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The Business of Creative Writing last video reflection. 

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I did it! I am a WRITER!! Woohoo!!! 

Creative Writing Portfolio 2

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AVS Final Production Video

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AVS- Week 4 Final Production- Video Reflection

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Week 3- Video Reflection for Advanced visual Storytelling Class

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Advanced Visual Storytelling Rough Cut - Week 3

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AVS Week 2 video reflection

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Advanced Visual Storytelling

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Week 1 Video reflection for Advance Visual Storytelling class.

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Advanced Visual Storytelling Script PDF

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zSNkdeK0r8q--RVVGN5HTLyoYFQE9JKn/view?usp=sharing

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Multimedia Adaptation

During the past month, I learned about multimedia adaptation. The experience about adapting a short story into a script was phenomenal. Even though, the idea is daunting, so I heard, it is not unfamiliar. It’s a practice that has been happening for long decades, and it will not cease. In addition, it is also a great way to unleash one’s creativity. Choosing a story that is already written helps me understand and identify its essence. That essence is what it is used as the backbone for the new, contemporary story.

The short story I chose to transform or adapt is titled Bernice Bobs her Hair. It is a short story written in 1920 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This story is about Bernice, who visits her cousin, Marjorie for the summer. Marjorie knows how to keep young men interested in her, while Bernice is boring and unattractive. Marjorie is annoyed because she has to bribe the boys to dance with Bernice. Marjorie ends up teaching Bernice how to hold interesting conversations and flirt making Bernice become a sudden hit with the boys, especially Warren, who’s Marjorie’s beau. Marjorie gets upset and tricks Bernice into bobbing her hair. Bernice falls in Marjorie’s trap and cuts her hair making the boys lose all interest in her. Bernice decides that is best to leave town, but not before sneaking in Marjorie’s room, at late hours of the night, cutting her two, long braids and throwing them onto Warren’s porch before running to the station.

In my version, Bernice and Margie are total strangers until they became roommates during their freshman year in college. Bernice is a country girl, who wants to be a social worker, and Margie is a city diva who wants to be an actress. They casually meet Warren, a handsome sophomore student, who’s studying to become a veterinarian. Margie claims she saw him first and gets in their way to keep them apart. One day, Warren sees Bernice in a café and invites her to a Halloween party, but she only to promise to think about it. After living as roommates early in the school year, conflict starts when Margie leaves her clothes all over the place, and Bernice gets tired of it. Bernice picked-up the clothes, put them inside a trash bag and places it next to the trash can. In retaliation, Margie takes non-flattering pictures of Bernice and post them on Facebook. Bernice decides to get even and attends the Halloween party. She dresses as a sexy dominatrix, humiliates Margie in front of everyone by damaging part of her costume with her bullwhip, and conquering Warren with her sexy costume.

Adapting short stories into scripts is a new favorite for me. I look forward to adapting more short stories in the future. I’m grateful

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Writing for Games

Gamification is the reality of our lives in the 21stcentury. We live in a technology era that has become more than simple youngsters playing games on television consoles but a necessity in everything we do daily. Through media convergence, we can multitask and accomplish more during the day. Technology converges make possible to have all- in- one devices that have everything we need without having to carry individual devices. Smart phones and smart TV’s are examples this. Having a device that can be a phone, have access to live TV, a camera, an electronic agenda, a notebook, with game applications easy to download, a library, music, and more… you name it!

Another side of gamification and media convergence, that I like, is the relationship of these two with education, medicine, and the military. It is an education teaching tool. https://youtu.be/X05bb63PEM0 Gamification can promote skills and strengthen knowledge in the development of medical thinking.https://youtu.be/X5XxWi9vpYkTechnical platforms offer students visual and mental interaction with the science of medicine. Since babies, millennials learn how to read, learn, and play with electronic devices. They are comfortable with all gaming mechanics and will engage faster than using just a traditional classroom. They learn faster and without being bored. https://www.classcraft.com/lp/gamify-01/?gclid=CjwKCAiAlb_fBRBHEiwAzMeEdtBJXO2t7AttMWsDtsohv0WHlTLm4JwE2aiUizaGK5zQWlP1WTg0vhoCMr4QAvD_BwE

The military use gamification that contain military logistics and tactics to train soldiers of all branches in the military. The use of simulators provides a realistic imitation of the operation of a vehicle, aircraft, or other complex system, used for training purposes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwtfQze94E0

Games are now an important and real part in our lives and our society. It is our responsibility to embrace it, endorse it, and use it to create smart and talented people and not to destroy one another.

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ESW Class Reflection

This past month was about learning Episodic and Serial Writing. This class was an amazing experience because it was about putting together all the elements I learned individually in the previous classes. For example, writing an original premise, giving life to my characters by writing their bios, writing a beat sheet using the basic three-act structure, introducing, escalating, and solving the conflict through the use of dialogue and action words (Show Don’t Tell), writing the first draft of the pilot for a Web Series, and the reward of writing a final, professional script for my pilot. It was giving life to a story using only the parts that mattered and tossing those that were not moving the story forward. In my opinion, writing a script is more structured and organized than writing a novel. I still look forward to writing a novel, but that dream has been blurred by the excitement of writing more creative stories using a format that tells more by using the right words and less embellishment. Knowing that I can give wings to my creativity and I have the ability of writing a professional script has helped me envision the possibility of doing this for a living. The more I think about it, the more excited I get. I want to focus, during the remainder of my master’s degree, in finding agencies or companies that give opportunities to new screenwriters to expose their knowledge and creativity. I plan on doing research in Arizona, which is where I currently live, that will guide me to the right path on pursuing this new dream. I am grateful to the wonderful, passionate, and knowledgeable ESW professor (and previous classes professors) for believing in me, in my ability to master this form of art, and the constructive feedback and “tough love” given that has made me a better writer.