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I’ve honestly been thinking quite a bit about what my digital story should be. I’ve gone through probably six different ideas over the past few days, everything from an idea based on a fictional story I wrote a while back to even videos having to do with certain events in my life. But then I got to thinking about what we were told last class and how much time I spent creating my site theme. Then I remembered how last class Jim Groom talked specifically about my site and podcast as being part of a sort of digital story of it’s own, and how my being an obsessed LOST-fanatic is one of those things that also keeps the internet great (thanks for making my addiction almost seem cool ). And it’s true, I’ve spent so much time over the last six years with my friends and family discussing and watching LOST.



So I came to the conclusion… why not make a digital story which is LOST-related?



I thought about what would be the best way to do this, and I eventually came to this idea. I could over the next nine to ten weeks be one of the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 and communicate everything that I personally experience up until a certain point in the series. I would probably take on the persona of an unknown survivor who isn’t shown much on the show, so that I could put my own spin on how I see things. This would limit me to how far into the series’ story I could delve, as in Season Five episode two all the non-main-characters and extras were killed by flaming arrows. But I could sustain a full story for this long (heck, I’ve been following it for six years, why not!?).



My main thought on how I could do this would be through blog posts I write as this made-up character. Maybe I could have some updates on Twitter as to what’s happening on the Island at that moment. Or maybe, in true LOST fashion, I could make some short “Flashback” videos of this character and post them to my blog and/or YouTube to overview how the character got to the Island and other back story. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I like it, and the more it sounds almost like an interactive work of fan-fiction!



Of course, any comments or ideas would be great and very helpful!



Happy Trails and Namaste,
Sam.