The world of digital storytelling can be defined by creating a taxonomy based on three separate spectrums. It’s based on an approach to collaboration between the facilitator and the storyteller. Explore the many roles of literary voice and the styles that grows out of it. And it is also based on the form from where the stories are taken place. But the approaches to the production process in digital storytelling are very important as well. Like animation, photovoice which is the photography to digital storytelling, youth media and community video pedagogy, and audio storytelling is definitely a must.
When it comes to digital storytelling, there are seven steps.
1. Owning Your Insights – basically, what ever jumps out to you in the story right now. Because all of the stories are told, if they come from deep inside us, can they be said to be about this moment in time.
2. Owning Your Emotions – when we reflect on the emotions within our stories, we can realize that they can be complex, and with this realization we often times discover the deeper layers of a story’s meaning.
3. Finding the Moment – at some moments in your life, change can come to you or you went towards the change. As you become clear about the meaning of your story, you can bring your story to life, by taking us into that moment of change.
4. Seeing Your Story – capturing images can be a big part. Well chosen images act as mediators between the narratives and the audience. Images can grab the hands of the audience and show them the river’s immensity, and that the images have the power to reveal something to the audience that words just can’t say.
5. Hearing Your Story – Sound is a huge part. Sound is one of the best ways to convey that tone through the way the voice-over is performed, the words that are spoken, and the ambient sound and music that works with the narrative. As with ambient sound, storytellers can consider how the minimal use of music can enhance a story by giving it rhythm and character.
6. Assembling Your Story – is basically, the time that you can get ready to assemble your story by spreading out your notes and images and composing your script and storyboard. Knowing which pieces of information are necessary to include allows us to then determine the best way to order those pieces and keep our audience engaged. But don’t give away to much too much information all at the same time because you need to allow your audience to enjoy the challenge. Next, is scripting and storyboarding, or laying out how the visual and audio narratives will complement each other over the duration of the piece to best tell the story. The assemblage of your story takes time, and isn’t easy but to keep it very simple, which is what I should’ve done for this post but I didn’t.
7. Sharing Your Story – Be clear about your purpose in creating the story and how it may have shifted during the process of creating the piece will help you determine how you can present and share your story. But it is also wise to prepare in advance, by thinking through all of the possibilities as your story goes forth to live its life.
The midterm conference gave me a refreshing new intake on some of the things that I should change-up or keep the same. Especially when it came to the direction that I was taking with my photo essay (DMP1) and even with my video form (DMP2) now. My plan for DMP2 has actually evolved more since the midterm conference. But since my plan has evolved for my DMP2, now I have to cut- out some of the things that I definitely wanted to say but now I can't because of that fact. Altogether, my plans for my DMP2 are coming along quite smoothly, along with the fact that everything I say has a personal perspective to me and what I'm wanting to say as a whole.
The way that my plans are going for DMP2 is that I'm mainly basing it off of my photo essay (DMP1), but I'm adding a couple of things to the end of it, so that way I can give my DMP2 a more personal aspect and then put it all into a video form. The reason why I chose it to stay the way it is but add a couple of things is because I had it set up that way from the beginning, plus once you have a plan it's usually good to follow with that plan that you've already started. My storyboard is the same exact thing as my photo essay(DMP1), which is why I chose not to make a real storyboard for the video form(DMP2) because it would've definitely been pointless to do so. I didn't have any questions to ask but I do have a problem with trying to mention that past part of my photo essay(DMP1) into my video form(DMP2) because that's the part that mentions Commerce, TX and is highly needed. But other than that, everything else is going pretty smoothly.
What they said in that scene, the other women asked
“Do all the women in the bureau have to wear those really masculine shoes?” and
Sandra Bullock said “Oh! No!I get
these made special by the same guy who put the tattoo on my ass!”I think that the other women was being
a feminist when she asked that question because of the fact that she thought
that Sandra Bullock looked ugly in those shoes or she thought that she looked
ugly altogether.That is one of
the many forms of feminism at its finest moment in the world.I also believe that the other women
just thought that Sandra Bullock was just an object in the FBI, like she
doesn’t go on any undercover cases.And she just sits at a desk and does paperwork which at the beginning of
that movie “Miss Congeniality”, her boss ordered her to do desk work cause she
screwed up an undercover op, so it was basically like she was an object because
of the fact that her boss was a feminist.Her boss felt like women shouldn’t be out in the field in the first
place but it was the FBI so he had to treat everyone as equals whether he was a
feminist or not.
