Monday, September 22, 2014

Week 5 - Storybook Styles

Rate My Rishi — social media (Rate My Professor)
I was attracted to this storytelling style because I am familiar with the website "Rate my professor" and use it all the time. I like how they took a spin on it and made into a dating website. This reminds me of a bollywood movie I watched that centralizes around social media.The movie was called "Mujhse Fraansip Karoge?" or something similar to that. I have never used this style and would like to use it if i could think of something creative enough to use it for. 

The Trickster of OU — OU setting
I was attracted to this storytelling style because I also obviously go to OU and that makes it easy to relate the storytelling style. I was really interest in seeing how a fellow student sees the OU campus. Also it was cool to see an Indian Epic retold in a setting that I completely know and understand. Because I feel some epics we have read require an extensive amount of background information and one written in this style would personally not require any. 

HGTV: Homer and Garden Television — television show (HGTV)
I liked this storytelling style because personally I used to be an avid viewer of the television channel. Although I didn't like the particular television shows they picked within the website: "House Hunters" and "Next Top Model". Both of these shows were extremely annoying and repetitive to me but there were a lot of shows that I did like on HGTV. So maybe this could be a storytelling style for me in the future. 

Bedtime in Oz — bedtime story
I was attracted to this storytelling style because I had already researched it. I feel like it is easy to write in a bedtime story or children's book storytelling style because many of the details are made more simple  and the plot is made much more simple in order for children to understand easier. But I am not saying that being an author for children's books is easy. 

The Towers that Be — inanimate object as narrators
I was attracted to this storytelling style because it made me think of another style I have researched in the past: Having the story told from a different perspective. I feel that perspective is a very important thing and can change many details when told from the eyes of someone else, because the way they think and react to things is completely different. Two people could both describe something they witness completely different and still both be right because everyone has a different perspective  

1 comment:

  1. Hi Avi, I really liked some of the ideas that you had to tell your stories. They were way more creative than the ones I had originally thought off. But in the end I did not use any of the ideas I came up with. I sort just winged and wrote story. I will try using your ideas in the future.

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