Katie's+Inspiration+Story

This is a story about a girl named Sarah who has always wanted to be a famous ballerina. She finally gets her chance to shine but meets some obstacles along the way. In the end, Sarah is able to overcome these obstacles and be a great ballerina like she always wanted to be.



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I found this project to be very interesting because I was able to do a lot of things that I had never done before. I used Photo Story 3 for this project which was pretty simple to use, but it was nice because I learned how to do things such as manage any transitions in my story. I learned how to control the amount of time each picture was shown on the screen and how the picture would move during the story. I was able to learn how to do this by reading the step by step procedures provided in the program and then by testing it out. Although it took me a while to decide how to make the transitions work, it was nice to know that I had so much control over the project. Learning this new skill enabled me to make the story flow better and to make sure that the story was not too long. For example, at first all of my reference slides were in the story for 5 seconds each which was far too long. I tried a few different times for the slides and decided that 2 seconds each is enough time for the audience to read what is on the slides. I also had to look at the other slides and make sure that the amount of narration matched up with the amount of time the slides were shown during the story. This helped me because I did not feel rushed to get the narration done in a certain amount of time.