Digital Story Self Reflection

So my digital story is finally finished. There was a bit of a set back when I got sick the week it was due as it prevented Joe and I from meeting up when we intended. Nevertheless we persevered and got the story done. The hardest part (and probably longest part) of the process was teaching myself how to use and edit from iMovie. I have a macbook pro so access to it was easy, but when I tried to apply photos to the video it would only allow photos that were in iPhoto, no problem right? Well when I moved photos from anywhere (my desktop, folders, etc.) it wouldn't register into iMovie (probably because Apple likes to format things differently with their software). We bypassed this by downloading the photos to my iPhone, then uploaded them from there to iPhoto, which put them in the proper format I suppose. The most fun part of the project was inserting sounds into the different scenes. It felts cartoony and ridiculous but that is what really ties the story together and gets the viewer to understand the "urgency" involved with the plot of our story. iMovie has numerous sounds for your disposal and each can be edited to play for a certain amount of time. I'm really satisfied with the direction our project went and the software we decided to use because I do not believe I would have the same project without iMovie or Joe's input.