Vassar College Digital Window @ Vassar Senior Capstone Projects 2014 How to Make it Rain: A Practical Analysis of Storytelling Forms Mira Singer Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalwindow.vassar.edu/senior_capstone Recommended Citation Singer, Mira, "How to Make it Rain: A Practical Analysis of Storytelling Forms" (2014). Senior Capstone Projects. Paper 354. This Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Window @ Vassar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Senior Capstone Projects by an authorized administrator of Digital Window @ Vassar. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. How to Make it Rain 1 How to Make it Rain A Practical Analysis of Storytelling Forms Mira Singer Independent Program May 2014 Senior Thesis Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree in the Independent Program. ___________________________________________ Adviser, Nancy Bisaha _________________________________________ Adviser, Don Foster How to Make it Rain 2 Abstract The following is an experiment in practical analysis of storytelling media. The project seeks to explore what insights can be gained about media specificity and adaptation theory through the process of constructing a story and adapting it into background notes, a short story, a one-act play, and a comic book. A meta paper analyzes the constraints and opportunities afforded by each media as observed through the process of creation and adaptation. The historical notes will go last before the paper to facilitate more surprise in the reading experience. There are endnotes classified into H/N (historical note), A/N (author’s note), P/S (primary source), ED/N (editing notes), AD/N (adaptation note), as well as notation marking notes to do with form (F), observations (O), and revelations (R).