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So close to the end of the semester and even more projects to finish!! How will I survive? Only two weeks until the end…deep breathes and calm blue oceans.

This week my group for the Collaborative Story Explosion completed the daunting task, I though it was never going to end! From my interviews we chose Erin V’s story of being deaf in one ear, but made the character completely deaf. From Erin’s interviews we chose the one she did with Jessica, which helped us greatly because jess was in our group and could really help us with the narrative. Finally from Jessica’s interviews we chose the one she did with her boyfriend on the topic of a man he knew when he was in the army. We then proceed to pick which elements and setting from the interviews we wanted to use in our story explosion. We made our final decision to base the story on a train in China, Jessica was a great help with this because she knew all the technicalities and had first hand experience. The two characters are a couple, Wallace who was in the army and has some crazy ideas, and Sarah who is deaf but can read lips. It took a couple hours to map out our plan, we made an algorithm to help us sort everything out. The hardest part was organizing the writing so it wouldn’t be extremely difficult to put online and have a good flow to it. Heres how the story begins:

“It was a damp and cold morning in Guangzhou, China, and the train station was packed. It was by all means an ordinary day and furthermore ordinary business for a Chinese train station, but one element—or perhaps two—stuck out like a sore thumb. Amidst the bobbing sea of black-hair crowding around the train, two blond heads—pitched noticeably higher than the rest—were weaving and pushing their way through the crowd to get to their platform.

Sara and Wallace were your typical foreign couple living abroad in Asia – Sara had recently finished her degree and was feeling some wanderlust, and had found it easy enough to persuade her long-time boyfriend that he should leave the militia and come teach English with her in the “exotic far east”. They were both blond, blue-eyed, and consequently figures of extreme interest as they’d journeyed through mainland China together in the last year.

Now, climbing aboard a train bound for an airport in Shanghai, they prepared themselves for the strange and unique experience known as: A Chinese Sleeper Train.”

Also I found out this week that my After Affects animation for Visual Studies was chosen to be featured in CineFranco. I was shocked to say the least because I really didn’t think my project was really that good. But, hurrah!

I finished my third project for Flash Programming. It was a game in which you move your character around the space and avoid other characters which make you lose points and find characters that will give you more points. I changed the design of Brian’s original game to a sort of Space Invaders style game. This was a tricky project but in the end I was extremely happy with what I accomplished, I should really stop doubting my abilities!

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