This was a very long process for me, I started and stopped and restarted this project a few times. I would work on it for a few days and then go back to it and hate everything I had done and start from scratch.
My audience is supposed to be my mom, but I think it may come off a little more like it is dedicated to my mom and then I am explaining how it came to be that I started to hunt.
I don't reference Gee's name because the people that I would be showing this to have no idea who he is. However I start out talking about some of the different identities I have and how this newest one is going to fit in with all of the other roles I already play. My new identity of hunter is not one that I portray on a day to day basis, where all of the most important identities of daughter, sister, cousin, girlfriend, best friend...etc are what people see and recognize everyday. Besides my family and close friends who know that I am learning to hunt, nobody else can look at me on a day to day basis and assume that I am a hunter. My attire only changes when I am in the hunting sphere with my boyfriend and when I am consciously trying to be in the hunting affinity group.
I mention a few times that I am learning how to hunt because I want to share a hobby with my boyfriend and his family. However, I don't really think that my boyfriends dad will ever identify me as a hunter. I may be able to talk to him about hunting and send him pictures of me all dressed up in my camo with my gun but he will probably still see me as the girly girl, and when I visit him in Idaho I will still be the epitome of a "California girl" even if I am gutting my own fish or hunting ducks with him. My personality will always prevail over my learned identity.
When I started this assignment I went through all of the pictures I have of me learning to hunt. After I decided that I wanted my audience to be my mom because even though she is my number one supporter she did not seem to understand why I want to learn to hunt, a thing so far from the type of girl I am, I had to add some other pictures that did not have to do with hunting but more with me and who I am. I had to find pictures that demonstrated why my mom would be concerned and confused about the new identity i was acquiring and then I had to show her that I am not changing so drastically that she will not see all of the qualities she loves about me simply because I am shocking her by hunting. To start I used a song that is "our song", "Wide Open Spaces" by Dixie Chicks has been a song my mom and I share for a long time. Then I showed my family because they are the biggest influence on the identities I have and they are completely different from the one I am adding.
I had chosen what pictures I wanted before I wrote my narrative because I wanted the pictures to hopefully be able to tell a story. After I wrote the narrative I moved the pictures around so they would all correlate with each other.
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