Using Technology to Tell Stories

I am hoping that everyone is slowly making progress on their ABC mini-movies (fingers crossed) and so I have been thinking about an introductory clip into the eventual full movie on Jumpcut. I created this short video, in which I used the children’s ABC picture book Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom by Bill Martin Jr. as the basis for a poem called Flicka Flicka Zoom Zoom, and then went over to the comic-creating site called ToonDoo to create strips of a story, with balloon dialogue boxes, which I then voice-narrated through PhotoStory. Phew.
But does it work? I need some feedback, please.

Here are the words to the story:

Flicka, Flicka, Zoom, Zoom
(with humble apologies to Bill Martin Jr., writer of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom)

A told B

and B told C

“What kind of story will you share with me?”

D, E, F and tag-along G

They all jumped up into the video tree

and asked with excitement about H and I

who brought along footage that captures their lives

And J whispered to K, and K to L and M

that there is no beginning here, and no middle, and no end

Just one long story, to be mashed up into a show

But there is an N sitting with its best friend O

and P, and Q, and R all share in the glory.

Little bits of pieces of photos, voice and story

all brought together by the collective mind

Where S is something special and T is something fine,

And U remains safe and sound, waiting on the ground,

and standing right in between is courageous letter V,

while into the screen steps their friends: W, X, Y, and Z.

Flicka, Flicka, Zoom, Zoom, what will be created?

Something new, something strange, something integrated

with all the worlds of the Web and tapping our experiences;

We find our way into this room, regardless of our differences,

to share tale, to lend an ear, to write from within our heart,

and piece us back together as a place from which we start

to understand, to comprehend, to move beyond the text

and think about the way we think, and what can happen next.

A told B

and B told C

“What kind of story will you share with me?”

– Kevin