When I was a teenager,my parents brought me a “magical wand”. It was the first gift I received, and it has become one of the most meaningful symbols for my childhood dream. I’m always deeply attracted by meaningful,magical and spiritual experiences. By exploring the western and occult culture, I learned that cards could draw meanings that is significant to one person, and further projected to external world. I connected my personal experience to my story, and it was not easy. Individuals might have their own story to tell; yet not all of them observe the card with the same scope. Throughout this week,I learned to engage audiences with different tones, pictures or sound effects. Having a clear story structure would also be helpful for listeners to grasp concepts of the story. I would to take a video about how one of my cards could encourage me and what the cards told me .When I doing the recording I found that it was hard to keep a smooth talking. Sometimes, I had to repeat myself that I could recognized what I should say next. In my next attempt at a trying video, I’ll try to use thing that hold my subject in place to prevent camera shake.

Here is how I prepare for the video

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Here is my video

Here is my twine game

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Reflection

In this week reading,  7 Storytelling Techniques Used by the Most Inspiring TED Presenters, I appreciate Zak Ibrahim’s storytelling style. The discovery that his father was a participant in the World Trade Centre bombing opens his narrative.Then he travels back in time to narrate about his early years and how he came to follow a different route than his father.A typical story takes an unexpected turn at the end.It’s an inverted method of influencing people’s desire of following the last part of story.

I tried to use Mayer’s Segmenting Principle，Mayer’s Coherence Principle， and UDL Guidelines in my video. My video is shorter than two minutes with subtitles. A really simple method to convey the idea that I want others to understand that the finest treatment they can give themselves is oneself.My pictures and sounds are closely related to my theme.

However，I did lost Mayer’s Personalization Principle and Merrill’s First Principles. My tone wasn’t cordial enough. I think it’s because I’m not familiar enough with my text to speak with some stuttering. The bad thing about this is that people get bored when they watch my videos. Additionally, I don’t ask questions from the viewer’s point of view; in other words, my videos are not expensive and basically just discuss the topics I want to discuss. I’ll try to make my photographs more organized in my next attempt. Say I want to keep my whole image in the middle. To get more proficient at it and be able to add narration with greater feeling, practice the text multiple times. When creating your narrative board, try to imagine myself in the position of the audience and pose questions. In this manner, the audience won’t think it to be as bored.