Video Storyboard for EDET 603

David Barker
Constants:
Background:

Gray and white gradient

Color/type/Size of Font

Black
Gill Sans
H1: 53pt and normal
H2: 28pt and bold
Normal: 28pt and normal

Screen Size
4:3

Transition

Slow wipe

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Title Screen

Title of the module

Actual text:
Digital Storytelling:
What is a Digital
Story?

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Narration:
Read the title and
instruct to click the
arrow to go
forward

Audio:
Light intro music,
narration, and click
chime

Animation: none
Audience Interaction: click forward

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This is your life!

Warm-up activity
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Narration:

Actual text:
Warm-up activity
This is your life!

But first, to get our creativity flowing,

lets do a quick activity.
In the 1950s in the United States,
there was a popular television show
called This is your life. In a way, it
was one of the first reality shows. The
show featured a guest who was
surprised by a montage of videos,
photos, interviews, and narration set
to dramatic music that told the story of
a his/her life There were always
surprise appearances by long-lost
loves or favorite teachers or other
people who played small or significant
roles in the persons life.
Each of us has a personal story to tell
and for the next few minutes, lets
reflect on our individual stories.
Audio:
Narration, click chimes

Animation: none
Audience Interaction: click forward/backward

IF LIFE WERE A

Audience participation to begin their story

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MOVIE. . .
Actual text:
If life were a movie
What movie genre
would it be?
What would the
title be?
What music would
be on the
soundtrack?
What
event/moment
would be the
climax?
What actor/actress
would play you?

Narration:
Take a few minutes to
think about these
questions and write
down your personal
answers. They will
come in handy later in
the course.

Audio:
Narration, light music
after narration ends,
click chimes

Animation: none
Audience Interaction: take notes, click forward/backward

Stories

Description of stories
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Actual text:
Stories:

Narration:
We are well-aware of
the importance of
stories -- fiction or
nonfiction.
Stories
create
connection
between people
and
communities
share emotions
teach us
lessons

are important!
create
connection
share emotions
teach us

While we are familiar

with stories that come
on the pages of a
book, in our
technological era,
storytelling has gone
digital!

Audio:
Narration, click chime
Animation: none
Audience Interaction: click forward/backward

Objectives

List of objectives
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Actual text:
Training Objectives

Narration:
Embellish the written
text

By the end of this

training:
Participants will
be able to define
digital storytelling
Participants will
identify how
digital storytelling
can be used in
their lives.
Participants will
understand the
basic tasks and
steps for
developing a
digital story.

Audio:
Narration, click chime

Animation: none
Audience Interaction: click forward/backward

What is digital
storytelling

Definition of digital storytelling

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Actual text:

Narration:

What is Digital
Storytelling?
Practice of using
computer-based
tools to tell stories.
Combining the art
of storytelling with
a variety of
multimedia:
Graphics, audio,
video and webpublishing

Digital storytelling at its

most basic core is the
practice of using
computer-based tools to
tell stories. This
combines the art of
telling stories with a
variety of multimedia,
including:
graphics (like
photos, images)
audio (like music,
narration, or
other soundbites)
video (like
interviews or
archival footage)
and
web-publishing
(such as
uploading,
blogging,
sharing).
Audio:
Narration, click chime

Animation: none
Audience Interaction: play video, click forward/backward

Synonyms

List of synonyms
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Actual text:

Narration:

Synonyms

There are a wealth of

other terms used to
describe digital
storytelling including:
digital
documentaries,
computer-based
narratives,
digital essays,
electronic
memoirs,
interactive
storytelling
In general, the aim
remains the same -telling a story using
technology.

digital
documentaries
computer-based
narratives
digital essays
electronic
memoirs
interactive
storytelling

Audio:
Narration, Click chime

Transition to next clip: slow fade

Animation: none

Story Example

An example of a digital story

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Actual text:

Narration:
Watch the movie
and think about
these questions.
What was the main
idea or message?
What was the basic
story?
How long was the
digital story?
What sort of media
was used in it like,
video, narration,
photos, data,
interviews, or
music?
Was the story
successful?

None

Audio:
Narration, Click
chime

Animation: none
Audience Interaction: play button, take notes, click forward/backward

What digital
storytelling is not

List of things that are not digital storytelling

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Actual text:

Narration:

What digital
storytelling is not
a slideshow with
music
spliced video
footage
BECAUSE story arc
is IMPORTANT

As you can see from

our example, digital
stories are NOT just
a slideshow
with randomly
arranged
photos and
background
music
spliced video
footage with
titles
BECAUSE. . . the
story is important. . .

Audio:
Narration, Click chime

Animation: none
Audience Interaction: click forward/backward

Why digital
storytelling

Description of this scene: Quiz on digital stories

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Actual text:
Why digital
storytelling?
Storytelling is a
part of most
cultural
traditions.
Storytelling is
an effective
education tool.
Storytelling is
an artform.
Digital
storytelling is a
value-added
educational
experience.
Digital
storytelling
encourages
creativity and
use of different
modes of
communication
.

