Cynthia's Story

As an aspiring journalist, my first impression of this course was that it would prove to be beneficial because I would acquire multiple storytelling skills. Through learning how to use different programs such as Audacity, Garageband, iMovie, and Adobe After Effects I have acquired various prowesses regarding presenting a single story visually and in terms of sound. At the beginning of this course, I was only aware of how to portray a story in a written context, but now have a better understanding of how to showcase my work in a way that is supplemented by either visual cues/effects, sound effects, and/or music. *** Assignment That Stuck Out to Me: *** Blog Assignment #3:  Read Pam Painter's Office at Night and then write a 500-word story inspired by one of the works of the artist I assign to you in class This was the first blog assignment in which we as a class were required to write from an entirely fictional perspective. Writing a fictional short-story piece after ...

First Scene: The first few seconds are completely dark, and light gradually starts to come into the frame. T he first visual that appears is a timelapse of a sunset along with my voiceover that is of me reciting my spoken-word piece on life. I start by reciting the first couple of stanzas of the poem, and then after messing up on a line of poetry I stop and start over. In the moment that I mess up the timelapse also pauses, and then as I begin to revise my mistake it rewinds also starts from the beginning of the clip as well. The second time I recite up until the second stanza, which is when I perform a line that sounds like a cliche metaphor ( I say this in the voiceover), and this time start  over from the beginning of the second stanza to revise the actual text. The timelapse pauses after I stop reciting the poem, and rewinds to the beginning again. The third time that I recite up until the third stanza of my poem, and decide to revise the entire stanza because...