Video Storyboard

Video Storyboard for EDET 603

David Barker

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Inspiration for this document: Maricopa Community College. http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/authoring/studio/index.html

Title Screen Title of the module

Screen _____1____ of _________Actual text:Digital Storytelling:What is a Digital Story?

Narration:

Read the title and instruct to click the arrow to go forward

Audio:Light intro music, narration, and click chime

Animation: none

Audience Interaction: click forward


This is your life! Warm-up activity

Screen _____2____ of _________Actual text:Warm-up activityThis is your life!

Narration:

But first, to get our creativity flowing, let’s do a quick activity.In the 1950s in the United States, there was a popular television show called “This is your life.” In a way, it was one of the first reality shows. The show featured a guest who was surprised by a montage of videos, photos, interviews, and narration set to dramatic music that told the story of a his/her life There were always surprise appearances by long-lost loves or favorite teachers or other people who played small or significant roles in the person’s life. Each of us has a personal story to tell and for the next few minutes, let’s reflect on our individual stories.

Audio:Narration, click chimes

Animation: none

Audience Interaction: click forward/backward

IF LIFE WERE A MOVIE. . .

Audience participation to begin their story

Screen _____3____ of _________Inspiration for this document: Maricopa Community College. http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/authoring/studio/index.html

Actual text:If life were a movie…

• What movie genre would it be?

• What would the title be?

• What music would be on the soundtrack?

• What event/moment would be the climax?

• What actor/actress would play you?

Narration:

Take a few minutes to think about these questions and write down your personal answers. They will come in handy later in the course.

Audio:Narration, light music after narration ends, click chimes

Animation: none

Audience Interaction: take notes, click forward/backward

Stories Description of stories

Screen _____4____ of _________


Actual text:Stories:

are important! create

connection share emotions teach us

Narration:

We are well-aware of the importance of stories -- fiction or nonfiction.Stories

• create connection between people and communities

• share emotions• teach us

lessons

While we are familiar with stories that come on the pages of a book, in our technological era, storytelling has gone digital!

Audio:Narration, click chime

Animation: none


Objectives List of objectives

Screen _____5____ of _________


Actual text:Training Objectives

By the end of this training:

Participants will be able to define digital storytelling

Participants will identify how digital storytelling can be used in their lives.

Participants will understand the basic tasks and steps for developing a digital story.

Narration:

Embellish the written text


Animation: none


What is digital storytelling

Definition of digital storytelling

Screen _____6____ of _________


Actual text:

What is Digital Storytelling?

• Practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories.

• Combining the art of storytelling with a variety of multimedia:

• Graphics, audio, video and web-publishing

Narration:

Digital storytelling at its most basic core is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. This combines the art of telling stories with a variety of multimedia, including:

• graphics (like photos, images)

• audio (like music, narration, or other soundbites)

• video (like interviews or archival footage) and

• web-publishing (such as uploading, blogging, sharing).


Animation: none

Audience Interaction: play video, click forward/backward

Synonyms List of synonyms

Screen _____7____ of _________


Actual text:

Synonyms

• digital documentaries

• computer-based narratives

• digital essays• electronic

memoirs• interactive

storytelling

Narration:

There are a wealth of other terms used to describe digital storytelling including:

• digital documentaries,

• computer-based narratives,

• digital essays,• electronic

memoirs,• interactive

storytellingIn general, the aim remains the same -- telling a story using technology.

Audio:Narration, Click chime

Transition to next clip: slow fade

Animation: none

Story Example An example of a digital story

Screen _____8____ of _____


Actual text:

None

Narration:Watch the movie and think about these questions.What was the main idea or message? What was the basic story? How long was the digital story? What sort of media was used in it like, video, narration, photos, data, interviews, or music?Was the story successful?


Animation: none

Audience Interaction: play button, take notes, click forward/backward

What digital storytelling is not

List of things that are not digital storytelling

Screen _____9____ of _____


Actual text:

What digital storytelling is not…• a slideshow with

music• spliced video

footage• BECAUSE story

arc is IMPORTANT

Narration:

As you can see from our example, digital stories are NOT just

• a slideshow with randomly arranged photos and background music

• spliced video footage with titles

BECAUSE. . . the story is important. . .


Animation: none


Why digital storytelling

Description of this scene: Quiz on digital stories

Screen _____10____ of _____


Actual text:

Why digital storytelling?

• Storytelling is a part of most cultural traditions.

• Storytelling is an effective education tool.

• Storytelling is an artform.

• Digital storytelling is a value-added educational experience.

• Digital storytelling encourages creativity and use of different modes of communication.

Narration:

• Storytelling has been important to most cultures as a means of preserving community history through oral tradition.

