Experience in the Storytelling.

Tuesday, November 28th, 2023

Participating in this activity has certainly been a very nice experience. 

Through this blog, I’m going to tell you a little bit about my experience working on the storytelling activity.

The story that we had to narrate and dramatize was "La Ziguanaba" by the great Salvadoran author Salvador Salazar Arrué. In this story we can find the main characters fishing in a river, that’s why we decided to go to Ilopango's lake (Apulo) to record the video of these scenes.

When we arrived to the place where we were going to record, we found a great obstacle: there was a lot of noise in the area. There was music and many people around, because it was Sunday and it is a very visited day by tourists. 

However, we are UES students and nothing was going to stop us haha, so we managed to find a kind of risky solution but that was going to be very useful : we paid a boat trip to a small island in the middle of the lake to be able to record in silence. And this is where we found another obstacle: there were also people on the island, so we headed to another place near the area where we were finally able to record. In my case, I was Pedro, the main character, and I needed a net to fish, so we could find a kind gentleman who lent us a net to use in the drama.

After an hour, we finally managed to record all the scenes of the narrative and arrived safely back at the lake shore. 

As we returned home, we began editing the video, joining all the parts, including the bloopers from the recording.

In conclusion, I would say that I really enjoyed this experience because we had a lot of fun recording the drama of the story, but especially because my colleagues and I could meet again after a long time without seeing each other.

Experience creating the Short story

 Tuesday, November 28th, 2023

Writing a story is not an easy task, especially if you don’t use your imagination. 

Talking about my experience writing a short story is not as simple as you might think. To begin with, my teammates and I, thought a lot about what gender and what topic our story would be. It was not so simple as we all have different ideas, but in the end we managed to reach an agreement and ended up writing about a story related to time travel.

We all thought it was a good idea, however we had our doubts, since when talking about time travel we could find obstacles in the development of history.

In the end we decided to start writing on that subject, as I came up with an idea that would deal with the story and began to use my imagination while writing. 

I felt like a professional writer as I wrote my ideas, and of course my colleagues also completed the story with their own original ideas, including specific details about the setting and the characters, and also reviewing some detail regarding the spelling and grammar of the writing.

In addition, we reviewed every detail of the story, especially that it contained the main parts of the plot so that the ideas had coherence, and finally with an end where the conflict was resolved.

When it comes to describe it in words, it sounds easy but it was not, since you have to take care of every detail of the story and explain the reasons of each situation.

Finally, after having the story ready, we split the story to record the audio of the narration, which was the easiest part to do.

In my personal case, I think that this activity could be worked better individually since although 5 minds work better than one, sometimes each person has different ideas and for that reason it is difficult to agree when elaborating a group history. However, I think it was a very nice experience that we all enjoyed, especially those of us who like to read and imagine every scenario of the story.