A friend studying secondary teaching at Notre Dame was required to take 30 photos that could be used to tell a story on the theme “Identity.” She needed to bring these 30 images with instrumental music to class where (as an assessment) she would manipulate the images, cut the story down to 16 images and present the final product!
I thought having students tell a storying using images is a fantastic idea and the narrowing down from 30 to 16 photos is great. It really makes you pick out the essence of a story.
Automatically, my friend started to place the images into a powerpoint presentation where she felt she could best manipulate the position of images to create a story. She is familiar as I’m sure we all are with the “Microsoft world!” – I have a feeling that is changing, seeing as we are using Mac’s at uni!
My friend let me know that they completed the story in “Final Cut Pro” on a Mac (wow! they are using Mac’s too…). It was their job to edit the photos by “placing photos in a way that enables them to tell a story, had to time them to fit in to 30 secs, match music and fix transitions between photos.”
It seems from presentations of ebooks in powerpoint, and moviemaker in schools and animoto and slideshows in iPhoto that sequencing and editting photos is the way of the future!
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