digital story

Synopsis: A young woman is preparing dinner after a counseling session. Although her life looks normal on the outside, she is having an inner struggle with herself. Clinically classified as OCD, this woman battles her obsessions by utilizing exposure therapy skills learned from a trained therapist.

Content & Creation: Visual content for this project came from Pexels‘ public domain, which states that videos are free to use and modify as desired. The music and sound effects were downloaded from Openverse and fall under CC0.01. All narration was self-recorded using Audacity, and the final digital story was created using DaVinci Resolve.

Visual Credits:

• A Woman Discussing Her Problems With A Professional by cottonbro studio on Pexels (Public Domain via Pexels License) 
• Close Up Video of Person Slicing Cherry Tomatoes by cottonbro studio on Pexels (Public Domain via Pexels License) 
• Woman Baking by Taryn Elliott on Pexels (Public Domain via Pexels License) 
• A Person Slicing a Mango Fruit by Ron Lach on Pexels (Public Domain via Pexels License) 

Audio Credits:

• Original Narration by Taylor Wilson.
• “Music ambience, slow, piano, playing, reversed, dramatic“ by Bpianoholic is marked with CC0 1.0.
• “female sigh [edit]” by AbrahamMast is marked with CC0 1.0.
• “Peaceful Piano Loop“ by archtects is marked with CC0 1.0.

Synopsis: This is a story about Jessica, who after a long day at work, comes home to find that she seems to have lost her house key. Battling with the elements and no one to help her, she must find a way to get inside before the sun sets and it gets too cold.

Content and Creation: All visuals were created by me, except the image used in the title, which was gotten from Openverse. The image is a Creative Common asset. All parts of this video was created using Clipchamp. The narration was recorded by me, a small portion towards the end of the video has audio from the actress, Jakeeba Bryant, all other audio elements are Creative Commons assets.

Image Credit:

• Key by zebble on openverse (Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Audio Credits:

• Jam (Short Version) | tictac9 by tictac9 from freesound (Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0))
• Metal Gear Solid Guard Alert Exclamation by PhilStrahl from freesound (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0))
• Alert 01 by rhodesmas openverse (Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0))
• Dun dun duuun! by copyc4t from openverse (Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0))
• dramatic ostinato 0M_43mi2b by Setuniman from openverse (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0))
• dramatic 0P_19mi2 by Setuniman from openverse (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0))
• cinematic moments – bizarre » clandestine 1U84 by Setuniman from freesound (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0))

Synopsis:  While coming back from vacation, Isaiah noticed he lost something important… his wallet!  Will he be able to retrieve it? Will his faith in humanity be restored? Only time and luck will tell. Based on a true story.

Content & Creation:  All visuals were taken or created by me and my photographer Kody Joiner.  This video was edited using DaVinci Resolve.  Title card was created using Photopea with the original photo taken by me.  All narration was recorded in a professional studio at Cox Radio Tampa.  All other audio elements are Creative Common assets found on Freesound.

Image Credits:

Title Card – “The Wallet That Walked” by Isaiah Chavez is licensed under CC BY 4.0.  Edited with Photopea.

Audio Credits:

“Tropical Cruise” by code_box is licensed under CC0 1.0.

“Phone Ringing Sound” by fspera is licensed under CC0 1.0.

“Happy Background Music” by Migfus20 is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Synopsis: The story of a man who was always happy, even though he had every reason to not be.

Content & Creation: This story was created using a mixture of personal photographs and publically available images and videos from Pexels. An original narration was recorded and edited in Audacity. The project was composed in iMovie with a video track, overlay of text, two audio tracks, one narration, and one music.

Credits

Family Photos – Copyright 2023 Nicole Damstetter. All Rights Reserved.

Parker Street Gardner Postcard.
Heywood Wakefield Gardner Postcard.
1930s Pelletier Family.
Young Rene on Porch.
Rene In The Backyard.
Portrait of Rene as a Young Man.
Rene in Color with Bike.
Weaves Linen on Hand Loom Clipping.
Rene on Rascal with Hat.
Pelletier Children in 1980s.
Nicole Kissing Rene on Rascal.
Rene Walking with Help from Paul.
Rene at the Library.
Rene’s Birthday Celebration.
Nicole & daughter at Children’s Library.
Nicole & daughter sitting.
Nicole & daughter on lake pier.

From Pexels

Always Happy Ballon is a derivative of Yellow Smiley Ballon with White Background by Polina Tankilevitch.
Burning Birthday Candle in Number Six  by Engin Akyurt
Typing with Typewriter by Pixabay
Sun Setting Down by Pixabay
Video of Flower Blooming by Pixabay
Playing Cards on the Carpet by KoolShooters 

Audio

“Inspiring Piano” by BlueJay Studio is licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0.
Original Narration by Nicole Damstetter.

Synopsis: Story of a puppy that grows old with his first family. The family ends up having a baby and he finds himself in a shelter as an older dog. He is scared and alone but ends up being saved from the shelter and adopted at the last minute by his “furever” family to live out his senior years.

Content & Creation: All visual content from this project comes from a variety of search terms on the Creative Commons search site Open Verse. This video was edited using iMovie. The narration is self-recorded and all other audio elements are from within the iMovie sound effects library.

Image Credits:

• “Abandoned” by grayeme is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
• “Love for sale” by jronaldlee is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
• “P10 puppies” by bullcitydogs is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.
• “Olde English Bulldogge Puppy” by Perfectance is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
• “Playing puppy” by State Farm is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
• “happy to be out of the truck…our poor dog gets car-sick sometimes” by echoforsberg is licensed under CC BY 2.0.  
• “Baby Announcement” by arturodonate is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
• “Baby Dog Cone” by shanntastic is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
• “Jessie, the family dog in Saint Leonard, Switzerland” by Robert Thomson is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.
• “#sam #family #pet #dog #russellreno #turlock #rollerderby” by RussellReno is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.
• “Dog shelter / Utulok” by amneziak is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.
• “Dog in a Shelter” by spotreporting is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
• “Pet of the Week: Pup, 12180354” by LollypopFarm is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
• “Senior cat and dog hold paws” by rikkis_refuge is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
• “Old man and Dog” by Eisen Lai is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Audio Credits:

• “Playful” sound effect, iMovie
• “Dogs Barking” sound effect, iMovie
• “Piano Ballad” sound effect, iMovie