This week’s posts:
Assignments used in final project:
Averaged Portrait
Create a Story Using Music
Story Within Photos
Missing Person
Ambient Storytelling
Designception
Art used in the final post was drawn by Ayami Kojima.

What I Learned
This semester I learned a lot about visual media! I got to experiment with media types that I don’t normally think about using like music and photography. Having the opportunity to try out new photography methods or using different video editing methods has shown me that there are lots of different ways to create and tell stories online. Hopefully in the future I can continue to sharpen my skills with these formats to use them better!

What I Would Do Differently
If I had to take this class again, I think I would prepare better for writing my blog posts. I didn’t quite understand the importance of telling a fictional or non-fictional story throughout each post and instead spent a lot of time talking about the process of making the assignment, and I think this was detrimental to my finished work. If I took another digital storytelling class I would like to think of a character or story beforehand so that I could base all my posts for the class on that narrative, it could be fun to tell a story like that.

Other Thoughts
I think my favorite assignment to work on this semester was this video assignment, Animatic Joy. Like I said above, I had a hard time putting together stories for this class, but the characters I used for this assignment were characters I had already been working on before I took this class, so they were easier to work with. My characters don’t work that well for every assignment, so I didn’t use them at all for any of my other posts, but this one was fun to make.
Overall, I had fun creating posts for this digital storytelling class, and I hope that I can use the skills I learned this semester to enhance my storytelling!