Storytelling, to the core.

In my experience with this project, the use of social media, in large part, was slightly damaging to my finished project.  Because I was telling a strictly fictional story, I chose a comic style format.  The Instagram platform’s slideshow feature was minorly beneficial to this method, although I frankly find that embedding the project in this website as it is done above is really a much more successful way to tell the story and a significantly more user-friendly way to experience this installment.  All the same, I would say that social media was a somewhat suitable format for this piece although it was not ideal.

Further, as I stated above, I chose to draw a comic strip style set of slides to tell my story.  Because my story came directly from my own imagination, I didn’t particularly feel that photography or found-footage would have been a suitable way to portray this narrative. As such, I decided I would draw my images, ultimately leading me to the use of an iPad to do so.  I found that this was a particularly aesthetic format considering the story was going to be published digitally, and I likely would have simply drawn it on paper if it weren’t required to be posted to social media. But because this was the case, I found that a digital drawing was the best route to take.