Monday, April 25, 2011

Gaming Narrative

Grand Theft Auto "Vice City"

For this week, I dusted off my playstation 2 and pulled out my favorite game from middle school."Vice City" was a game based off of the stories from a couple movies such as "Scarface" and "Carlito's Way". If you are a fan of shoots outs, mob bosses, gang wars and dealing drugs, then this is a game for you. Its based in a city called Vice City but it is a direct copy of Miami beach during the 1980's.
I really enjoy this game because of its narrative and how interesting the story is. Its a lot like watching a film where you can control the outcome, which may or may not be good. You also get to interact with other characters and they some times take you along for a wild ride and this can really get you invloved into the story.
Im not but much of a gamer but it was fun to go back and play something that I spent so much time playing back in middle school.

Broach School

Service Learning Outcome

I feel like my service learning at the Broach school was a great experience. I learned so much about the children and I really feel like I had a great impact on there day, maybe even their lives. I wasn't expecting to be working with so many students but I think that it enhanced the experience even more. We created a very nice ocean scene using all the images that the children had drawn, which consisted of fishing boats, clown fish, turtles, sharks and crabs. I thought that it was amazing to see the final product that had been created by the hands of almost 20 different students. I also found that some of the students were amazing artist and had really enjoyed this project. I am very fortunate to have been able to contribute to this service learning project and I look forward to doing something like this again in my future. I have always enjoyed teaching art and someday would love to become a teacher, so I feel that this experience gave me a good taste of what that life would be like.