I just wanted to share some quotes by this genius:

Making the spread-Mobile Movie 2

Script:

The movie takes place in my "art corner" The fact that my printer broke, made me me have to bring out my old smith and Corona" funny note: my boyfriend picked it up at a garage sale and said"all writers have one of these...you need one so there you go" Anyways...so it starts out by me typing the the title of the movie on it and bringing the type close to the screen.

Using the typewriter made me think about how Dr. Seuss used to set up his story boards, and so I talk a little about him and how he is the best selling author of children's books and how he revolutionized children's literature by making it fun! Funny enough Dr. Seuss was actually terrified of children and was actually his personality which inspired "the grinch"

After I show his storyboards then I continue to go on and create my spread.

Dr Seuss' - Rhymes and Reasons Documentary, Part 1 of 9

I am sharing this video because I think it is a beautiful documentary about, not only a brilliant artist and writer but also this country's history and perhaps everyone's childhood, even in modern times..

Part IV- Building your own story-The 7 Keys of Storytelling: Begin at the End

Building your own story!



I have always thought that if i had less to d=say it would be easier to just focus on what thing and say it, but when you have many things to say a lot of ideas and a lot of stories and characters, i find it best to focus on your favorite, and the one that it is closest to being finished!!.

According to (Alexander pg 193) for easier story telling begin with a small media horizon such as a single web page, a blog or a flicker account. Thinking of a story idea, create a single piece of content for it in text and image, shoot a photo remix a story from the public domain or write one from scratch. Don't think of that item as a representational powerpoint slide but as a mystery that can't be solved right away. Brainstorm a cryptic image, a paragraph occurring in media. I find this process a little confusing to follow he uses a lot of language that although is simple is very difficult to understand in term of picturing in one's mind what you have to do. I also found this video on the 7 key points of storytelling and I found from the get go that this process is much easier to picture in one's mind what to do first. That is to start at the end.  Figure out what is the message you want to give or end up being, weather it is that they share your story or click on a link. I reminded me of what i saw in a documentary about movie filming, movies are almost never filmed in sequence they almost always film the end and work their way back. Maybe it has something to do with setting a goal for yourself, if you know where you are going it is easier to find your way.

Part III-THe Mobile phone-DIGITAL STORYTELLING 'MOBILE PHONE ADDICTION'

"Mobile devices have become the ultimate story telling devices" (ALexander Pg 141)

The mobile phone is a Global computing platform used across all nations, languages and ages we should expect if trend lines hold steady that over 5 billion people will have cell phone subscriptions in the word by 2010" February 25, 2014.

There are almost as many cell-phone subscriptions (6.8 billion) as there are people on this earth (seven billion)—and it took a little more than 20 years for that to happen.(https://www.google.com/search)Based on the mobile home documentary "Phone Addiction"70 % of people check their phones early in the morning after waking up. Most of these update their statuses early in the morning as well. As a society our cell phone has become another limb or vital organ it is with us 24 of the day because even though we sleep 5 -10 hours a day it is most likely charging right next to us. When we begin our morning even with the simple status update of "have a great morning" we have started the digital story telling of the day some people post constantly, what they eat, where they go, what they do, with pictures and videos of their events. The mobile phone for me is the most important story telling tool we have in the present times.

Blog History-Part 2 New platforms for tales and telling

I think this is a great funny video of the history of blogging....



According to (Alexander,pg 47) blogging is the dinosaur or granddaddy of the social media authoring platforms. The first days of the form and its similarities to diaries provided an early comparison to the "classic narrative tool". The personal sense associated with diaries also enabled "blogger? to emerge as a category. On a personal level (Alexander pg 48) The author talks about teaching with blogs in the Spring of 2011 during a british literature class.  as the semester progressed  he found each blog entry as the students self-representation more so than any other digital teaching tools as discussion board. Even thought the assignments was an experiment it felt easy and very natural.



If there was ever a place I feel like I could post anything is definitely my blogs. I mean on my facebook page for example you have to be careful to truly express yourself because you can offend somebody or if you vent about work you can get fired. So definitely blogging is the closest thing we have to diaries now a days.