Planning to Make a Movie Using Digital Storytelling

In my digital storytelling movie which I will be making from the perspective of a student, I will be explaining the importance of numbers in subjects such as history and will be talking about what life would be like without numbers. In order to make a good movie, I will be incorporating the 7 Elements of Digital Storytelling: point of view, dramatic question, emotional content, gift of your voice, power of the soundtrack, economy and pacing.

It will be obvious through my movie that I believe numbers are extremely important and that we could not live without them; that is my point of view. At the beginning of the movie, I ask the question: What would the world be like if numbers did not exist? and answer it continuously throughout the presentation. The emotional content is involved when talking about birthdays and how we would never get to experience them if it were not for numbers. In order to use the gift of my voice, I will make sure to pause at the appropriate times for dramatic effect and enunciate clearly. For the soundtrack, I will be playing the instrumental version of the song 100 Years by Five for Fighting throughout my entire movie. The song flows at a good pace and is also highly appropriate because it talks about how we only have 100 years to live and how they go by quickly.

My movie contains five examples of the importance of numbers in my own life and history so there is not too much information to overload my audience and just enough to inform them: this means the economy is good. Along with this, I will move at a slow enough pace that my audience can understand what I am trying to convey, but not so slow that they will become bored. All of my plans are extensively laid out in my storyboard and my specific unit questions and lesson plan which I will be using for this digital storytelling activity are described as well.