Bryce's 2nd Story analysis and some thoughts I want to get down

This is Bryce's second story. Here you can see he is not drawing, he is manipulating the available shapes in the computer program to create different monsters. I would consider this a Describing Story. That is, he created some characters on the screen, and then used the audio portion of his story to describe them. He described what their bodies looked like, labeling the last one an Alien Dog. Of course this is more sophisticated than what we'll see Trace do later... just describing the stamps he's lined up on the page. But still, I think there's a connection to the stories. This is more like Deseree's first story where she talks about what she drew. Bur because of the title here, I'd again rank it a little more story than Trace's work.

Notice the background. Background is Bryce's Anchor. I notice that pretty much all of them... with no prompting from me included some sort of setting. I'd say only Michael and his money were the only characters without time spent on background.

Bryce means for you not to just look at the shapes even though he's describing their parts. He wants you to see aliens here.

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Character Driven Stories...
character, set in a background, show action, movement over time. These I consider traditional stories.

Descriptive Stories
computer artwork featured... a show and tell with a narrative feel.
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I think the fatalism in some of these stories (not shown by bryce, the sci fi guy) is cultural. Can I write Smitherman on this? Hah hah.


I'm trying to make connections to Labbo's work on different stances toward the computer which I think are there. Like for some the computer is a place to draw a story, but the story is not inherently digital. So in these cases the storyteller is in control.

Then some stories are purely digital... like Trace just describing what he's put together. And I think a little bit of Jaidyn's last story, though with her her audio adds too much personality to actually be purely digital.

And some stories are hybrid... like I think this one is. sure it's about what was created digitally... but it's also about Bryce's aliens. It is absolutely clear in his third movie.