I absolutely loved how it began with the voice over and subtitles as the stars slowly started coming out (how they often seem to in the actual night sky). I also love how the voice over introduced all of the stories that the narrator intended to tell in such a beautiful way and compared them to stars in the sky (because, after all, we each have our own "sky full of stars"). We are all made up of the stories that we tell, hear, experience-- and actually, we're also all made of stars.
My initial "navigational" instinct was that I was lost when the subtitles ended. I waited for something else to happen and when it didn't, decided that maybe it was my turn to do something (though I wasn't sure exactly what). So I quickly (almost furiously) hovered over the stars back and forth and nothing seemed to happen. I kept hovering and saw a flash of white text that disappeared as quickly as it came. So I hovered slower the next time, realizing that each blue star was a story.
The first star I chose was the story of the narrator's love (because I'm female and subsequently an extremely emotional being--haha). When I got to the "end" of the story, it seemed as if it ended abruptly, and I wasn't sure if that was intentional or if I was missing something. Turned out, I was missing something (more hovering--go figure). I then read each of the stories in a clockwise manner-- going from my starting point at the star in the middle at the bottom of the page and working my way up to the left and around (I may have to put some more thought into why my approaches usually seem so formulaic).
I really cannot say enough about how much I love this piece of e-lit-- BY FAR my favorite this semester.
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