Digital Storytelling and

Okay, lets go on.

Uh let me tell you this guy.

Okay, so in the reading, the author mentions about medium

maturity line.

This concept emphasizes that when students are creating their digital

story, they will need to think about their target audience

maturity going from.

I only care about me perspective to one that care

about others.

However, surely this point depends heavily on the age of

your students.

If you're working with lower division elementary school students, surely

you can ask them to do this.

Okay, because they naturally will be more self centered and

it's harder for them to consider the audience perspective.

But if you're working with secondary school students then this

is totally possible and this is something that you probably

want to encourage your students to do.

Okay, Okay.

Yeah. Now the author gave some great advice on how

you can produce in multimedia and that's what we call

the media grammar.

And now we are going to look into some of

the key aspect.

All right, sorry.

So so why do we need to understand media grammar

or at least the most basic principle?

It's because it allows us teachers to do two things

when when it comes to the media.

Sorry, video production there are I'm sorry um let me

go back a little bit.

Um so the reason why we want to learn about

media grammar is because first it developed the basic vocabulary

and perspective needed to discuss new media productions.

Second, it allows us to create assessment rubrics for new

productions that are simple and useful for both you and

the students.

Okay. And so, uh, in addition to these, when it

comes to video production, there are also three major categories

that you should consider.

Picture lifts here here.

This transition this okay, It refers to the images, the

audios and transitioning effect.

So, first start with uh, your visuals.

There are a few principles that you should keep in

mind when it comes to vigils.

Okay, So first is beware of vigil noise if your

story is about a dog, but then the dog is

small and at the corner of your picture with a

lot of other objects in the middle of the frame,

then that picture contained too much visual noise.

And then the audience will find it hard to identify

the main focus of the image or your video.

Right? So if you're taking picture on your own and

using your own picture, then be careful about visual noise.

And you can consider using a mental grid line, like

the one that you're showing.

I'm showing you with the picture here using mental grid

lines when you are taking photos to properly position your

object in the frame with a clean background.

Okay, you may put the object right in the center

of the square um, like the square in the centre,

which is fine.

But this type of focus is typically less artistic and

less vibrant.

So instead you would want to put the object on

one of the four dots in that great line to

create a visually exciting photo.

Okay, that's one of the suggestions when it comes to

using your personal photos and you you are doing the

photography on your own.

Also, I have been emphasizing the use of color is

important when possible.

You should carefully design the color scheme of your pictures.

You may even consider use some aftereffect to change the

color tone of your picture to make them more consistent

with the tone of your video.

The color you're using will significantly impact the tone and

the level of emotional engagement of your picture.

Okay, so, if you're telling a stat story, it will

be appropriate to choose pictures with cold colors and dark

values. And if you are doing a more upbeat kind

of video, then, you know, you will be choosing more

the warm colors and lighter values, etcetera.

And then the third thing that you should consider will

be the quality of the image.

And that's typically the baseline of when, when it comes

to video production, the requirements for quality.

Right? So, what, what you should keep in mind is

when it comes to quality of the image.

Still pictures.

If you're using still pictures, they should be in focus.

Ok, If you're giving me a a picture that is

like out of focus, the major object is really blurry.

That's not a good quality of image.

If you are using video recordings, the recordings should be

non drug lea, I think that's very straightforward.

Right? Um use tripod that will help or mono pod.

All right.

Um photo shoot should be in a well lit area.

That's also really important whether you're doing videoing or doing

photo shooting, find a place that is well lit so

that everything will look clear.

Okay, if you're using web images Keep in mind that

the images that you use should be at least 800

times 600 pixels.

Okay. That means you need to have a image within

with a large enough image size so that when you

are doing the video editing the when you like blow

up the image it won't get it will become too

blurry and to too weird to to look at.

Okay. Um and also there are some images with watermarks.

When when an image has watermarks, that means the author

do not want you to stole or adopt their their

their image.

So definitely avoid at all times using images with watermarks.

Okay, finally, creative ways of presenting motion pictures.

Uh I'll introduce that later on thursday.

Just keep in mind that when you are putting your

all putting all your images together, there are ways that

you can make your video exciting one.

