Sorry I haven't had these in, it has been very hectic and I am doing as much as possible.


        I would like to focus on the chapter about storyboarding.  I believe storyboarding is a huge help in coming up with ones story.  The multiple sequence of drawings helps us to visualize better what our end result may be.  This allows for new ideas or cutting old ones.  It also is nice to put something together for another person to look at and critique before putting all of your work into a final video.
        This chapter goes more in-depth on how you should set up a storyboard.  Giving it two dimensions "The first dimension is time: what happens first, next, and last.  The second is interaction: how the audio- voiceover narrative of your story and the music- interacts with the images or video." (Lambert 97)  Having a set-up like this allows one to see exactly where they would meet things up and when they want something to happen, like a change in the music going with someone throwing up their arms in excitement.
         I personally wish I had thought of storyboarding before, or it would be nice if the programs that I used had a way of storyboarding first.  This would help so much to time my script with the picture and video that I want to use.  I would usually end up cutting and removing things, just to get what I want in the finally story, sometimes this ended in disaster.  So for my last project I am doing a storyboard.


Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community; Joe Lambert, 4th edition