Telling My Story

The process of coming up with my personal digital story this week was not an easy one. Beyond the fact that it was the first week back at school, and that it took awhile to find group members to work with, trying to find the story I wanted to tell was difficult for me. Reading the Digital Story Cookbook by Joe Lambert helped me the most in the process. That was the point when I really started to come up with some ideas. It was when I read his list of ideas for stories that I decided to tell a Memorial story about my Dad. Now, my Dad isn't dead, but I still believe that the person he is deserves to be honored. Next, I needed to find pictures to illustrate my story. I used the creative commons search through Flickr to find the ones that I didn't take myself. It was easy to give credit to the photographers by adding credits to the end of my movie. I used iMovie to create my digital story. I have used this software several times before, so I feel comfortable using it. I decided not to use any music because I didn't it to feel overly processed. In the end I had to cut out about a minute of material because it was too long for the assignment.

My Story