Thursday, January 22, 2015

ASL examples of storytelling

Compiled by Gabriela Monasterio and Stephanie Jones

Deaf Hulk!

Reiteration: 0:24 - 0:29

He says he punched all the guys out and then signed each punch.

Scaffolding: 1:14 - 1:22

He has “tunnel vision” and signs it as things passing by him and suddenly snapping out of it when someone taps his shoulder.

ASL Frog Story

Scaffolding:0:10 - 3:32

The frog is in an area, with lots of trees and plants. The trees have mushrooms growing all over them.

Reiteration: 1:14 - 1:35

The frog looks around (“F” eyes) at its surroundings, and looks for flies. It sees and tracks a fly, then eats it. the reiteration is in both the looking and the fly.

ASL Story: The Tree


Scaffolding: 0:18 - 1:11

The tree grows from a seed to maturity, showing each stage. The seedling pokes up through the dirt, grows taller, and develops into a fully grown tree.

Reiteration: 1:56 - 2:02

The person is hot, goes under the tree, is cool, walks back, and is hot again. The fanning is repeated multiple times.

Timber (ASL story)

Scaffolding: 0:23 - 0:28

She describes the axe and shows it thrown over her shoulder to show she has an axe, without actually signing it.

Scaffolding: 0:30 - 0:32

Instead of signing lunch box, she describes the box shape and shows food goes inside of it. Thus letting the audience know it is a lunch bag of some sort.


ABC Gum

Scaffolding: 0:00 - 0:08

In the first few seconds of the video, she describes the boy enjoying the gum and chewing it over and over, his teeth grinding the gum and more chewing.

Reiteration: 0:44 - 0:48

She describes the man being unable to get up and trying over and over again.


Rolling in the Deep Adele (ASL)

Faceting: 0:10 - 0:13

She repeats how the thoughts of him are building up and are stuck in her mind

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