The document summarizes a digital story created by Kira MacGregor documenting the "Les Femme" exhibition at the Cairns Regional Gallery. The story explores the works of 6 female artists addressing themes of loss of culture, aging, and innocence. It describes MacGregor's 8-step process of writing a story plan, collecting images, storyboarding, recording narration, editing sound files, assembling the story in Windows Movie Maker, adjusting timing, and adding titles. The reflection notes improvements over the previous digital story but acknowledges needing to significantly shorten the narration.

1. How will my story be told?
Digital Storytelling
Kira MacGregor

2. TITLE: …Les Femme
AUTHOR: Kira MacGregor
A Digital Story documenting an Exhibition at the Cairns Regional Gallery. This documentary explores
the artists through their works and considers the concepts that surround each piece. The story
concludes with thought given to the context in which the work is displayed and an exhibition and
Gallery in general.
Story Line: Les Femme is an exhibition hosted at the Cairns Regional Gallery. The exhibition has been
collated by 6 female artists and explores issues such as loss of culture, ageing, the sense of loss and
innocence. All photos have been taken by the author excluding the building images. They portray the
artworks and the surrounds.
Story Outline:
Who – Kira MacGregor as an audience
What – the Les Femme Exhibition
When – follows the author through a viewing of the exhibition over an hour
Where – Cairns Regional Gallery
Why – give audience an experience and understanding of an exhibition and bring awareness to art in
general and the concepts.
Content: Images taken by the author have been used. Images of the outside of the gallery have been
outside, including the stairs image. Narration has also been created by the author and the classical
sound file was re-mixed by the author with an original sound source from SoundCloud.com.
The Process:
Step 1: Wrote up my story plan
then collected a folder of images.

3. Step 2: Created a simple story board in
PowerPoint using my images and
forming a simple narration.
Step 3: Once satisfied with
storyboard wrote a narration in Word
in order to have a succinct story and
to assist in a well spoken recording.
Step 4: Then recorded the narration
using a headphone and speaker
setup. This worked exceedingly
better than just using a computer
microphone. I was satisfied with the
outcome except the narration was
excessively long. So I had to begin a
long process of editing the narration
down to 4min, which was finally
successful.

4. Step 5: I downloaded a free file from SoundCloud.com and then opened it up in a program called
Audacity. This allowed me to chop and change the piece creating a sound that would work with my story
and have the correct length I needed.
1. SoundCloud 2. Downloading into Audacity 3. Editing file with Audacity
Step 6: Once sound files were complete I imported all my images and sounds into Windows Movie
Maker. Then sorted and placed according to the storyline and added transitions effects to all images.
Step 7: I imported the sound files onto the story board then adjusted all the images viewing times to fit
the narration. Lastly, I added a beginning slide and end titles.

5. Step 8: From experiments with the last digital story I had created an animation of my name. So as the
end title to the third story I added the shots as a trademark of my digital stories.
Reflection: As the second attempt of making a successful digital story, I was much more satisfied with
the outcome.
I had found a solution to the background noise when narrating, by finding a headset, making it a lot
easier to record. The re-mixed sound file and narration fit well with the images after a little bit of
toggling with the time of images.
I also had a fairly successful photo shoot which improved the quality of the story, although, some did
not work out as well. The transitions also carry the story well, providing a fluent walk through the
gallery.
The shortening of the narration was the most unfortunate as I had to cut a lot of the story out leaving
only the main points. I had planned to explain in more depth the artist’s artworks but now I have only
simply noted them and the works or concept. Overall, I stuck to the storyline fairly well and had no
dramatic changes other than the narration.