FINAL PROJECT

For my final project, I simply embellished the stories of my two fictional characters that I created for the group project : Norah and Emma.

To see the embellishment you must click on the blog posts.

Group Project:

Interactive fiction - 6 Myspace Fictional Characters:


My two characters:
Emma - the smart girl
Norah - the cheerleader



The other four characters:
Jonathan's characters:
Carter - the jock
Daniel - the emo boy

Tierney's characters:
Lexy - the party girl
Nyx - the punk girl

Their stories, interwoven, complex and fascinating, can be found through Myspace. Just click on the name and look at their profile. Enjoy delving into their lives.

Narrative. What is Narrative?

To be honest, I hadn't given it much thought until right now. I suppose I always believed it was any story, piece of fiction, literary art, poetry, etc. I wouldn't have discounted web stories, or the cartoon stories in the Sunday newspaper if I had thought about them. Normally, I wouldn't have thought about them because I wasn't ever too interested in blogging or web literature. Since taking this class, I have expanded my horizons. Hence, I would say a narrative is any type of story (not just in the traditional sense of a story); anything (whether short or long) that has any form of narrating; any form of story-telling. That would be my definition.

The entire remix project proved to be fascinating, entertaining (at times) and beneficial. I definitely had a few specific projects that especially jumped out at me. Tierney Kain's project was one of my favorites because it was original and very funny! Being an animal lover myself, the topic was interesting to me and pulled at my heartstrings to see the poor animals' pain! :) Tierney was witty in her work and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Another project that I enjoyed was Kerri Zuiker's. Her project was like a photo album, with sticky notes to describe specific moments in the narrator's life. It was a smart idea, and the audience really got to know the narrator (Jo) through her letters--we got to see her relationship with Andie, how she felt about certain things (about her mother, how she cooks, park trips), and through her letters, the audience had an up close view of her personal life. I loved the way the project was designed, by clicking on certain pictures to read the letter behind them. Altogether, I thought that Kerri did a very good job at designing her project!

Virginia Dawson's remix project was another interesting and original idea. It acted as an advertisement for a new neighborhood (house plans, recreation, school zones, etc). Virginia included pictures and little snippets of information. The advertisement presents the community as a privileged and advantageous location to live. It offers not only a house, but a home and lifestyle. Virginia's use of language is very appropriate for the advertisement and it flowed very well.

There were many many other remix projects that I enjoyed! But too many to continue to write about. The project was very fun and I enjoyed all of the freedom we had to make whatever we wanted.

My remix project is at this site: mason.gmu.edu/~kmoberg

For my remix project, I plan to use mostly my own work, at least as of now. I will take a page from my own unpublished book, circle random interesting words that specifically stand out to me, and fill in everything else with pencil.

I then have two ideas:

1. I will either find other words (whether my own, or something that I find online) to paste in between the words I circled from my book. I would plan to intermingle the words from my book and the words I add to create a new story. I will also color the words to match the emotions of the word.

2. Or, I will use the same paper that I filled in, copy it, cut out the same holes from my circled words, and see what words are chosen from another page of my book.

I am still playing around a little. So we'll see what the actual outcome is! It should be interesting.

The original picture by Mylene Bressan from openphoto.net