Photo Story

Your photos story can be created in sarges using any previous or new photos you would like to take. Unless you want to use advanced software like Adobe Premier, you should use the the free online software Adobe Spark Page or Adobe Spark Video Guides are posted on Schedule page.

PART ONE: Focus & Collect

Decide on a Focus for your story. Pick a Title. (provisional if necessary)
Collect any related media: pictures, drawings, photographs, maps, charts, etc.
Organize all your materials in a folder on your desktop.
Try to find informational content, which might come from interviews, web sites, articles etc
What is the purpose and audience for your story. Are you trying to inform, convince, provoke, question?

PART TWO: Organize

Select the photos you would like to use for your digital story.
Select any additional and related images.
Draft the narrative you’d like to tell. What is your main point? How are you leading up to it? Why will the viewer care? How are the parts of your story laid out. You may want to storyboard if this helps.

PART THREE: Create

Clarify the purpose and point of view of your digital story. Revise Title if needed.
Begin adding photos, captions, and text to Adobe Spark Page.
You can get photos directly from Lightroom, Dropbox, Google Photos or on your desktop right fro Spark Page.

PART FOUR: Revise & Publish

Show your digital story to your group and/or class (and/or your original subject)
Gather feedback about how the story could be improved, expanded, or updated.
Publish stories and show them on New Media Night and on the New Media Website.
Share stories with your original subjects.

PUBLISH

Create a post with category “Photo Story”
Use title: Photo Story–YourName
If using Adobe Spark, you need to “share” the project after completed, publish the link, then use the “embed” code and add it directly to “Text” tab of your post.
Make sure you use an apt featured image–this could be a screen shot of your Adobe project, an a single image in your story.