A more creative or unique one.

Okay, so think of some of the special effects or

creative ways that you can present your pictures.

That will be another consideration when it comes to the

visual aspect of your digital story.

Mhm. Yeah.

Now hear this g okay so when it comes to

the audios you want to consider not just the audio

quality but also whether you have a well mixed audio.

Um How are you planning your narration as well as

your music or sound effect?

Audio quality can can be too quiet.

It cannot be too loud either.

Um Do not have a sudden increase of Valium.

Sometimes students are combining multiple video recordings in into one

digital story but then one of the recording segments will

become like very loud whereas the other segments got really

quiet. Um In that case when you're doing the video

editing is you should definitely adjust the volume of each

video segment.

Also when you are recording the audios, make sure that

um you you are in the environments that you can

control the audio that the volume value the volume.

Yeah the volume level of all the possible sound sound

sources. Okay.

So that you won't like accidentally recorded some some sudden

loud noise.

All right.

Um Well, mixed audios is also important and in the

in the reading they did mention about very three very

important rules.

Number one use music without lyrics when narrative is present.

Okay. Second only one audio source at a time should

dominate. So that means during narration turn your background music

off or at least way down so that it won't

distract your audience from the narration.

Okay then third is to field test your audio.

It's really important to always double check whether your audio

is good enough.

All right then when it comes to narration, it's important

to pace yourself.

Don't speak too fast, don't speak to slow aligned your

pace and inflation with the tongue of your story.

Remember your voice over is an important element of digital

storytelling, A little bit of voice acting will make the

digital stories so much more engaging.

Okay, so when you are creating the narration part of

your digital story, think about using your voice as part

of the act.

Okay. And put in more emotions, more inflections and and

think about how you can manipulate pace to make that

narration voice over more interesting and engaging for the audience.

Finally, appropriate music choice is super important.

Okay, the music must support the story and not overwhelmed

the narrative.

So that is the rule of thumb is that you

need to keep in mind.

So unless you are presenting digital story as a song

or a rap, that should be the rule that you

follow. But if you are creating additional story that actually

you are going to express yourself through a song or

a rep, then of course that's something else.

Right? Um your music selection should be authentic to the

digital piece.

Okay. Yeah, I'm not asking you to create your own

video, own music, but the music that you selected, it

should be aligned with the tone of your story.

If you're telling an emotional staff story, it makes no

sense to use an update, upbeat song like uptown funk.

Right? So you know that's something I mean I shouldn't

have to emphasize but I feel like it's sometimes it's

still very important to talk about it.

Okay. Yeah.

Now the next will be transitioned.

This, this final parks refers to editing and putting everything

together into a video production project.

Right? So in order to have a seamless digital story,

you must first use story boarding for constructive digital story

planning, which is what you will be doing this thursday.

You will have coherent transitions.

You will need to have non distracting special effect.

Okay. You will have to have clear titles and then

also the titles, the design of your title will be

important throughout the whole videos.

Think about how you can make sure the fund sizes

are, the fund size is consistent throughout.

And when are you going to include some sort of

titles or captions in the video.

Okay. When when did you a title fly in to

the frame and when should it disappear.

Those are all the things that you will have to

design and take time to plan for when you are

doing your when when you are creating your digital story

and when you are creating your storyboard.

Those are great information to include as well.

Uh, clear citations.

Okay, if you are citing sources etcetera at the end

of your video, give credit to all the sources that

you are citing or you see.

Okay. And then finally effective pacing.

Well, we sort of talked about this already.

But in addition to your the pace of your narration,

how are you going to pace each different segments and

scene of your digital story will be also really important.

Okay, so let's say you are presenting an image like

this one here on your in your video.

Okay? It without any text.

This image here may mean something.

Okay, but how long should this day?

10 seconds.

One minute.

How long do you feel your audience will need how

to understand what this picture is about.

Okay, so take really careful consideration when it comes to

pacing your video.

If you're including a lot of text, like like what

we are seeing here.

How long do you feel your audience will need in

order to read through the text?

Okay, those are the things that you need to consider.

All right.

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