Project #8: Digital Story
Telling Project
Annotation
For
this project, we had to create a photo story using a program called
Photo Story 3 for windows. I was able to download this
program at
home with no problem. I had decided early on that I wanted to do
a photo story about my children, but rather than searching
for pictures
of all three of my kids, I decided to focus on my oldest. I had
pictures of my daughter and her friend that I was meaning to make
into a scrapbook to give to her friend but never got around to it.
This is a very special photo story because it follows the girls
through their life of dance-from the time they met (Kendra-2 1/2, and
Sarah-3) up to this year. I also knew early on that I wanted to
use the song "Time of Your Life" by Green Day because I felt that
it was
appropriate with the pictures I'm using. Seeing how the song
was only 2 minutes and 34
seconds long, and because I had lots of pictures to use, I was limited
with the amount of narrative and transition I could use. This
year marks not only the girls 8th. year of dance together, but
their
friendship too.
Since I only had original pictures, I had to scan and save them to the
flash drive before I could use them. I scanned the majority of my
pictures at the school library, and scanned the rest at home.
After I had my pictures in the correct order, I used the customize
motion feature and chose the size and duration of the picutres. When I was
done creating my photo story, I saved it,
linked it, and used the server at school (WS_FTP) to upload it.
view my story