Goal

• Explore digital storytelling and highlight specific technical and creative skills included in your production

Standards

• Find standards from the skills list

Product

• Create a blog post with embedded video from YouTube, presentation from Slideshare, and/or images from Flickr

Examples

• Blake’s blog post
• Denise’s blog post

Steps

1. Learn about skills list for the project and create blog post titled, _______ Film Storytelling Project
   1. Create the Summary heading
   2. Create the Timeline heading
      • Create your ten step schedule for the project under the Timeline heading
        • Build backwards from the last day
   3. Create Film and Project Skills Evidence heading
      • Include the embedded video and a timeline list of the skills / techniques when they appear in the film
   4. Create What I Learned heading

Tools

• Canon Digital Rebel SLR camera
• Various focal length lens: 50mm, wide angle, and telephoto lenses, etc.
• Shotgun microphones
• Tripods
• Dollies
• iMovie
• YouTube
• PowerPoint

Resources

• Mr. Le Duc’s Delicious Books on Film, Cinematography, VideoMaker, Video
• Explore storytelling from Storytelling Now at Slideshare.net

Feedback Form

• Film Storytelling Project (PDF)