I really enjoyed making this image. It was one of my inquiries, because I was doing a lot of digital storytelling and editing with new programs. I wrote a song parody, my group wrote a song and I made it into a video, and lastly the class made mini documentaries and I consolidated them into one cohesive text: a movie. While I was working the last night, I was editing movies on I-Movie and I uploaded a picture of myself that a classmate took. I put text over the picture, and I repeated the text in a Word document.
In this visual text, I wanted to show the different places we can write: Word with normal typed text, typed text with images, and also the photograph of my process, which was taken by my husband. It made me think: while my hands were working and I was writing on the Mac, but I could not take a picture of my hands. Therefore, this image was a collaboration of 1. a classmate who took a picture of me 2. my text on top of the photograph 3. my husband taking a picture of me. 4. Lastly, I uploaded the image in our group video as one of the scenes in the movie.
This is an image of the inquiry process: What makes someone a writer? And in short, it is one who writes, but we can write with many different kinds of texts: oral, audio, photo, video, drawings, and writings, and combinations of them all in an endless chain of discourse.