Narration:

Storytelling has been important

to most cultures as a means of
preserving community history
through oral tradition.
Storytelling is an effective
educational tool because
listeners become engaged,
resulting in listeners
remembering and learning from
the story. (routed in experiential
learning theory)
Storytelling is an artform; it is
both creative and personal.
Digital storytelling is a valueadded educational experience
because it develops not only
literacy skills and creativity, but
also develops
multimedia/technology literacy.
Digital storytelling uses different
modes of communication, which
may encourage those who are
not typical storytellers (i.e.
talkers) to share their stories.

Audio:
Click chime
Animation: none
Audience Interaction: click forward/backward
Description of this scene: Quiz on digital stories

Quiz 1

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Narration:

Actual text:

Explain the activity

Is this a digital story?

Collection of slides
with music
Spliced together video
clips
A multimedia project
with a story arc

Audio:
Click chime

Incorrect slide:
Incorrect! A digital
story must have a
story arc.
Correct slide: Correct!
This is true because
the story arc is what
makes a digital story/.
[There will be multiple
questions using the
same format]

Animation: none
Audience Interaction: select an answer, click forward/backward

Types of stories

Title slide for module

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Actual text:

Narration:

Types of stories

We will briefly explore

the types of stories
typically used in
digital storytelling.

For digital storytelling

Audio:
Narration, Click chime

Animation: none
Audience Interaction: click forward/backward

Stories about
people

Beginning the list of story types

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Actual text:
Stories about people

Narration:

Character stories
Memorial stories

Character Stories:
It is deeply
important to us how
we love, are
inspired by, want to
recognize, find
meaning in our
relationships to
other people (or
even our pets).
Memorial Stories:
Honoring and
remembering
people who have
passed is an
essential part of the
process of grieving
and telling their
story can be
meaningful and a
beautiful tribute.

Audio:
Narration, Click chime
Animation: none
Audience Interaction: click forward

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Stories about

Continuing the list of story types

places

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Narration:

Actual text:
Stories about
places

Locale
Stories
Adventure
Stories

Stories about a Locale: Story

about your home, an ancestral
home, a town, a park,
mountain, or forest you love, a
restaurant, store or gathering
place. Your insights into place
give us insight about your
sense of values and connection
to community.
Adventure Stories: Travel is an
invitation to challenge
ourselves, to change our
perspective, to reassess. We
often return from these
experiences with personal
realizations. Recounting our
travel stories is as much about
sharing those realizations as
sharing the sense of beauty or
interest in the place visited

Audio:
Narration, Click chime
Animation: none
Audience Interaction: click forward

Video Storyboard
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Stories about life

Continuing the list of story types

Actual text:
Stories about life

Stories of
Accomplishme
nt
Stories of
Recovery
Love Stories
Stories of
Everyday Life

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Narration:
Accomplishment Stories: Stories about achieving a
goal, like graduating from school. These stories
easily fit into the desire-struggle-realization
structure of a classical story. They also tend to be
documented, so you might find it easy to construct
a multimedia story.
Recovery Stories: Sharing the experience of
overcoming a great challenge, like a health crisis or
a great personal obstacle, is the fundamental
archetype in human story making. If you can
transmit the range of experience from descent, to
crisis, to realization, you can always move an
audience
Love Stories: Romance and partnership, familial or
fraternal love, also naturally lend themselves to the
desire-struggle-realization formula. We all want to
know how someone met their partner, or what our
relationship is with our siblings and parents.
Stories of Everyday Life: A Story shaped by a job, a
hobby, volunteering, or social commitment.
Poignancy of these stories often comes from looking
at the familiar in a new way, with a new meaning.
Audio:
Narration, Click chime

Animation: none
Audience Interaction: click forward

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Stories about discovery

Continuing the list of story types

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Narration:
Reflection: The process of
learning about ourselves is
a rich field to mine for
stories.
Investigation: For the
problem-solvers, these
stories can look to the past
or future to examine
problems and outcomes.

Actual text:
Stories about
discovery

Reflection
(SelfDiscovery)
Investigation

Audio:
Narration, Click chime

Animation: none
Audience Interaction: click forward

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Pick a story

Interactive activity to write elevator pitches

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Narration:
Choose a elevator pitch for
each of the 10 story types.
Keep it brief. You will use
these later in the course
when you start creating your
own digital story.

Actual text:
Pick a story
Choose a elevator pitch
for each of the 10 story
types.
Keep it brief.

Audio:
Narration, Click chime

Animation: none
Audience Interaction: click forward

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Quiz 2

Description of this scene: Quiz on digital stories

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Narration:

Actual text:

Explain the activity

Match the story types

Incorrect slide:
Incorrect! You missed a
few try again.
Correct slide: Correct!
You matched them all
correctly.
[Story type short
descriptions are still
being written]

Animation: none
Audience Interaction: select an answer, click forward/backward

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Audio:
Click chime