Link to story: https://umainenewmedia.net/nmd343/story/project-1-story-progress-growing-in-a-place-that-grows-ryan-waryck/ Description of Story: This is the story of reconnecting with the yard of the house I’ve lived in for two decades, and learning to reconnect with myself alongside it. Noticing all the small ways that the yard has changed that I would have never noticed had I not specifically gone out
Final Story Preview: https://preview.shorthand.com/3i9iOGsZGQzwvCYv My Story: The story being told is a vague retelling of college kids’ lives in small comments in the captions and smaller excerpts of text using metaphors about moments in life and our campus. It starts with a student as a freshman and talks about everyday occurrences and big life milestones
Project: https://preview.shorthand.com/3i9iOGsZGQzwvCYv The main changes I made were to the text, final touches to the pictures, and making the dynamic effects more interesting. I went through and added the new pictures that I took while also removing any unnecessary text per the feedback I had received in class. I also rearranged part of the layout
Reflections on the first draft of the Bangor Mall Shorthand story.
I found that during this project I was able to develop a pretty decent story with some good photos. I started by going to the place I wanted to explore and took some pictures. I took the pictures first and then tried to think of a story to tell using the photos. I came up
Looking back at my story, I think my favorite part is the candid photos of the guests and the emotions I was able to capture. I liked being able to take pictures of moments that happened naturally instead of being planned. If I had more time and more photos, I would take more pictures of
Between the past couple weeks I learned that I needed to push forward in my shorthand story by using the images to enhance and tell my story further than how it already does. I will also take away the colons when I show my gallery to also help tell my story better. https://preview.shorthand.com/X1WsKJXgAWSqGj29