Storytelling With Pixels

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 Hello everyone!

This week was one of the best weeks I have ever lived when it comes to the subject of homework. We had a task that required us to make a storytelling video, which is called digital storytelling,  and we were also given 3 topics from which we could choose. The options were to make a public service announcement, an 'how to do' instruction, or a fictional story. It was given as a group project so two of my best friends and I created a group and started to think about what we should do.  We wanted it to be something that reflects us and something that we can enjoy while we are doing it so we decided to make a fictional story video and got some help from our favorite activity to do together, games! Getting some help from games was a difficult idea to come out with, but deciding on the story was even harder. It had to include a problem, a climax, and a resolution part in which the problem was solved and we had to do it in just 2 minutes. We created a story in which a girl drops his CD into the water and gets help from her two friends. It is in a pixeled game ground and we even added some facial expressions. We wrote the script and then recorded our voices. To add some fun, we named our characters after ourselves. We had so much fun together whilst we had arguments and some embarrassing moments while recording. It was an amazing experience in total, and I think it is a great task to give students. I think I will use it in my teaching a lot when I want my students to be creative about the subject they learn. I put the link of our amazing video so that you can watch it too! I hope you like it.

Xoxo 

Melike.


https://drive.google.com/file/d/14HAoPYZopzyBcZ6_yDvOUYBK3PoTK1IQ/view?usp=sharing


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