EDLD+5363+Collaborative+Page

**EDLD 5363 Collaborative Page** This page will be used to post my documents being used in the creation of my script, storyboard and video for class. Our collaboration for our projects will be posted on our group wikispace.

** Collaboration Site for Weeks 3 - 5 Assignments: ** Here is the website for our PSA Collaboration:[| https://sites.google.com/site/multimediavidtechedld5363/home]

** Week 3 Assignment -- PSA-Pre-Production: **

** Storyboard for Podcast Week 2 Assignment: **

** Script for Podcast Week 2 Assignment: **

** Plan for Podcast Week 2 Assignment: **

** Storyboard for Video Assignment 1: **

** Script for Video Assignment 1: **

Revised script 11-18-2011

Original Script 11-16-2011

** Overview of Story Idea 1: **

On August 8, 2011, I was torn away from my birthplace and dropped 2,200 miles away. In the fall of 1979, my father lost his job at St. Joe Minerals, Inc. when it closed due to the down turn in the economy. Lucky for our family, he was able to find another job. Unlucky, in that it was across the United States, from Aliquippa, Pennsylvania to Spokane, Washington.The family, mom, dad, Jim, Judy, Joseph and I were born and raised within 10 miles of the extended family. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania is an ethnically diverse town where each culture has their own area to live, Serbian, Italian, Polish, Lithuanian, and Holidays were spent at one grandparent's house or ours. Christmas was not a one day holiday, it was two weeks. Everyday of the holiday season was spent visiting relatives or having them stop by our house. Thanksgiving and Easter were the same way.

We left on a rainy day. My main memory was that of extreme sadness, as my best friend had not made it to the airport before we boarded the plane. I spent hours vacillating between crying and worrying about what it would be like in our new home. We landed in Spokane, and was still raining. After spending a week in the hotel, we moved into our new home.

Having made this initial break, it was much easier to move to other states. It also has opened me up to new experiences and a love of traveling. Where I used to enjoy reading about different areas, I now looked forward to seeing those places.

Overview of Story Idea 2:

One of the people I missed the most is my maternal grandmother. When we were younger, I can remember pushing her buttons (along with my brothers and sisters) when she would babysit or roll my eyes when she would start telling stories about her life and her family. Though I learned how to knit and crochet from her, as an adult I realize that I missed out knowing more about my heritage. My grandmother is one of the relatives we had to leave behind when we moved. When she was dying from cancer, I was back in school earning my teacher certification. While my mom was with her, for three months before she died, I had her write down some of the family stories, so my child would know where she came from. My daughter was born a little more than 6 weeks after my grandmother passed. She is truly missed.

She was born of immigrants from Lithuania. Her parents spoke very little English and she was discouraged from learning Lithuanian. Her father said, "We are in America now. You will learn English!" She grew up in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania on Green Street. He father worked at Jones and Laughklin Steel. Her mother died young and my grandmother helped raise her brother with help from her father's sister, Aunt Maggie. They lived in the house that her father built. When she was older, she would look forward to the dances on Friday night. Where they would dance under garlands of grapes. This is where she met her husband. the lived on the second floor of her father's house. My grandmother and grandfather raised 2 children. She would walk over a mile to work in the local laundry and dry cleaners. When I was born, she job was to iron all the clothes from the business.