Image Story Tell-All

When creating my image story (found under a tab at top), I wanted to portray the ideas of a day and night through the different locations that I have experienced both the day and night of. I used text to name each location and also a short phrase about the significance of the day and night specific to that location that triggered memories for me. I also added a place I would want to experience the day and night of if I had the chance some day. The meaning of this was to express places of importance to me, somewhere in which hold a lot of memories to me (both in the daytime and night time). It shows somewhere that my life has led me at one point in time throughout it and the experience of day and night life there. The last two pictures wrap up what I was attempting to get across in my story, that every dark night has a brighter day.

In class, my professor had each student pull up the image story they created on their computer. We each went around and viewed our classmates work, leaving them written responses concerning the punctum and story. I enjoyed reading the punctum responses I got about my image story. A comment reads "I love the flow here! everything gently floats up or down based on time of day, it's really clever!" Some of my classmates shared a personal tie they felt they had to some of my pictures. All my classmates seemed to understand the story I was aiming to get across. Although I was surprised to see that one classmate had a hard time understanding that the pictures sequenced from a day photo and then a night photo at the same place. They had stated that the pictures seemed random and that they did not get it. I cannot please everyone but I believe I did a decent job getting my point across considering the majority of my classmates understood it. If I were to do this project over differently, maybe one thing I could have changed was to have made some kind of gap between the set of day to night pictures. This could maybe have made the sequence a little more pronounced to take away any confusion. 

I personally took all images used in my image story, except the two Consol Energy Center pictures, the two eiffel tower pictures, and the night Hollywood picture. Those five images were found on Google Images.

Image Story Blog Post

An old memory can flash back as far as a time when the cameras took photographs that printed within seconds of being taken and in a variety of black and white shades. Whether it's a recent memory of a 22nd birthday and beach trip with a special someone...

Or an old childhood memory of playing your favorite sport, with your favorite number, and receiving a gift from your mother who means so much to you.

These are the same memories that were captured in different ways in a time before cell phones. In the past, these memories were saved as photographs that printed from the camera in black and white ink with only one single copy to exist in the world. Today, we capture these memories on cellphones and with a click of a button can share them with an unlimited number of people. We can store many copies in different places. We can even store copies somewhere in an iCloud that exists, yet not many people can explain how. Needless to say, I use my phone for storing many important memories and other things... my life would be flipped upside down without it.

Objects can just be objects or they can be objects with meaning and a whole stack of memories loaded into them.      

Photography pics for class

Photographer Ansel Adams:

Photographer Man Ray:

Astray From The Path

When my group and I originally got the idea for this remix of Little Red Riding Hood story, our first thought was to film it as a video. As we brainstormed ideas for it, we thought it would be interesting to try it out in the form of pictures and videos stringed together to form a story. We contributed images, video, sound bites, and voice recordings. Working on this project taught me a new way of creating a digital story that I have not discovered prior to this. Click the link! Enjoy (:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfi75fG2S5g&feature=youtu.be

"Politics of Fiction" Ted Talk

This woman's name is Elif Shafak. She spoke in a Ted Talk entitled "Politics of Fiction." My favorite part of her speech was the part where she said imagination was the only suitcase she felt she could take with her. For some reason that just caught my attention so quickly. I feel like it is very relatable for many people. For example, someone feeling alone or like an outcast, an imagination is something that no one can take away from them no matter where their life takes them. Kinda similar to how when someone very important to you passes on. That person will still exist in your mind and travel with you wherever you go in that way but is just not physically there. Another part that caught my attention was when she mentioned about being expected to write true stories about herself because she was of a different nationality. She said she was told that she had a good story but they wanted to hear it from her perspective instead of a fictional male perspective of her nationality. She began writing fiction from when she was young. She didn’t think her life was interesting so she started writing about others from a young age instead of having a journal or diary of her own life alike a lot of kids her age at the time. She thinks of her fiction as local and universal. She ties this all back into her beginning topic of circles. She sees fictional stories as related through circles. Shafak related these circles into a personal tie of a story involving her childhood that she remembers about her grandmother.