Communicative Deviations

Multimodal Literacy Narrative (by Scannell), 2)Digital Literacy Narrative (by Andfull), 3) Words, Magic (by Truaman), 4) Digital Litearcy Narrative (by Peyton), and 5)Literacy Narrative (by Wooten)


View the literacy narratives listed above and evaluate them (what do you like about them? what don't you like? why?). What criteria do you think we should use for evaluating these types of texts?


In the first one I liked the changes between the interviews, the stills, and the other clips, but the narrative didn't flow very well, and ran on about all her accomplishments. The introduction didn't really play in to being a thesis statement for the rest of the video, or any relevant introduction.


For the second, I felt the visual animation was interesting, but the graphics were poor, and the narrative was not formulated or spoken very well, and didn't seem to have a good point. Much like in the last narrative, I did enjoy the explanation of why the story was relevant to the author, but I think the childhood stories should be short.


In the third, the story was well told, and again the about the author (in this case the behind the scenes) was interesting. I do think the video could have benefited from transitions between his actual interview and some different visuals.


In the fourth, the fuzziness of the phone screen was incredibly frustrating, and took away from the story - the beginning and middle was too drawn out, but the conclusion was too short, and unfulfilling. 


In the fifth, the point of the story was sort of lost on me, and the lack of background of the author made the narrative uninteresting. The transitions between different visuals, and how the story was told with text and stills was interesting and successful in my opinion, but the classical music was an odd choice for background noise. 


I think what is important is to have a solid story within the narrative that flows well, interesting visuals, audio and movement, as well as something to 'take away' from it. If the narrative doesn't have a base to stand on, the majority of the content will not succeed.


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