Process for Creating a Digital Story

1. Theme & Ideas
   
   • Discuss theme
   • Brainstorm story ideas
   • Share story ideas, group helps each other focus down and identify the central kernel of the story
   • Script

Write script and share with group
· Revise & Edit script (consider group comments)
· Short and powerful
· Convey your message

VOICEOVER

· Voice articulation exercises
· Record voiceover -- use the gift of personal voice

images

· Create a storyboard for your story
· What's images do you have? (photographs, etc)
· What do we need to find/create/record
· Scan, Digitize, and Size
· Go out and film

EDITING

· Introduce digital editing software (imovie, premiere final cut pro)
· Import voiceover
· Sequence images
· Discuss pacing
· Introduce movement effects (pan, zoom, rotate)
· Transitions
· Special effects
· Title tool

SOUNDTRACK

· Music carries powerful emotional content
· Find and import appropriate music
· Discuss copyright

* FINISHING

· Group Share/Critique
· Final revisions
· Screening and Celebrate

Writing Prompts
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You can use writing prompts to help people get started telling their stories. Everyone gets an index card. The prompt is given and people free write on the index card for 15 minutes. Only 1 card per person.

Some ideas for writing prompts include:

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    * Tell us about a time when you felt connected to your neighborhood.