" Feminist to see if women have talent or the
success of increasing womens’ self-esteem?!”
This
picture is basically about the fact that the movie “Miss Congeniality” was
based out of San Antonio and Austin, Texas.But this picture is also dealing with the fact that a lot of
people do not think that the talent portion of pageants to be degrading towards
women, which most feminists thought that.But the talent portion of the pageant, I believe that it can raise
women’s self-esteem higher because they believe in their self that they have
something that is special to them, which is apart of who you are a person, as a whole.
Zeilinger, J. "Opinion: Pageants duhamanize women". (2012). HLN. September 30, 2014.
www.hlntv.com.
“Do some or all feminists believe in material
items?!”
Most feminists do not believe in material items like make up for
example.In this picture Sandra
Bullock was very grouchy because she hadn’t slept in 2 days and people were
poking and prodding her for those 2 days, which she hated.She also was a feminist because she
hated to wear make up but then once she was forced to, she understood the
reason behind the fact that a lot of women want to wear make up and yes there
are a lot of those reasons as to why we do.
There are many ways that the article that I chose for my last post is relevant to my digital multimedia project. That article is completely relevant to the development that I want to take for the direction of my project. The reason being as to why it does is because of the fact that it deals with the feminist side of pageants and the females that do pageants. But what people don't realize is that they aren't just beauty pageants cause they help women to want to get a higher education in their life. Feminism is a big problem in the world back in the day, compared to today's world.
"Feminists at the Miss America Pageant" and "Feminists turn the Miss America Pageant"
Back in the days of 1968, people believed that pageants were
creating feminism.But what they
don’t know is that pageants were meant to help better women in a positive
way.Also, the pageants were meant
to influence women to get a higher education because in their way of thinking
is that men shouldn’t have the upper hand and women should.So, feminists protested at the Miss
America Pageant in 1968.
Naplkoski, Linda. “Miss America Protest: Feminists at the
Miss America Pageant”.
About Education. 2014. About.com.
September 26,2014.
Human nature is apart of life itself.But what is also apart of our lives are very many
stories.Stories are apart of
every human beings life, even when the stories aren’t really meaning to be
there.They can be the shortest
story in the world like where someone is just randomly knocking on your door,
asking me if he can take my picture for one of his classes, and then there are
extremely short stories like telling people where you left something or
describing an autobiography about someone important.Stories are always being created every single day, whether
or not we are realizing that it’s happening or not.There are ways that we learn and or reference to the past,
which would be by telling stories.Multimedia projects are actually is a different type of telling a story,
except for the fact that you are telling the story by pictures instead of
words.All of this can be referred
to the book called “Digital Storytelling”.
“Memories of Old E.T.”. By: Silver Leos Writers Guild.
“Music, Music, Music” by Patricia West Root - Page 262
Patricia
West Root was a music education major at East Texas State University in
1972.At first, her major consumed
her life to the point that she didn’t have time to join a sorority, like the
Greek system but she did join the music sorority called Mu Phi Epsilon.This was the time period when Vietnam
War was going on and she got married to an Air Forceman named Randy Root and
they were married for forty years.This was also the time period when integration was just starting to
begin to take place at the university.Patricia lived at Smith Hall while her husband was at war and the dorms
had curfews, then she moved to married housing on campus.And eventually, her and her husband
moved to Mesquite, so she had to commute to school.Patricia West Root ended up graduating in the Class of 1972.She taught music education for twenty-
five years, then took a couple of years off because she had a son, and then
taught for another six years.But
after the last six years, she ended up retiring from teaching.I think it’s just interesting how Binnion
Hall didn’t use to be a dorm hall and how Smith Hall had a curfew back then
which I can totally understand for that time period because of the fact that I
use to stay in that dorm hall just last school year.I also like how Patricia was so devoted to her schooling but
also just equally devoted to her husband, which is very noble.
