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Final Project – Love Lost: A story told through google images

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Inspiration behind project: My inspiration for this project came from my initial desire when thinking of this project..i want to tell a story using images but i wasn’t sure if i would be able to do this without words. Then i thought it would fun to try and capture all the things that my phone saw that we didn’t think about when using our phones or a daily basis but i found that to be a little more difficult than i thought and i wasn’t as into it as i wanted to be. Then while playing around on Google images one day i had the awesome idea of telling a story using images that i found on Google…i would come up with 10-12 words and then select an image from the first ones that came up and then i would look at the images and come up with a story. I wanted to be as creative as possible and i wanted to incorporate my own voice but the way i wanted the pictures to work it left too many awkward pauses..so i inserted the text and the words with audio that i thought fit the story line.

What it means to me: I find that i was able to get really involved in the story. A lot of kids witness the affects of their parents fighting and divorce and they are not realized until its too late. This relates to what i want to do when i finally get my masters..i want to be a social worker for a few years and then go on to work with open and closed adoptions. I think my story had a good message and that it is saying that no matter how escalated and involved parents are in a divorce or short separation they have to remember they are not the only ones involved.

What makes it storytelling: Its storytelling because it tells a story, and it does so in more than one way. It tells a story through the words that have been pair with their picture and through the pictures themselves. A story can be told in many different ways..this project i think combined some of those ways.

Process: In order to make this video i came up with my list of 12 words (fear, jealousy, prayer, grief, revenge, man, hate, fire, water, woman,child, and nature). I googled each word and went to the images page and took a screen shot. After doing this for each word i chose a photo for each word, after selecting the photos i took about 15 minutes just looking at them and then came up with my story. I uploaded my images in movie maker and then added the story line to each photo and then i selected an audio clip from my computer that i thought fit the story line.

:( I realized after i uploaded my video that on the picture of fire the word together is spelled wrong :(

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