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Comment by Julie Roberts on December 15, 2008 at 5:42pm

Scott,
I love the music and this is such a great story. What a wonderful piece of history!
Julie Roberts
Quinton

Comment by Wesley Fryer on December 16, 2008 at 8:54am

Scott: Can you please tell us how you decided to use different photos in this story? Which ones were original that you scanned or took, which ones did you find, and which ones did you alter in PhotoShop?

Comment by scott charlson on December 16, 2008 at 1:15pm

Wes, the opening photo's of Kevin Welch were taken by me. The photo of the woody sketch on the wall was gleaned from the creative commons. The photographs of the pampa area including the photo's of the men and the plate glass window were taken from the library of congress as well as the photo of the roadside diner with the coffee pot. I used my old faithful drawing program to embelish the coffee pot into Minnie's Cafe as well as the plate glass window shot. The next shots are directly from my mother-in-laws photo album. The photo of the two women are Pam's grandmother Aletha (Dittmier)Altman standing next to her sister Minnie Dittmier. The photo of the two men are Pam's grandfather Dink Altman and a friend. In the upper right hand corner of the this photograph, you can see the actual sign for Minnie's Cafe. Then obviously the checks are the actually artifacts that I tossed on my black accoustic guitar for effect.

Part of my rationale for using images other than my own were that I had a deadline to meet. I just didn't have the time to dig through all of my mother in laws photographs, so I grabbed the convenient ones. I also have a hard drive full of great photographs which I have already digitized packed-away in one of my moving boxes.

I actually plan to re-edit this project before Christmas as a present to my wife's family. So stay tuned for at least a 90 something percent authentic product from me soon. I may have to leave in the art embelishment on the plate glass window and the old geezers on the bench. :- )

One more thing... I didn't use the altered images to mislead. I wanted to have the chance to express my artistic self as well as tell the story. And the image of the Coffee Pot.... well who in their right mind could resist a little text embelishment there? OK... got me Wes could. :-) Well I hope this helps and... the word of the day is Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Comment by Wesley Fryer on December 16, 2008 at 9:36pm

Scott: Thanks for sharing the background. I was able to tell our COV participants a little bit when we viewed this video today, but it's great to hear this from you. This discussion about when to use actual photos and when to use others which still communicate your message is really a good one to have. I don't take the position that all the photos should be originals-- as with many things, I think we take the resources we have and can get, and use them as best we can. I think it's good for us to discuss this to:

1- Help everyone, from a media literacy standpoint, understand how media messages are constructed and not take everything at face value
2- As digital storytellers make decisions and be intentional about how we choose to use media in various forms to effectively communicate.

I think it would be good to encourage different authors to share some info about their photos in their stories. We also talked today about how we might encourage people to post links somewhere as attribution for images that are used, if that is not included in the actual video. This is a good topic for our advisory committee to take up. Thanks again for sharing this video. People commented today what a great "hook" the music is at the start to get and keep audience interest in the story!

Comment by BR Stover on January 20, 2009 at 12:42am

What a great story.....like the images.

Comment by Brenda Craige on June 24, 2009 at 6:31pm

Dang Scott - I've never seen this before, and it's wonderful - my daddy always loved Woody, as do I.

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