Blog 7. Digital story ciritique

The digitalstory ‘What You Wanted’ is a story made by Genevieve Gritel which she used to commemorate her father who died because of heart attack. Genevieve’s father is the first college student of their family.  He liked to teach her baby daughter chemistry knowledge when she is young.  After his death, she felt the shift so sudden and her father is still alive last second.  She took her father’s chemistry book and get into the same college- The ohio state university, major in chemistry, which her father considered to be her favorite.  But she changed her major and tried several major in 5 months and finally stopped at English.  From time to time, Genevieve can recall the last conversion she had with her father.  ‘How are you doing？are you happy？‘ He told her that ‘ you have to live for your self, not someone else.’  But she wanna know how will her father say when he find her departed the science he thought her loving and his favorite.  

In the story, Genevieve doesn’t say how much she miss her father directly.  But instead, she tells her own life after her father’s unfortunate death and, guess, image and curiously want to know his response.The viewers can feel the miss through her voice every time she opened her mouse and talk.  The background music is so harmonious to the voice and the emotion of her, single but includes a feeling of bule and sorrowfulness.  She shows few photos in her story, many of them appear more than once.  But this doesn’t make me tired of it. The photo’s from time to time appearances recall and arouse my sympathy once and more.  I can’t help but think how will I response if this sorrowful story happened to me.  However, I think more photos of their daily life can strengthen the feeling of viewer. This is a impressive, engaging and outstanding story. It touched the deepest part of my heart and left me a lot of thought, even after it ended, I can’t get rid of the sincerest sympathy.

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