Project One: Multimedia Blog: For this assignment, you will create a blog entry that incorporates still images and written text as well as other forms of media (i.e., podcasts, voice-over narration, video, etc.). This entry will require you to write your own narrative, situated in a place that you know well: your family home, your dorm room, a favorite hangout.
First, you will write a narrative using written text only.
Then, you will find images that illustrate your story.
Your options open up at this point. The main objective is to combine the written and visual images as a mixed narrative on your blog site. You can do this several different ways: you can keep the segments separate, you can embed the pictures within your text, or you can use your narrative as a way to discuss the image/word collision. Your images can act as illustrations, you can purposefully create confusing or satirical juxtapositions, or you can play with keeping the images and words separate to see how different your narratives can be. The possibilities are nearly limitless!
In addition to your narrative, you will reflect on the meanings created by combining your written/audio and visual texts. The purpose of this last segment is to discuss the elements of design you have used in this post. You must use the terminology discussed in the textbook, Picturing Texts p. 26-46 (e.g., description, pattern, point of view, etc.). Talk about why you designed your mixed text the way you did and what you are hoping to convey by presenting your narrative through this design.
(total words = 1000 minimum) Due: 17 September, 2010
Resources for Project One:
Tips for Writing a Narrative: http://www.whitesmoke.com/how-to-write-a-narrative.html
“In general, all narrative writing makes a point beyond the story and contains selected details, not everything.”
“All of these forms of narrative writing have in common the telling of a story. The story nearly always conveys a theme. Like any good short story, non-fiction and poetic forms of narrative writing develop interesting, three-dimensional characters, describe scenes and settings, and move through a plot. A plot begins with a main character encountering conflict and obstructions while moving through life. The conflicts tend to increase to a crisis point, then resolve. The writer ties up loose ends as the action falls to the end. In short, narratives have a beginning, middle, and end.”
Podcasting: http://podcasting.about.com/
Adding Audio to Blog: http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=80259
Adding Video to Blog: http://tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.com/2007/03/add-video-clip-to-blog.html
File Sharing: www.mediafire.com
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