Objective: In this course participants will learn to promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness through digital stories.
Six Elements of a good story
Six Elements of a good story
- Living inside your story. Engage through personal experiences.
- Unfolding lessons learned. Make a point.
- Developing Creative Tension. Hook, rising action, climax, resolution.
- Economizing the story told. Use the shortest path while preserving the essence.
- Showing, not telling. Use vivid details and image.
- Develop craftsmanship. Incorporate technology artfully.
- Preproduction - find ideas. Writing the script.
- Plan project. Use storyboarding.
- Organizing project folders. Create folders for text files, images, video, audio.
- Production phase. Gather and prepare digital media.
- Gather, create, and edit media resources.
- Post production - putting it all together. Rough cut to the final cut. Add music last.
- Applause.
- Start the Script. 6-10 secs per text line.
- Plan Images. 3-5 secs per image. Video 5-10 ses.
- Add Titles. Limit to keywords.
- Add Transitions.
- Plan Music and Sound Effects. Add last.
- Add Notes ANYTIME.