Assignment Directions

Narrative Assignment: Choose an image (or a few images) and use your imagination to create a short narrative that either explains the image or can accompany it in some other way. Try to address the who, what, where, when, and why in your narrative.

Ad Analysis Assignment: Choose one of the advertisements and address the following questions in a short analysis: What exactly about the style or design of the ad is different, innovative, and eye catching? What is being sold and what is the implied "sales pitch"? Which cultural values are reflected in the ad?

Instructions for Getting Started:

1. Images to use for assignments can be found at Narrative Images or Ad Images, or in files with the same name at this lab's shared drive (the S drive). If the S drive is not working, images also can be sent to you as email attachments.

2. To begin, select an image (save to desktop as necessary), and then compose your narrative or analysis (use a notepad or word processing program).

3. To create your Voicethread, select the "Create" tab at Voicethread. Then browse, find your image, and upload it to Voicethread.

4. Next, record your commentary for each image with the "Comment" button, preview, and save your Voicethread.

5. The last step is to share your Voicethread with other people. You can invite others to view your Voicethread by entering them each as a separate contact (you will need an email address for each person to invite). Or, you can copy and paste a link to your Voicethread into an email and send to the entire group (use "reply all" option).

Short Example:

Nicolette's McDonald's