Digitial storytelling: reunion

In the first place, I was so nervous about writing this digital story telling because I didn’t think that I truly understood what is that means. Also, I thought the topic maybe the problem. That is the first time I wrote English story and posted it on public space. I never wrote something in English and posted on the Facebook to tell a story or something else. Fortunately, I have an American teammate that he helped a lot to help me correct grammar and edit structure of sentences. Generally speaking, we got the job done and did it ok. Our story is trying to express a simple idea: a simple moment could be significant, and a moved story will occur any time on any one in our daily life. Life is that simple and magnificant.

We didn’t have too much time to get this project done, because our due time was right on the midterms week, all the spare time we had was night. We contacted each other couple times to coordinate an available schedule to do this. We had some debate about what was our story topic. Also, we had different ideas about the story telling. I think that the most difficult part in doing the project is how to come to an agreement with our teammates. We decided to write this short story because it was simple and ordinary. This story is not completely frictional; we just edited some scenes and their names. It didn’t have a significant thesis in this story, like those heroes created legacy in ancient time, or an innovation changed the whole world. We picked this story because it just like something could happen around us in daily life. Troy picked name for the two characters to make it sounds more native. We discussed a lot about the whole story structure, emphasizing that the start should be smooth and natural. I thought up that Duke knocked on the door because when we wrote this story I just thought up that a mailman knocked our door at that afternoon. We all agreed that it was very daily; it just made the process of the story went smooth. Dialogues between two people was simple, we wanted that simple. “I am your uncle, Duke” seems like sudden, but that was the best we can do… We definitely cannot write an awesome drama script! But still our story is definitely a good material for movie. 

Searching good pictures was not a piece of cake. Actually, this was Troy’s idea, insert some pictures and let those pictures talks for us. What is the most charming in novel or story is words let people imagine, inserting pictures will help readers create more imagination in mind, just like watching a movie. We got that green-eye picture from Internet and edited it a little bit with photo shop; just made it looks greener. The best picture we found is that two people carrying the huge heart, it explains that love maybe the responsibility that two people share. We thought that this story started from two people’s absence of responsibility. And I suggested that we should use that last picture as a cartoon one, it just made the whole story warm. Family should be relative to warmth, and this relationship between people seems like more precious in this world. This is what we want to express in this short story.