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Syeda Midhat Sarim, I agree with your thoughts on emotions. Human emotions plays a great deal when it comes to connecting to any subject matter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNY0AAUtH3g

This video shows how emotions portray each other which we need to be in consideration for.

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You made a great point when you mentioned emotions being important for storytelling. Emotions connect us and make it easier for us to understand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSsMapUgHR4

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Jessica,
I think you did an excellent job pointing out some important parts of digital storytelling. I definitely agree that music in the background can play a huge role in the overall story. Like you said, the music HAS to match the content. As i was searching through youtube watching videos about this topic I found the video I attached below and thought it was a perfect example of what NOT to do. The information in the video is great but the music sets the entire thing off and really changes the overall quality. -Mikala Martin

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The Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling.

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One of the things I said was really important in digital story telling is pacing and your video was the perfect example! I was able to read each part and finish before moving on to the next. It was clear and not rushed at all! Great job! I'm attaching a video that goes a little more into details about pacing and why it's important. -Mikala Martin

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Learn how to effectively pace your stories in this episode. Roll for Story is a video series that uses the popular tabletop RPG Dungeons and Dragons to teach storytelling skills.

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Yes the power or gift of one's voice in digital storytelling. This clip while not lengthy in duration gets to your point made in your video. Utilizing this element correctly allows you to communicate the message one is trying to tell.

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Whether or not you like the sound of your voice, it is a powerful and valuable gift you can give to others. Use it in a way that gives off an authentic image, and you will be one major step closer to sounding like a leader in any context!

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Hello Mikala,
I think this digital storytelling project fits nicely with your opinion of the important elements of POV and dramatic question. It is a testament that some educators believe the digital storytelling can be better than psychoanalytic therapy for children in some cases.

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Digital Storytelling: Better than Therapy

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Ruch Community School's 7th grade class has participated in the Digital Storytelling Project over the past 8 weeks. Ark Media and Productions, The Oregon Writing Project, and SOU Education and English Interns have teamed up to create a life changing experience for these students through digital media.

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Hi Syeda! I think point of view and emotion are very important when telling a story. The youtube video below provides an excellent example of both point of view and emotion. I think that sometimes it is hard to see someone's view point however, when you are able to it can make a huge difference, like how it did for the man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX5aRzXUzJo

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Hannah,

I found a great video I'd like to share that inspires your thought that asking questions in the beginning of a story is a great idea and a good way to get the audience engaged. The attached video is quite long and I'm mainly posting for the first (roughly) 30 seconds because that is all I needed to show how right you are that questions are a great tool!
-Irene Timashpolskiy

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The power of digital storytelling | Emily Bailin | TEDxSoleburySchool

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Hey Mikala! I found the 7 elements video to be a good resource as well. One of the points you mentioned was the Dramatic Question. I do think it is important to keep the viewer guessing and engaged through this element in order to encourage involvement. The video below focuses on writing a dramatic question in terms of play righting, however, the tips given can certainly be applied to educational videos.

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Writing a Play Analysis : Play Analysis: Basic Dramatic Question

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The basic dramatic question asks what the point is of a whole play. Learn how to write a basic dramatic question in a play analysis in this free literature and theater video from a college professor. Expert: Tracy Goodwin Bio: Tracy Goodwin has a masters in corporate communication and 10 years experience in professional speaking.

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I enjoyed your stance on using a dramatic point of focus to keep viewers entertained. The video I have provided details how important it is to provide material that makes the student focus and continue to be interested in the subject being discussed. Making a video is basic, but keeping the viewer engaged is another beast all
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How to make educational videos (for teachers)

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Teacher and photographer Jens Emil Asp has two years of experience behind the camera making educational videos at university level. Here is his take on: "How to make educational videos".

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I thought you you really understand how to portray teaching materials to people because of how insightful you were about understanding your audience. The following video relates a lot of what you said and the importance of knowing the audience to how strong of a message knowing the person you speak to can be.

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iCrossing Digital Predictions, ep 1: Knowing Your Audience

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What is the future of digital marketing? iCrossing's new web series, Digital Predictions features several iCrossing digital marketing experts to answer that question with bold predictions about how digital marketing, content, data, search and technology will evolve in 2015 and beyond. Episode 1 features Kendra Clarke, associate director of data and analytics, talking about Knowing Your Audience.

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Irene, i agree that knowing your audience is really important. You want to be able to connect with them on an emotional level, so knowing what to say and when to say it without offending anyone, is very important.

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Hi Christina! I agree that the 7 elements of digital storytelling are very important when you are telling a story. The attached youtube video is an excellent example of a digital story that follows most of the 7 elements. The story starts off with asking the dramatic question "What is a friend?". Throughout the video we also see dramatic content and point of view though pictures of the author with his friends. He uses gift of your voice as well as he tells the story and makes it his own. The soundtrack and pacing also go well with the story and makes it interesting and not boring at all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwED3XHjqbk

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Stephan, you made a good point. Technology is steadily evolving, and it does make learning a lot easier. When you think about the future generations, you see how well they use cell phones and tablets and computers, so why not make it to where these devices actually teach them the things they need to know, rather than just allowing them to play games.

