MElanie tells stories
Telling digital stories is pretty awesome.
https://www.instagram.com/digitalstorytelling0495/
I was definitely nervous about doing the reverse chronological order with instagram! I thought about going in and posting them in reverse chronological order so that the reader would scroll through in chronological order but that seemed too easy. I was excited to see the reactions were very positive to the reverse order of my story. The readers said they liked how they could read it either way and it still flowed together well. So taking that risk payed off since mine was different. The story I was telling was a journey through my junior year of college in the Disney College Program which was magical and perfect in every way. I wanted to convey the feeling of magic through my pictures and I was happy to see the comments from the readers on how the pictures made them feel the magic and made them smile. I added the part about meeting my boyfriend down there not to be cheesy but to show just how much I gained from the experience and the readers seemed to like that part as well. If I could go back and change anything I would maybe just add some more format to the post maybe some space or something along those lines. I feel like instagram was a good choice though because I wanted everything to blend since it went by so fast. I was surprised at all the positive feedback since I felt as though I took a risk using instagram to tell a story that means so much to me. I used little words and I was happy I got to incorporate some emojis to just make it different and like a real instagram feed. To create the story I had to pick and choose what photos to use that really conveyed the time in my life. So that was the most difficult part. I also wanted to create some unity and I am glad some people noticed that I used the same filter and editing on every picture to create an "instagram theme". All in all I loved this project and being able to go though all my pictures again. I am so happy about the feedback.
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