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Twitter narrative

Group Members: Cara, Carol, Spencer, Debbie

Company: Candycrush

Plot:

     Laurent Roll likes eating dessert very much. He likes eat dessert at Candycrush shop. Belinda Raman is his girlfriend. She is a famous singer so she needs to keep slim. For this reason, she does not tolerate his boyfriend always eating dessert because dessert makes her boyfriend become much fatter. Over time, Roll becomes a fat totally. Roman breaks up with him because he looks ugly. After Roman leaves him, he becomes so depressed and constantly eating dessert. Finally, he gets the obesity. Fortunately, he meets with a girl named Maggie Collions. In his trough, she accompanies with him and helps him lose weight. With the help of Collions, he cheer up. Gradually, they fall in love with each other. Also, Candycrush shop has developed a new dessert that will not make people fat. For this reason, Roll does not get fat again. One day, Candycrush hold a strawberry music festival and invited famous singer Belinda Raman to sing songs. Laurent Roll is selected as a lucky audience to sing song with Raman. When Raman finds his ex-boyfriend is so handsome and she wants her boyfriend back. When Laurent Roll sees Raman again, he does not have any feeling to her. After the strawberry music festival, Raman wants to reconcile with Roll. However, the response of Roll is indifferent. Raman wants to break the relationship with Collion and Roll. She takes action. On the one hand, she writes love blog every day. In love blog, she records the details of their love and uploads many sweet photos. On the other hand, she creates a private chat with Collion. Raman makes up a lie to Collions that she is pregnant. Collions believes her words and she is so sad. She decides to leave Roll. She leaves a message that she will never disturb his life. After roll know Collisons leaves him, he is very sad. He hates Raman uses this way to make him back. In addition, in his heart, Collisons is the most important woman for him. She accompanies with him go through the toughest time. She encourages him to cheer up and does everything for him. Roman realizes that he cannot live without her. He uses the power of Twitter. Roll wants her back and focus the attention on her news. However, Roll loses her information for two weekends. One day, Candycrush shop holds a Candycrush game competition. Roll knows Candycrush is her favorite game. Perhaps it is an opportunity to see her. On the day of game, he gets the first prize. When he is asked about who is the person he wants to share his pleasure. He answers he wants to share with Collisons, his girlfriend. Actually, Collisons sees his competition all the time and she is moved. She decides to forgive him. Going through many misunderstandings, they finally work it out.

Character:

Debbie in charge of Candycrush Company: @Candycrushgc

“Candycrush” is a dessert shop in New York. It provides customers with all kinds of delicious desserts, and some of them are low fat desserts especially made for fat customers. The company not only offers dessert, but also organizes various activities, such as strawberry music festival and birthday parties for its fans and special customers.

Cara acts as a male character Laurent Roll. He used to be extremely fat by falling in love with strawberry cakes in Candycrush. After his ex-girlfriend, Belinda Raman, leaves him for no reason, he becomes sad and always visiting Candycrush to find memory with Belinda. Once, he meets a girl, Maggie Collions at Candycrush, he falls in love with her. With the help of Maggie, he loses weight.

Because of Belinda’s returning, he loses Maggie by accident and refuses Belinda’s love all the time. Eventually, he becomes a stuff at Candycrush and he is together with Maggie again.

Carol acts as Laurent Roll’s ex-girlfriend Belinda Raman. She is a popular singer who very cares about reputation and don’t enjoy having dessert. So she breaks up with Laurent because of his appearance and their different interests. But she still loves him so when she figures out that Laurent turns to be thin, she decides to continue their original relation. She uses many plots to separate Laurent and Maggie, showing her love to Laurent, arguing with Maggie, but at the end, she gets nothing and leaves again.

Spencer acts as Maggie Collions, Laurent’s girlfriend. She is a beautiful and patient girl who also loves cakes at Candycrush. She meets Laurent for many times at Candycrush and falls in love with Laurent when she helps him to get weight. She made lots of amazing presents for her boyfriend, but she cannot forgive Laurent when she thinks he still has affair with Belinda. So she disappears for a while until she sees Laurent’s single-minded concern for her. At the end of the story, she forgives Laurent at Candycrush.  

Answer individual question

1: What surprised me most is our plot always changes beyond expectation. In the process of creating our story, the plot actually is constantly change. Originally, we want to use “obesity” as the main theme, because obesity is a big issue that most people are concerned about. However, we find it is a little difficult to attract people’s attention after a few days. Then, we start to use create a love story because most people likes love story. We still use “obesity” as one element in the story. When we continue our story, the hot hashtag is always used by our group in order to attract more people’s attention. The way we adapt our narrative is always based on audience’s attention.

2: What makes me proud is we combine hot hashtag #strawberrymusicfestival  into our plot perfectly. More importantly, this hashtag makes our story get high attention by other people. We create a character is a singer. She needs to sing at Strawberry Music Festival and then she meet with her ex-boyfriend. I think using hashtag perfectly into our story makes me very proud of our story because more and more people start to read our twitter narrative story.