“Walking on the Edge” by Dewayne Bethea - Page 220
Dewayne
Bethea went to East Texas State Teachers College in 1971.He met
Earlene Pepper in October of 1957 and they married in
1960.They were together for fifty
years and shared two children.In
the middle of all of that, Dewayne was part of a group called the Tejas
Brothers.They liked to start the
party per say because of the fact that they started the panty raid of 1956,
where the scene was chaotic, but the coeds were very willing participants as
the panties came raining down.But
the whole affair was to basically tease girls and to prank with the
establishment of the dorm and the university, itself as a whole.The Tejas Brothers were definitely the
rebels on campus.Dewayne eventually
realized that walking on the edge was not always a good thing, when it came to
living a certain lifestyle.So, he
gradually improved his GPA, started focusing on his schooling so he could be
done but he didn’t think that he had a path to a career that he wanted to
do.Later on, Dewayne’s life
consisted of the Education Public School system because he graduated with a
bachelor from East Texas State Teachers College in 1961 and then got his
masters in education degree in 1970 from Texas A&M University Commerce.He was a teacher, football coach,
athletic director, high school counselor, vocational counselor/director,
assistant superintendent, and superintendent.Dewayne thanks all of his professors for showing him the
way.I think that was the smartest
decision that Dewayne could have ever made in his life.I feel like in some way, that I see
where Dewayne is coming from when it comes from not knowing his career path in
life.
Unknown., East Texas State College. University Photography Collection, c. 1960., James G. Gee
Library Special Collections, Texas A&M University - Commerce, 2014.
Lyndon B. Johnson was giving a lecture that was put together by the Forum Arts Program at Texas A&M University - Commerce. It looks like the lecture was given in the Hall of Language building, in one of the auditoriums on the second floor because it looks like in the picture that the whole back wall is a huge chalkboard and that the lecture hall has a speakers podium. It looks like the students are really happy to have attended the lecture. One of the questions that is on my mind is "What was the lecture about that he was given?", and "Why was the lecture set up by the Forum Arts Program?"
The book called Cedar Crossing is quite an interesting
book.The book is about this boy
who is a college student, who is trying to find the hidden secrets of this
town.The secret is so deeply
hidden to the point that when he asks any of his family members about the
history of this town, they all have a different story to tell him because none
of the stories end up lining up.But what I think is funny about the boy is that when he dreams, he
dreams of famous people getting shot but the odd part is that he knows the
exact caliber of the bullets that were shot out of the guns which is quite
interesting to me.All in all,
this book is quite the interesting read if you want to get to know the town
history of Commerce, Texas a bit more and in an interesting new way to go about
it.
"My father was dead; I was no longer a round kid in a hamburger joint but a college student living at a time when racial issues were much at the center of American life."
Busby, Mark. Cedar Crossing. Fort Worth: Texas Christian UP, 2013. Print. 61.
This book is basically about a college kid who is trying to find out more about his towns checkered past. The bad part about that is that his family members all have different sides of the story because the reason why everyone has a different story is cause it was a terrible memory that no one wants to remember in the first place. The quote that I chose was very influential to back then and now. In this day and age we still live in some what racial times, where those type of issues still come about. Plus, I'm a college student who is trying to live my own life where my parents aren't around.
"Kalir Club". East Texas State Teachers College. University Photography Collection, Circa 1940s,
1947., James G. Gee Library Special Collections, Texas A&M University - Commerce, 2014.
The Kalir Club was a very popular woman's social club. This club was not allowed to join the Greek system of the University until 1959 because of the fact that there wasn't any Greek system allowed at Texas A&M University. The reason why this picture goes with the quote that I chose is because it deals with a time where there were issues that our university, as college students, that we were facing.
"I wish I could say it was out of an inner outrage at the horror, but mainly it was just reactive and self-protective. The long view comes late, if it comes at all."
Busby, Mark. Cedar Crossing. Forth Worth: Texas Christian UP, 2013. Print. 1.
Cedar Crossing is where this college boy asks all of his relatives about the history of the Trans-Cedar lynching. The Trans-Cedar lynching was apparently something of Texas history that no one cared to remember because it was very terrible. The reason why I selected that quote is because of the time period of the book was built behind a horrible outrage that happened in history. This type of history was very protected but went on for a very long time. I also selected this quote because many people have a long view but different views of this point in history in the book called Cedar Crossing.
"Frank Rubarth". East Texas Normal College. University Photography Collection, 1917., James G.
Gee Library Special Collections, Texas A&M University - Commerce, 2014.
Rubarth was the star player on the football team at East Texas Normal College in 1917. I chose Frank Rubarth to complement the quote that I picked is because star players usually have a very tough road ahead of them. Star players also usually have an expanded long view of what other people think that their future should be, instead of what they think that their future should turn out to be but on their own terms instead of someone elses. The quote that I picked says all of that in many ways and more...
