THE MADNESS CONTINUES

By Susan

My second day at Multi Media Madness was fun! We had lots of MAD things going on today. At the beginning of the day, everyone just went inside (they forgot to sign in, ahhhhh!!!). when we got in, Joanna thought we might me doing story telling, so she wrote a story saying ‘Once upon a time, there was me. I was born, and then I was dead.’ Well, pretty exciting!! J However, she was right!! We are doing story telling!! Lisette introduced us to Twitter.com, and told us our theme for the day is STORY-TELLING!! That’s mad! Twitter only allows us to post at most 140 characters, and that’s about two sentences! That’s very limited!

Soon, we were playing a game called “And then…”. You play with a group. We picked someone to start the story with one sentence with the words ‘and then’ at the end. The next person continues off of that beginning. The first story went like this: ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE WAS A POTATOE…THE POTATO WAS IN A GARDEN…THE POTATO WAS DANCING WITH ANOTHER POTATOE…THEY SALSA UNTIL NOON…IT STARTED RAINING, AND THE TOMATOES CAME TO LIFE…THE TOMATOES WANTED TO DANCE, BUT THE POTATOES WON’T LET THEM…THE POTATOES SMASHED ALL THE POTATOES…AND THE FARMER ATE THEM ALL. That was a really funny ending!!

We filmed the above with a flip camera, it was handheld, so might be a little be unsteady. Soon, we had something else to do. We each have to write a short story, like this person on twitter. It has to be very, very short. If it’s more than one hundred forty characters, we’ll put in on the blog. It actually took me pretty long to do this, and what I did is very ridicules. I mean, who ever heard of a cat running out into the forest, came back as a unicorn, and made the owner forget about the cat? But I think it’s amazing how people can show the who, when, and where just in two or three sentences. The stories might be ridicules, but I did have a beginning, middle, and end!!

We had lunch, and Ron told us that there’s no more going out and buying lunch. Well, it’s reasonable. I’ve heard about this 12 year-old girl who got chopped up by a person and stuffed in refrigerator on her way home!! After lunch is the fun part.

We posted our stories on twitter and Blogger. Then, we made an interactive video!! It sort of like a game, where you chose what you want to do. There is the introduction, and you have to chose weather you go with the girls or the boys. The girls will also split up, and I have no idea what they are going to do. We shot some of it at city hall!!! I think some places that we’re no allowed to go to, like the dumpster at the basement. We plan girls team A will find the haunted piano. Girls team B will find a lost kitty. Boys will either find a soda machine or lose. I think we had a pretty good idea going, but sadly I had to leave for swimming. The very frustrating thing is, left class half an hour early, got to class late, and there was thunder. When I got back home, it was five. I just wasted the rest of my wonderful class for 20 minutes of swimming butterfly. Very disappointing. But now, I just can’t wait for tomorrow!!! I love MMM, and will definitely be joining next year!!!