Digital Storyteling Design Process.

I have already posted how I edited the photographs.

I imported my photographs and sound material into Final Cut Pro. And then dragged my story mp3 into the time line. I listened to this through and cut it in the parts where I needed pauses.

I then started to drag the photographs into the time, I opened them up in the viewer first so that I could set the time for each of them. I then dragged them to the time line. I could then drag the photograph out from here if I wanted to make it last longer or shorter.

For the part of the video showing the journey to the shop I set the duration of each photograph to 2 seconds. This set a nice pace to the changing of the photographs to represent a journey through the photos as I take the viewer to the shop. I then used the cross dissolve transition as I feel that this creates the effect of travelling through the photographs

 When the story is talking about being in the shop I have used photographs of the sweets on the shelves. I use a quicker pace of 1 second for each photographs to show the excitement of a child looking at the these sweets. This leads to the child being given a packet of buttons.

Again I use one second per photograph for this section about the busy road. This crates the feeling of it being busy as more photographs are being show and also shows the fast rate of the traffic driving past.

After the buttons had been run over I decided I wanted a sequence where I fade in between photographs zooming in to the packet. I dragged the transition effect out to make is fade slower. This is a similar effect to that used when there are deaths on TV, where the camera slowly zooms into the character and their stillness. I wanted to show the drama of the event to a child using this. The slow cross fading is an effect used by Chris Maker when the destruction of Paris is talked about - this shows stillness and creates the drama of the event for the audience.

After adding all of the photographs I then added the other sound material I had got to the time line. This was background traffic noise and the sound of splashing in puddles. I then placed this in the appropriate position on the time line. I then cut some of the background noise from the recording of the story and copied this through the time line to the places where the story have been paused. This creates a feel of continuation with the story rather then making it seem that it stops and starts.