Digital

Storytelling Pre-Production Report Name: Kellie Ouzts

Title of Project: Daddy Time Report from Peer Pitch: I began this project by planning an Environmental ABCs book focusing on our fourth grade ecology standards. During my peer pitch with a teacher/friend, we realized that the length of my project idea was most definitely an issue. Twenty-six slides with narration would be longer than our allotted five-minute time frame requirement. Later, I spoke to our Media Specialist about a presentation we are putting together for pre-planning. He reminded me of our new Teachers Read program, in which teachers are recorded telling about their favorite childhood book. Teachers are then recorded reading their books. The finished projects/recordings are then shared on school-wide morning announcements. I planned my digital story around my book story. I then pitched the project once again to my friend. She and I discussed length and actually timed the narration. She suggested leaving the title of the book out until the end to increase tension. She also emphasized that I needed to clarify that my love of reading stemmed directly from Daddy time and that the Dr. Seuss books inspired my desire to read. I rewrote the narration and implemented the changes she suggested.
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I chose this topic because it is one that I will actually use. Our principal is focusing on increasing media center usage media this year. To promote the center, all teachers will be recorded telling about their favorite books and how they furthered their love of reading. Daddy Time was created simply to share memories of reading my favorite book with Daddy and with the hopes of instilling the same feelings in students who listen and watch. My school has a very low socio- economic level and many of the kids fall into a MPV (homeless) status. Several of our families have been evicted from their homes. Many issues arose in my classroom last year concerning fourth graders being left alone at night so that parents could work two jobs. Therefore, many of my sweet kids have parents who are simply overwhelmed and do not have time to read with their kids. With greater issues on their minds, like putting food on the table, and keeping a roof over their heads,

family reading time has been put on the back burner. I hope that Daddy Time demonstrates how my love of reading grew from my father, who took time to read Green Eggs and Ham, in addition to hundreds of other books, to me! Story Core: My dramatic questions are, How did reading with Daddy every night impact me as a pre-reader and as an adult? and How did Dr. Seuss book, Green Eggs and Ham, facilitate my desire to learn to read? My call to adventure begins with waiting on Daddy to get home so I can sit and listen to him read my favorite book. The problem is that I realize that I cant hear any of my favorites until he sits down and reads them to me. Although reading with Daddy is my favorite part of the day, I also want to read while he is at work. I come to the conclusion that I need to learn to read so that I wont have to wait on Daddy to get home. The resolution is that I learn to read and Dr. Seuss acts as the inciting event/person that lights the fire to read. Closure occurs when I earn my media specialist masters degree. Transformation takes place with earning the masters and continuing to be an avid reader today. Rough Storyboard:

Description of shot Sound/Voice Over Narration Purpose

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Title Slide Picture will be edited using picnik to add text.

Mid shot of daddy as a young man. Wide shot of a winding dirt When I was a little girl we lived way out in the country. Our house was on a long dirt and gravel road and there were no other houses around. road Wide Shot photograph of my Because I am an only child family when I was young. and both my parents were only children too, there were no brothers or sisters or cousins to play with.

Establish isolation of home.

Show family unity

 Mid shot of me alone as a child.

I spent a lot of time alone, Reinforce isolation as so when Daddy came home an only child. from work, I would be extra excited to see him. He was my hero and still is today.

Very wide shot of construction site. This shot suggest that Daddy was a construction worker who worked outside in the weather all day.

When Daddy came in the door, tired from a long day at work, he would scoop me up squeeze me tight.

This shot will show that Daddy worked all day and certainly he would have been exhausted when he came home from work.

Wide shot of mama, daddy, and me at kitchen table

Mid shot of daddy hugging me

Then he would go get cleaned up and I would sit down at the kitchen table with my Mama and Daddy for supper. After the dishes were cleaned up, every night I would tug at the hem of Daddys shirt and say in the sweetest voice I could dig up, Daddy will you read me a book? Sure Boo. He called me Boo. Go get your book. Now notice, he said, book.

Establish family unity

Close up of one book

Shows love and affection between father and daughter which is also fostered by reading together. Emphasize that Daddy said one book

 Close up of a stack of books

So, what did I do? I got a lot Emphasize that I of books -- thats what I did! brought many books because I loved reading so much with Daddy!

Long shot of steps from the bottom up top

Cut in of feet

Id run to my room, those chubby little legs pumping up thirteen steps to my room. Then, Id grab as many books as I could and Id run back down, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and crawl up in Daddys chair and snuggle down, down, on his lap and breathe in the clean smell of Old Spice and Irish Spring soap and Id always drag that old ivory afghan that my grandma made and Daddy would say, What are we reading about tonight, Baby Girl? Even though he knew my favorites, even though we played this game nightly, hed always ask. I always brought out the same books. The Three Little Kittens was always a must, but my most favorite was a book that was new. See, before this author

Demonstrate how far Id run just to get my books for Daddy to read.

Used to show that Daddy loved reading to me as much as I loved being read to!

Close up of Dick and Jane book opened up

Used to establish the difference between Dick and Jane and the mystery book/author.

started writing kids books, they all seemed, well, a bit boring. It was all, See, Dick. See Jane. Run, Dick. Run, Jane . . . Mid shot of Seuss Stamp But this guy, his stories were just so silly and the pictures were funny and colorful and the words were just nonsense . . . and I loved them all. But one of those books, one of them lit the fire in my heart. It made me want to learn to read all by myself . . . . Wide shot Close of Child with See, even though reading a stack of books with Daddy was the best part of my day, I knew that if I could read by myself, I wouldnt have to wait on Daddy to come home to hear my story. I could read it all by myself. Wide shot of me So, this book that changed my life, the one that led me to a Media Specialist degree, is called . . . Close up of Green Eggs and Ham Introduces author without telling audience which book was my favorite.

This shot shows the students how many books I would return with. They need an example so they can see how much I loved to read with Daddy. Provides audience with young picture of my to compare with the current picture of me in the last frame.

Mid shot of comfy chair

Green Eggs and Ham, by Dr. Shares one of my Seuss. favorite pages from Green Eggs and Ham. I did not want to simply display the cover of the book. I wanted the audience to actually think about the story and where this page actually occurs in the book. So, Daddy and I, we sat and Picture of chair

 Close up of heads together

List of Media I included the actual images in my rough storyboard that I will use to create my voicethread.

cuddled while I sucked my thumb wrapped up in that soft afghan and hed read me that book while I breathed in his clean, clean smell and he always started like this . . . Boo, hed whisper, do you like Green Eggs and Ham? And, those are the words that changed my life.

provided so that the audience can visualize me reading with my Daddy.

Continuing establishment of closeness!