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Created using PowToon -- Free sign up at http://www.powtoon.com/youtube/ -- Create animated videos and animated presentations for free. PowToon is a free tool that allows you to develop cool animated clips and animated presentations for your website, office meeting, sales pitch, nonprofit fundraiser, product launch, video resume, or anything else you could use an animated explainer video.

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Hi Christina! I agree that the 7 elements of digital storytelling are very important when you are telling a story. The attached youtube video is an excellent example of a digital story that follows most of the 7 elements. The story starts off with asking the dramatic question "What is a friend?". Throughout the video we also see dramatic content and point of view though pictures of the author with his friends. He uses gift of your voice as well as he tells the story and makes it his own. The soundtrack and pacing also go well with the story and makes it interesting and not boring at all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwED3XHjqbk

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Hey Jessica! I definitely agree that emotion, music, and the pacing makes or breaks a video (especially an educational one). I really connect with your point about the music aspect. Sometimes, the focus can be too much on other elements and when the music is off (too soft, too distracting, etc.) it takes away from the message. Music in a video should add meaning, like you said. Music is also a tool to use in adding emotion as well. I found this video on YouTube and thought this was a great example of how music can affect emotions.

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the mental and emotional effects of music

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Judy,

Your points were spot on, and we had the same thoughts on how voice is so important. Too many speakers have a monotone voice so the audience ends up not wanting to listen. I found the following video that illustrates why vocal variety is important.
-Irene Timashpolskiy

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The Importance of Vocal Variety in Presentations

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Vocal variety in a speech makes the difference between a presentation that is engaging and easy to listen to and one where the audience is nodding off. In this video, Deborah Grayson Riegel explains the "p's" of terrific vocal variety.

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I really enjoyed watching your video. I thought it encompassed all the characteristics that are in the 7 elements website. I thought that the voice was spoken through the music because the music was upbeat and it kept the viewers interested in what the video had to say.

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Hey I also think that the 7 element website is a great tool to use when creating a video. I felt that the website provided good tips as to what characteristics a video should contain for it to be successful. I also think that it serves as a good checklist after having a created a video.

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Hey Mikala, the 7 elements video was very informative and straight to the point like you said. I agree with how you think the point of view in a training video is one of the main elements because it does help the viewer know what content the video involves and it relevance.

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Robert Cassard shares 6 tips to make your growth hacking videos capture and hold viewers' attention. www.videogrowthhacker.com VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: If your video content is still telling people how great your company is and how unique your products are, fugeddaboudit. No one's gonna care. So what SHOULD you do?

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Hey Syeda Fatima , I completely agree with connecting to viewers on an emotional level,it is an important part of training, it helps build a dynamic that’s more interactive when a viewer relates to what is being taught and helps them correlate to past experiences.

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Online Communication Skills Training Videos

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How to Talk to Customers: Empathy, Tone and Making Personal Emotional Connections  - Webinar Sample

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This video is a preview from our popular "How to Talk to Customers" on-demand webinar. See the full video here: http://tinyurl.com/zy6w4pl

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Morning Chelcie,
I really like how you incorporated some key points into your video. The music and images you added kept me focus on what you had to say. Awesome video!.
The video below provides some awesome ways to create instructional videos like yours.

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Online Communication Skills Training Videos

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A number of church communicators have asked how I create the videos I share here and on the http://www.effectivechurchcom.com site. Though I don't go into all the how-to details of the software used in each step, this video will give you a good overview of the process of how to create the videos.

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Morning Mikala
I really agree with what you say about POV, its really important to know your audience and how they will benefit from the videos. The video below explains a little more about POV.

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Point of View and Influence | 5th Grade Reading | eSpark Instructional Video

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Hi Tyler! I agree with what you had to say about voice, it definitely is a way to correctly portray and differentiate information in order to connect a bond between what you are doing in a video and what you are showing to your audience. I found this video, around 2 minutes and 10 seconds it talks about voice and how 2 people can read the same sentence yet it can sound totally different just by the way it is read.

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Hey Hannah! So I totally agree with you on the point of view part! I think it is important that we have our own point of view or else you're right, there would be no story. So I found this video that goes with what you said and explains point of view.

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Hi Syeda Fatima! I agree with what you said about point of view. I agree that we should all understand that we do have a point of view and the way he defined it was, " you bring the value of your own personal experience and a unique point of view to the story." I found a video which has a more deeper definition on point of view.

