Digital Storytelling-1

PROCESS:

Every day we listened to the audiobook - Long Walk to Water. It was very exciting to hear the real-life story we decided to make a book trailer. One day we dressed up as different characters and two of the team members wrote the scenes. So we went out and acted out the scenes. We used our iPads and a Sony Camcorder to take videos. We also took individual pictures of the main characters in front of the green screen. Later we used this green screen to add videos of the refugee camps in Ethiopia and the water situation in Kenya as backgrounds for a few scenes. We used iMovie to edit these videos. These videos were bought by our teacher from Storyblocks. The source is given below.

Once all the videos were edited we created the book trailer using iMovie. We used the EXPEDITION template to create this trailer. We added photos and videos. When photos were added we used the Ken Burns effect to make it exciting. We also cropped videos based on the story.

Once we did this, we saved it to the iPad and added it to Google Classroom. The video was saved at 720px.

We enjoyed doing this as a team.

Sources for STORYBLOCKS Video