• Storytelling is an effective educational tool because listeners become engaged, resulting in listeners remembering and learning from the story. (routed in experiential learning theory)

• Storytelling is an artform; it is both creative and personal.

• Digital storytelling is a value-added educational experience because it develops not only literacy skills and creativity, but also develops multimedia/technology literacy.

• Digital storytelling uses different modes of communication, which may encourage those who are not typical storytellers (i.e. talkers) to share their stories.

Audio:Click chime

Animation: none

Audience Interaction: click forward/backwardQuiz 1 Description of this scene: Quiz on digital stories

Screen _____11____ of ________


Actual text:

Is this a digital story?

Collection of slides with music

Spliced together video clips

A multimedia project with a story arc

Incorrect slide: Incorrect! A digital story must have a story arc.

Correct slide: Correct! This is true because the story arc is what makes a digital story/.

[There will be multiple questions using the same format]

Narration:

Explain the activity

Audio:Click chime

Animation: none

Audience Interaction: select an answer, click forward/backward

Types of stories Title slide for module

Screen _____12____ of _________


Actual text:

Types of stories

For digital storytelling

Narration:

We will briefly explore the types of stories typically used in digital storytelling.


Animation: none


Stories about people

Beginning the list of story types

Screen __13____ of _________


Actual text:Stories about people

Character storiesMemorial stories

Narration:

• Character Stories: It is deeply important to us how we love, are inspired by, want to recognize, find meaning in our relationships to other people (or even our pets).

• Memorial Stories: Honoring and remembering people who have passed is an essential part of the process of grieving and telling their story can be meaningful and a beautiful tribute.


Animation: none


Video StoryboardStories about places

Continuing the list of story types

Screen __14____ of _________Inspiration for this document: Maricopa Community College. http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/authoring/studio/index.html

Actual text:Stories about places

• Locale Stories

• Adventure Stories

Narration:

• Stories about a Locale: Story about your home, an ancestral home, a town, a park, mountain, or forest you love, a restaurant, store or gathering place. Your insights into place give us insight about your sense of values and connection to community.

• Adventure Stories: Travel is an invitation to challenge ourselves, to change our perspective, to reassess. We often return from these experiences with personal realizations. Recounting our travel stories is as much about sharing those realizations as sharing the sense of beauty or interest in the place visited


Animation: none


Video StoryboardStories about life Continuing the list of story types

Screen _____15____ of ________


Actual text:Stories about life

• Stories of Accomplishment

• Stories of Recovery

• Love Stories• Stories of

Everyday Life

Narration:• Accomplishment Stories: Stories about achieving a

goal, like graduating from school. These stories easily fit into the desire-struggle-realization structure of a classical story. They also tend to be documented, so you might find it easy to construct a multimedia story.

• Recovery Stories: Sharing the experience of overcoming a great challenge, like a health crisis or a great personal obstacle, is the fundamental archetype in human story making. If you can transmit the range of experience from descent, to crisis, to realization, you can always move an audience

• Love Stories: Romance and partnership, familial or fraternal love, also naturally lend themselves to the desire-struggle-realization formula. We all want to know how someone met their partner, or what our relationship is with our siblings and parents.

• Stories of Everyday Life: A Story shaped by a job, a hobby, volunteering, or social commitment. Poignancy of these stories often comes from looking at the familiar in a new way, with a new meaning.


Animation: none


Video StoryboardStories about discovery Continuing the list of story types

Screen _____16____ of ____


Actual text:Stories about discovery

• Reflection (Self-Discovery)

• Investigation

Narration:• Reflection: The process of

learning about ourselves is a rich field to mine for stories.

• Investigation: For the problem-solvers, these stories can look to the past or future to examine problems and outcomes.


Animation: none


Video StoryboardPick a story Interactive activity to write elevator pitches

Screen _____17____ of _________Inspiration for this document: Maricopa Community College. http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/authoring/studio/index.html

Actual text:Pick a story

Choose a elevator pitch for each of the 10 story types. Keep it brief.

Narration:Choose a elevator pitch for each of the 10 story types. Keep it brief. You will use these later in the course when you start creating your own digital story.


Animation: none


Video StoryboardQuiz 2 Description of this scene: Quiz on digital stories

Screen _____18____ of ________Inspiration for this document: Maricopa Community College. http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/authoring/studio/index.html

Actual text:

Match the story types

Incorrect slide: Incorrect! You missed a few try again.

Correct slide: Correct! You matched them all correctly.

[Story type short descriptions are still being written]

Narration:

Explain the activity

Audio:Click chime

Animation: none

Audience Interaction: select an answer, click forward/backward


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