What I can gather from Cedar Crossing is that it definitely
has it’s moments of being very illustrative, when it comes to the places that
it wants to be taken place at.It
takes place in Dallas.It’s
basically about this college boy, who keeps on visiting his grandparents.He specifically comes to visit his
grandpa every couple of weeks just so his grandpa can keep on telling his story
about the old times and how racism was the worst in those days.But the book called “On Doing Local
History” was basically based on the United States.It originally was also all about the racism at first but
then came to be some stuff that was really great.This book is the on-going about the every little historical
thing that happened to us in the United States.In a sense, it felt like I was back in a history class like
three years ago, which I really don’t like to be in cause I can never really
ever remember important dates or facts when it comes to the history of our
great states.
The sandbox activity that we all presented in class was very
enlightening.The way that we
translated the different types of quotes was quite inspiring because of the
fact that translating things into a different language can expand our views on
the different cultures and outlooks of where that language originated.Knowing those kind of things can definitely
help use expand our writing into a more broad and enlightening view on what we
are originally going to say.Then,
the map presentation was a creative way to explore where the story of “Cedar
Crossing” is taken place. Which I
believe can also help you when it comes to making your writing seem to be more
descriptive and to give your writing more illustration.So all of that to say that is my
reflection on sandbox activity #1.
To be honest, This activity with the clay was very confusing. My group had to translate a meaningful quote that we picked out of the book called "Cedar Crossing". We had to translate the quote into a different language and we had to somehow write that same quote in the clay with a wooden stix. I'm still confused on how this activity helps us to write better but I know that my professor has a method to her madness. But what I do understand is that finding a meaningful quote and understanding the quote on a deeper level, especially to expand our writing on a deeper and more profound level.
“In the 21st century, writing can be
expressive, it can be dramatic, about romanticism.” – This quote basically says
that you can do anything when it comes to writing but it goes along with the
quote “People tend to confuse the ability to speak with the ability to
communicate.”Because when it
comes to writing anything, you can definitely confuse speaking instead of
communicating.
“Writing in the 21st century means
that there is an unlimited amount of things that you can or could say and
several of different ways to express what you want to say in a narrative or
literary sense.” – This quote basically means that you can include realistic
and or fantasy worlds when you are writing, which includes the quote “When one
looks at photos, a stream of fiction and fantasy occupy this slice of
reality.”Because there are an
unlimited amount of things in the world that anybody and or everybody can write
about.Especially, when it comes
to writing things in today’s world.
Part 2:
In-Class Essay
There are many
different ways to say what it means to write in the 21st
century.The way that I believe
that writing in the 21st century is expanding the horizon to just
about anything and any way that is possible.In the 21st century, writing can be expressive,
it can be dramatic, about romanticism.Writing in the 21st century means that there is an unlimited
amount of things that you can or could say and several of different ways to
express what you want to say in a narrative or literary sense.Writing is one of the main things that
do matter in the world.If we
didn’t know how to write, then how could we send letters and or expand and
elaborate our vocabulary on an every day basis.The reason why I love to write is because I love to express
myself on paper because sometimes I can’t exactly express myself out loud on a
regular basis.But the way that I
express myself is through poems and songs.The other reason why I love to write is because when I use
to be deaf, since I couldn’t speak, I could write and I would never stop.My mom use to say to me that when I was
younger, she couldn’t ever get me to stop writing because it was and is still
till this day, is how I express my feeling, especially if I do not want those
feelings to be known at that point of time.Writing is also a way to remember things.Like how I write notes in class, so
that I remember and or review that same material for a later reason. But what I would like to learn from this
course is how I can expand my teaching style when it comes to writing because
of the fact that I will be teaching an English- special education high school
class in the near future. The
reason why I want to teach that kind of class is because I use to be in that
class and so I know how to teach it in many ways but I want to know how to
expand my teaching styles when it comes to writing in general.
I agree upon this statement, “People tend to confuse
the ability to speak with the ability to communicate.” The reason why agree
upon that quote is because a lot of do speak at you but that they aren’t
communicating with you.I also
feel like people are usually speaking at you when it comes to people’s
writings, when they should really be trying to communicate with you like how a
true conversation should really be.
I also agree upon this statement, “When one looks at
photos, a stream of fiction and fantasy occupy this slice of reality.”To me this quote is a part of me
because photos can help you expand and create a broader imagination that can
create a fantasy reality, which can also expand your writing when it comes to
writing in today’s world.
