7/2026

 Digital stories are an extension to storytelling. They allow you to create, share, and engage with stories on a different level. Stories can be spread across boundaries. Stories on digital platforms allow us to interact with others’ works, whether that’s reviews, experiences, comments, or debates. Not to mention, digital storytelling allows you to be creative. There are endless possibilities on how you share your work or opinion on work with others. For example, I’ve given a review I did on some pieces for class. Digital storytelling allows you to mix media; images, sounds and videos can all be added to tell a story. This is where the importance of editing and design comes into play. Digital storytelling gives you the narrative to be in control in what you create or put out. Narrative elements such as structure, voices, themes, plot and engagement are key to digital storytelling. It’s sharing the same story you would read in a book, just adding a digital (technological) aspect into play.

Queers in Love at the End of the World was probably the best story I engaged in. It’s a story, but it adds a bit of a “gaming” feel to it. The story is about a couple who has 10 secs to either kiss, hold them, take or tell something, but you are in control of what happens next. By the time you get done reading, everything is wiped away and you can keep trying again, over and over. I can understand the plot of the story while also being fully engaged. You might not get far if you read slowly, but it gets its’ point across, nonetheless.

Ghosts was told like a regular story but mixed the perfect use of technology. The story is about AI while also functioning like AI. As you scroll, it adds more sentences and phrases, as AI does when it’s given prompts. It basically walks through the plot of the story with you.  It’s very engaging.

Taroko Gorge was definitely functioning like a generator, as it just kept adding and adding. It’s a poem, so I can understand that it would just keep flowing. It’s a peaceful nature story; that’s about all I got from that.

Sunspring was such an odd Sci-fi AI scripted film. I feel like the plot was about sex and crushing on someone, but I was genuinely confused. The script may have been AI, but the actors might as well have been too. It was a weird story, but it definitely couldn’t go as far as a real movie.

I see storytelling heading or going into a positive light. Creativity and technology are endless, and if used properly working together, storytelling can grow.