A Showcase Site
The Lazy Apprentice My inspiration for this project came from my life-long love of stories and magic. While The Lazy Apprentice approximates the conventions of fairytales, it is far more Brothers Grimm than Mother Goose. Inspired by Zipes’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: An Anthology of Magical Tales, this hypertext narrative traces one boy’s struggle to defy …
Entries of a Cold Case This visual and written narrative allows the user to step into the mind of a detective as he journals his thoughts during a murder investigation. The narrative focuses on the limits one will go in order to bring a murderer to justice and the detective who suffers from the mental …
Mirror Mirror Imagine that you have woken up in a strange place where you can remember nothing about who you are or what your life was like before that moment. The only thing you know is your name. The monsters in the shadows won’t be able to find you that way. Enter this multimodal experience …
Mental Saturation Disclaimer: Mental Saturation is a personal journey through mental illness. Though it finishes on a more positive note, there are allusions to death, violence, and substance abuse. Through poetry layered on self-portraits, this project is a personal narrative experiencing depression and moving towards survival and self-acceptance. Loosely based on the Kübler-Ross Model of …
Evidence of Wear: A Feminist Anthology Exploring the experiences of a small group of female college students, I’ve created a poetic “experience anthology” revolving around the question, “what is your female identity and how did that identity come to be?” Through visual art and poetry, this hypertext aims to not only explore nuances of feminine …
The Suitcase If the man you loved most in the world broke your heart two days before your wedding, would you marry him? The Suitcase is an interactive narrative meant to decide the answer. By exploring four visual narratives, looking through Instagram, and reading a html text anyone will be able to decide for themselves …
Bully What’s it like to be a victim of bullying? How can bullying be discrete? Experience a realistic fiction narrative based off of the author’s own experiences in school, the experiences of her friends, and the experiences she’s heard from adults. The story of Carly will help you conceptualize the life of a bullying victim. …
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beauty and the bachelor’s degree My purpose in creating this project was to try and tell a narrative strictly through images. In today’s media driven world, I’m fascinated by the way that images have become central to everything that we do. But since time immemorial, fairy tales have been told orally or via the written …
The Artist Colony “The Artist Colony” is a multimodal, transmedia, digital story about a writer’s introduction to a group of artists known as the Artist Colony. With a concentration on aesthetics, I wanted to explore different forms of beauty and art and the power they have to shape the world around us. Taking inspiration from …
The Real Housewives of Olympus The Real Housewives of Olympus is a transmedia combination of writing, art, and voice work that explores the idea of a fictional reality show featuring the legends of Greek mythology. The goal was to create a parody of ubiquitous reality television as well as use time-worn characters to tell modern …
The Poetry Project The Poetry Project is a multimedia project that seeks to make poetry available (and enjoyable) to a broader audience. I created my project with the idea of transmedia in mind—that is, the aggregation of many forms of digital media at once. Throughout my project, the user goes through a journey of learning …
A Tale of Two Cities Modernized A Tale of Two Cities has held a spot in my reading shelf for years, and I utilized this project to transform the piece into a modern day drama. While some events don’t follow the exact timeline of Dickens, I included a summary so all viewers can understand the …
Unheard When you first meet Mr. Chai, you notice his humor, generosity, and work ethic. It isn’t until you get to know Mr. Chai a little better that you realize the incredible story of his past. From narrowly escaping communist soldiers in Laos, to spending years in a Thai refugee camp, to finally creating a …
A Walk Through Love The hypertext story before you, accented with audio and visuals, is the result of several weeks of careful planning to ensure that the story is not just told but told well and in a fashion that is immersive as well as relatable. It focuses on love because this is something I …
