Module 5: Storytelling and Creating Video

Twine Storytelling:

The Lost Baby Orca:

http://www.dromech.com/EDCI337/Baby_Orca

Storytelling Techniques I Recognized in The Lost Baby Orca

Immersing the Audience in the Story:

Vivid Setting Descriptions: The story opens with evocative imagery—”evening swims beneath the shimmering auroras” and the vastness of the ocean. This immerses the reader in the orca’s natural habitat, making them feel part of the underwater world.

Telling a Personal Story:

First-Person Perspective: The narrative focuses on the baby orca’s personal journey, emotions, and thoughts, allowing readers to connect intimately with the protagonist’s experiences.

Creating Suspense:

Uncertain Outcomes: The story presents choices with unknown consequences, such as trusting a giant squid or exploring a coral reef alone. This uncertainty builds suspense and keeps readers engaged.

Bringing Characters to Life:

Distinct Character Personalities: Characters like the wise sea turtle, the friendly dolphins, and the solemn giant squid have unique traits and dialogue, bringing them to life and adding depth to the narrative.

Using Dialogue:

Character Interactions: Conversations between the baby orca and other sea creatures reveal personalities and advance the plot—for example, the sea turtle asking, “Lost, are we?”

Show, Don’t Tell:

Descriptive Language: Instead of stating emotions, the story shows them—”the deep blue stretches endlessly around you, and a sense of loneliness settles in”—allowing readers to feel what the orca feels.

Building to a Satisfying Conclusion:

Multiple Positive Endings: Paths that lead back to the mother provide closure and reinforce themes of wisdom, courage, and the importance of heeding guidance.

Evoking Emotions:

Emotional Journey: The story elicits feelings of fear, hope, relief, and joy as readers navigate the orca’s challenges, fostering empathy and investment in the outcome.

Moral Lessons:

Consequences of Choices: The narrative illustrates the impact of decisions, teaching lessons about trusting instincts, seeking help, and the repercussions of ignoring advice.

Use of Metaphors and Symbolism:

The Ocean as Life’s Journey: The vast ocean represents the challenges and uncertainties of life, while the mother’s guidance symbolizes wisdom and the importance of parental advice.

Interactive Storytelling:

Reader Participation: By allowing readers to make choices, the story engages them actively, making them responsible for the orca’s fate and enhancing the immersive experience.

Repetition for Emphasis:

Reiterating Mother’s Advice: The mother’s teachings are recalled at crucial moments, emphasizing their significance and aiding memory retention of key messages.

Creating Relatable Conflict:

Universal Themes: The fear of being lost and the desire to reunite with family are universal experiences, making the conflict relatable to readers of all ages.

Sensory Details:

Engaging the Senses: Descriptions like “a gentle humming fills the space” and “the coral reef is vibrant, teeming with colorful fish” engage multiple senses, enhancing the vividness of the narrative.

Parallelism:

Mirroring Real-Life Decisions: The choices presented mirror real-life dilemmas, allowing readers to reflect on how they might act in similar situations.

Character Growth:

Learning and Maturation: The baby orca learns from experiences, showing growth and development, which adds depth to the character and story.

Use of Foreshadowing:

Hints at Potential Outcomes: Early mentions of the mother’s advice hint at future challenges and the importance of remembering her words.

My Video Teaching a new FPV Pilot how to Power Loop:

Script and Story Board:

“Today I am going to be teaching you how to do a power loop!”

“First I am going to be teaching you the axis.”

*Show sticks and axis positions and what they do*

*Give the trick warning advisory*

*Then go into showing picking an object that has enough space to do the power loop*

“You want to find an object with enough space above and below to perform you power loop so we are going to select this crane right here since it has the space required.”

*Then demonstrate the power loop while talking about what to do with the your inputs.*

“So first you want to go under the object then pitch back and give a burst of throttle to send yourself up and over the object. When you do this it’s going to then send you in a backwards facing ark”

*Demonstrate the trick again while talking through the power loop.*

*Then show off how to make the trick look nicer and talk about it again and again what inputs to do*

“Those are the fundamentals of the power Loop!”

*Advise that you should practice the basics before learning tricks*

Reflection:

I think the message that The Lost Baby Orca is presenting is important. I remember being little and learning what do do when I was lost or in a perilous position and it it is important for the younger generations to learn what do when faced with the scary situation of being lost. The Lost Baby Orca allows the reader to use their wits and knowledge to navigate from the first person perspective of The Lost Baby Orca to try and find their mom. This story parallels the real life steps of what do like asking a friendly stranger for help or calling out but also teaches the reader to not trust scary strangers or people who could harm you and it warns you for making wrong decisions. I would have loved to have this type of interactive story as a small kid and I think any developing child would benefit from a interactive story based on a very real scary situation like this.

I think definitely if I were to improve greatly on my story telling it would have to do with character development and designing. I’m not a writer but If I feel like if i had more knowledge I could really flesh out my characters to not have such shallow traits and predictability. But for a kids story I think the stereotyping works to get the message across for the story.

With my video too I realized that I suck at sticking to my script so I always like to give rough notes on what I’m going to say. I found when I’m doing presentations or teaching swimming that this is way easier for my brain to read and comprehend on the fly. Since If I write out fully exactly what I want to say I either don’t say it right or I sound like a robot reading line for line which both sounds bad. So for my story board and script I kept it in this format to help me for the filming process.