I really wanted to do something like the gay rights video that is fact based, but I couldn’t think of a current issue that I’m really interested in. So, I decided to go with Peter Pan. I’m going to focus on the fact that Peter Pan doesn’t want to grow up. I’ll make his character be like a college student in present years, and I’ll outline the reasons that he doesn’t want to grow up in the year 2014 with facts about the recession, the job market, and the expenses of living with student loans.

I’m not sure how I want to display the information yet. I am really interested in working with Flash, but I am not sure if that is the best outlet for this idea. I’m still thinking about that.

So far, these are the sources I have found related to Peter Pan. I will use other sources for the present-day information.

The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up – 1904 Play by J.M. Barrie

Peter Pan – 1911 novel by J. M. Barrie

Peter Pan – Disney Movie – 1953

The story that I am deciding to use for Project 3 is Beauty and the Beast. The three sites that I am using for sources are the movie, the book, and the official Disney site.

The story I’ve chosen is Where the Wild Things Are. I will be remixing the 1963 childhood story, not the 2009 film. I’m still stuck between retelling the story with twitter and attached pictures with an audio layover, or film events around campus and the community.

The three versions I found of my story include the original text by author and illustrator Maurice Sendak in 1963. The second version will be from the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are by Spike Jonze. The third source is an op-ed article I found in the New York Times by David Brooks. It compares how the film is more psychological as opposed to the book. It also compares other differences between the two different mediums.

For my third project, I chose to use the story Frozen. 

Here are the 3 sources I’ve chosen to use:

• Frozen (2013) movie
• Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale The Snow Queen (what movie is based on)
  • http://www.online-literature.com/hans_christian_andersen/972/
• Frozen official Disney site
  • http://frozen.disney.com

I’ve chosen to work with The Princess and the Pea for my story redesign. I will work with the original Hans Christian Andersen version, a YouTube children’s channel video version, and a 2012 children’s book called The Pea that provides a slight twist to the story. The citations for each are below.

1. “The Princess and the Pea,” by Hans Christian Andersen
   • Andersen, Hans. “The Princess and the Pea.” Classics of Children’s Literature. 6^th John W. Griffith, Charles H. Frey. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005. pp 117-118. Print.
2. Princess and the Pea – Fairy Tale Time at Cool School!
   • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRIQaGCXdZY
3. One Pea, by Julia Meyer and MarieTabler
   • Meyer, Julia, and Marie Tabler. One Pea. Art Mill, 2012. Print.

After reviewing the previous year’s final projects, I was conflicted as to what type of story I should remix.  I don’t really have any attachments to fairy tails, and I may fail this class if I followed my moral compass and worked with conservative political topics.  Recently I watched the new lifetime movie “Lizzie Borden” and I was a little obsessed . It followed the rhyme, “Lizzie Borden had an axe”.  The movie was based on the aforementioned events, and gave a great look into the time period.  Along with that movie, I will use Crimelibrary.com, and biography.com.  Since the story is so well known but her innocence is still technically under discussion, I think these sources will adequately help me navigate how I will present my product.  I am still thinking of what multimedia sources I will use to introduce Lizze in a new light.

Also, just as a reference for me- I think this interface might work for my project!

http://www.tiki-toki.com/account/

The site that I found the most interesting of the presentations that were given today was Dipity. I would like to get the chance to use Dipity because it seems similar to the site I did my presentation on, which was Storify. However, instead of creating a story or article like on Storify, Dipity allows its users to create a timeline of events that’s easy to share on social media.

Today my favorite presentation was Stephanie’s on Infogr.am. It looks like a really interesting site for creating infographics. I created an infographic last year for a class and understand the time and work that creating a well-designed infographic can take. With that said, Infogr.am seems to remove some of that work by creating templates for popular infographic themes, such as maps, graphs, and other chart types. This tool looks especially handy for journalists and would make an excellent visual aid to accompany a particular story. I could see myself using this site to create an infographic for a research project.

My favorite presentation today was Ali’s on Storybird. It looked like a great tool for budding writers and to discover other amateur. I’ve written for pleasure in the past and this seems like a great way to get back into it. I took a creative writing class my sophomore year and learned that feedback was the most important part of the writing process. Storybird seems like a great way to get feedback in an anonymous setting, which would provide honest opinions about a piece of writing. The visuals are also excellent and I could see that making a huge difference between wanting to write a few pages in a word document and writing on Storybird.