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Five steps to making a Digital Family Story

This page is designed to help you select the tools for your project. Just like any craftsman, you need a vision of your final product before you can choose the proper tools for the project.

1. Collection: A collection contains the artifacts created in the past and saved over time. Collections may be newly started or passed on from earlier generations.

2. Design: What is your final production going to look like? Which tools do you need to digitize, produce and publish your project?

3. Digitization: Digitization is the process of converting all the artifacts into a computer readable format.

4. Production: Production is the process of assembling the artifacts and elements and presenting your family story.

5. Publication: The media you choose for publication will determine who can view your story.

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Collection

A collection contains the artifacts created in the past and saved over time. Collections may be newly started or passed on from earlier generations. It's from these collections that we draw the artifacts to incorporate into our story.

	Where do we find these collections?	What do the collections contain?
	Our own collections Relatives Libraries Museums Archives Internet Basements Attics Storage sheds Shoe box in Aunt Millie's closet	Photographs Letters/ correspondence Newspaper clippings School papers and projects Arts and Crafts projects Home movies Slides Taped interviews Music Video

The story is in the collection.

You just have to find it.

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Design

Consider these issues to determine the tools to use for your project.

Who is your audience?

Family, clients, students, employees, evaluators.

What types of artifacts are you going to use?

Video, 8mm movie film, photographs, 35mm slides, newspaper articles, letters, souvenirs, craft projects, art objects, audio tapes, phonograph records, music CDs.

How much material do you want to create?

Live interviews, voice-overs, titles, transitions, still motion (Ken Burns effect), original music.

How are you going to publish you story?

Full motion video, slide show, illustrated manuscript, hyper-linked multimedia.

In which media are you going to publish?

CD-ROM, DVD, VHS tape, web-site, print.

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Digitization of Artifacts

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	Production Tools
	The tools used to create your production for the most part will be Editors. Editors are designed to create, alter, enhance, and even publish different elements. No one editor can handle all the elements of your project, so several may be used.

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