Barbara W Digital Story Treatment

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1 Summary
2 Media Assets
3 Pacing, Rhythm, and Juxtaposition
4 Narration, Dialogue, and Text
5 Reflection
6 Draft Media
7 Copyrighted Materials

[edit] Summary

Title: Barbara W's Digital Story Treatment

Description: This story has been in my head for a long time. It is a saying my mother had and at different times in my life I think of it again, and of her. Now my son is grown and while he longed so much for a wife and family, he is exhausted from working a long week and taking care of three kids on the weekend while his wife works, getting up in the night with babies etc.

[edit] Media Assets

I am an amateur photographer, very amateur, so I have lots of pictures especially of family. I use Olympus cameras and recently upgraded to SLR. I have the best subjects in the world. My three grandchildren are so wonderful and love to have their picture taken at least by me. Maggie at 2, hates sitting for a real portrait, but smiles and says “cheese” for me. I use Photoshop Elements to change an image size, reduce red eye and enhance color. I found out that when I upgraded to Leopard operating system on my large Mac "Big Mac", Photoshop Elements is no longer compatible. So I have to use it on my laptop and email the pictures to myself to pick up on the large Mac.

I chose a soft piano music that is rambling and up and down to convey the positive and negative aspects of wishing for something and then it not turning out the way we expected.

[edit] Pacing, Rhythm, and Juxtaposition

I want this to be slow, deliberate and peaceful. I don’t want it to sound like everything we wish for turns out bad, just that it doesn’t always turn out the way we thought. It can be better sometimes.

[edit] Narration, Dialogue, and Text

My son looked so tired.. getting up with the baby at night , I thought of my mother saying “be careful what you wish for you just might get it..”…. She once wished to be thin and have curly hair, cancer did that for her. He was lonely and wanted a family, what a blessing they are, but the exhaustion and worry…. I once wished for an hour alone, peace and quiet, now I live alone and would love a visitor I wished for space to sew, now I have that and no time to use it.

We wish life away! Can’t wait for children to grow and suddenly they are moving away. Where did the time go? So I love each day, just as it is. I hug grandbabies, read them a book, play on the floor. Tell them you love them. Wish for nothing. Thank God for His blessings. Pray for others. Be happy.

[edit] Reflection

I have enjoyed making this video and think I will expand it after the class is over. It has been frustrating to be limited to such a short time. In this draft I don’t think it fully conveys my meaning. I want to explain more that my son was so lonely after a first failed marriage, how he always from very young, wanted to be a daddy, to have a happy marriage. I don’t want it to seem that he is unhappy. He is deliriously happy to have a stepdaughter and two beautiful babies but he is truly exhausted- they both are. I hope to make some changes to reflect this better.