During today’s class, we will start with your beginning of class writing assignment, discuss the reading, and then turn our attention to your scripts and storyboards for Project 2. With the remaining class time, you can plan the execution of your video (filming, editing, etc.) and record it in a brief memo.

To begin, spend the first ten minutes of class writing a summary memo of your reading from Chapter 6, “Characters, Dialogue, and Emotion.” This chapter is packed with information, which we will review together momentarily. For now, memorialize what you took away from the chapter as being important or useful information. Did you think of examples from your own experience that connect to the different topics in the chapter? Make a note of these in your summary and tell us about them during discussion and lecture.

Before class on Monday, Feb. 29, write your YouTube video script and draw your storyboard. Remember, the script should capture setting, action, edits, and dialog, and your storyboard should depict the video shots you need to capture to create your video. By thinking through your digital video story with the aid of these documents, it will give you a solid plan for capturing and editing your video, which saves you time and energy later in the process. Put another way, measure twice and cut once.

Bring five printed copies of your script and storyboard to class on Monday, Feb. 29, and copy-and-paste your script (text) into a comment to this blog post. Save the PDF of your storyboard for your completed project in your portfolio.

Copy-and-paste your Project 2 Details memo as a comment to this blog post. Refer to the Project 2 assignment sheet for more information about writing your story concept and pitch. Use this document to begin writing your script.

During the first ten minutes of class, write and post a summary memo of Chapter 5 from Miller’s Digital Storytelling as a comment to this blog entry. Consider how you can connect some of the topics discussed about storytelling tools and your observation/experience of them in contemporary media. Can you name some examples?

Before our next class, complete your planning memo for Project 2 (available under the Projects menu above) and copy-and-paste it into a comment made to this blog post. Instructions are included below.

Let’s use the first ten minutes of class today to write summary memos on your reading for today’s class: Miller’s Digital Storytelling, Chapter 4, Interactivity and Its Effects. As you write your summary of the reading, you should note examples of interactivity that you have experienced or know about that we can discuss when we discuss the chapter. Post your memo as a comment to this blog entry.

During today’s live tweet of each person’s Twitter story, we will model networking at a distance–meaning we will engage only through Twitter for responses, retweets, and likes. After each person has a chance to run her story, everyone will come to OpenLab, create a comment beginning with the person’s name who just live tweeted on this post, and write a brief comment about the story focusing on what worked and what could be improved upon. Then, we can talk about the story in a regular class discussion.

During the first ten minutes of class, write a summary memo based on your reading of Chapter 3, Moving Towards Convergence, in Miller’s Digital Storytelling. In addition to your summary, briefly discuss examples of convergence that you have seen and experienced. We will discuss these things before moving on to Project 1, Execution.

Before our class on Wednesday, Feb. 17, copy and paste your structure document into a comment to this blog post. It should include your Twitter story and bookend tweets. We will run these on Twitter during class on Feb. 17 and have a discussion after each.

During the first ten minutes of class, write a summary memo of your reading of Chapter 2 in Miller’s Digital Storytelling. Save your work on your own media and then copy-and-paste it into a comment to this blog post.