Friends in the Past and Future
REFLECTION
When I wrote my traditional narrative titled "Friends in the Past and Future", I completed approximately seven steps until it was completely done. First, I looked up possible themes from a handout my teacher gave me and in google. The themes included there were world main problems, and I chose four of them, which were abortion, rape, alcoholism and drugaddiction. Then, I thought of a story that involved all of the themes I had chosen, I used my imagination to create a plot. After that, I developed the plot adding all of the rest of the things a story has, such as setting, characters, and more, I wrote my science fiction story. But, my narrative was missing something, it was missing description and some other details, so I added and changed some ideas that were essencial in the reading, understanding and enjoying of my story. I read it a few times, and the end did not convince me, so I decided to change it completely, I wrote a new end to my narrative. Then, I corrected some grammar mistakes as well as structural ones. And finally, I printed it out. When I did my digital narrative, I guided from a story board I did in English class. I drew all what I needed for the video, characters and objects, and then I painted them. I used pictures and videos in my digital story, I took the pictures with my cell phone, sent them to my ipad, edited them and then put them in the video; for the videos I made them in my cellphone using an app called IMotion, then sent them to my ipad and put them in the video. After that, I made the title page, I designed it, drew it, edited it, and added images and effects. Finally, I edited all the video.
Comparing both processes, of writting my traditional narrative and making my digital narrative, there are some similarities as well as some differences found. I based my digital narrative on my traditional narrative, so both narratives are of the same story. However, I had to turn the characters' and objects' descriptions into physical drawings. I also had the same expectation for both of my narratives, to be well done, to include all what I needed to, to transmit what I wanted to. Even it had to be transmitted differently because of the devices and the way it was being shown, I always wanted the reader or the audience to feel like they were there, to feel like they were seeing all these characters and interacting with them, to feel like they were living all the situations presented. Before I started to make my projects, I did something to help me organize and know what I was going to do. For example, in my traditional narrative I did some worksheets planning and telling the story without details, and before doing my digital narrative, I completed a storyboard.
Both projects had their difficulties and pleasures in doing them. One difficulty of writing my traditional narrative was connecting all the themes it contains making at the same time the story interesting. Another one, was making the story enough descriptive and adding the figurative language I was required to. A pleasure of writing it was the possibility of writting what ever I wanted to without limits of creativity. My digital narrative also had some difficulties that were mainly two, adjusting the story descriptions to the visul descriptions and editting the video. However, I had the pleasure of creating my own story and turning it into a video making it possible to watch the story I created and wrote for my own.
¨The Pedestrian¨ by Ray Bradbury
¨The Pedestrian¨ by Ray Bradbury is a science-fiction story that presents reading and writing as important and essential activities to human life. This author also shows technology as something that blocked and decreased the usage of these activities.
Ray Bradbury uses two main elements involved in technology to represent this failure. The first element is the television, the author is showing technology as a negative element in the humans´ lifes, he is comparing a person watching television with a person who is dead. ¨Magazines and books didn´t sell anymore. Everything went on in the tomb-like houses at night now, he thought, continuing his fancy. The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like dead, the grey or multicolored lights touching their faces, but never really touching them.¨ (The Pedestrian, by Ray Bradbury. Pg 2). The second element used is the police car, it is also involved with technology. ¨He walked like a man suddenly drunk. As he passed the front window of the car he looked in. As he had expected, there was no one in the front seat, no no one in the car at all.¨ (The Pedestrian, by Ray Bradbury. Pg 2). Ray Bradbury uses a fiction element, the police car. This police car is not real in this moment, nor common at all. The police car talks and drives for its own.
The author of ¨The Pedestrian¨ also involves two main narrative techniques in his story. One of them is the similes, which permit the reader to understand better what the author narrates. Similes also permit the reader to imagine an example of what is being narrated. ¨Sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.¨ (The Pedestrian, by Ray Bradbury. Pg 1). Another narrative technique used is the third person narration. ¨They passed one house on one street a moment later.¨ (The Pedestrian, by Ray Bradbury. Pg 2). The ¨they¨ in the quotation proves that it is a third person narration. It is effective because all characters and elements are narrated from the same point of view, the author´s.
