Blog #5 Using pictures in your digital story

 In this cartoon, the two characters discuss the function of  image. The girl points out that image and text promote each other mutually, and a image can be either directed related to the story or abstract. She also suggests that various kinds of image can be used in DST such as photograph, cartoon and images from movies. In order to avoid violating intellectual property, the girl mentions that every downloaded images need to be cited, by creating a list of URL in the end of the story.

 I downloaded the upper picture from the internet in order to indicate international friend. In this picture, four people holding hands and dancing; they wore drastically different costume and accessories.  As I typed "international friendship" in Google, this picture was among the results, it was a descriptive image because, as far as I concerned, holding hand and dancing is the best way to show your friendship with other people. Symbolic as it is, I will use it in my DST to illustrate how my host family treat me as a family member, and it is through "International Friendships" coordination that I was able to set down during the very first week staying in USA.