EDLD+5363+Week+1+Assignment

**~The Gate~** A digital story bout passing the milestone of fifty years of age**.** media type="youtube" key="Xn6KqVWSGuc" height="340" width="560" I started my digital story with my birth, and then move along through my childhood, and youth, trying to impart a sense of hope and wonder. Then as I approached my 50th year on this earth, I tried to show the apprehension I felt, thinking that my life as I knew it, was soon to be over. Crossing that gate was like crossing over onto a path that led down to a cemetery where the only thing you find is a grave. I got to the gate that marked the half century point of my life, resigned to walk through it to the second half of my life. Then I realized that I do not actually walk through the gate. Instead I simply turned around and started back to the beginning. I realized that I still have the serenity of my 40s, I am passing through with the confidence of my 30s, and with each day that passes, I feel the excitement of my 20s. I know that I will once again, become awkward as in my youth, will stumble and mumble as a toddler, and will cry and depend on others for my care and comfort and until one day, just as a baby, I will take my final nap. Trying to come up with an idea for the digital story was probably the hardest thing about this project. I tried to think of something that had affected me at this point in my life and I realized that my passing my 50th year was a big point in my life. The next part was finding words to express my reflections about my life in the past, the present, and the future. Next, I needed to find the photos that could convey the passage of my life. And then I had to use someone to represent me in my later years. Who better to play the part, but my mother. I then used Apple's //iMovie t//o put the photos together and used //GarageBand// to create some background music and //The Gate// was completed.


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