Digital Storytelling extended to video

In order to understand digital storytelling in a video format, you must first examine the 7 main elements.

Point of View- What is the perspective of the author?
- My point of view is to inform the audience of the water cycle.
A Dramatic Question- a question that will be answered by the end of the story.
- How is the weather in your favorite location.
Emotional Content- serious issues that speak to us.
- The personalization of the projects is the emotional content.
The Gift of your Voice- a way to personalize the story to help the audience understand the context.
- Included
The Power of the Soundtrack- music or other sounds that support the storyline.
- Include the water cycle song, and sounds of water.
Economy- enough content to tell the story without including too much information.
- The water cycle.
Pacing- how slowly or quickly the story progresses.
- At a medium pace throughout the video.

These elements create an affective and powerful story. Through the use of these elements I have created my own digital story. This type of digital storytelling is quite different from that of the previous blog because it includes but is not limited to video clips. I plan on incorporating not only my unit in this video storytelling, but as well as Kimberly Davis’s unit plan. This would create a new type of unit How is the weather in your favorite location? This will allow for individual personalization of students projects in which they are able to express themselves. This could also become a research type project, where each student would be assigned a different country in which they are able to explore the weather in these areas.

Check out my unit plan section for this video story as well as my storyboard.