Matt's+Digital+Storytelling+Project

This digital video tells the story of the 2006 Reeths-Puffer High School football team and their struggles. This team had high hopes for their season, with aspirations of winning their conference and making it to the playoffs. Unfortunately, their season would not turn out the way they had planned. They had only one goal in mind going into their last game. That goal was to not go down in RP history as the second team without a win. Their goal was to earn a victory.

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For this video I had to learn how to use a new technology in order to complete the project. The technology I chose to learn and use was the program called Photo Story 3 for windows. This program can only be used on a PC. Photo Story 3 is a program that allows individuals to upload pictures, add effects to those pictures and eventually create a video using them. Also, narration can be added to each picture to enhance the video and better tell the story. The program also allows the user to edit the pictures that have been uploaded into the program. The user can crop, reduce red eye, fix the color and even rotate the picture to how they want it. The users can also add titles to their pictures that go along with their story.

Photo Story 3 is very easy to obtain and to use. Microsoft offers the free download of the program on their site and the download process only takes a couple of minutes. After the program is downloaded and installed it is ready for use. The navigations and descriptions included with the program make it extremely user friendly to any skill level of video making. I have never created a digital video before and this program made the process completely pain free. It walks you through the video creating process step by step, basically doing it for you. After the video is created the process of saving it and converting it into a video file is all done for the user and it is ready for uploading on to the internet, such as on to YouTube.

The only problem I had with Photo Story 3 was using the audio feature. It is very easy to use but I could not get the microphone settings to load on my computer. I could not adjust the input volume levels and my sound was turning out distorted. To bypass the problem I just simply used the Myna audio editor program located at www.aviary.com. Photo Story allows you to upload the audio files into your story. Overall, i would recommend this program to everyone interested because of it's easy to use design.

- These are the sources for the pictures and music used in my digital video. - This is the original story board for my digital video. It was created using the Inspiration 8 program.