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POINT OF VIEW meaning - POINT OF VIEW definition - How to pronounce POINT OF VIEW

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POINT OF VIEW meaning - POINT OF VIEW definition - How to pronounce POINT OF VIEW

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Hi Syeda Midhat! I agree with what you were saying about emotions. It is important for us to understand the human emotions, especially because we all have that aspect in us. This was also one of the most important things that I took from the video. This video explains human emotions which I think relates to the emotions part you wrote about.

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Emotion is a very important thing to incorporate into a digital video even if it is just a training video or something of those sorts because it is important to show your viewer you care about the topic. This video breaks down how the movie industry uses color to manipulate emotions to its audience.

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How filmmakers manipulate our emotions using color

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I agree with your thoughts on how audio plays a huge role in making good videos, movies, or even radio. Some people have favorite radio stations and sometimes that has a lot to do with the sound of their voice or the way their personality shows through their voice. This video was a great instructional/tutorial video on why audio is important and how to portray it properly.

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The Basics of Recording Audio for Digital Video

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We now turn our attention to the audio signal chain as John P. Hess defines the different components needed when recording on set for digital video.

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Hi Johnny, I connected to what you said as I personally tend to forget certain commercials and ads, if they aren't pertaining  to my life or needs at the time. I was recently looking for a new video game, and seen this commercial for Mafia 3. After seeing it, I had completely forgot about previous commercials I had just seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNiHOpHbCzM

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I agree with Judy, that when it comes to an instructional video, the instructor should aim to capture his audiences’ attention as they won’t pay attention. I chose this video of Surface Studio teaching viewers how to use Adobe Premiere Pro, and after going through a lot of videos, his captured me as he added comedy to his instructional video which capture me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMeHRRWNGgA

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Hello Christina, I also think that the 7 elements are very important when creating a video. I also think that it will be better to use story telling for training. I think storytelling can be very powerful. Here is a video that I found describing storytelling.

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Why use Digital Storytelling in the classroom? Find out how to get started, and what tools you can use. Intro features "twitch-mation" style of animation. Find more teacher training videos at http://www.fingoist.com/ - Be A Fingoist today!

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Hello Judy I agree with you. I also think that pacing and the sound of our voice is important. I recently had to do a storytelling video and I was careful not to sound monotone. Here is video that talks about "The Voice

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Sound Effects Master Fred Newman | School of Sound Design | Academy of Art University

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In everyday conversation, people change their voice to portray various characters and events. They even use sound effects. Storytellers take this natural talent to a new level. In this film, a couple of storytellers give illustrations of the right way to take full advantage of the voice when telling a story.

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Tyler I thought the same thing. I think it is very important when you do a digital video that it is interesting. I think about when I read a book to my 5 year old and emphasize the different sounds and emotion when I read to him. I think it should be done the same way with instructional videos check this video out for using voicethread  its a great tool:
https://youtu.be/VLQAz6b35fw

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The 7 elements are very important to  use in any digital video.  Knowing your audience is very important to make sure that the point reaches them. Its very important to know what group we will be presenting too and how to best catch their attention. Here is a video from youtube that helps clarify this:
https://youtu.be/9A80QdJPR9U

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Judy Lopez D5: Digital video response for Sec 3.1 The 7 elements of a digital story telling

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Judy Lopez D5: Digital video response for Sec 3.1 The 7 elements of a digital story telling

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This reading and video from 3.1 gave me a new outline for video presentations for the future.

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Youtube link for response
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Christina Montague D5: Digital Video Sec 3.1

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Christina Montague D5: Digital Video Sec 3.1

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Stephan Cooke D5: Digital Video Sec 3.1

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Youtube link for response:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NipDAd3_7Do&feature=youtu.be

The 7 elements of Digital Story telling was my favorite part of this module. I liked how it said that to catch someone's attention you need to start with a DRAMATIC QUESTION.

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Module 3.1

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Key take away from 3.1.

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I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)

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Rimsha, yes video is more accessible in that we have many platforms that host video. However, that seems to me to be more about availability than accessibility. While you work on your video script for your project, think about how you can use your script to not only give your video more focus, but to use it as a tool in your video design. Attached is a video explanation.

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Teaching Tip: Read from a Script to Make Videos Accessible

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It's always a good idea to use a script or an outline when shooting a video for your online course. Your speech is more deliberate, and the script ensures that you are on message and do not repeat yourself or wander off topic. But there is another excellent reason to use a script when creating a video.

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D5: Digital Video
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Jessica, emotion, music, and pacing are certainly essential elements in a digital story. Below is an example of how Matt MacArthur used those elements to tell his story about his Grandmother's life. His voice is very calm and he has a slow reading pace, he chose very simple piano music, and it really brought out a gentle and reflective emotion in this video.

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Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with the crusts cut off, a grandma, and going to the same funeral twice.

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Use the camera icon to insert or link to your video. Don't forget your name!

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module 3.1 Rimsha zaki

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This is a video of what I took away from Module 3.1.

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