How to choose music for your Digital Storytelling project?- Integrate music into Digital Storytelling.

It is no doubt that a good Digital Storytelling cannot be attractive without music, pictures, text, language, animation or sound.

I was a music teacher in middle school, when I saw this topic, I was thinking of how to build a bridge between music and digital storytelling could be seamless. 

Sublimation digital storytelling is not so much music, rather they both are closely combined and indivisible as a whole.

Try to think that when you were in a movie theater, a not so good movie is telling a not so touching story, however, you were manipulated by the music, even though you realized that it was a bad movie, you still been effected by the music. That is the power of music. The most interesting thing is that it is a universal language; a good music can bring people to the same emotions. That’s the power of music.

I am planning to design a project for my 6th grade students, letting them tell one of their own stories, which could be happy, anxious, excited, nervous, sad, angry, or even sick. Then, choosing or scoring background music that could demonstrate their feeling properly. Students are welcomed to use visual aids, such as pictures, drawings, or video clips. They can use iMovie, Moviemaker, Powerpoint, Prezi, just depends on their preference. I will provide one example for them using Prezi. Once finished, their work will be commented by his/her classmates, and each of them will be the judge of others, and the purpose is to find out which one has correctly chosen suitable music as well as the overall visual effects.

I think this project is a good opportunity to teach them about how to integrate music into their story as well as a good way to learn how to choose suitable music to their future Digital Storytelling works. 

There are many online example resources for students for instance: online example resources, this is a Wikispace of Storykeepers. In this webpage students can find free music resources to use as well as develop their own music.

For this project I have already create my own Wikispace: My wikispace. I also created a Digital Storytelling example for it to help students better understand the aim of their project. For more examples I will recommend them some of the examples of students who published online for their references. Students examples.