Blog about storytelling

Story telling told by television or visually is better than printed media when trying to research it and when telling stories with a group of others it limits what kinds of things everyone gets to say but with groups of groups there is added variety.

On my research paper, the media I was examining was television. Understanding things as they were being shown to me in the television show I wrote about was much easier than had it been in a book. The storytelling they used was a more straightforward and all the details were drawn out for you to see. Unlike in any printed type of media, because it was on TV I could see everything happen in order and if I needed to do research on a specific part then I was able to just go find that episode on Netflix.

I think about what the show I researched would be like had it been told in print media which is interesting because it was originally print media before becoming a TV series. I’ve never read it but it would be interesting to compare it to the show and see how accurate the show is to the book. Comparing differences and similarities from the two would make me question why they put certain things in the show and why other ideas were left out. Maybe things were written differently in the TV series due to lack of resources when filming, or possibly they writers changed scripts to please the fans in some cases. When you write something and an audience reads it is one thing but actually showing something to an audience could changes their perception of it.      

When my group was doing the digital story telling there was three of us in the group. I found out soon after starting that we may have had different ideas about where to take the story. The ideas that each of us put forth put forth separately were scrutinized by whosever idea it wasn’t. I personally wanted to push the boundaries of the story and make it a little more gruesome and dark. This included adding some pictures that could’ve given the story a different vibe or writing characters in the story to death or adding some promiscuity to them. The rest of my group sometimes felt my pictures or ideas were not best for the flow of the story and we decided to not try and walk the line of what is offensive and good storytelling. This was a little upsetting for me but I suppose as long as we got a good grade it doesn’t matter and maybe some other groups decided to write with the same aggressiveness I would’ve like to.

Both of my examples show how the possibility of the reading audience perceiving a story as offensive or something they don’t like can change the storytelling process drastically. However I wish that things were a little bit looser and the storytellers had less restrictions or fears of how they would be perceived and then write a story the way they believe it should be told.