Story:
Digital storytelling involves the creation of short, personal narratives combining images, sounds, and text in a multimedia computer based platform (Anderson & Chua , 2010).
This type of digital story is based on a combination of stories about a subject and a personal story . The story is called Self love. It is about how I grew up having low self esteem because of my weight and how I overcame all the obstacles and grew to love myself. The story is also about how teenagers in generally grow through having low self esteem issues because of how they look and how society looks at them.
My story uses the Tovdorov state of equilibrium format: What changes is my outcome as instead of harming myself or continue to require society validation about loving myself, I turn the obstacles into solutions by learning how to love myself by finding beauty within myself and looking for validation from myself.
Audience:
My target audience is teenagers. The transition from a child to an adult is a very difficult stage for every teenagers life. Trying to discover your identity and with all the pressure that society puts on us about how you should look like, specially in the digital age of social media where you are judged by your physical appearance and not the mental or emotions. In the age of social media, peoples validation comes from the number of likes and comments you get in a picture. The whole film in my story denotes that the film was created for teenagers. For example in scene 11 it shows how the actress is on social media looking at pictures models on instagram:
Message:
The message of the story is to love yourself and self validation is more important than other people’s validation.Hence the audio choice of my film which is very motivational and uplifting .The message is to be happy and confidence about what you look like in the mirror because lies in the hands of the beholder and disregard everybodys opinions about you. I want people to see my film and be inspired to be themselves and not let anybody to opinion affect them.
Style/Genre:
The genre is a teenage film as denoted by the characters in the film which are young teenagers. It is first person narrative. Media techniques used are video performance, music and voice overs.My story is personal story. The voice over and music contributes massively to tell the story because the music choice is an uplifting and motivational song This is a story that happened to me from the age I was born to the age of 18. It is a personal narrative more like a memoir which captures and examines my life during a specific moment in time.
Overall Thoughts:
The overall message is to be happy and confidence about what you look like and disregard everybodys opinions about you. I want people to see my film and be inspired to be themselves and not let anybody to opinion affect theme
Reference list
https://www.mediacollege.com practical and digital techniques about films.
Reference List:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yvx7jv/i-was-a-90s-fat-kid-a-harbinger-of-the-childhood-obesity-crisis the fat little girl that looks like me.
Definition of Digital storytelling: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44429857?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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