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“Make Show-and-Tell Cool Again”: Digital Storytelling

 

Task #3: Create Digital Story

You are now ready to begin the creative process.  In this third task, you will use either Microsoft Photo Story or Windows MovieMaker to import you pictures and create your Digital Story.

Option #1: Using Microsoft PhotoStory 

 Step #1 – Import Pictures

• Open Microsoft Photo Story 3
• Select “Begin a New Story” -> “Next”
• Click “Import Pictures” and find the “Images” folder where all your picture files are kept
• Select all the pictures in the folder – you can select all the pictures by holding down the CTRL button while you click on each of the pictures with your mouse

 Step #2 – Edit Pictures

• At this point, you will need to edit your picture using the editing toolbar:
• Explore each editing tool
• Click on the “Edit” button on the editing toolbar:
• Crop your pictures by using the “Remove Black Borders…” feature

1. Use the Crop and Rotate features to crop your picture
2. Click on the “Autofix” tab to experiment with the options provided
3. Click on the “Add Effect” tab to experiment with different colour effects for your pictures (notice the check box that allows you to apply selected effects to all pictures in your digital story)
4. Scroll through each picture and experiment with various edits and effects

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• Notice that you can easily scroll through you pictures when in the edit menu by using the back and forward arrows
• Click “Next” – add titles to you images if you choose – you also have the ability to change the colour effects for each photo on this screen using the drop down menu below the picture

Step #3 – Add Animation and Narration

• Click “Next”
• Click on the Red record button to record your narration – continue speaking while you click on the next image to continue the narration to the next image (remember that the narration is recorded to each picture so when editing, you only need to re-record over any mistakes, not the whole narration!)
• Customize the animation of each image

1. Select image
2. Click on customize motion
3. Clicking on “Specify start and end position”will allow you to edit where the focus of the animation will be
4. Click on the transition tab and select different transitions for each of the pictures
5. Notice that each editing window had a “Preview” button allowing you to previous your story

 Step #4 – Add Background Music

• Click “Next”

Option #1: Click “Create Music” to add some basic sounds to each picture separately

Option #2: Click “Select Music” to add a music file already found on your computer

Step #5 – Save you File into a Video Format

• Click “Next”
• Select “Save your story for playback on your computer”
• Click on browse, change the file name and save the video to your “Completed Videos” folder.

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