The Year of the Flood Mural.ly
Class discussion over the development of The Year of the Flood website project.
Corporations Blog Update
For our group we’re focusing on the corporations, the technology within society and how society is structured in The Year of The Flood. So far we’ve made three info graphics to advertise some things in the book. Corporations play a huge role in this book seeing how it’s basically what runs this futuristic society. So far we have focused on 6 branches of the corporations, CorpSeCorps, Helthwyzer, Secret Burgers, Scales and Tails, Rejoov and Anoo Yoo. CorpSeCorps and Helthwyzer is what I would consider the two most important ones in this book. The other four are basically just companies that sell products. Helthwyzer would be considered the same as well but it seems that Helthwyzer has a lot more secrets and importance in this book. Helthwyzer in general brings up a lot of questions because there are constantly suspicions about them and their products and even after finishing the book we don’t really get an answer. The authority of the CorpSeCorps is also something that’s intriguing. They basically rely on public favoritism to keep their authority and to keep their products popular yet they are also the ones that are oppressing the people. It’s a fact that they’re corrupted yet people are unwilling to take a stand and allow for this continual corruption in order to keep the current stability they have.
The technology we see in this book may seem odd but it’s definitely not anything impossible. A lot of the inventions we see are things we are already currently experimenting on in society which also gives us the idea The Year of The Flood takes place in the near future. Although it seems like it takes place in the near future, it’s interesting to see how it seems a lot of people especially the Gardners in this case are scared to use modern day technology or at least think it shouldn’t be used. This kind of makes me wonder what happened because we are currently so dependent on technology and it seems kind of odd for anyone to not use technology and resort back to primitive ways of treatment.
For now we’re focusing on the corporations and their products and how to accurately portray them. I’m not quite sure how we would incorporate the societal part on to our website.
Group Update
Our group (Myrna, Vita, Jonah, and I) is organizing “The Year of the Flood”‘s timeline in chronological order and cartography. We’ve decided to use ThinkPort, which is a timeline creating tool. We’ve also decided to chart Ren and Toby’s timelines separately at first and see if it’s logical for them to be organized side by side or even converge at some points: the time spent with the Gardeners and after they’ve found each other after the Waterless Flood.
For the mapping portion, we haven’t found a fantasy mapping platform that will allow us to create a digital map. Instead, we’ve decided to create a map that will resemble a board game and attach key events that happened at each location.
Group Project Update – 11/7
Hello everyone!
I’m getting the ball started on group project updates. On mura.ly, we have listed the God’s Gardeners (attaching Adam/Eve status, as well); the Saints, Celebrations, Hymns & Prayers (plus their page mentions); different beliefs and practices indicated by quotations taken from YOTF; other religious groups; and references to OUR modern day religion.
For the final project, we’ve created a Wikia page (link to be distributed at the end of semester)! Cynthia (me) will be in charge of creating separate wiki pages for each of the Adams and Eves (using imagery of their specialties) and the other God’s Gardeners. Sophia will be in charge of getting the prayers and hymns on soundcloud and later linking them to the wikipedia pages. Caroline and Liz will be in charge of the wiki pages for the various Saints and Celebrations.
If anyone has any suggestions, we’re opened to listening!
-Cynthia
