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CORE FINAL: Digital Story
Digital Story
Luminescent Core Final 2015
Tucker, Saldana and Hadley-Hill
Too many stories remain untold. This digital story project is your opportunity to give voice to one of your family member's stories. Hearing, recording and retelling this story will help you better understand your family history. Because you are shaped by the people in your life, this project will also provide insight into your own identity.
Step 1: Select the person you want to interview and set a date to conduct your interview. You will need to record your interview (audio and/or video) to reference as you write the script for your digital story. Please set a date for your interview ASAP!
Recording options:
- Online interview: Skype or Google + Hangout interview and screen capture the interview using Quicktime (on a Mac) or ScreenCast-O-Matic with either PC or Mac. Tip: If you are using your parent's computer, please consult them before you install any programs.
Step 2: Submit information about the person you are interviewing and 15 interview questions to this Google Form. Check out the collection of interview questions designed by StoryCorps!
Interview Questions Due: Thursday, January 29th.
Step 3: Share evidence of your interview with your 2A teacher. You can play a short section of your recording or show a clip from the video tape.
Evidence of Interview Due: Tuesday, February 24th.
Step 4: Write a narrative about an event, moment or time in this person’s life based on the information you learned during your interview. You are NOT telling their entire life story. Instead, focus on a particularly interesting story, influential person or event, or life changing experience. Your narrative should contain the following elements:
- well-chosen details and well-structured event sequences
- sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters
- dialogue (*weave actual quotes from the interview into the story)
Narrative Due: Monday, March 10
Step 4: Decide how you want to "show" the story you are telling. Potential ideas:
- Gather images to "show" your story. These images can be pictures of this person's life (scan old photos and/or use digital copies), photographs of location[s] where story takes places and/or symbolic images to represent parts of their story.
- Create artwork to tell their story (similar to the StoryCorps approach to animated video).
- Experiment with stop motion animation.
- RSA animation
Submit a proposal to this Google Form.
Proposal for Digital Component Due: Monday, March 16th
Step 5: Choose your tool and create your digital story. Use video making software that can be uploaded and published. Tools to consider:
- WeVideo, iMovie, Movie Maker, or GoAnimate
- Animoto with voice recording (or live reading of your script)
We welcome your ideas! You can do this entirely on your phone if you have recording and editing tools. Alternatively, you can use your computer with the software that is already on it. We will also spend time in our computer lab for those students who want to use iMovie or WeVideo on the school computers.
Digital Stories Must Be Uploaded to YouTube By Monday, April 6th
Step 6: Share your digital story with the Core! You will need to introduce yourself and briefly introduce your video with a quick explanation of who you interviewed and why you selected this person. You will need to dress nicely on your presentation day.
Core Final Presentations: Tuesday, April 7; Thursday, April 9th; Monday, April 13th
The goal: Create a 3-5 minute video that brings your story to life for your audience. The best digital stories surprise the audience with inventive approaches, well written scripts and emotional moments (sad, funny, heartwarming, shocking). You will be publishing your stories to your YouTube channels to share with a wider audience.
