Thursday, June 24, 2010

Digital Storytelling - Week 5

Pecha Kucha. This is what it is all about this week. And boy, will I be glad when this week is over. I am finding this project quite difficult. I found the topic and the pictures without a problem. My biggest issue is telling the story.

I wrote the storyboard without a problem only to find out that when it came to recording the audio that I had way more than 20 seconds for each slide. I had to re-write the storyboard a couple of times. Now I have everything down so it fits in the time limit but I am having a tough time making it sound like a story. Right now it sounds very scripted and like I am just spewing out facts. I need to add more to make it flow nicely but that will cause me to re-write the storyboard again.

I am also finding that 20 seconds goes by really fast. I thought that a nearly 7 minute story would be tough to tell but when I have this many slides and have to squeeze in the info for each slide in 20 seconds the time goes by quickly.

This project is probably one of the toughest that I have run into in this program. That's not a bad thing, it was just unexpected. Even through all of this I am still enjoying the project and am looking forward to the outcome.
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  1. TrishZimmel7June 26, 2010 at 9:22 AM

    Mike, I too found the Pecha Kucha one of the toughest of all the assignments we've had. Once I found my idea, I found that the storyboarding was quite easy. But, once trying to bring the storyboard to life, flexibiitly had to be instituted! It's difficult to sound natural when voice recording and would like much longer to play with this portion of the project.

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  2. Kylie DaemmrichJune 26, 2010 at 6:39 PM

    I, too, had a tough time creating my storyboard for the pecha kucha assignment. I was writing and rewriting. Once I figured out approximately how much text could be read in twenty seconds, I began to find a flow to my work. For my pecha kucha, each picture has its own story under a main topic - ice cream. That made my pecha kucha easier to manage. Recording my voice with ice cream truck music gave me a headache though.

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  3. AnonymousJuly 3, 2010 at 7:56 AM

    I also am struggling with the storyboarding part. Due to my vacation I am behind, so I am still working but having trouble with it. Although I find it difficult, I also don't thinking that is necessarily bad, but when I had chosen my topic I thought since I am passionate about my topic it would come easy.

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