Storytelling Through Text
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Chances are you've probably seen those creepy ads on YouTube which tells horror stories through text. Now it's your turn to tell a story. It can be horror, comical, or serious... it is up to you! Grab a friend (or two phones and text yourself back and forth) and text each other to tell a story. Before you start texting, make sure to turn on the camera so you can record the story or download an app to record your screen.
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Storytelling Through Text
Is Our New House Haunted?
For this assignment, it allows you to tell a story through text. I decided to get one of my friends to help me with our scary, but funny story. We acted as if we were in a new house we got and were hearing weird …
Text Message Story
This assignment’s instructions were to: Chances are you have probably seen those creepy ads on YouTube which tells horror stories through text. Now its your turn to tell a story. Grab a friend and text eachother to tell a story. Before you start texting make sure to turn on the …
like a ds-106er
okay so this assignment was fun because i’ve always kinda wanted to try it, so im glad mashup week gave me the inspiration/motivation to! the idea is to fake a text conversation between two people. I’m still kind of itching to go for the horror vibe ive seen around, but …
Text Conversation: A Wild Ride
For my second and final mashup assignment this week, I chose to do the Storytelling Through Text Mashup Assignment.
In order to complete this assignment, I used my friend’s laptop that had Final Cut Pro installed on it and downloaded a plug-in that simulates text conversations. Entering my script I …
Horror Text
Horror text between me and Lilian Perez.
Imagine you’re just hitting up your friend just talking about each other’s day and then something unexplainable happens. This happened to me when I was texting my friend Lilian. She told me she was coming to my house because I told her to …
Attacked by a Bee
The first mashup assignment I did for this week was Storytelling Through Text. For this assignment, I had to record myself having some sort of storytelling text with a friend. For this assignment, I got my friend Kayla and we got together. We first had to think of the topic …
I Got Stung
For one of my mashup assignments I chose to do “Storytelling Through Text” which was worth 5 stars. This assignment challenged us to tell a story from any background but to do it through text and record the entire thing. I drew some inspiration from an event that actually happened …
Storytelling Through Text…
Here I present my 5 star text story! My actual suite mate Melody helped me form this silly horror story filled with twists. I WAS SO SELF-CONSCIOUS OF HOW BAD I WAS AT TYPING. Thank goodness we have spell-check. All I did was write a script and then screen record …
Funny Drunk Story Through Text
I created a funny drunk story. It was fun and creative to come up with a story that could happen in real life.
I used an online text creator to make this happen. I hope you enjoy the story!
#MashupAssignments #MashupAssignments2390…
Scary Story Through Text [?????]
This assignment was a lot of fun!
The challenge behind this was to approach storytelling through a text conversation. Everyone has seen text message stories online. Now, I created one!
I used an online creator to make this happen, and I really enjoyed how user friendly it is.
Hope you …
Story through text.
This assignment was 5 stars and here is the original link. This is what it asked me to do, “Chances are you’ve probably seen those creepy ads on YouTube which tells horror stories through text. Now it’s your turn to tell a story. It can be horror, comical, or serious… …
FBI Investigation
This assignment I did is called Storytelling Through Text where you have to create a story through texting, so I did this one with my mom. My story is quite short, but I texted back and forth with my mom to create the story, and then took a screenshot of …
I Have to Tell You Something…
Have you ever seen those videos of stories told through texts? They’re pretty much everywhere. But have you ever thought about creating your own? Now, that’s a whole other thing. I have, and this is the video I created.
Choosing this was super easy for me. I always saw the …
Where’s Leo? (5 Stars)
For this assignment it said to tell a story through text. So I decided to tell a story about Leo, which everyone should know who he is by now with the amount of times I’ve used him as an assignment. This assignment was fun to do, because you got to …
Scary Texts
Joe finally got in contact with Maria…. but she couldn’t give out any information… is she really scared? is this really her texting? is she in on this mission?….. these texts are hard to decipher huh….
