Turning in our Literacy Project

I enjoyed writing the first part of our literacies project, the literacies narrative. But after I created my literacies movie I realized that there were a few things I deemed vital to my literacy that I had left out of the narrative because I had not thought of them at the time. I went back and added those few small details. Otherwise I did not know what to change about my narrative, I was a little confused by Trixie's comment that I make my narrative a more creative piece... I had broken my narrative into the three basic groups I saw as most important in my literacy and yes there ended up being three parts which turned into my paper being a standard five paragraph essay. I am unsure of how to go about forcing my paper to be a creative piece when the final part of our literacies project is a creative writing piece. So to solve my dilemma I went back through my narrative and I broke up my large paragraphs into smaller paragraphs. This seemed to help the flow of my paper and I'm hoping this is somewhat how Trixie wanted me to revise my paper.

The mutlimedia literacies project was the hardest one for me to do. It was very time consuming but I didn't mind that part of it. What I did find frustrating was that I was unable to manipulate the movie and images as much as I wanted to. I couldn't figure out how to length the time of a clip or shorten the time of another clip. Then, the day before we were supposed to present our projects, all of my clips disappeared from my movie strip. The movie program I was using told me that they didn't have the right coding. So I had to re-do my entire project! I was furious and confused. There was no reason for my clips to disappear like that, they had worked all the other times I had opened the project and edited it. Now it's time for us to turn them in as finished projects, but I'm afraid to change anything about my movie for fear that my clips will be deleted and I will have to try to re-do it a third time. If I was certain I could change my project without harm, I would add in text to tell whats going on in my movie, much like Jenna's project. I wouldn't want to do a voice over because that is not how I imagine my movie going. I like having the music to flow with the images. A different style I saw was having multiple songs, I thought that was really cool. But again, I'm too scared to change anything about my movie.

It seems almost impossible to go about changing my creative piece of the literacies project because I made a poem and my poem had a rhyme scheme and a set design. The lines are repeated as follows: ABCD BEDF EGFH .... ZAYC. Therefore the lines all have to go together from one stanza to the next. If I were to change just one line I would subsequently have to change that stanza and the one following it and depending on those changes I might have to change the entire poem. Personally I like the way my poem reads and after making a few adjustments of the rhyming words from the input of others in our class, I am happy with the poem the way it is.

I had a lot of fun working on these three parts and watching how my project changed from one to the next. Overall I found it to be a very beneficial experience but I had a hard time trying to revise my pieces due to either little input or technical problems.