When we first received this assignment I was confused as to how I would potentially go about transforming my narrative into an e-lit, but after much thought I was able to come up with some of the features I might include:
- Embedded Video: The video clip would highlight a key component of the narrative: the daughter being kidnapped. The clip would thus show an instance where a child is being taken. Those this may seem a bit vague, the purpose of the video clip is to, in a sense, put a face to a name. Simply put by using this video footage we are grasping the reader’s attention and making them more involved and engaged in the narrative.
- Linked Image: The image would depict the husband and wife embracing each other after hearing that their daughter has been kidnapped. With this image I would link it to a page where all the reader saw was a dark screen with the words, “What would you do?” scrolling across the screen. This effect would get the viewer thinking and putting themselves in the shoes of the worried parents and have more appreciation for the narrative overall.
- Bold Text: When it comes to using bold text I would incorporate this effect with startling U.S. facts on children being kidnapped in hopes of “waking people up” and informing everyone about important issues that people in our country may face.
- Italic Text: As for the italicized text I plan to use this feature, at the end of my narrative e-lit on an inspirational and meaningful idiom that ties into the theme of family and/or hardships and overcoming them.
- Sound: My plan for the sound is to a have a child calling out for help, but no one is there to help or hear him/her. This feature, in my opinion, is guaranteed to make the story come to life!
This past week I read the e-lit titled “Storyland.” Storyland was based on a computer generating a plethora of different stories. While reading story after story, I realized that Storyland kept me engaged as to what was going on. The fact that each short story was different added to the engaging aspect of the e-lit as a whole. When it comes to my “hypothetical” e-lit I imagine it to be engaging, as well, but on a more serious note. Since my narrative incorporates such real life events, my interactive feature(s) will not only keep the reader interested, but involved and thinking, which is something Storyland does not necessarily do.