Yaminie’s Underground blog

Final Project Proposal for Collective StorytellingI loved the idea of ‘Big stories, little stories’ from this week’s reading.  I feel people who actually go through/witness a bigger story playing out tend to undermine their role/experience. I want to people to think about Big stories that they might be a part of, and then tell me their own little story about  their roles, experiences etc.Also, in the same reading the author talks about ‘own story, own words’. And hence, in keeping with the oral theme that I’ve worked on this entire semester, I want people’s stories in their own voices.So, I want to create a site where people can submit audio pieces of their story.Questions for the class1.) How should audio be submitted?How do people feel about submitting audio. Would it be easier if it was in the form of a GUI app on the mobile where you could just click-record-click send and it posts to the website? Or would it be easier for people to record stuff on their laptops and upload? 2.) How should stories be solicited?I am not sure how easy it is for people to think of a little story which might be a part of a big story. So it might be easier to give themes and people to could submit to those themes. Alternatively people could submit stories and their title should indicate the big story. And then other participants can submit audio responses with their own stories, thus forming threads of little stories for one big story…3.) what’s a good starting point (Big story) for ITP?How do I start getting stories? If I want ITPers to contribute, what Big story threads could be interesting?