Sunday, October 24, 2010
Week 8 Creative Commons and Licensing
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that helps you license your work. This is important because it allows you to choose a level of licensing you need. You use it to copyright your work. This makes it so other people can use your work and if you allow, they can build upon it. It makes it easy for you to know if you can use someone's work and how or if you can't. It gets rid of the gray areas in copyrighting. It sounds pretty easy to do. There are six ways to license you work. Basically, all of them allow other people to share your information. It's up to you to decide if you will allow others to share commercially, noncomercially, or allow others to share your document only if they link it back to you and give you credit or not, or to allow other people to tweak or build on your work and share it with the same or different licensing features. They ask you questions to help you figure out what is appropriate for you and it seems fairly simple to do.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Week 6 - 7 Steps in Creating a Digital Story
1. Writing a Script- Brainstorm and find your story and tell it out loud. Make sure the writing style is conversational, like you are talking to friends or family.
2. Planning the Project- Create a storyboard to make a blueprint for your project and include text from script, titles, and images.
3. Organizing Project Folders- Create and organize your own folder where all media files can be kept so they won't have to be re-referenced and hunted down in random areas.
4. Making the Voiceover- Create the voiceovers for the story using appropriate emotion and intonation. You will be using a microphone and to prevent a popping sound when you pronounce a T, B, or P sound, place a clean sock over the microphone.
5. Gathering and Preparing Resources- In this stage you will be gathering music and images and playing with the technical tools to develop emotion and depth to your story. Music is 50% of the story experience so it is very important to choose wisely.
6. Putting it All Together- All elements are mixed together and music is added last. Make a rough cut version and a final cut version. The rough cut won't have transitions or music added but will give you an idea of what is missing so you don't have to work too much with the final cut.
7. Applause! Applause!- Your creation is finished and you can export it to DVD's or even bluetooth for cell phones. You are officially a "Story Keeper."
2. Planning the Project- Create a storyboard to make a blueprint for your project and include text from script, titles, and images.
3. Organizing Project Folders- Create and organize your own folder where all media files can be kept so they won't have to be re-referenced and hunted down in random areas.
4. Making the Voiceover- Create the voiceovers for the story using appropriate emotion and intonation. You will be using a microphone and to prevent a popping sound when you pronounce a T, B, or P sound, place a clean sock over the microphone.
5. Gathering and Preparing Resources- In this stage you will be gathering music and images and playing with the technical tools to develop emotion and depth to your story. Music is 50% of the story experience so it is very important to choose wisely.
6. Putting it All Together- All elements are mixed together and music is added last. Make a rough cut version and a final cut version. The rough cut won't have transitions or music added but will give you an idea of what is missing so you don't have to work too much with the final cut.
7. Applause! Applause!- Your creation is finished and you can export it to DVD's or even bluetooth for cell phones. You are officially a "Story Keeper."
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
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