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media type="file" key="Dead Tales by Jo Elda Cadena.mov" =Reflection= I thoroughly enjoyed creating this video and was ultimately pleased with its outcome, but this was not the case at the planning and during the creation process. At first, I struggled with a topic and mine seemed lame compared to those I'd heard from other classmates. My partner and I exchanged storyboards and hers, I felt was well thought out, interesting, and I found myself anticipating its creation. I did not feel this way about my storyboard and felt my video would show lack of planning, but after much thought and several revisions, I ran with it. One thing that gave me inspiration was watching the personal digital stories at the Center for Digital Storytelling's website. I used the same tone of voice I'd heard on those videos on mine, because I enjoyed watching it from the story-telling perspective.

The music was as important to me as the visual aspect of my video. I picked a traditional Mexican song for the intro to the video. The song at the beginning of my video, which is only a 22 second clip, is cited as follows:

Alejandro, Fernandez (Performer). (2007). Abrazame

The music bed for the rest of my video was written, performed and recorded by a high school classmate who is an accomplished musician and owns his own recording studio. I keep in contact with him and therefore, I asked him for permission to use the track in my video, which he granted. Glenn Rios is the musician and he called this piece "0801" because he wrote and performed it on August 1st of 2001. The citation for the remaining 38 second music track follows:

Rios, Glenn (Composer, Performer). (2001). 0801

All of the still clips for my video came from Google searches except for one. I scanned one photo of my grandmother, my mother, my daughter and myself.