Create your own interactive story

Illustration from A New Kind of Alchemy

Using the graphics from A New Kind of Alchemy, create your own version of the interactive graphic story.

Choose one of the following three options:

  • use the graphics to add to the story of Sava

  • use the graphics to continue the story of Sava and his search for his family

  • create a new interactive using the illustrations from A New Kind of Alchemy

You can download and edit the graphics from A New Kind of Alchemy using Adobe Photoshop Elements or Adobe Photoshop CS4. Follow the instructions on the last screen of the interactive, A New Kind of Alchemy.

Presentation

You can build your new story using a variety of presentation applications on your Digital Education Revolution – NSW laptop. These include:

For more help, see the resource UCreate a slideshow available from the Teaching and Learning exchange.

Adding a sound track

Adding audio will enhance your presentation. You could use Audacity to add and mix music, speech and sound effects to your presentation to create the mood of your story.

audacity screen

Use Audacity to record a sound track to your slideshow A New Kind of Alchemy.

Use your laptop’s microphone to record the dialogue and add a voice-over to the story. You could add dialogue from the short story to create your own interpretation of events in the story.

You could add sound effects and music to create the mood and atmosphere of the story.

When you have recorded your audio you can add the sound track to your Photoshop Elements slideshow.

audio add

In Slide Show Editor, select Add Media as shown above to add your sound track. You can trim the audio to fit the movie.

For help with your recording your sound track, see Tools4U – Audacity.

The links below can help you find music and sound effects for your graphic novel transformation.

  • FreePlayMusic – a database of royalty-free music and sound effects that you can search and download.

  • Jamendo – artists allow you to download and share their music.

  • Wavcentral – you can access and download free sound effects and music.