   3:   I think audio is the most useful in our story. We have a plot that happens in music strawberry festival. It is impossible for us to really create a music festival. Therefore, in order to make followers convince, we create an audio. We play different characters and sing a song in audio. After we finish our audio, there are many people like it. For this reason, I think this form of media is the most useful media in our story.

    4: I enjoy the blog most. There is a plot that female character needs to write love blogs in order to make his ex-boyfriend back. For me, writing love letters is very interesting and attractive. When I write love letters, I can think a lot. For example, I will think in what way I should write to change ex-boyfriend’ view. Or should I write some sweetie or some impressive memories? It is really interesting.

5: I think infographic is the least useful media for our story. We almost do not use this media. Infographic really is a convenient way to show information more vividly. However, I think our story is very clear and dialogue is more directly. Therefore, infographic is the least useful for our group.

6: I think vlog is the least enjoyable media for me. Before we take a vlog, we need to do a lot of preparation, like writing draft, revising draft and spending time to take vlog. In order to make a vlog, we need to spend the whole day. In addition, vlog is a funny video that used to comment other funny videos. Accordingly, there is no direct relationship to our story. Therefore, I think vlog is the least enjoyable.

7: I would make our plot a little different. I think use “love” and “obesity” is a little monotonous. If I have opportunity, I will add more elements like revenge, suspense. Based on love story, just make the relationship more complex and create some strange things, which will attract more people’s attention.

8: I want to share my own experience to you. In this twitter narrative, I know how to use different social media to make our story more interesting and attractive. To be honest, I have never tried such thing before. Originally, I think it is very hard to create a story that used social media. Gradually, I realize the power of social media and I will use these things to make our life more wonderful.

Love Story funny version

Love Story funny version 2

Candy's sweet wish

our TEDTALK

My three topics

1: How to become a successful temple-runner?

2: Several tips make you become healthy.

3: Playing game will make you become more smart.

Using vlog in our narratvie

Our twitter story narratives a man who belongs to the group of obesity’s love story. There is no doubt that “obesity” is really a big issue for most Americans. People who suffer from obesity will easily become sensitive and do not trust other people. We can use vlog to show obesity’s troubles and how they are suffering unfair treatments in daily life. It is good way to call on other people to care about obesity people. They actually are same with other normal people.

 In vlog, we can express our meaning in a humorous way, because audiences are more likely to see some funny videos. We can edit voice more interesting to attract more people’s attention but also added to our own concern at the end. 

My complete essay on my vlog

Self-assessment

In the last week, Tina, Hedia, Cara and I formed into one group to finish a “group-problem solving presentation”.  In the process of preparing this presentation, our group members combine our ideas together and put a lot of efforts into this presentation. We discussed with problems and solve conflicts together, finishing our group presentation at our best.

A leader, who is responsible for the whole teamwork, is essential in a group.  A lead should have a good communication skill that used to contribute and evaluate ideas and clarify difficult problems. Leadership role plays a positive role which solves different conflicts and makes the team forward.  We selected Cara as our group’s leader, because she is good at communicating with other people and have the strong capability to organize the group. Cara is really a good leader. She respected every group members’ suggestions and encouraged members to participate together. When we started to decide our topic, everyone come up with their ideas. Hedia was a less active member in our group, so she seldom discussed. Cara as a leader, also was a regulate participator. She always asked Hedia’s opinion actively and made her involve in our discussion. Cara also held the meeting regularly and summarized the results of our discussion in order for us better understanding. Under her leadership, our group becomes an effective group and completed assignments quickly.

Although leadership role is very important, whether a team’s performance is good or not is based on individual’s participation. Therefore, membership role is significant in a group. There are four teamwork skills for an effective group, respectively are openness, action orientation, supportiveness and personal style. Our group members mainly conform to these requirements. For instance, when we meet with different opinions, we were willing to accept these ideas and discussed together. Our group members will never refuse other people’s suggestions or even insult others. It reflects the “openness” of teamwork skill. There was a time that I was very nervous about my presentation and I felt very discouraged. Other group members stopped their own tasks. They comforted me and encouraged me that our team would be the best. It reflected the “supportiveness” of teamwork skill. I remembered there were many unsolved problems occurred during discussion, we chose the “brainstorming” way to develop creative solutions to solve problems. It reflected the “Action Orientation” of teamwork skill. Therefore, we had active personal style and solved different problems by our collective efforts.

After this group problem-solving presentation, I have a better understanding of leadership role and membership role. This experience is really a meaningful lesson for me. I know the importance of the union of a group. Also, I have the ability to play an eligible role as a member in a group.  This experience makes me learn a lot of teamwork skills, which will be useful for my further corporation with other people. 

My final infographic Project

                 this infographic was made in piktochart.

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Question：How can you use different kinds of media to create a layered narrative in your Twitter narrative?

At first, we use internet as a tool to share our story to audience. Professor asks us use twitter this social media to attract more people’s attention. Obesity is most American’s concerns, so we want to use these terms to cause public’s worry. 

I think at the start of our story, we can add some obesity’ pictures to gain people’s attention. Although I think add audio is effective, our voice is not good enough. If we can select other voice to warn people, I think it will useful. As for some complex plot, using infographic is an interesting way to show ideas. Most people will read our story more easily and feel much attractive.