Creating a Personal Digital Story

This project helped me understanding the value of Digital Storytelling and its roll in a Multimedia learning environment. By using both audio and images I realized how the process of creating a multimedia projects requires of a lot of retrospection in order to select the topic and develop the story and how it also involves a lot of creativity to express your ideas not only through audio, but also to represent and match those auditory ideas into images.

The first part of the project is to develop a script based on the Digital Storytelling Cookbooks, which is guide to "prepare" a digital story. The script was then revised and used to create a storyboard. From there, I selected the pictures that would go along with the script and created a 2:00 minute movie using iMovie.

The project's goal was to create a personal digital story. My story is a reflection about a moment in my life where I evaluate most of the important decisions I have made. In this digital story I use symbolism to represent my self, my feelings, my life and it's decisions. This story is also intended to be an exercise of reflection on the amount of blessings that one can find when taking a moment to meditate about how you got to the point in your life where you are now.