Sunday, August 30, 2009

That Zooming Out Story

This was actually a very interesting exercise. Although it seemed rather simple when we first saw the pictures, I never realized how much the little details could change a whole story. It was extremely difficult to figure out WHY the story didn't zoom in, but rather, zoomed out. If I tried to do it on my own, there is no way that I would have been able to figure it out. Maybe I'm just naturally unobservant, but I think the environment the people in my generation have grown up in has just changed us. With internet and television, everything is just shoved in our faces without us having to do much work. For example, when I'm looking for a specific word on a page, all I need to do now is press Ctrl and F then type in the word. Before computers, I would have had to go to the library, look for the book, look it up in the index, then search for the word on the page. There's a huge possibility that I'm just making up excuses by now. The exercise did open my eyes to how intricate everything is and that if I only look at the surface, there are so many things that I could be missing. Creating a story to go along with the pictures was pretty hard, too. Right now, the only thing I can think of to go with the pictures, is that one of Voldemort's Horcruxes was the chicken. Somehow, it developed its own sense of feelings and realized what was going on. By traveling through the toy town, the advertisement of a cruise, the television, and the stamp, it finally discovered real people that it could take over. After transferring itself from the postman to the tribe's chief, it finally settled for the pilot so it could fly back to England and resurrect Voldemort. I just reread the whole Harry Potter spin-off I just wrote. It doesn't make much sense but it still doesn't change the fact that the story the pictures told and the specific direction it had to go in was pretty awesome.

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