Our professor, Alan Levine, wasn’t kidding when he warned that the GMU Digital Audio/Video Design weekly assignments needed a lot of attention throughout the week. For a low-tech, late adopter, the litany of instructions, assignments and links was overwhelming and caused a slight moment of panic. The panic has now decreased to a low humming in the back […]

I feel the need to throw up jazz hands when saying “storify” (in an emphatic, but breathy Broadway-esque voice). Myriad of ideas come to mind when I try to hone in a qualified topic to storify per the final assignment for Week 1. What mundane, possibly overly complicated and perhaps uninteresting topic can I “storify” […]

I love this question and the license to associat freely (thank you!). The first image that rushes to my mind is my after-school public t.v. line up, which is kind of ironic since I associate stories and storytelling with books and not television shows. But, apparently, I do. 1) Unknown title and can’t find it on […]

I’m mixing things up a bit and doing things a little out of sequence than how the Week 1 assignment was intended. After finding some “balance” between work, life, school after a sick week, I’m slowly making my way through WordPress, trying to upgrade my blog site to one that is appealing, engaging and inventive. I remember […]

Up and Down the Story Goes….

As part of a school assignment (GMU EDIT 572 Digital Audio/Video Design), I was to Explore the Shape of Stories by applying Kurt Vonnegut’s structure of stories to a story, poem, song, etc., familiar to me. Reflexively, my mind went immediately to, yes, The Princess Bride. It’s not as timeless as Cinderella, but it has all the elements, a bit remixed for 21st century […]