Thoughts

 27/11/23, 20:37 My experience in the storytelling activity was both great and frustrating, hehe. Let me share a bit about the whole process. During the meeting with my teammates, we decided to try to use the green screen in order to enhance the storytelling quality and engagement. So, the first thing I did, next day, was to try it out. First, I downloaded the program (Sony Vegas), which took me a long time, as for some reason it wasn't working.  Moving on, I planned how I wanted my scenes to look. Since the setting in my scenes had to do with trains, stations, landscapes and little houses, I thought that I would use the green screen for the train, the station and the little house. As for the landscapes, I searched some videos in my gallery from my trip to San Miguel. I also asked my classmate to record for me some mountains because, well, I live in San Salvador, and all you can see are houses, buses and pollution. So, my next challenge was making the green screen work. This p...

 24/11/23, 21:10 Writing our original short story was, overall, a great experience. First, we thought about the genre of the story. Did we want it to be a sci-fi story, a horror story or a romance story? In the end, we chose a romance story because we thought, who doesn't like romance stories? and, besides, we had some knowledge on the matter (just to clarify, I mean that some of us had read poems and romance books, haha). Then, we had to design the plot. That was the hardest part for me, but not for our amazing classmate, Doris. It seemed like whenever I found a problem with the plot, she quickly made an explanation for it; it was great! After this, we thought about the setting. We thought that a book inspired in El Salvador would be great (even though my mind kept going back to England for some reason), and it turned out amazing. We wrote a description about the characters, we made an outline of the most important events of the story, and we were good to go. The actual writing pa...