Checklist for Completing your Digital Story

Here's a checklist I created for the youth teachers at the South End Technology Center's Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn program, so they could track their progress working as a group to complete a digital story. This might be helpful for workshop participants to keep track of their progress or for anyone doing story production over multiple sessions.

BASIC STEPS:

1. Brainstorm an IDEA for your Story
2. Write Script
3. Record Audio Narration
4. Storyboard
5. Collect Images
   1. Digital photos you take yourself
   2. Photo prints (that you need to digitize by using a scanner)
   3. Images from Web (copyright free, of course!)
   4. Artifacts (flyers, objects, etc you scan)
6. Manipulate images
   1. Get images to 720 by 480 pixels, 300 dpi, Landscape (4:3), and .jpg
   2. Adjust brightness, contrast, cropping or add effects
7. Find/create background MUSIC (again, copyright free)
8. Build/Edit your video file (using Windows Movie Maker)
9. Rough Cut (get some feedback from others)
10. Final Cut
11. Export (as DV/AVI for DVD and a web version)
12. Distribute (on DVD, on MySpace, and/or on StoriesForChange.net)

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