Digital Story Telling is the Future of All Great Works

     I thoroughly enjoyed the blog project.   It gave me a chance to meet other people in the class and express my ideas in a medium that gives me an audience.  I really enjoyed the format of the project.  It gave me freedom to explore and expand my ideas in any direction I want to while using the previous group to kick start our story.  Digital medium lets you share your work with countless people and employ a number of tactics that cannot be used in verbal story telling or in written works.

    For our section of the story, we took the perspective of another character in the story.  It allowed us to create a totally new story, while still keeping with the plot of the original story.  At the end of our story, the first groups story is then intertwined as we tell the reader that the characters are both part of the same story.  By telling it from multiple perspectives the reader gets a fuller picture and better understanding.  It also makes for a very intriguing tale for the reader. 

     Digital story telling is the way of the future.  It is an excellent way to organize thoughts and ideas for a story, since in verbal storytelling, it is often more difficult to edit yourself if you misspeak or leave out a section of a story.  This can cause great difficulty for the listener, since they are missing crucial information regarding the story.  Verbal story telling also has a more limited audience.  Verbal stories are often only heard by the people close enough to the storyteller to hear them.  However, verbal stories car reach a larger audience when broadcast over the radio.  Today’s audience is more interested in music, unlike the older generation who would gather around the radio to listen to stories that were broadcast over the radio and captured the world’s attention.

     Written storytelling rivals digital storytelling, but they are not equal.  When conveying your story through written text you can edit, but with more difficulty.  It requires you to re-write entire pages or even the entire work, which can be a lengthy task when using paper and pen.  Written material has great importance and has been successfully used to disseminate information for ages.  Written material can often have a more limited audience since printing is more expensive and thus wealth becomes a factor in who the audience is.  The first printing press, enabled the written bible to be read by countless people.  The value of hand written stories cannot be overlooked, but its inferiority to digital storytelling cannot be overlooked either.

     Digital story telling is here and it is the future of all storytelling.  It enables a person to create a work and quickly and effortlessly edit the work to perfection.  Through digital storytelling we can also use tactics that are not available in verbal or written storytelling such as hyperlinking.  Hyperlinking adds tremendous value to a digital story by making it interactive and adding context clues by added images to give the reader a clear and concise idea of the author’s direction.  The best thing about digital story telling is how it can give your work an audience of enormous magnitude in a matter of seconds.  Verbal and written methods both have their place in history and storytelling, but it leaves no doubt in my mind that digital story telling is supreme to both of them.   Its fast editing, interactivity, and giant prospective audience makes it a clear choice for storytelling.