Point of view is something that I have been exploring in my own journey towards understanding storytelling and one concept that continues coming up is perspective in reference to point of view. In literature there is a clear definition of this by what person it is written in (i.e. 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person and 3rd person omniscient). What is not often discussed is what angle they are seeing the story from. In a comic artist panel at Indigenous Comic Con I sat in on a discussion of how comic books are the ultimate way to tell stories because, unlike directors in film, they get to physically put the camera wherever they want to tell the most compelling story. While their command over the way the story goes and from whose perspective is indeed unique I do not know whether it is the best storytelling mechanism. In Phillip Pullman's Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling he discusses this concept as a novelist thinking of his characters from the perspective of a movie director. His storytelling begins with the question "Where do I put the camera?" The answer to this question in all storytelling results in the point of view, whether it is from a third person all knowing perspective or right in the heat of the action within the main character or a side character's head. It is where you are dropped off in the story and what you are seeing. This, of course, is very important in characterizing your blog. Deciding what point of view to write from is integral to conveying what type of blog it will be—whether that is an authority blog, which would probably be most effective in first person, versus writing through a pseudonym for anonymity which might be better from a third person point of view.
References
Pullman, Phillip. Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. Print.
Alexander, Bryan. The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media Revised and Updated Edition. Santa Barbara, California • Denver Colorado: Praeger An Imprint of ABC-CLIL, LLC, 2017. Print.