Digital+Storytelling+Project

My digital storytelling project is about a date I went on that seemed to go all wrong. This story includes aspects of suspense as well as fun. Upon completion of my project, I had picked up a new skill. I had learned how to work with the program, PhotoStory.

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The "new skill" I used to complete this project was in fact a new program. I used Microsoft's PhotoStory to create my story. PhotoStory was a very simple program which was really easy to use. The program takes you through steps: upload your pictures, add a title, add voice and motion to the picture, add background music, and finally save your story. PhotoStory gives you a very simple uploading tool to import your pictures to the program. It then allows you to add a title to any and all of your pictures, which came in handy for my project. As a requirement for this project, I had to add voice to my pictures to tell my story. PhotoStory allowed me to record my voice right on the program which was really convenient. I just recorded my voice for each picture I chose and the program automatically altered the length of the slides to the length of my recording. PhotoStory also gives you the option to add music to your project, however I did not use this option. Finally, this program gives you many different options for the use of your completed project. Depending on how you want to use your project, PhotoStory automatically alters the file size.

The only problem I ran into through the use of this project was the fact that I was unable to insert a blank slide into my project. There are some ways to work around this. For example, for the title slide, I created a blank red page in Paint and uploaded that as a picture. I could not, however find a way to create a slide at the end of my project for sources, so I instead inserted each of the picture's source information in the title function of this program.