When I first started my college career, my intention was to go into this learning about new ways of extending whatever artistic skills that I possessed, and possibly learn something new about myself that could help with that. I wanted to expand on how to draw people, and how to create things from my imagination….
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The Impact of “Watchmen” and Other Superhero Society Stories
I say this light-heartedly, but the better half of this blog post talks about My Hero Academia, which is something that I have mentioned once in a blog post before. Understandably so, I can get repetitive with mentioning this series as it has taken up my all-time favorite stories slot—plus, it is a topic I…
Being Immersive in Media and Virtual Realities: What Does That Mean?
Media such as virtual realities give the feeling of immersion due to the fact that the user is able to engage in these worlds by their own means. A great example of this is experiencing virtual realities with a VR headset. VR headsets give the user a first-person perspective of the world that they’re set…
Locations in Second Life
Botanical | Retail The first location that I went to was the Botanical garden ran by Kriss Lehmann, a person who began creating botanical life in Second Life just because he wanted to (as stated in his interview with Draxtor). His shop is set up to sell all of his botanical creations, providing a lovely…
Creating Virtual Goods in a Virtual World
While I myself don’t have many plans for creating virtual goods within a virtual world outside of a school environment, I would like to believe that, if I could, I would like to provide things that people will actually use and enjoy, and be able to build upon themselves. I don’t have anything in particular…
Collaborating and Engaging with Others to Create and Inspire
Reading through everyone else’s Immersive Engagement Proposal, I can find that there are connections between each of our proposals and how we are engaging with each other’s ideas to create something wonderful to present. Since we are building upon the previous creations made from the past students who took this class, it is fairly easy…
Immersive Engagement Proposal
Premise and Purpose The Hero’s Journey is a project that has been worked on by previous Digital Storytelling students from previous years and is a continual project where new things are added each year to create a wonderful world. This is a project that caters to new students, as well as new for people who…
What Motivates Us to Create and Participate
Just as we do in storytelling, we need to consider the ways that we can keep people engaged in what we are doing; things that keep people focused on the subject, as well as motivate them to participate willingly. What is going to keep someone engaged and invested in what they are being presented? What…
Storytelling and Ways I Desire to Express Myself
When a story is engaging, the audience themselves are also engaged into the story—they are able to retain information easier, and produce different theories to themselves about what could happen next. When there are visual or audible clues—hand gestures to guide the viewers and give context, followed by creating sound effects with your mouth or…
The Importance of Designing for Everyone
It is important, while designing something and adding text to it, that we keep in mind to make it accessible and easier to read, while also keeping the reader’s attention. In order to do so, we need to use colors that contrast well against each other, and we need to use fonts that make it…