Think of three different ways—other than print—to tell a story. (We’ll assume that your piece has a print component.) Give a descriptive one-paragraph summary for each. Post idea by the end of class.
1. Charts and Diagrams. Graphically represent relevant information, or bits of interesting trivia that aren't necessarily intrinsic to the story but help flesh out the topic. Maybe a bar chart of how much time it takes on average for a drag queen to get dressed up for a performance versus for their daily life versus a biological woman, or a pie chart of reactions from passersby a drag king says he has experienced when in drag, or xy graph charting number of drag shows and pride events versus gay rights legislation or homophobic attacks.
2. Audio Clips. Conduct and record interviews, edit for quality soundbites, embed links to digital home of the project in an attractive manner. I'm envisioning maybe photos of various sources and when you click on them you would hear them speak a sentence or two- would emphasize how many different voices -literally- and perspectives there are at play. Or similarly have the text of an interview question and then below 'What Marcia Said', 'What George Said", etc. and clicking on the sources name would trigger the audio of their response to that question.
3. A game, of some ilk. I don't know for sure how this would work, and probably don't have the coding skills to make it a reality, but some sort of interactive mini flash game? Could that be a viable method of story-communication? Or some kind of choose-your-own adventure? I don't know how that's really useful or how it could be applied to our topic, but interactive things are so trendy right now.
I didn't list photo essay because that seems like the most obvious go-to thing but I do think that with this topic it could lend a really neat edge. Maybe like a series of photos interspersed between the text... say after a paragraph about something like what kind of wigs drag queens wear have three shots of the same individual from different angles putting on a wig.
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