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 story about a subject . The film is called Mirror. It is about how a girl who suffers from low confident and self esteem. She gets bullied in school regularly and how she overcomes all the obstacles and grew to love myself. It is a story i and other teenagers could relate to.
Audience:
The 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 the story denotes that the film was created for teenagers.
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.
Style/Genre:
The genre is a teenage film as denoted by the characters in the film which are young teenagers. Media techniques used are video performance, music and dialogue.The story is about a subject which is Mirror .
Overall Thoughts:
The overall message is to be happy and confidence about what you look like and disregard everybodys opinions about you. The filmmaker conveys people to see the film and be inspired to be themselves and not let anybody to opinion affect theme.
Alba 