Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Final project
The title of my final project is Sara's Apprehension.
After playing around with several software, I finally decided to go back to powerpoint.
I was able to insert hyperlinks to different slides in the powerpoint.
This was a narrative that I wrote myself. It's mostly about a girl named Sara, the protagonist, who deals with differences with her mother after the death of her father. The hyperlinks in the presentation are words which take the viewer to the next slide that has to do with either a image or more narrative about the hyperlink word.
The viewer/reader has to click on the sound image to hear the tune and also click next whenever the screen is blank.
It is much easier to view the presentation rather than explaining it so please enjoy and hope everyone enjoyed the class as much as I did!
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
final project plans
For my final project, I plan to use either powerpoint or prezi softwares. I wish to use the story
I had originally intended for project 2 but ended up changing my mind.
My fiction story will include three characters with dialogue who experience conflicts
and tribulations.These characters eventually overcome the conflicts and become better people.
I wish to include various audio and visual components in my work in order to make it more
entertaining and at the same time, electronic literature.
These are my initial plans, although they may change once I actually begin the project.
I had originally intended for project 2 but ended up changing my mind.
My fiction story will include three characters with dialogue who experience conflicts
and tribulations.These characters eventually overcome the conflicts and become better people.
I wish to include various audio and visual components in my work in order to make it more
entertaining and at the same time, electronic literature.
These are my initial plans, although they may change once I actually begin the project.
Monday, April 29, 2013
project 2
For my project 2, I changed my initial story plan. I decided to base my digital story on photos I took
myself a few years ago on my trip to Lake George.
I added some poetic lines at the top of most of the pictures and some sounds of the ocean. I had fun creating this digital story and plan on making a few more just for fun.
In order to navigate the story, the reader simply needs to begin the slideshow and watch.
myself a few years ago on my trip to Lake George.
I added some poetic lines at the top of most of the pictures and some sounds of the ocean. I had fun creating this digital story and plan on making a few more just for fun.
In order to navigate the story, the reader simply needs to begin the slideshow and watch.
Review Assignment
Review Assignment
A Show of Hands
By Mark C. Marino
A show of hands is an original adaptive hypertext
novella written on the Literatronic (Literatronica) system developed by Juan B.
Gutierrez. This electronic narrative has
two versions; one is called “a little show of hands” and the other is “a show
of hands”. For my review, I will focus
on both. This story can be found in the ELC volume 2. A show of hands
This novella takes place at the time of the 2006 U.S reform
protests. During this time, millions of
people marched across the streets of many cities across America in response to
penalties for undocumented immigrants; these immigrants as well as those who
helped them, were to be classified as felons.
The protests emerged as way for the public and government to reform the
immigration laws and create a path for the undocumented immigrants toward
citizenship. “A show of hands” is about the rallies that took place on May 1st
,2006 in Los Angeles; this consisted of 400,000 people.
“A show of hands”
This story puts the reader in control and allows him/her to
follow a customized plot
The first webpage of the story directs the reader to a
mosaic of two holding hands; within this picture are hundreds of tiny images of
more hands. These images are
representative of the hands of the upper-class in Los Angeles as well as those
who marched in the rallies. The reader
is able to click on any image, in any order.
Once he/she does this, they are directed to a page with a short story
about the de la Palma family, a Mexican-American family at the time of the
immigration reform protests in 2006.
After clicking on many ‘hands’ images and reading many different
passages, I began referring to the links under the title “Recommended Next
Pages”. I thought that this means the
story will go in some kind of order, however, it did not. It continued to be a random selection of
excerpts from the characters’ lives.
Now, I began jotting down some of the characters’ names I came across;
which consisted of Madeleine, Santa Paula, Santa Rosa, Eduard, Sydney, and many
others. Each passage seems to be a scene
focusing on one or a few characters at a time.
The ‘about’ segment of the site states: “Human connections are the pathways of grass-roots political movements and this electronic narrative environment encourages the readers to forge these ties or else experience their tangling. Hands are our means of building these connections and losing ourselves in the tangle”. This statement is powerful and does an excellent job in explaining the overall message of the story.
The ‘about’ segment of the site states: “Human connections are the pathways of grass-roots political movements and this electronic narrative environment encourages the readers to forge these ties or else experience their tangling. Hands are our means of building these connections and losing ourselves in the tangle”. This statement is powerful and does an excellent job in explaining the overall message of the story.
“A little show of hands”
This narrative centers around one of the characters from the
full version, Katrina de la Palma. This
version begins with a page titled: “tomorrow’s child [Katrina] and tells about
a baby in an incubator in critical condition and her mother. Some of the other characters in this series
are Chino, Santa Maria, and Tony.
The author, Mark Marino, is currently the Communication
director for the Electronic Literature Organization and holds a Ph.d from the
University of California. His work has
been published in a number of magazines and journals. Personally, I admire Marino’s work and look
forward to exploring some of his other e-lit creations and blogs.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Blog # 8
I am so excited about Project 2! I'm looking forward to creating a digital story. The application/software I will be using is PowerPoint. I love the many features this program offers and hoping that I'm able to explore even more than my initial familiarity with it.
For this project, I plan to write a story about three women. A grandmother, her daughter, and granddaughter. After the death of the male figure in the house hold, the relationship between mother and daughter has weakened for some reason and they have distanced immensely. As the grandmother attempts to fix the mother-daughter relationship; she grows old and sick.
I hope I can get creative with my story and digital story-telling. I will try not to make my story too long so I can focus a little bit more on the creativity of the animation/design.
I plan to add some pictures, videos, and perhaps special effects to my story.
I'm excited to be tweeting next class with Dr. Flores for our second 'connected learning session'.
I would like to ask him for advice on creating a digital story. How we interconnect entertainment with literature?
For this project, I plan to write a story about three women. A grandmother, her daughter, and granddaughter. After the death of the male figure in the house hold, the relationship between mother and daughter has weakened for some reason and they have distanced immensely. As the grandmother attempts to fix the mother-daughter relationship; she grows old and sick.
I hope I can get creative with my story and digital story-telling. I will try not to make my story too long so I can focus a little bit more on the creativity of the animation/design.
I plan to add some pictures, videos, and perhaps special effects to my story.
I'm excited to be tweeting next class with Dr. Flores for our second 'connected learning session'.
I would like to ask him for advice on creating a digital story. How we interconnect entertainment with literature?
Monday, March 25, 2013
Blog # 6
As I read and analyzed the article by Amanda Starling, I realized right away her use of the word 'exploit', in reference to electronic literature. Although it may be a strong term to use, I completely agree with Ms. Starling that electronic lit exploits the realm of literature as a whole; in a good way of course. "The field of electronic literature is international, interdisciplinary, and animatedly emergent".
Indeed this new field of literature is international; more international perhaps than any type of literature previously discovered. This type of literature will link people from all parts of the world. They will be able to engage in intellectual conversations related to e-lit.
Amanda Starling's essay truly serves as an introduction for authors, students, and teachers wishing to take part in the emergent realm of electronic literature.
I would like to ask the author of this essay what she thinks the future of electronic literature holds and whether it is something everyone will benefit from or not?
Indeed this new field of literature is international; more international perhaps than any type of literature previously discovered. This type of literature will link people from all parts of the world. They will be able to engage in intellectual conversations related to e-lit.
Amanda Starling's essay truly serves as an introduction for authors, students, and teachers wishing to take part in the emergent realm of electronic literature.
I would like to ask the author of this essay what she thinks the future of electronic literature holds and whether it is something everyone will benefit from or not?
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