About the overarching Unit Question:
The Visual Narrative Project asks Juniors,
"How well can you visually tell a structured story?"
Beginning with an exploration of prose fiction and the graphic novel, students practice communicating character and story arc through descriptive storytelling, narrative digital art, storyboards, films, and animations. Students deepen their technical communication skills by learning a variety of modern professional equipment and applications such as Wacom Digital Drawing Pads, lighting equipment, downshooters, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Animate, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Avid Pro Tools, Propellerhead Reason, HTML/CSS, DragonFrame, and Google Apps.
About the specific project within the unit that is featured in this gallery:
Students used their English narrative story to develop a creature based on their main character’s personality traits, and then selecting at least three different animals associated with those traits.
They then morphed relevant parts of each creature into a representation of their original character.
Each character’s environment is based on the English story as well incorporating vanishing point concepts. This project introduced Adobe Illustrator to Juniors.
