Hello! This is Rose Lama. This is the website for my short story narrative, Dare To Dream.
Here you will see projects I did for different classes and how it all summed up together as one. Every section of this project is explained thoroughly so feel free to explore.

Dare To Dream is a short story narrated about a protagonist confused about her dreams and occurring events.

We had to finish the story first as all the production for other classes depended on finishing the story. The very first thing we did in the processing of narrative was writing some draft, a story about something memorable that happened in our life. Later, after selecting a story that we liked the best, we created hybrid characters for the story. In the process, we were required to read some articles and "Rhinoceros" by EUGÈNE IONESCO, 1959. A book is an act that consists dialogues that are unexpected but balanced. For this project narrative, our biggest challenge was to write a dialogue-driven story with unexpected but balanced dialogues.

In Media Design, first we were to make a responsive website. A website that changes according to the device you are using. We had three different screen sizes, they were in a phone size, a tablet size and a regular PC size. I choose to design only for PC and a phone as PC and tablets are similar. Here is a scan of the website design.

I made a trailer for the narrative. Everyone in Media Design had two choices, either you could animate your trailer or make a Movie both in After Effect.

I challenged myself to use both animation and Movie. I choose to take all the videos in raw then edit them in After Effect. I used Photoshop to make art for supporting characters of the trailer.

This are some processes that took on making on the Trailer in After effect. Please click on the image below to view six different processes that took on making of the trailer.

All the videos were taken Raw on Cannon, Mark III. The trailer has a lot of theory for the audience to understand. Sit back with headphones and enjoy.

In Design class, all the students were required to make a book jacket. Following the instructions given for the project, I made my book jacket according to my story. The biggest challenge was to find a font that would relate to the story and would be readable.

Unlike other projects for this project we started from scratch without any draft. First, we picked some metaphor and main important events from the story. Then we took pictures relating to the selected events. After all the pictures were taken I eliminated and picked top five pictures. With Photoshop, I blended all five pictures in one. Then we had to find fonts for the book jacket on dafont.com. The challenge here was to find a font that would relate to the story and would be readable. Another challenge was to find a color scheme that would run through the entire book jacket. Then we made barcodes for our book from a web page provided by freestyle. We did bios, comments and more.

Art Statement.

A girl lives her life happily with her parents, but everything changes the second she finds herself running in a dark alley barefoot. She suddenly stops herself panting heavy. Why am I running? She question herself just then she hears a sound. She hears a squishy noise. Curiously she follows the sound and she steps on something moist but comforting to her burning foot.

She doesn't seem to remember what happened after but the very next day she wakes up with cold wind blowing on her fragile body. Shivering, she looks up at the open window which filled her nostrils with a familiar scent. Wanting to close the window, she stretches her arm, forcing her body to move forward to reach the window. Suddenly she feels a stinging pain all over her body. She looks at her arm and finds fresh bruises tearing open as she stretches. She follows her bruises now forming fresh blood and meeting the dry patches of blood staining her skin. She follows the trail of blood, then soon it covers her weak body. What was happening? Was this just another nightmare?

Here is the final product of book jacket,

After finishing the book jacket, we did a surreal art project. To start this project, we first imagined what out scene is going to look like or just plainly drew out our dreams. We did partner critique and picked our best idea. Soon after I picked the idea I went out and took a various picture. Again, I used Photoshop to blend all the pictures. We were required to have one HDR picture included in our surrealistic art.

Art Statement For Surrealism.

This art piece focuses on the real world and the dreamworld of a dreamer. The dreamer keeps falling on two different dreams that reflects one another. The dreamer is being trapped by her own imagination and it is impacting their real world.

For this art, I used Photoshop only. In Photoshop, I merged pictures, made all different color shadings, made smoke and the background galaxy. Also, I used a different brush like the water brush. All the pictures were taken in RAW. I used four different RAW pictures that are of a girl sitting on the utility pole, reflecting images inside the mouth, and the mouth itself. The two HDR pictures that are used are of a doll which is "falling out" of the water and the small tree like a plant as the foreground. The waterfall is supposed to represent a shape of a face and the waterfall representing the hair. The doll in the center is being pulled out by the girl sitting on a utility pole. The dreamer herself is confused and she is falling in a different direction as there is no gravity holding her back. The reflecting image is an image of a house with a clock on it, meaning the time can't be controlled now. The water falling from her lips represents the effect of her dreams.

Surreal Art

HDR Pictures and Gallery

In English, we had to write a Narrative. Everything we did for Design and Media Design depended on finishing the story. We began with a concept for a dialogue-based story. The challenge for this project was to experiment with dialogue driven story. Also, we had to make hybrid characters that fit the story. Every project we do in English improves our creative writing skills and develop more ideas for future projects.

I choose to write a thriller story mostly based on a dream I had as a kid.

Here is the audio book for the story!

 

To view the story click on the thumbnail below.

book

Hope you enjoyed the website and the story.

Hope Happiness and Peace.