Reading Watchmen by Alan Moore, as well as 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People by Susan M. Weinschenk, Ph.D. has helped with navigating the Digital Storytelling class for the spring quarter of 2024.
The uniqueness of the graphic novel that provides a wonderful example of storytelling that people can take inspiration from—one that I definitely think this class has definitely done. Like Watchmen, the Superhero’s Journey showcases multiples stories from different heroes who come from all different types of background, and posses their own type of superpowers that they can use to their advantage. Each story that we see starts from some sort of beginning, although the story doesn’t end with this class; instead, it leaves room to add something more from future students, whether its adding their own story to the mix, or continuing off from what someone has done before. The Superhero’s Journey is its own Watchmen with the way it embodies the element of storytelling…although, with a more happy ending.
100 Things is a wonderful textbook that goes through the elements of design and how to take into consideration of the general audience and make sure that, hopefully, all people can have access to. It also shows design tricks that can help captivate an audience by going to the psychology of a person’s mind and how they might interpret something based on where they grow up, or how their brain works, etc. This textbook has helped us to consider how we should design something, as well as how people’s interpretation of said design could evoke a certain sense of feeling out of them, and therefore craft a story that could come out of it.
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