Blog7,Shixiao Xu

The digital story I want to choose place story, which is “Finding home” （http://www.storycenter.org/stories/index.php?cat=8）by Ta Kwe Say claim that his travel as his refugee life in Burma that his father is an alcoholic and his mother and he get away from his father when he was six. When he goes to school, his mother moves to US as a refugee. People in Karen didn’t have rights, such as education and jobs. As refugee they need to live in jungle and hide. So, his uncle take him to Thailand, the same as Karen, he also needs to live hide, because of he is illegally. He is very missing his mother that he takes picture every day. In the airport, he sees lots of refugee who has some sick. So he flew alone to Seattle. He recognize his mother through the picture when he out in the hall.

In the whole video, he just uses two pictures, which can identify his family. Always he uses lots of black and write picture, which are very lonely. I think he can use some another picture, which has three people, for instance, mother, father and child. It can compare with his picture, not just use some desolate pictures, because his story detail and his tone already can represent he is a pitiful boy. So using some comparison of methods can render his story. The picture is not very clearly; I just see profile of people. About his speaking is dull, I think it is not infections enough. Maybe when he wants to say his father is an alcoholic man, he can use tone with a hate. And when he refer to his mother he can use tone with a desire, because he miss his mother every day, he needs to express it. I am not sure that he uses dynamic menu, which wants to express his lonely at the end. From the visual point of view, it is not good enough, moreover, just using his leg to make dynamic menu, it will be chaos. But this is a truth story and he is a real man that he can overcome all the things. I am very admiring him.