Reflection on group identity project

The group  identity project was a fun project for me. The group and i choose a character who was well known for being suave, sophisticated and interesting.  It was humorous to go online and find out that there are websites dedicated to writing funny, witty sayings about how awesome he is.  The social network we used was myspace, i would not use that again.  Myspace was slow, confusing and overall very dated.  We wanted to use it because we could design the layout of his site and because we could play music that matched his interests.  Those aspects were effective and fun but overall i would not use myspace as a professional avenue for social networking.  The page we designed was for fans and people that wanted to find out more about his suave persona.  It was for a younger audience (pre 21) as well as had a link put on it that would link the page to his website which was for 21 years old and up.  The project overall was fun to try and put ourselves in someone elses shoes and design a page that we feel the client would appreciate.

Online Identity performance topics

Some topics I'm considering are me as a christian, me as a future film maker or me as a big brother and uncle to my sister who has an illness.  I intend to me as honest as possible although it puts me in a vulnerable position.  I intend to be as informative as possible as well and i feel this would be effective either through podcast and video presentation.  For this project i intend to have other people in my life talk like my girlfriend and Friends or family.

Telling a story with sound

To tell a story or hear a story only in sound it takes on an entire different life.  There is no visual stimuli to reference to, as a listener you cant afford to be lazy and just watch the story unfold, you have to give your complete attention and focus.  I feel it is harder to convey a message and express feeling with audio only, its easier to watch an actors face and gestures and be able to comprehend and feel more what they are going through and there story.  I takes someone who can enunciate very well and very animated to make a listener feel something while hearing there story.  There are perks to only audio storytelling though.  Most often if its a topic that a listener can relate to like perhaps, someone has cancer, then in my opinion they well connect with that story more as oppose to if they saw it instead.  Without visual aid they will relate to what they are hearing and picture there loved one or whomever as the characters of the story since it relates to them, and i feel this would impact them more.  Telling a story without sound allows listeners to also improvise a bit and imagine who they want as "characters" and also imagine certain scenarios however they want, they are restricted to what they see on TV as to how a certain situation looks or is handled. There's definitely pros and cons to telling a story without sound, however it can still be imapactful and effective.