My Favorites!

I have experience using both Movie Maker and Photo Story. I used Movie Maker in a video production class in high school and have played around with it with home videos ever since. Although the process can get frustrating and time consuming (especially if you’re picky like me) , the product is always worth it. It’s funny how much you can impress people by using these programs, and the thing is, it’s not that hard to do (and it’s fun)!

In my ENGL 3391 class, we learned how to create digital stories by using the program Photo Story. At first, when I learned the program only allowed pictures, transitions, and music, I thought it would be just a glorified Power Point, but after playing around with it I realized it is much more. Instead of a choppy slide show set to music, the finish product actually looks like a movie. For 3391, I worked with Meghan Searcy and Charles Wood to create a digital interpretation of the YA novel Godless by Pete Hautman. We only had one problem while making the digital story. While working in a group, we could not find a way to combine parts of the project from each of our computers into one, so we basically had to do it all over again on one computer. Other than that, it was a lot of fun and something I will definitely use in my classroom.

KL

ps) I tried to post our digital story, but it is saved in a format that YouTube does not recognize, and I don’t know how to convert it, but I promise it is my favorite project so far!