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Panasonic Lumix (The camera used for this assignment) Digital Story - Assessment 3

As the topic guide states, the purpose of this assignment was to "demonstrate an understanding of Multimedia to communicate an idea or story effectively." I believe that I have achieved this as I have used a variety of multimedia programs (Panasonic Photo Gallery, Audacity, Windows Movie Maker, YouTube, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Media Player).

In accordance to the assignment criteria, where the story must include a complication or something that everyone can relate to (an emotion) I have done this in my digital story as we had many complications and many problems, e.g. forgetting the keys to the shack (awfully annoying might I add) and also the safety of the river, and the dangers of the logs underneath the water. Whilst both of these were problematic we always found a resolution mostly to be patient whilst we organised Adrians Dad to drive a bit over 2 hours and bring us the house keys and with no boat, we played cricket and golf instead. I was really hoping that we would be able to take the boat up the river as the camera I own is a water proof camera, so I was hoping to get some underwater shots, but not everything plans out the way you wish and you have to make do with what happens.

When speaking to other class mates and asking what they were planning on doing for their digital story, whilst they all sounded interesting and something I would like to view the majority of them seemed to be interviewing someone....that is why I decided to narrate my own task and construct around something that I was doing, so that people could look at my digital story and see how I spent that particular weekend and how we celebrate mates birthdays. Some people over time drift apart from their friends, however I'm lucky as with my group of friends we try to catch up on a fortnightly basis, as we all live across Adelaide, most living in the Barossa, Victor or in Gawler it is hard to catch up, that is why I thought it would be good to capture this monumental weekend and create it into a digital story that is posted on YouTube for everyone to see, I thought it was more suited to YouTube rather than Teachertube, hence the reason I uploaded it to YouTube.

Lastly I would like to thank Graham Taylor, Al Brocklehurst and my other classmates in EDET2305 as they have all assisted and helped me throughout this course, without their suggestions, guidance and knowledge on multimedia programs and ideas, I would not have been able to complete this course to my satisfaction like I have. I have thoroughly enjoyed this topic and the knowledge I have learnt from it will assist me when I'm out teaching in the real world.

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