VISUAL STORYTELLING

The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.— Marco Tempest
“As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn’t matter what format it is.” — Levar Burton
Storytelling is the core of who are as human beings, and it’s an art all in it’s own — no matter what form you are using.  Many storytelling techniques still stand the test of time. With a little creativity and imagination, you can apply storytelling techniques to any form for your brand storytelling.
And why wouldn’t you want to connect, engage, and inspire your audience with your brand’s story?
If you’re looking for storytelling inspiration or want to brush up on your knowledge of storytelling techniques, check out the following list.
1. Show don’t tell.  One of the most important lessons to learn as a writer or creator. Show your story don’t just tell it. Show us a character, a scene, a developing emotion, a visual example. Tip: Try editing by imagining the scenes, and removing what doesn’t show the story.
2. Create character your audience relates to. This should be tailored specifically to your audience. It’s important to know your audience before creating the story. Tip: Create a character profile listing all the details of your character to help get a feel for the story.
3. Set the stage. We’d like to know enough of the context so we can understand the story. Tell us the place and the time the story takes place.
4. Create a mood. Short stories, videos, and shorter content should convey one mood throughout. A horror story has it’s own mood, and an informational post has it’s own mood or tone too.
5. Construct a plot. There should be a beginning, middle, and end to your story. This is true even if you want to break the rules a bit, your audience needs some sense of closure at the end.
6.Foreshadow. Hints or clues throughout the story that the audience can pay attention too. This helps keep your audience lured into your story.

PROFILE IN COURAGE

Murder Ball is a game that only involves handicap or people with a walking disability. These people once were properly functioning human beings, until the moment they were involved in an terrible accident, car accidents were the most common. The game that these people play is wheelchair rugby. Now I know a lot of people may assume that rugby in a wheel chair is easy but after watching the first portion of the movie I found out that wheelchair rugby is an intense and very difficult sport. The movie is about overcoming difficulties. The USA rugby team was beaten for the first time in 10years by Canada's Rugby team. Right after a persons terrible car accident they go through a faze, a reality check of how badly damaged their body is. They either make it out of that faze or they don't. The main character's son is a fish out of water in that environment.

VOCABULARY: SPRING LIST 2

1.) Accoutrement(noun)- Additional items of dress or equipment,or other items carried or worn by a person or used for a particular activity: The accoutrements of religious ritual.
2.) Apogee(Noun)- The highest point the development of something; the climax or culmination: The White House is considered the apogee of American achievement.
3.) Apropos(Adverb)- Used to state a speaker's belief that someone's comments or acts are unrelated to any previous discussion or situation: Isabel kept smiling apropos of nothing.
4.) Bicker(Verb)- Argue about petty and trivial matters: Whenever the phone rings, they bicker over who must answer it.
5.) Coalesce(Verb)- Come together and form one mass or whole: The puddles hand coalesced into shallow streams.
6.) Contretemps(Noun)- An unexpected and unfortunate occurrence: The hotel had to deal with more than one contretemps before the end of the night.
7.) Convolution(Noun)- A coil or twist, especially one of many: Crosses adorned with elaborate convolution.
8.) Cull(Verb)- Select from a large quantity; obtain from a variety of sources: Ancedotes culled from culled from Greek and Roman history.
9.) Disparate(Adjective)- Essentially different in kind; not allowing compromise: They inhabit disparate worlds of thought.
10.) Dogmatic(Adjective)- Inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true: He gives his opinion without trying to be dogmatic.
11.) Licentious(Adjective)- promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters: He was such a licentious person that he would not heed the law, and was totally immoral.
12.) Mete(Verb)- Dispense or allot justice, punishment, or harsh treatment: He denounced the maltreatment meted out to minorities.
13.) Noxious(Adjective)- Harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant: The were overcome by the noxious fumes.
14.) Polemic(Noun)- A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something: His polemic against the cultural relativism of the sixties.
15.) Populous(Adjective)- Having a large population: Los Angeles is very populous.
16.) Probity(Noun)- The quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency: Everyone desires financial probity.
17.) Repartee(Noun) Conversation or speech characterized by quick, witty comments or replies: His presentation today was repartee.
18.) Supervene(Verb)- Occur later than a specified or implied event or action, typically in such a way to change the situation: Any plan that is made is liable to be disrupted by supervening events.
19.) Truncate(Verb)- Shorten something by cutting off the top or the end: A truncated cone shape.
20.) Unimpeachable(Adjective)- Not to be doubted, questioned, or criticized; entirely trustworthy: An unimpeachable witness.

VOCAB#1 PERFORMANCE REVIEW

I honestly think that I got at least a 90% on the vocabulary quiz. I studied for about an hour just going over the ten vocabulary words that were assigned to us. I made sure I knew the definition of each word and also how to use each word correctly in a sentence. I put a lot of effort in this first quiz, because I want to start the year really good rather than just slack off.

VOCABULARY SPRING 1

Adumbrate(Verb)- Report or represent an outline. James Madison adumbrated the necessity that the Senate be somewhat insulted from public passions.
Apotheosis(Noun)- The highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax. His appearance as Hamlet was the apotheosis of his career.
Ascetic(Adjective)- Characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe-discipline and abstention from all form of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.
Bauble(Noun)- A small, showy, trinket, or decoration. My mother asked me to put the bauble on the Christmas tree.
Beguile(Verb)- Charm or enchant(someone), sometimes in a deceptive way. Every prominent American Artist has been beguiled by Main.
Burgeon(Verb)- Begin to grow or increase rapidly. Manufacturers are keen to cash in the burgeoning demand.
Complement(Noun)- A thing that completes or brings to perfection. A libretto proved a perfect complement to the music.
Contumacious(Noun)- Stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority. She was acting so contumacious yesterday.
Curmudgeon(Noun)- A bad tempered or surly person. My brother is a curmudgeon  because he's never in a good mood.
Didactic(Adjective)- Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive. A didactic novel that set out to set social injustice. 

HACKING MY EDUCATION

What do you want to learn more about?
I want to learn more about my major and what I can be doing now to prepare myself for it in the near distant future. (Architectural Engineer)
What skills do you want to demonstrate?
The skills that I want to demonstrate are the skills to be able to use my time more wisely and effectively. I know we covered this topic, but in the future when I have no one to hold my hand and tell me exactly what my next steps are to get to the place I want to be. The time when I'm on my own and I am making choices for myself.
How do I show that I've done what I said I was going to do?
A possible way for me to show that I did what I said I'd do is by making decisions for myself and by myself.

THE CHOICE

1.) "Choice" is referred to the decision Rebecca has to make. She either has to take the medicine herself or have her parents force the medicine into her.
2.) I don't think she has a choice. If she doesn't drink or consume the medicine she will die.
3.) The author refers to the medicine as poison, because his daughter doesn't have the choice to not drink the gooey liquid.
4.) The reason why the daughter of the author wants to play with a toy that is intended for older children is because she is well aware of the fact that she will never reach the age requirement for the toy, so she wants to play with the toy while she still can. I do agree with her because I think she deserves to experience playing with the toy at least once in her life before she passes away.
5.) If I knew I wasn't going to live up to the age of 30 I'm not sure what I would do right now. I know for a fact that I wouldn't be doing the thing(s) I'm doing now and I would try to live life to it's potential.
6.) Helping out a loved one or doing something for someone's own good even though it may be very discomforting is a legit circumstance that makes sense to endure.
7.) I don't think suffering is a necessary condition of life and love because I can't see how a person can enjoy life for it's true beauty when they're suffering.
8.) Why can only imagine the pain the author must feel from seeing his daughter suffer everyday. He knows that she hates having to consume the "poison".