To write my multimedia story Hornby, I tried to follow closely to my story draft. I took the feedback from the peers in my small group and the professor, but the feedback was all positive, commenting that my idea was good and to stick with what I already had. I did end up changing the reason why I wanted to find the special spot in my story so badly. I originally said it was because of the peace it brought me after my dog died, but the way I had written the story, it seemed that it would be too random to bring up the passing of my dog at the end of the story with no mention of it prior. Instead, I just went with needing to escape the chaos of my family and our friends for a bit. I tried to keep the story interesting by not revealing what exactly I was trying to find till the end of the story, that is also why it was then difficult to incorporate my childhood dog into it.

Based on the plan in my draft, I ended up doing a day trip to Hornby Island. I drove my car over and brought my dog along for the adventure. To incorporate the multimedia, I brought my phone which took photos, videos, and audio recordings. I also brought my camera to take photos as well, but I didn’t use it too much due to the simplicity of using my phone. I ended up forgetting my sketch pad in my rush out the door to catch the ferry, and I decided I didn’t need sketches in the end because the photos and videos covered everything and I was meeting the requirement of 4 types of media (at least I thought at the time- text, images, videos, and audio…).

For the forms of media I used, I incorporated text, images, videos and some audio. I had difficulties adding the audio recordings to my blog post (as mentioned at the bottom of my story post), but the videos do incorporate audio that I believe add to the information I had in the story. In the draft, I also mentioned potentially incorporating drawings, but I did not do this for my final story. I forgot to pack a sketchbook in my rush to catch the ferry, and I ended up feeling like the photos were able to portray everything in the story (also I am not a very good artist, so I am not sure how much the drawings would have added).

To incorporate the Mayer’s Principles, as I mentioned in my draft, I included multiple forms of media to make the story more engaging and memorable for readers/ viewers. To do this, I added visuals like photos and videos, as well as audios (which just ended up being the videos due to difficulties with the voice recordings) to add to the text, following the modality principle. When writing the story, I used casual language like I stated in my draft. This matches the Mayer’s Principles of “personalization” making the reading more engaging with more interesting script than stiff, formal text. I tried to follow the spatial and temporal contingency principles by placing my photos and videos directly after the text that explains the setting/ experience. Following the segmenting aspect of Mayer’s Principles, I also tried to keep my paragraphs relatively short and specifically spaced based on the plot and information given for that segment.

(If the videos do not cover the audio aspect, and a fourth type of media is required, please let me know and I will figure out something else to add asap! I figured I would post the story first due to the deadline just to show that I have finished it)