Proposing a Story

I would like to do my project on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. I will create post cards from the various places the crew travels under the ocean.  I haven’t decided if I’m going to hand-draw them or create the images in a image editing program yet. Some sources I’m planning on […]

Assets and Pitches: Preparing for Project 4

Okay, so for today’s class we focused on gathering resources and fleshing out our ideas for the Remix a Story project. Our blog post today was supposed to discuss our story, which part we were using, the genre, and how we were planning on going about things; however, I’m doing things a bit backwards… I […]

Project 4 Proposal

I have chosen Grimm’s Snow-white and Rose-red for my story. In this storyI want to use live-action video maybe with some animation. Sources: Grimm, J. & Grimm W. Selected Folktales/Ausgewählte Märchen : A Dual-Language Book. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications Inc. Willingham, B. (2002). Fables (Vols. 1-150). New York, NY: Vertigo. Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics

Borrowers: Remix Project

I have decided that I want to write my remix project on The Borrowers, a classic novel published in 1952 by Mary Norton. Growing us as a child, I greatly enjoyed this story. I loved the concept that there were little people hiding in the walls and ‘borrowing’ things from us. In this story, I […]

Remix: April 7th

A bit of a struggle working on the project today since the computer locked me out but fortunately I already have my initial sources and ideas. The idea I’ve chosen to focus on is the Disney-fied Hercules story as if it were from Hades’s perspective. I think I could come up with something fun that […]

“The What” for Project 4

The Story I’ve chosen to do Project 4 on the Hans Christian Andersen (original) version of The Little Mermaid.  I will be focusing on the whole story, as it’s a fairytale and not terribly long. The Remix I want to tell the story from the point of view of Ariel if she were dead (because she […]