5. Edit your digital history

Edit together your digital history using software you have access to at your school or home.

3 students sitting around a computer
Students from Eltham Primary School navigate the Making History site. / Source: Museums Victoria / Photo: Benjamin Healley

Whichever software you choose, this step is about organising and manipulating images, footage, music and sound effects to mirror the storyboard you created in the previous step.

We suggest you group each component of your digital history in well-organised folders; photos, articles, music, voice-over, sound effects, video footage etc. Labeled these with credit details or start your own table which lists all the credit details of your assets. Being organised at this point makes editing your project much simpler.

When using editing software and tools to organise and sequence your digital assets be sure to follow the storyboard you created in the previous step. There are various software packages available to edit your project. 

Your 3 minute digital history can be edited in any creative way, however it must have the following details:

  1. A title at the beginning.
  2. Credits at the end. 

Your credits should include:

  • Year of production
  • Creator's name
  • Acknowledgement of the assets used and any interviewees.