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Redridinghood Blog Post #8

@YakustaLeader

With Donna Leishman’s “Redridinghood” it has definantly been made to be interactive with the reader and changes the way the story is normally told. This new form of the story is like one of those story books where you are at one page and gives you options of where to go next in the story. And each option changes or stays with how the story is being told, good or bad. It does have that same effect but because of the new media that it was created on, more like an electronic piece of literature, then it has changed the way the reader interacts with the story. It also has changed the story a bit as well. Everyone knows the original story of Red Riding Hood, but in this version, it changed certain elements in the story. It’s more modernized and the wolf is actually a guy.

For this new version, the story is not like a picture book or anything other form of a paper book. Yes it’s like the version I stated above, but everything else is different. Redridinghood is a picture story, but has very little texts. It’s been remediated into the digital form and has become interactive. You click on a certain place or image and it may have it do something (like with the flowers moving), or the book becoming a diary when you click on Red Riding Hood’s bag. In doing so, then it allowed the use of affordance to help tell the story.

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@PerrinKyla

Redridinghood is a classic fairy tale that everyone knows. The electric medium allows us to interact with the story and tell it in whatever way we wish. Exploring Donna Leishman’s site for redridinghood she explains her theory of how it is possible that the interactivity of point and click destroys the story. In some ways I think that the answer to her theory is yes. For me, I know the story of little redridinghood as one of a young girl and a wolf and a grandmother. Her rendition of this story take an old story and transforms it into a new medium. Marshall McLuhan stated that “Information pours upon us, instantaneously and continuously. As soon as information is acquired, it is very rapidly replaced by still newer information…We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience coexist in a state of active interplay.” (Pg.63). I think that what McLuhan was getting at was that creativity is not like it use to be. That the interpretations of stories is now becoming more common in the sense that people would rather remake one story into their own then to make up a completely new story. In Leishman’s story there is no specific ending to it and it is also confusing to navigate her electronic literature. I think that it is considered electronic literature but that in order to be a good new medium it should have more options to the user in order to help her prove her theory.