Brainstorming my Digital Story

The one topic that I kept coming back to when thinking about my topic was video games. Why? Because they have pretty much shaped my entire life. Since that Christmas when my grandmother bought my brother and I a Nintendo 64, against my mothers wishes, I was hooked. After that I still played some sports, but video games shaped me to want to hangout with people who enjoyed playing games as much as I did. This has shaped my life into the kind of person that I am because of the people I picked from then on to hangout with and I went into that social group. It did not always affect me in a good way because people considered us the nerds that they would pick on, this caused me to get into a lot of fights at school. The social group I was in though seemed to be a lot more free flowing and letting you be you, I felt like I could be me with them. It also gave me the push towards education because I want to help those students who are outcast and struggle because of it. The older I got the more and more into the nerd culture I became involved, I started going to conventions which opened their world to me. This is a lot like the video I picked from Reel Works, but I connected to that video in an intense way and want to do my version that goes deeper into that realm.