Creating my personal digital story was interesting. With my background in mathematics, I don’t
have a great deal of experiencing creating a story and making my words
count. When I first started my script, I
had over 500 words and was wondering how I was going to reduce it down. I then looked at it again and realized I was
talking way too much and like the directions said I needed to let the pictures
do the talking. So I went through the
script and narrowed it down quite a bit.
Then I had a fellow student read over my script and with her great
experience in journalism, she was able to help me make a few other changes to
really improve what I was saying.
I did use iMovie for this video and I think that software is
really easy to use for the most part. I
have not created many movies with this program before but caught on quickly and
was able to produce this story. I would
highly recommend iMovie for people to use.
I was fortunate that all of my pictures were personal ones
and the music that I used in the background is provided with the iMovie
software so there were no copyright issues to deal with.
I have made many family movies before using different
software but I have never added a script to tell the story. This was a fun experience and I understand
now how this is a powerful tool that anybody can use to tell their story.
