Digital Storytelling

   Hi guys! I'm here again. This week's task was rather entertaining. And this was the first time that I've ever did such a wonderful thing. It is Digital Storytelling. Digital Storytelling is a great tool for students to create their own story and demonstrate it. And in my post, I will share my experience with you. In this task, I worked with my dear friend Ezgi Türker. Thanks to her, the process became more easier and enjoyable.
Firstly we create a story that is about a girl called Felicity who lost one of her eyes because of an unlucky accident. It is a fictional story. While we writing the story, we tried to give some positive messages also. After finishing the story, it was time to design the characters. Ezgi found some pictures of cartoon characters on a website named Deviantart. We choose some of them and by using carbon paper, we traced them. It was really difficult to draw because pictures had small and complex details. After that, we moved on to the most enjoyable part of the work, painting! This was the first time that I've ever used the crayons since primary school. I should confess, I realized that I miss this. When we completed painting, we cut the characters with scissors. When all the characters were ready, we took photos and shoot videos of the characters according to the flow of the story. We decided to move the characters by using our fingers. While Ezgi was shooting the video, I was moving them. Sometimes we had to give break because we couldn't shoot the videos because of laughing :) Finally we successfully prepared the videos and pictures. By the way we vocalized the story. In the backyard of our faculty. we recorded our voices with some backward musics. It was so hard to find silent place, we couldn't use the empty classrooms because of echo. In the last part of the task we combined videos, pictures and our voices by using Movie Maker. And our story was ready, The One Eyed Hero.
We had a great time while preparing Digital Storytelling. It is great and useful tool for both students and teachers. It develops the creativity and the ability to think peculiarly. And it is also helpful for teach students to make collaboration. For example, we did this task collaboratively and the process became more fruitful. We shared our ideas with each others and combined them, as a result we could produced a creative story. We hope you find our story useful and worth-watching.

Here you can watch our story,enjoy!

Picture Reference: https://alidelucie.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/media-convergence-and-digital-storytelling/