Kurt Vonnegut’s way of simplifying stories into a single line graph could be easily used to explain the trajectory of many comedy films.  As it is explained in grade school language arts classes: tragedies start well and end horribly and… Continue Reading →

For this assignment,  I decided to use some figures that I’ve been collecting to create a story out of them....

Here’s my album I created in the Flickr group “Tell a story in 5 frames”. The first picture is from about 2 years ago and the last was just recently taken last month. I don’t want to explain too much to give away the meaning of the photos, but in two years time since that … Continue reading Capturing a Story in Images

I chose the story “A Television Life”, I couldn’t find the authors name just “admin”. The story was funny because he wrote it based on a television’s point of view. He gave the TV its own personally and character which made it cool and different from others. There really wasn’t much else to it though, […]

My story in 5 frames, I don’t want to explain it because I would like for the photos to speak for themselves! 1.           2.               3.             4.  5.         

 

This week, I learned all about storytelling. To me, storytelling is a way to express someones creativity in a way that everyone can enjoy and pass on. It could be about anything ranging from a personal experience, to something completely made up within your imagination. Since I am going into the field of computer science … Continue reading →

I’m writing a reflection on this blog post by Emily S. May, 3,000 Miles in 30 Seconds(ish) First of all, I LOVED this video. I did almost the exact same trip this summer and tried to do this very same thing. I was a bit more ambitious and tried to take a picture every ten … Continue reading Reflecting on “3,000 Miles in 30 Seconds(ish)”

Telling Stories with Pictures I chose to do the Five Card Flickr Story because it seemed like the most fun. Using five random photos also seemed like more of a challenge on my imagination, and a challenge is always fun. In this Five Card Flickr Story, a man is coming home from work on a … Continue reading →

Week three. Almost a quarter way through this semester. Time is flying by! To start, I revamped my blog and it looks amazing if I do say so myself. The […]

In this post I’m going to be looking at the show “The Price is Right”. After watching the video by Kurt Vonnegut I immediately thought of this show because the perception of people’s happiness show is much different than their logical happiness. Like many other game shows, contestants will go on the show with little … Continue reading Picturing a Digital Story

This week, I learned a lot more about the elements that go into storytelling, as well as the different ways to tell a story and present to an audience. Definitely, the biggest thing I learned was the relevance and importance of digital storytelling. Not all stories have to be the stereotypical book with pictures or […]

Hey guys and gals, Another week complete. Soon, i’ll have a whole month done! Doing okay and learning a great deal. To be honest, I can’t…

The story I decided to tell through photos was of my most recent adventure with one of my favorite people, my dad.  I thought about creating a new story but I thought my skydiving pictures were descriptive enough to tell the whole story of that day. This is the most adventurous thing I have ever … Continue reading Five Frames Reflection →

As I scrolled through the various Daily Creates, I began to worry that I wouldn’t find two pictures that I could make an interesting story…

What is storytelling? In this unit I learned that my notion of storytelling is the traditional theme of storytelling. What I mean is that when I think of storytelling, I think of elder people sharing stories with younger folks so that when the younger folks grow up they can continue to pass down the stories. … Continue reading Weekly Summary

Vonnegut draws the chart with Good Fortune at the top of the vertical axis and Bad Fortune at the bottom. The Horizontal axis goes from the Beginning on the left to the End on the right. In the Blind Side the story resembles Vonnegut’s Cinderella example. Michael Oher begins at the bottom of the vertical … Continue reading The Shapes of Stories

I have the very best house in town. Behind my window, lies an ocean whose sandy beaches connect directly with my backyard. And beyond this ocean lies an island that is plentiful in food and fresh water and in the middle of the island there is a great white house who people say contains the … Continue reading The Very Best House In Town

Hey guys! This daily create required a 1 minute video of how my life would be in 2065. I will be 75 years old and…

When I think of storytelling a few immediate things come to mind. I think of books, of people, and I think of spoken word in a familiar voice. Storytelling to me has to be captivating and it has to be transcendent. I suppose there could be bad storytelling that wouldn’t be either of those things … Continue reading Telling a Story of Storytelling

I looked through the stories posted in the week 3 post and decided to write about “Swarley the Missing Dinosaur.” The story can be found here Swarley the Missing Dinosaur   I liked this story because it was humorous. The pictures of Swarley and his family with the “My Family Photos” square was great. After … Read More →

I thoroughly enjoyed learning about storytelling this week. It was interesting to really think about what storytelling means, as well as how that changes or stays the same when transferred into the digital world. It’s not something that we usually learn about in school, even as an English major. You’re just expected to have this […]

I chose a story of a college student(s) moving into college because it is easy to relate to. For me, the move-in process was a scary, but exciting one. Having grown up in a small town and having the same group of best friends since kindergarten it was tough to leave them behind. I was … Continue reading Tell a story in five frames reflection