was disrespectful

to those who died. but then, I had an idea; one Friday after prayers, I asked some friends to help me clean

up cemetery but they teased me and they said that was a stupid idea but not everyone teased me. By Sunday

afternoon, six of us started to clean cemetery pulling weeds and picking up the garbage. My idea was not

stupid. People joined us one by one even those people who said it was stupid. By the time we finished,

over 20 people were helping and even though they didn't seem doing it. My family and my friends respected

me. For me, I just wanted to encourage respect for both the living and dead.

More digital stories for practice

https://youtu.be/SQwRWmLE9IY

https://youtu.be/MiTi8StV7eA

https://youtu.be/CwTbwhgFw0s

https://youtu.be/Y4jnGs_G8pc

Now it’s your turn. In order to achieve this level of greatness, you need to work through a Digital

Storytelling Process.

1. Start with an Idea. ...

2. Research/Explore/Learn. ...

3. Write/Script....

4. Fill in Storyboard/Plan/ template. ...

5. Gather and Create Images, Audio and Video. ...

6. Put It All Together and edit on windows movie maker software

7. Upload your digital story to your YouTube channel and share the link on Digital StoryTelling for

Exchange forum

8. Reflection and Feedback.

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