I did the last 5 star assignment based off the texts of Joe to …
Telling a Story Through Text
Chances are you’ve probably seen those creepy ads on YouTube which tells horror stories through text. Now it’s your turn to tell a story. It can be horror, comical, or serious… it is up to you! Grab a friend (or two phones and text yourself back and forth) and text …
Our house is on fire!
For this assignment, I screen recorded a text conversation with my friend Izzie about created a quick funny story. As Izzie said our house is on fire, I was surprised. Our other roommate Samie was the problem as he did not know how to use a stove. We then had …
Secret Mission Alert: From a Text?
Stars: 5
I chose to do this assignment because we all know what I love to do in this class. Do as many stars as possible, to avoid the write ups!
I tried to think of how to do this assignment, first and foremost. I thought of using a friends …
The Text
This week is all about mashups and remixes. Prior to this week I never really knew the difference between the two and typically linked them together. Since reading our weekly assignment post I now know the difference between a mashup and a remix.
The assignment page stated that a remix …
Storytelling through text
Hey there everyone! Today, I decided to get an early jump on week 12. This week, we have been tasked with the responsibility of completing mashup assignments, creating tutorials, and most of all, understanding the process involved in mashing up and remixing artistic mediums. The five star assignment that I …
Hungry?
I did the Storytelling through Text assignment, and since I love my Bitmoji so much, I thought it would be fun if I used her to tell a story! Using my Bitmoji always makes me feel like I am Hillary Duff in her Lizzie McGuire tv series from the early …
Did you lock the door?
For this assignment, we had to tell a story through text message.
I decided to tell a horror story by asking my boyfriend to help me out. I wrote out a script so that the text messages would come in at a decent speed. I used Apple’s preset screen …
Storytelling Through Text
Is Our New House Haunted?
For this assignment, it allows you to tell a story through text. I decided to get one of my friends to help me with our scary, but funny story. We acted as if we were in a new house we got and were hearing weird …
Text Message Story
This assignment’s instructions were to: Chances are you have probably seen those creepy ads on YouTube which tells horror stories through text. Now its your turn to tell a story. Grab a friend and text eachother to tell a story. Before you start texting make sure to turn on the …
like a ds-106er
okay so this assignment was fun because i’ve always kinda wanted to try it, so im glad mashup week gave me the inspiration/motivation to! the idea is to fake a text conversation between two people. I’m still kind of itching to go for the horror vibe ive seen around, but …
Text Conversation: A Wild Ride
For my second and final mashup assignment this week, I chose to do the Storytelling Through Text Mashup Assignment.
In order to complete this assignment, I used my friend’s laptop that had Final Cut Pro installed on it and downloaded a plug-in that simulates text conversations. Entering my script I …
Horror Text
Horror text between me and Lilian Perez.
Imagine you’re just hitting up your friend just talking about each other’s day and then something unexplainable happens. This happened to me when I was texting my friend Lilian. She told me she was coming to my house because I told her to …
Attacked by a Bee
The first mashup assignment I did for this week was Storytelling Through Text. For this assignment, I had to record myself having some sort of storytelling text with a friend. For this assignment, I got my friend Kayla and we got together. We first had to think of the topic …
I Got Stung
For one of my mashup assignments I chose to do “Storytelling Through Text” which was worth 5 stars. This assignment challenged us to tell a story from any background but to do it through text and record the entire thing. I drew some inspiration from an event that actually happened …
Storytelling Through Text…
Here I present my 5 star text story! My actual suite mate Melody helped me form this silly horror story filled with twists. I WAS SO SELF-CONSCIOUS OF HOW BAD I WAS AT TYPING. Thank goodness we have spell-check. All I did was write a script and then screen record …
Funny Drunk Story Through Text
I created a funny drunk story. It was fun and creative to come up with a story that could happen in real life.
I used an online text creator to make this happen. I hope you enjoy the story!
