Digital+Storytelling+Project

Below is my digital storytelling project! My story is about how I learned that change can be a good thing through moving to college. I started out very nervous to move away from everything I knew, but soon found that I loved the dorm life and the people there. I created this video on iMovie and then uploaded it to YouTube to share with others. Enjoy the show!
 * Introduction:**

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Through my digital story telling project, I was able to learn to use both iMovie and YouTube. I had never experimented with either of these programs, and even when I did group work for the digital video assignment, I still did not understand how to maneuver as well through the programs until I tried it myself. First was using the iMovie program. I did use this in the group project, but only one person can control the computer at a time so I didn’t get the full use of this program. Using it by myself was frustrating at first because I did not understand how to do the voice over, put the pictures in, and set the time each picture would show. It took me a few tries to figure out each of these problems, but I did figure it out eventually. Then I had a problem with exporting it because of time constraints and when the lab was closing. I thought I could just send it to iTunes and then go from there, but as it turns out, iTunes movie files are not compatible for YouTube, which is where our videos had to be uploaded to. Then I had to re-load my iTunes movie file onto iMovie and try to re-export it into YouTube. I have just recently created an account through YouTube and that was new for me as well. I learned how to export it into my new account, tile, tag, and give a description of the video, and then allow it to process. Though this new learning experience, I now know how to use these two programs and would consider using them again in the future.
 * Reflection:**

Below is a word document on which all of the references for the images used in the video are listed. All photos either belonged to a friend or myself.
 * References:**

Below is the link to my Inspiration Project plan. This is the program and the map that I created first of what pictures I wanted to use and what I wanted the naration to say for the final viewing of my movie. (Some of the images I chose to use have changed since creating my plan.)
 * Inspiration Project:**