Blog#8-Maggie

In my digital story, I described my own experience of a trip of Shanghai World Expo. Because of this grand pageant and the company of my family, I have got so many details and emotions to express that I finished the story script without any problem. However, when getting forward, I met various challenges involved with the usage of software. The first problem I’ve got is the editing of the voice by using “Audacity”. Secondly, there were several specific difficulties while I was making the video. Even though I have had enough good quality pictures of this trip, the process of managing the order of the images and matching the voice and the images accurately are still complicated and time- consuming. The last difficulty is to add music into the video. I spent a whole night to find glorious and bright music to express the emotion and atmosphere of the travel. The most exciting and cheerful moment would be the first time of watching through the video after finishing it. At that moment, I felt successful and satisfied to get the achievement and touched by experiencing trip with my parents again. Compared with academic writing, digital story is a way to show personal experiences and feelings instead of formal specific academic work. The main purpose of digital story is to convey and deliver the emotions of the author to the audience. Meanwhile, academic writing aims at expressing academic and specific views in a formal and strict expression for scientific use. As a result of different purposes of them, they have different characteristics of writing type. In digital story, the author could use delicate descriptions, particular framework, tortuous and vivid plot, lively characters to make the audience feel as if they were personally on the scene. On the other hand, academic writing should have clear thesis, specific and formal words, rigorous logic and exactly proper citation and quotation.
After finishing the video, I started to write the credits which focuses on the citation of the resources used in my digital story. I downloaded several images and music from Internet to diversify and perfect my story. With the learning of this course, I have had a sense of intellectual property which contains various types such as words, ideas protected by regulations and laws. When using others’ own ideas, words and even music and images, we have to cite them. Otherwise, the work may be accused of plagiarism. Thus, at the end of my video, I made a reference list to cite the sources of the downloaded images and music I used in my digital story. It is not only a way to conform to the norms but also a way to show the respect of the original author.