Thursday, March 22, 2012

Digital Stories


According to Fields and Diaz’s Community Through Digital Storytelling, the main seven elements of a digital story are point of view, dramatic question, emotional content, the gift of your voice, the power of the soundtrack, economy, and pacing.   Although digital stories are not a type of writing, they are extremely great ways to tell stories.  Digital stories are great ways for academia.  They allow their viewers to use the same analytical thinking as papers or any type of text do, they just include images.  In addition to images, they have soundtracks and voice narration which create a strong sense of pathos to lure the viewer in more and feel a part of the story.  Digital stories not only are useful for academic purposes, but according to Fields and Diaz’s piece, they exhibit many different characteristics as well.  Many corporations and large companies use digital stories in order to create their image.  They are also used to send messages to their viewers, or even just for entertainment.  A digital story is just another way for humans to express a message and reach out to its viewers. 
XOXO, College Girl

2 comments:

  1. You really expressed the idea of the article.By the description, you also grasp the true concepts and techniques digital stories involve. Good job :)

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  2. Nice incorporation of the writing's more you have already out done me. The reference to corporations was a real world example. nice work.

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