April 20

I believe in the realm of digital storytelling the most important key factor is drawing your audience into the topic. While the topic at hand may not be interesting to all, you must find away to intrigue your viewers. Ira Glass promotes the idea of sequencing events in an antidotal way. He believes you must present questions throughout your story that you will eventually answer and then conclude your piece with a moment of reflection. Glass finds however, combining those two elements to be difficult. Either you build suspense successfully and the reflection is a disappointment, or verse versa. I too, believe that to captivate your audience there must be a level of suspense and an idea of the unknown.

While all those things sound like great ideas, creating it is the hard part. My digital story-telling project will focus on “How I got into the cattle industry.” I will provide a quick background of my life without directly answering, how I became involve with cattle. The conclusion of my story will touch on the many aspects of my life that are now affected by my involvement in cattle.