Alex's+Digital+Storytelling

__The Quest for the Lost Library Book__ This is digital story that I have personally created. The story is one that I spent a lot of time writing and perfecting. It is about a literature-loving girl who happens to misplace a very important book. The story follows her on her search for the valuable item.

media type="file" key="Digital Storytelling.mov" width="300" height="300" One requirement for this project was that we teach ourselves a skill using iMovie. The skill that I taught myself was how to successfully save my project and work on it at another time. One disadvantage of using the most current version of iMovie is that there is no save function. It asks you when you first begin to name your file and save it, but it does not give the option to save after that. The reasoning behind this is that it auto saves after every change is made so, theoretically, there is no need to save. This does not work for most people, like me, who need more that one session to finish projects. With no save function there is a risk that the work will be lost. I discovered a way around this problem. My first step was to try to find out if there was any way to continue working on a project, and there was not. I then proceeded to export my unfinished project. What this did to my clips was combine them into one clip. This included all of the sounds, transitions, and music that I had added to my original clips. On a different computer, I opened up the exported clip. I was able to record the voice over that I needed in order to complete the project. The one problem with this method of saving is that the exported material is final. If a sound or transition does not fit anymore there is no way to take it out. My recommendation is to have the project just as you want it before you export it. This skill allowed me to work on my project at home after the lab had closed. It allowed me more freedom in where I worked on my project and how long I worked on it.

Below are the links to all of the tools I used to create my digital story. There is a link to the storyboard where i planned out the story and the photos that go with it, along with the link to the sources to all of the images that I used in the story.