3.1+Digital+Story+Planning

Digital Story Planning

A lot of planning went into my digital story, as firstly I was going to do a skimboarding piece, using video footage and images. However, because I used skimboarding in my radio cut I had to select something different, this was tough for me. I decided to make use of my weekend, as I had already planned to go away to Pelican Point in Morgan for a mates birthday, I loaded up my camera and took charge, trying to remind myself, along with help from others to take as many photos as possible so that I could use them for this assignment. If I didn't take as many photos as possible I knew that I would be stuck for this assignment.

Luckily for me, I was able to take a lot of photos, I'm not sure if that was a good or bad thing though, as when I got back and started to select photo's there was over 300 to choose from... I opted to selected the photos that were of good quality and had a reasonable amount of angles, to coincide with the assessment criteria, as it states a variety of camera shots must be used, as well as photos that would make a good story and re-tell Adrian's 21st birthday.

After selecting a large amount of photos I used Windows Movie Maker to produce my digital story, as it is the only program I had on my computer and on the University computers so that I could use the same program in class and progress and not waste anytime. After acquiring a large amount of knowledge from the previous assignment, the Radio Cut, I knew that I would use Audacity as I had learnt a lot about it, as well has having a decent understanding of how to use it, and zoom in on the audio, edit it, cut, add sound effects and publish as an Mp3 file, all of these tools I used in my digital story.

After planning my audio/voice over and deciding what I was going to say, I decided, which was a very long and hard process to make sure that what I was saying would coincide with the images I had inserted on Windows Movie Maker, especially with my introduction to my friends that I was up the river with. After many edits and takes in Audacity when I went to upload the audio as an "unedited voice over" so people could see how far my voice over had come, the file was too large and would not upload!! This was very frustrating so I decided to create a transcript of what I said in my voice over and insert it below. (Writing in Italics)

//Myself and a few friends decided to go up the river to Pelican Point to celebrate Adrian’s 21st birthday. We loaded up the cars and all met at Adrian’s house and, made sure the boat was good to go, then collected the essentials from the pub, filled the eskys then headed onto the highway. We arrived at Pelican Point in just under 2 hours, began to unpack before realising we left the keys for the shack in Gawler... so we waited patiently and had a few beers.// //There was Adrian, who’s 21st it was, Macca, Kieran, Scott, Stu, Greg, Mullen, Jacko, Calby, Henno, Ben, Woodsy, Big D, Myself and Jimbo//

//We put some meat on the Barbie and continued to enjoy the beers, we pulled out the golf clubs and had a hit while we waited, some of us much better golfers than others we all got carried away and lost all our golf tees so Reece decided it would be a good idea to tee off elsewhere, but it wasn’t..... you can only imagine the bruise the next day.//

//We continued to drink by the river and enjoy the day, after enjoying the beers for a few hours things got serious on the drinking front, and there was only one way to settle it...beer pong. Adrian lost and had a lot to skull, only for it to come back up a short time later.//

//Whilst this we all happening Adrian’s dad bought up the keys to the shack, however we were faced with the dilemma of no boat, because apparently logs and washed down the river and were floating beneath the surface, which could damage the boat and make it unsafe for us.//

//The next morning we were all feeling pretty sorry for ourselves so we sat by the river and fished, after not catching anything for a few hours, some of us decided to play some cricket. After about 20 minutes fishing Adrian’s dad had something on the end of his line, we all rushed down the river bank and had a look, he caught a was carp, it measured a bit over 2ft, not a bad catch for 20 minutes fishing. That night we organised to catch up with some other friends down the river and enjoyed the night before heading home the next day.//