Final Reflection

Final Reflection

          I did not make many changes to essay, but I did rewrite it a million times. Actually it was really only 3 times. When i first started writing my essay, i began to write about 30 Days of Reading. I started writing an essay on this and realized reading was something I already did on a daily basis and it made it difficult for me to discuss. I threw that essay away and started writing about 30 Days of eating healthy. I wanted to really challenge myself so I threw that away and kept thinking. I finally came up with the idea of 30 Days of Saving.

          I felt this was a strong topic I could relate to and write about. I enjoyed writing the essay on the 30 day challenge more than i enjoyed the digital story. I felt that i did not have enough time to tell my story in the digital story and felt nervous to hear myself tell it. The most difficult part for me was having to get personal with my story and using my own voice to tell my story. The most enjoyable part was going through family pictures to decide what to use for my final reflection. Going through those photos and looking back on all of the memories really made me think about what all my parents have taught me over the years. taking the time to pick out each photo carefully and with a purpose to my story also made me wonder about what messages I will pass on to my family.

          During this challenge I learned how to use blog conventions to help tell my story. In my digital story, I also used a limited amount of pictures to Show instead of Tell my story. By limiting the amount of pictures I used, also reduced the amount of distraction created for my audience because I didnt include music. If I could do things differently, I would spend more time writing my blog to give my audience more insight on my challenge.

Artist Statement - Digital Story

          My digital story is based on my transition from California to New Mexico, how that affected me as a child and what I learned from it. The purpose of creating my digital story was to tell a story about how I learned to save money and where my motivation to do it came from. I composed my work in a way that it told a narrative story of the morals i learned growing up. this was to make my digital story personal. I composed my story chronically, telling the events as they happened to help depict the story.
          I chose the topic of how i learned to save money for my digital story because my 30 Day Challenge was about saving money for 30 days. My inspiration for writing my digital story was my parents and how hard they have fought for everything they own.
          I wanted my readers to understand where my desire to save money began in the first place. I connected with my audience through pathos created in childhood memories and reminiscing those memorizes. I also connected with them through logos because...who doesn't want to save money??? Telling my story through a digital story helped me distinguish the important parts of my story  to be able to add pauses to it. The digital story brought my story to life and added a person effect to the story telling that the reader couldn't have gotten from just reading the story.
         

Digital Story

Digital Story

Land Of Enchantment
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