Digital+Storytelling+SB

My digital storytelling project is about my volleyball dream. I dreamed of playing volleyball in college, but didn't get an offer to play where I really wanted to play, which was at Central Michigan. I ended up getting the chance half-way through my freshmen year of college to try-out, and made the Central Michigan volleyball team. My project is a story about my adventure through my volleyball career, it involves pictures from middle school, high school, club, and college volleyball. It goes through an adventure of a life-time that I will never forget and am still currently living.

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A new skill that I learned independently while creating this project was the Ken Burns effect and also the transitions effects. The Ken Burns effect allowed me to edit a still picture and make it move across the screen in any way that I wanted. This effect enabled me to move a still picture across the screen to make it more interesting and give it a better look. It was easy to use by moving one box to where I wanted the picture to start and by moving the second box to where I wanted the picture to stop. I learned it by simply clicking on the the crop button on the clip I wanted to edit, then I clicked on Ken Burns and just played around until I figured out what the two boxes meant and what I was suppose to do with them. This effect was extremely useful to my project because it moved each picture across the screen while I talked about it, instead of just showing the picture in general. I also used the transition effects for my title and reference slides. This effect enabled me to have smooth transitions from slide to slide and make it look better. I used it to have a better effect on my title slide and also to move more smoothly from my last picture to the references. I learned this effect my just clicking the slide looking button and it gave me many options to chose from to use on any slide I pleased. Learning these new skills was very useful in making my project better looking and gave it some cool effects along the way, they were also easy to use and figure out.