So for part of my 10 stars of assignments dedicated to my noir character, I decided to do the story map assignment. For all of my assignments this week I wanted to continue to build my noir character by using the themes set in place during my groups radio show “Noir Not the Father”. In our radio show, my character plays a very specific role and I used that role me

Here is a link to my story map. I could not figure out how to embed it into my actual post so I hope the link is ok. The story being told here is the one secret that wasn’t fleshed out during the Noir Not the Father show. Turn’s out, Jack wasn’t being completely honest about how he met Jackie!

Bev here – not really sure why Damon called this “Bev Takes Damon Away.” It was a consented trip. We just wanted to go away. It was a lot of fun to show people that we have become friends and are getting along well. Take a look at our trip here.

If you click the picture, it should bring you to the site. I really loved the trip with Damon. We got to  do things like go to different beaches and see all the sites in Bali. Overall, I really loved the trip and valued the time with Damon. I don’t know why Damon thinks I just took him. I basically just saw him when I was walking down the street. After talking for awhile we got the idea to go to Bali in order to work on our friendship, because why not? Anyways,  a lot of my other blog posts talk about this trip too!

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Overall, this assignment (4 stars) was pretty easy. Jonathan and I planned out the adventure pretty well together on deciding where to go. It actually meant that we had to learn some things about Bali along the way. After planning out everything that we wanted to do in Bali, we found some pictures that would go along with the trip and give some aspect of noir to it. We also came up with alternative stories on purpose, in order to keep the appeal of the trip up and still confuse people. After doing that, we just plugged the picture and descriptions into the places that we want to visit. Let us know what you think!

I keep alluding to what Victoire has been up to in the past, and where she’s been, but I’ve never actually spelled out a couple of the places she’s seen. For this assignment I created a story map with google to trace a couple of places she’s been. The program itself is actually really easy to utilize, and it looks really, really good. I had no idea that this application existed until this point.

I spent a fair bit of time thinking and creating the different places she’s been… I tried to give enough information so you all know what Victoire’s been up to, but not enough to ruin any upcoming surprises for you.

In keeping in touch with using other people’s characters in conjunction with your own, I once again called on Lawrence (Tiffany Yowell’s character) with whom victoire is having a passionate affair with, and I brought in Veronique (Erin Clark’s character). It was a short introduction for Veronique, but I’m hoping to incorporate her more, later.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a way to insert the power point itself into this blog post, so you’ll have to click on the link below in order to see it. Please do! As always, let me know what you think.

  http://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/8de852e3496d3693464de922377aa8b7/you-call-me-danger-i-call-me-danger-us/index.html

(note: this assignment was worth 4 stars)

So for this assignment, Mariah and I worked together to show a little bit more of the story behind Bev and Damon. In this instance, Bev takes Damon on a trip to Bali as a sort of mea culpa. However, as is the noir106 way, things get a little mysterious: the trip was not completely agreed upon; Bev opens up, but not too much; and eventually she disappears.. but not before getting the information she wants from Damon.

Check out the trip here. 

This was fun because Mariah and I came up with the idea together and worked on a few different assignments to develop this story. When we say this was collaborative, we mean that we literally sat next to each other and worked on a bunch of different assignments all centered around the idea of this trip.

It was fun to work with someone else and find ways that our characters could intersect and work together to create some cool content. For this, Mariah and I worked together to find the photos, and I took lead on writing the dialogue that went with our story. Be sure to check out our other assignment posts this week for more information on how this story developed…

This week I had the pleasure of working with Aubrey Howland. We decided to knock out two assignments: a writing one which actually describes in depth what our visual assignment depicts.

The visual assignment we chose to do was the Story Map for 4 stars. Check it out here!

Our story is based around our two characters: Edie and Isabelle Franklin. Edie is a bar tender with murderous tendencies and Isabelle is a scientist who’s just trying to make things right in the world even though she goes about it the wrong ways.

We tried to figure out how the two characters would interact if they actually met and go from there. They took issue with the way Prince Jasper treated his people and Andorra and travelled there to set the record straight.

Most of the pictures for the word map were found on google. Most are the actual images of the places Edie and Isabelle travelled to or are representative of the people Edie encountered as the trip occurs from her perspective.

The next visual assignment I did was a story map of my baseball trip that I took last summer with my dad and brother. It was a pretty sweet trip. Check it out! Unfortunately, the embed feature of storymap is malfunctioning, so all I can give you is the link.

http://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/storymapjs/latest/embed/?url=https://74814e6e8cfc59dd108768c3b66fa2d934f5b7af.googledrive.com/host/0BzIZsqh_nUjyeWtGZmMwbDE3RFE/published.json

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/story-map/

When I saw this software in the visual assignment post, I thought it’d be a really cool way to tell a story of a trip.  The interface is elegant; it can’t be easy making software that a person can use to create a multimedia timeline.  I like the idea of a visual storytelling system that uses all sorts of visual aids like this one does.  I was able to write little descriptions of each place I went, while posting pictures I had taken in each place, all while pointing to those places on the underlying map. The map aspect gives a great foundation to represent a story that takes place over a great deal of both space and time.  I can see this software being perfect for laying out a road trip across the country, or even just one state.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get too specific in my trip to Europe.  I only had access to a very limited number of the pictures I had taken while I was there, and I didn’t want to use pictures that weren’t mine.  However, I can see how incredibly detailed a trip’s walk-through can be on a site like this.  The zooming ability of the map can allow people to operate on the scale of country to country, or as small as neighboring villages.  If I were ever to document a road trip, it would be exciting to do it in this way.