My story has changed considerably over the four weeks I have been developing it. My initial title, The Burnished Letter, first gave way to Intergenerational Trauma , and then I settled on the current title Surfaces and Soundings . I've done quite a bit of re-writing and re-recording of my narrative, and I've also shifted image and sound media quite a bit. Even though my image and sound themes have stayed pretty much the same for the most part, I have added items and elements to my palettes. For example I added a sonar pinging sound to convey the 'soundings' theme. The changes in title were the result of honing in on the specifics of my dad's life-story, rather than telling a general sort of context-rich story involving the circumstances of his life. In recording the first draft of my narrative, I found that I had way too much text, and way too much of what I had was contextual in nature rather than personal to my dad's life story. The first hint that I wou...