Outline Created By: Nadia Kilgore

Storyboard and Google Images Discussion

Our goal is to create an imovie, which requires the following steps: making a story board, uploading the images, editing images, and adding sound in order to create the final project.

*I will be discussing how to create a storyboard and how to locate images
*The first step to this assignment will be to create a story board.

*In order to create a story board, students have read the text, and will not have an opportunity to be “hands on” and to draw sketches of specific parts of the book that will be useful in telling the story, “The Raven” in its entirety.

*The story board is an organization tool. It is a way for students to organize their thoughts, and visualize the sequence of images that will be searching online for, which will tell the story “The Raven.”

*Buckingham explains that keeping the production activities small is key, so students aren’t set up for failure in a difficult task. Organizing the images into a storyboard will help keep them on track, and also give students the control—they choose the images that they imagine when reading the story. According to Buckingham, his allows for exploration.

*Buckingham explains (page 81) a technique called “photoplay” which is when students are provided with images, and then asked to sequence them in a storyboard that will eventually be in a moving image sequence, such as our imovie.

*Our approach is similar, however rather than providing students with still images, and then asking them to create a storyboard, we will be asking them to use the story “The Raven” and pick key parts of the book to include in their sketches.

*Next, students will need to locate the images. Choosing the images for the storyboard can be determined by what images are evoked when reading the text, for example, Poe uses words such as midnight, chamber door, December, purple curtain, and of course, the image of a Raven.

*Using these key images, students will draw out the sketches, then go to google, then images and type in the image they wish to search for, for example, “Raven.”

*The search comes up with images of the celebrity, which is not what the search was for, so students narrow down their search by typing in “raven bird.”