Thursday, September 11, 2014

Deviant

     The artwork I chose to summarize was called Deviant: The Possession of Christian Shaw, by Donna Leishman.  This specific piece is an animated graphic based on the historical story of Christian Shaw and her demonic possession.  The reason I chose Deviant is because I consider myself as more of a visual learner and the way this story was illustrated helped me understand the concept by keeping me interested in the story.  It started out as a game, in which you were forced to click on different parts of the game and learn each type of symptom that Christian Shaw had experienced while she was being "possessed".  The game takes about 10 to 15 minutes to uncover every part of the story and you know when you've reached the end because a link shows up to the actual case story of what fully happened. So far, Deviant is my favorite E-literature piece that we have read because of the main reason that you could go back and play the game 10 more times and still find something new that you couldn't find before.  The amount of time and detail put into this game to illustrate such a deep story really helps the reader completely experience some of the personal "scary" awkward moments that Christian Shaw went through.  To those people who don't like reading too much and consider themselves a visual learner, deviant is a type of artwork that will draw you in with the game and make you interested in reading the full story to be able to grasp what you just went through while playing the game.

No comments:

Post a Comment