Blog#7——Wu Linjun

The digital story “Short North Obama Mural” (URL: http://digitalstory.osu.edu/stories/community/ ) discusses a story of painting a mural about Obama. In the digital story, the author talks about the design, the process of painting the mural. Lots of people came to see the mural and leave the mark around the mural. Although the author planned there would be 7 young men who will participate into painting the mural, there was only one young man came to participate. Moreover, the effect the mural brought to the author is the motivation of keeping the life moving. In the end of the digital story, there was a boy dancing in front of the mural to show that the mural is finished.

The purpose of the digital story is clear that is to state that the mural gives the author the power of keeping the life moving. The voice quality is wonderful, I can hear almost all the words the author said. The only sentence that I cannot hear clearly is the one in the middle part of the digital story. Images in the digital story are suitable. For example, she said that people were leaving marks on the wall, the picture was just the yellow one with a lot of marks. The way of flow used in this digital story is time flow. The author talks about painting the mural by describing different processes, each step has pictures to support, and the main idea infiltrate in the digital story. In conclusion, this is a good digital story.