Digital Story: My perspective

Without prior knowledge of digital story writing before this class I was sort of worried about this project. I knew not what to expect or even who my group members were. At first, I thought that I should make an elaborate storyline in my page and really put a ton of effort into it. But then these two classes called Chemistry and Biology decided that they were going to hold my life hostage, so less effort was put into it. Going in, I did the impromptu strategy and just tried to think of things from the top of my head. I was also happy to see that my partner also had the same idea going into the project which was impromptu writing. What made this project easy was that there was a prior story to build off of but it was also almost too much because there was too much going on. By the end of my group’s page, I felt like we just threw in another loop in the story that doesn’t really go towards an ending. But after reading the end of the story I see that the final group tied the story in well.

I don’t know the intentions of the first group but I’m pretty sure they didn’t intend on it to be this weird mystery. It started off with a generic adventure theme then morphed into a mystery type story. The way it formed into a mystery was because the second group brought up topics that weren’t answered which gave the story a “to be continued...” feel. Then I started to notice that students began to follow that path or pattern of the “to be continued…” feel. Even the characters in the story gradually began to get even more mysterious, especially the main character Duke. He started off as like a normal kid going to school and then turned into the keeper of the box (I believe).

What I enjoy most about the story was that people inserted pictures and hyperlinks that went with some of the objects and situations. Like a normal short story, the digital story had normal pictures insert into the text which gave it that story book feel. The digital story also included hyperlink to words that pertained the most to the story, which in my opinion kept its integrity of being a blog type project. The hyperlinks is what made the story distinctly electronic because without it, it might as well have been a picture book, but just online.

So in conclusion, I believe the digital story project was very interesting to do. Even though I didn’t put as much effort in as I could have put in the project it still turned out pretty decent. It started off as an adventure then slipped into a mystery that randomly tied its self-back together at the end of the digital story project. It would have been better if we would have work on a page individually so it could be even more creative but it would probably have been a really long story.