Within this class, I learned very well by having to produce smaller content more often throughout the week. It kept me up to date on coursework because I would have reminders to go and do a daily create or go and look up a digital story to look at. I learned very well on my … Continue reading End of Semester Reflection

Continuing my story suggestions from social media, a friend of mine sent me a very strange two minute long video. There are a couple in the series of Showtime short stories, and as far as I found, they are all quite odd. This one, titled Walks of Life, shows an abridged version of evolution as … Continue reading Digital Story Critique: Walks of Life

I love Pomegranates this time of year, and they’re definitely the reddest thing around!

The Write Practice website is filled with a plethora of helpful articles and interesting exercises for writers. As I am in the middle of National Novel Writing Month, I found one particular article very useful early on. Joe Bunting wrote an article titled “35 Questions to Ask Your Characters From Marcel Proust”.  Marcel Proust was … Continue reading Scholarship Review: Character Interview

Joe Lambert’s “The Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling” helps to describe a meaningful process that your story should go through, and also asks a lot of prompting questions that help develop stories as well. The first two steps asked to look at what kind of emotions and insights you were planning to provide within the … Continue reading The Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling

After reading through a few of my classmates story choices from last week, I was reminded of a social media post that I believed would be a great example of photography stories. A young woman by the username CommanderSheena on tumblr posted a set of three photographs that told a story for an assignment in … Continue reading Digital Story Critique: Three Photographs

Mark Riedl and R. Young wrote up a piece in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research about the automated creation of narrative and how the difficulties of believably in plot and character made its creation hard to achieve. Many times, the automated process would be able to string out sequences of events, but the motivations … Continue reading Scholarship Review: Narrative Planning, Balancing Plot and Character

This week I took a look at another social media short story that got a lot of popularity on Facebook and Twitter. Coming from a couple of Pixar animators, Borrowed Time gained a lot of support and praise from critiques around the world. Their official website has only a teaser trailer, so I linked back to … Continue reading Digital Story Critique: Borrowed Time

The assignment I choose was to create pixel art on a canvas of 100 x 100 pixels. I do a lot of art, but never pixel art, so this was a fun challenge. The art is of one of my video game avatars. Took about 3 hours to get done.

Many of our readings for our Digital Storytelling class focus on techniques, tools, technology, etc, but this week, our reading was a bit different. It told a story, by the workings of  Joe Lambert. This 3rd chapter in Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community relates how he ended up where he is with StoryCenter and all … Continue reading Response to A Road Travelled

For this week’s story, I went to social media to find something short and interesting that I could take a look at. This week, I found an adorable short film simply called Omelette, created by Madeline Sharafian. The short animation does not feature many lines, just a couple barks from the small dog, but has … Continue reading Story Critique: Omelette

Continuing my friend suggested story weeks, I looked at a character short from the Western Animation RWBY. The show follows prospective monster hunters and huntresses as they train and go to school to learn how to protect their world. The character short for Volume 4, was released as a bridge between the third and fourth … Continue reading RWBY Character Short: Story Critique

While not exactly a photo of where I live, this is just down the road!

For this scholarship review, I looked at an article from Henry Jenkins titled Game Design as Narrative Architecture. In it, Henry Jenkins and Jon McKenzie respond to one another’s ideas about Game Designers and storytellers. In order to categorize gaming narrative into storytelling or not, we needed to define what we consider as storytelling versus narrative. … Continue reading Narrative Architects vs Storytellers: Game Designers and Story

This week, I put a poll up to take suggestions on a story to look at. While youtubing heartwarming emotional stories is fun for a while, I wanted to see what the people around me believed were great digital stories. This week’s is from Olan Rogers, a famous Youtuber who makes most of his videos … Continue reading Digital Story Critique: Death is a Quiet Wave

For this video assignment, I found one that wanted me to edit up a video in tune with some music. I chose a bunch of video games and set it to This Will Be The Day from Jeff Williams.

In Chapter 7, various social learning theories and their contexts within our 21st century climate are discussed. They talk about two versions of social learning that came before what they are explaining, observational learning and normative goal learning. Both of these combine into the learning type that they explain as being formed from authentic activity. It … Continue reading Passion Creates Mastery: Chapter 7 Response

In my ongoing series of scholarship having to deal with video games as a respectable medium for storytelling, I found an article from the National Council of Teachers of English titled Exploring the Boundaries of Narrative: Video Games in the English Classroom. The article talks about a teacher’s journey in utilizing video games for teaching … Continue reading Exploring the Boundaries of Narrative: Scholarship Review

One of the ways that I choose my short stories to critique is by looking at the related videos to the last stories I watched. This one was three or four clicks away from the Identity video that I looked at a few weeks ago. I choose this one because it actually caught my attention … Continue reading The Most Beautiful Thing: Short Story Critique

For the Audio Assignment, I chose the one that asked me to slow down a song by 800%. It becomes this sort of ethereal mess at 800%, but it does sound good. I chose a Taylor Swift song, because I had the mp3 on hand from one of my classes. Enjoy  

Blizzard, the multimillion dollar company behind the popular video game World of Warcraft released a new video game this year, titled Overwatch. In this exclusively multiplayer game, teams of six complete objectives while trying to take down the opposing team. Currently, there are 22 playable characters, all with particular backstories, abilities, and personalities. In order … Continue reading The Last Bastion: Digital Story Critique