http://newdigitalstorytelling.net/2012/04/02/a-family-food-story/

The Family Food Story was an amazing digital story, and one that hit close to home for me. It really displayed Bryan Alexander’s take that digital storytelling is so multifauceted and can grasp the emotion of the person viewing it so much stronger than words. The video is a collection of family pictures, old snippets, moving frames, and audio narrative. All of those things took me on a journey through history, and really made me feel for what he was attempting to share about his grandfather.

The story seemed to go into a cycle… ending with Brad saying “just look at us”, exactly how his grandfather and great aunts used to say. He in a sense becomes the ‘grandfather’ to be of his family.

Following the plot of his Grandfather Josef’s life I plotted the ‘shape’ of the story in the manner seen in the Vonnegut video about how stories are structured relative to good and ill fortune as the story progresses…

It was very interesting how personal the story was, I have a tendency to blog my emotions or expereinces in a more vague manner. Usually expressing mself indirectly through quotes, photos, etc… but this was so DIRECT and personal. Very interesting, and dare I say, brave manner.