¨The Pedestrian¨ by Ray Bradbury is a short story about science-fiction that refers to the writing and reading as important activities for humans that have been replaced through the years by the technology, in the story as elements the television and the police car. The author, Ray Bradbury, uses similes and third person narration to the comprehension of his writing. This is an important message transmitted because we can´t let technology replace and erase the reading and writing from our lifes.
Ray Bradbury uses two main elements involved in technology to represent this failure. The first element is the television, the author is showing technology as a negative element in the humans´ lifes, he is comparing a person watching television with a person who is dead. ¨Magazines and books didn´t sell anymore. Everything went on in the tomb-like houses at night now, he thought, continuing his fancy. The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like dead, the grey or multicolored lights touching their faces, but never really touching them.¨ (The Pedestrian, by Ray Bradbury. Pg 2). The second element used is the police car, it is also involved with technology. ¨He walked like a man suddenly drunk. As he passed the front window of the car he looked in. As he had expected, there was no one in the front seat, no no one in the car at all.¨ (The Pedestrian, by Ray Bradbury. Pg 2). Ray Bradbury uses a fiction element, the police car. This police car is not real in this moment, nor common at all. The police car talks and drives for its own.
The author of ¨The Pedestrian¨ also involves two main narrative techniques in his story. One of them is the similes, which permit the reader to understand better what the author narrates. Similes also permit the reader to imagine an example of what is being narrated. ¨Sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.¨ (The Pedestrian, by Ray Bradbury. Pg 1). Another narrative technique used is the third person narration. ¨They passed one house on one street a moment later.¨ (The Pedestrian, by Ray Bradbury. Pg 2). The ¨they¨ in the quotation proves that it is a third person narration. It is effective because all characters and elements are narrated from the same point of view, the author´s.
¨The Pedestrian¨ by Ray Bradbury is a short story about science-fiction that refers to the writing and reading as important activities for humans that have been replaced through the years by the technology, in the story as elements the television and the police car. The author, Ray Bradbury, uses similes and third person narration to the comprehension of his writing. This is an important message transmitted because we can´t let technology replace and erase the reading and writing from our lifes.
My Existence
Much sweeter and calmer than a human,
Much softer and cuter than a newborn,
She is not even close to inhuman,
She is more like a brown big unicorn.
No harm no hate is provided by her,
Just love and care given therefore received,
Or spectacular company care,
Is what neighbor's minds also hearts perceived.
Before minds knew further how surprising
She could be, she developed a thief's plan
In her cleaver brain, and when no eyes revising,
She would steal what makes her chubby like flan.
No counting master plans i analyze,
How couldn't love who i call my existence?
ARTIST STATEMENT:
When Ms. Bachelor assigned us to write a sonnet, obviously we had to think of what we were going to write. Immediately, i thought of someone i love with all my heart, my dog, Sara, a chocolate lab. She is someone i could not live without, and tell me i am dumb or something like that, but i don´t care, because i consider her my sister. Sara is very cute and she is sweet not only with us, but also with other people. Sometimes, when we leave a candy or food in the wrong place, she steals it, that´s why she is a little bit chubby, but she is excessively cute. I adore her. In this Shakespearian sonnet, i told about how Sara was, i started describing her sweet and calm side, and then i described her crazy side (that would be when she acts like a thief), finally i expressed my love for her independently her double-face personality.
When Ms. Bachelor assigned us to write a sonnet, obviously we had to think of what we were going to write. Immediately, i thought of someone i love with all my heart, my dog, Sara, a chocolate lab. She is someone i could not live without, and tell me i am dumb or something like that, but i don´t care, because i consider her my sister. Sara is very cute and she is sweet not only with us, but also with other people. Sometimes, when we leave a candy or food in the wrong place, she steals it, that´s why she is a little bit chubby, but she is excessively cute. I adore her. In this Shakespearian sonnet, i told about how Sara was, i started describing her sweet and calm side, and then i described her crazy side (that would be when she acts like a thief), finally i expressed my love for her independently her double-face personality.
