An Entertaining Assignment: A Digital Story!

Hello everyone! I hope you are all good!

Our fourth assignment was creating a digital story and we were given 3 options for that task. (creating a public service announcement, a "how to project" or a fictional story). As Arda, Ozan and I, we decided to create a fictional story. For the story, we were supposed to create a video in which there are sequencing images and for the video, we were supposed to develop 2 or 3 characters, write a script, add the narrative sounds and also add the other sound effects necessary for the events taking place in the story. The story is about an Italian crime family making a deal with an illegal distillery owner named David McArthur for the purpose of broadening its network in the booze trade. The story takes place in 30s NYC, USA and there are 3 main characters who are associates of this Italian family: Tonny, Alberto and Ciano (Cio). In the story, some undesirable incidents occur. Now, let's talk about the whole process of creating the video. Actually, writing the script was not that difficult because we quickly found the idea of writing a mafia story. Also, the process of creating the narrative sounds was not that difficult because before we recorded our sounds, we had already written the script. However, we encountered some hardships while putting our recordings at the background of the video and in the process of creating the video itself. By the way, I think that it is a really good idea to give a homework like this to students because these kinds of homework can enable the students to develop their technological capability and also they can have fun while doing it.😊Oh, I almost forgot to say,😆 we used Vegas 14 Pro for editing.

I thank my friends Arda and Ozan for their contributions for the assignment.

You can click to their names to go to their blogs: Arda, Ozan

You can click here to go to the story:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QryKdxfKnP0          

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