Reyes Writes and Tells

IST 646 Midterm Story Project        The creation of my first ever audiovisual project is akin to birthing a child. I have three so I can say this with some confidence. The final product is out now and I can’t change it. And it will probably take on a life of its own. But all the work that went into creating this product should be evident in the whole.       Once I got over the fear and overwhelm of seeing multiple timelines, and once I understood a bit of how the lines work in conjunction with each other, the rest became a matter of choosing the right images, transition, and sound effects to go with the narration. It is true what they say that there are several hours behind every minute of video. In my case, this was especially magnified because I have never created a video storyboard that incorporated music, audio transitions as well as visual transitions with the pictures/visuals and my narration. I have done many screencasts in the past for other courses but those were ve

This my telling of a folk tale I remember reading in my childhood. There are many variations of this tale that include how the Monkey and the Turtle find the banana tree (sometimes just there, sometimes blown in a storm, sometimes floating in the ocean etc); how the Turtle punishes the Monkey (sometimes sharp sticks, other times sharp snails attached to the trunk. Regardess, this folk tale has remained in my brain and as I retold the story, with each revision it was fun to discover the different voices and characters of the two. Music Credit: my remix courtesy of Siddhartha Corsus - Epiphany from freemusicarchive.org