Digital Story Reflection

Digital Story Reflection

For this project, we were to take pictures from home or the Internet to create a story that narrates something that happened in our life. It did not necessarily have to be about anything super special, just as long as it was a story and had some type of meaning to you. The “rules” of this project was that your story had to be at the least one minute long and have at least six pictures. You were also encouraged to record your own voice instead of just having pictures or words popping up on the screen. In addition, having background music was not a requirement, but I personally think it makes your whole movie much better and more interesting.

My digital story is about myself growing up combined with my Sweet 16 (since having a Sweet 16 symbolizes growing up from a girl to a young lady). In the whole process of completing this project, I mainly had in mind my parents, especially my mother because she is a really special person in my life. I just thought it would be a good idea to dedicate something like this to her knowing that she has done so much for me. Also, I want to show my parents that ever since I was little, yes, they did do a good job. The images I used to create my story were mainly from my Sweet 16 because that was a very specific event that people would easily recognize and know what I’m talking about. I also included some pictures from when I was a toddler because I was showing the process of myself growing up.

The reason for why I chose the theme of my story to be growing up/my Sweet 16 is because it was a very important event that happened to me and also for my parents. Like I mentioned before, I wanted to dedicate this project to my parents (especially to my mom) because they have done so much for me. I think that for any girl who wants a Sweet 16 or Quinceñera (Spanish Sweet 15) it’s an important event because it means a lot to them and their parents.

I think I did really well on this project. The only thing I would change is the audio. The song was perfect for my theme but I felt that at times, the song would overpower the audio of my voice; you can still hear what I am saying though. Besides that, I would say everything else went smoothly… At first, I had trouble coming up with the lines that I was going to say for my movie, but after putting up my pictures, the story came easily to me.

I really liked using iMovie. I learned how simple it was to make movies on my own using my very own pictures or other pictures from the internet. If you’re big on making videos (like myself), it comes handy when posting things on sites like YouTube. I am so sad that my Digital Media class will soon be over. I enjoyed having this class so much because I learned how to use an Apple computer and also how to use all the cool programs you can install on there. I think the most useful thing that I learned and will definitely use in the future is iMovie. I would love to learn how to add all sorts of different effects on there and later on post my videos on sites like YouTube, Tumblr, and Blogger. I really like singing so I hope that in the future I will be able to use iMovie to posts some of my own videos.