#MashupAssignments #MashupAssignments2390…
Scary Story Through Text [?????]
This assignment was a lot of fun!
The challenge behind this was to approach storytelling through a text conversation. Everyone has seen text message stories online. Now, I created one!
I used an online creator to make this happen, and I really enjoyed how user friendly it is.
Hope you …
Story through text.
This assignment was 5 stars and here is the original link. This is what it asked me to do, “Chances are you’ve probably seen those creepy ads on YouTube which tells horror stories through text. Now it’s your turn to tell a story. It can be horror, comical, or serious… …
FBI Investigation
This assignment I did is called Storytelling Through Text where you have to create a story through texting, so I did this one with my mom. My story is quite short, but I texted back and forth with my mom to create the story, and then took a screenshot of …
I Have to Tell You Something…
Have you ever seen those videos of stories told through texts? They’re pretty much everywhere. But have you ever thought about creating your own? Now, that’s a whole other thing. I have, and this is the video I created.
Choosing this was super easy for me. I always saw the …
Where’s Leo? (5 Stars)
For this assignment it said to tell a story through text. So I decided to tell a story about Leo, which everyone should know who he is by now with the amount of times I’ve used him as an assignment. This assignment was fun to do, because you got to …
Scary Texts
Joe finally got in contact with Maria…. but she couldn’t give out any information… is she really scared? is this really her texting? is she in on this mission?….. these texts are hard to decipher huh….
I did the last 5 star assignment based off the texts of Joe to …
Telling a Story Through Text
Chances are you’ve probably seen those creepy ads on YouTube which tells horror stories through text. Now it’s your turn to tell a story. It can be horror, comical, or serious… it is up to you! Grab a friend (or two phones and text yourself back and forth) and text …
Our house is on fire!
For this assignment, I screen recorded a text conversation with my friend Izzie about created a quick funny story. As Izzie said our house is on fire, I was surprised. Our other roommate Samie was the problem as he did not know how to use a stove. We then had …
Secret Mission Alert: From a Text?
Stars: 5
I chose to do this assignment because we all know what I love to do in this class. Do as many stars as possible, to avoid the write ups!
I tried to think of how to do this assignment, first and foremost. I thought of using a friends …
The Text
This week is all about mashups and remixes. Prior to this week I never really knew the difference between the two and typically linked them together. Since reading our weekly assignment post I now know the difference between a mashup and a remix.
The assignment page stated that a remix …
Storytelling through text
Hey there everyone! Today, I decided to get an early jump on week 12. This week, we have been tasked with the responsibility of completing mashup assignments, creating tutorials, and most of all, understanding the process involved in mashing up and remixing artistic mediums. The five star assignment that I …
Hungry?
I did the Storytelling through Text assignment, and since I love my Bitmoji so much, I thought it would be fun if I used her to tell a story! Using my Bitmoji always makes me feel like I am Hillary Duff in her Lizzie McGuire tv series from the early …
Did you lock the door?
For this assignment, we had to tell a story through text message.
I decided to tell a horror story by asking my boyfriend to help me out. I wrote out a script so that the text messages would come in at a decent speed. I used Apple’s preset screen …
Help Someone Else Do this Assignment
If you create a tutorial for this assignment, share it! To have your tutorials appear below, make sure your posts are showing up on the main DS106 site and that you use the following tags (or labels on Blogger) when writing the post on your own blog (You must use BOTH !):
Tutorials So Far
For this assignment, for 5 stars, I did the Storytelling through text assignment. For this, I used my laptop and my phone, which ultimately didn’t let me see it as from another user unfortunately, to text about the Beetlejuice movie. I thought this would fit well with our theme considering …
Are you having trouble on figuring out how to create a story told through text? Read this tutorial and maybe it’ll help!
This comes down to a couple steps:
1) Figure out your story
2) Figure out how you’re doing this
3) Find a friend(s)
4) Do the assignment
5) …