How Well Can A Badger Present?

Badgers, like Fantastic Mr. Fox's best friend - Clive Badger, are excellent diggers. They are prudent, they follow the norm, and are adept at going to depths to find information or a place to live. I identify well with a badger, and even more so, through this course on Archival Narratives where we had to excavate digital archives, objects, and the depths of our very mind as we built a personal narrative, a place narrative, and an object narrative which would not only be rich in terms of research, but also be rhetorically sensitive.

I am not doubtful of my imaginative abilities. However, with English being my second language, I tend to restrain myself and stick more to the norms in order to avoid conspicuous errors in my presentation. While I maintain my practice of making better written and linguistic choices, as I had mentioned in my Common Diagnostic Video, I also aim to employ strong imagery, confident vocal presentations, and engaging multimedia to appeal to my audience. Here are some examples:

In my Common Diagnostic Video, I added a short time-lapse of my city during the introduction. I communicated my interest for this course by recalling a fond memory of reading Dan Brown's novel 'Angel's and Demons'. As I was talking about how our touch affects ancient archival documents, I added pictures of actual papers, centuries old, being preserved in Archiva Vaticana - a site of action in the novel. I reckon that the transition in visuals hold the viewer's attention more effectively, as opposed to a single continuous scene where I am talking to the audience.

In a similar fashion, while making my podcast for Artifact 2, I extracted an audio clip from the 1956 film adaption of 'Around the World in 80 Days' to illustrate a hasty move-out right after I had submitted my Georgia Tech application.

I have always enjoyed watching content creators blend popular media elements with their content in a rather unpredictable way. This semester, I got to try out my own ideas through these projects. Digital media applications are ever-growing and I am still at a very early stage of learning these applications. Some of my implementations include creating an animated logo for my podcast, and setting up a favicon that shows up on the browser's tab containing my website. 

Read on about my learning curve with writing, here