Storytelling

 

The storytelling activity was an incredible experience, it's been a long time since I didn't do one of these dramatizations, probably since my second year at the university. So, I was very excited about this, I've always loved doing these performances, since high school. We decided to change the story. Initially, we had selected Ligeia, an Edgar Allan Poe short story, but there were only three characters, and our group had 7 members, so that would be difficult. We tried to find a story with multiple characters that we could perform as. 

Finally, and with the approbation of our teacher, we chose the Greek story of Deucalion and Phyrra. I had never heard of this story, but I read it and it was amusing. It reminded me a lot of the biblical tale of Noah. So we read the story and we selected who was going to represent each character. I was going to be Zeus,  the great god of thunder. I was happy because he's an important part of the Greek mythology.

My mom helped me to create the costume, we tried to find a white beard everywhere, we thought because it was almost Christmas time we would find a Santa Claus beard, we went to stores, to the market, and downtown, and there was no luck, so I decided to make my own beard. then I crafted out of cardboard and a shiny gold paper Zeus' thunder, and the rest of the clothing was fabric that I already had.

The day of the recording was really fun, we hadn't seen each other for a while, so it was incredible to be reunited again. Everyone had their outfits ready, we prepared the scenography, and we recorded all the scenes. The filming was kind of difficult, especially because the background was falling off, but we did it, and we were proud of the hard work we did. After that, this subject was almost finished, I had a great time with literature, I didn't have great expectations after the French literature, but It was really interesting, everything, it reminded me of the times I wanted to become a writer, or the times I would analyze the story and character from movies and series, and I would like to thank teacher Lia for bringing back those memories with me, and also my friends who were with me the whole time.

Thank you for reading my blog, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night.

- Carlos Meléndez

Original short story

 Hello once again,

It's been a while, today I want to tell you about my experience during the activity of the original story. When the teacher explained that we would have to create a short story I was excited because I used to write stories about my classmates in high school, it wasn't anything big, just silly stories that I created during my free time. but going back to the assignment, I was a little worried because there were 7 members in my team, and we had to create a plan because writing at the same time could be a challenging task. We planned on dividing the parts, but it would have taken too much time and the story may have been confusing if it was written from different points of view. We consider that one person could write the story and the other ones could give ideas, but it would have been too unfair. Finally, we wrote all of our ideas in a document during an online meeting, and like that, we started creating the world, the characters, the setting, and the plot.

We worked like that for 3 nights, and with all the things we had written we had a decent story, we divided all the paragraphs we had and each member would add more details to the story, we added more information, changed some characters, fixed some plot holes and corrected some contradictions. Then, together we read again the story, to make sure it all made sense. For the characters, we took inspiration from our friends, so it was fun imagining them in these crazy situations.

When we finished we were proud of our creation, I still believe if it were published it would have success. At the moment of recording the narration, I was very nervous, I had to represent the emotions and make the listener feel the sense of the events, but I did try my best. It was a difficult thing to do, but with the help of my team, it was very fun to do, I hope to continue writing in the future.

That was all for today, I hope you've enjoyed reading.

And in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight,

-Carlos Meléndez