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:

Juniors in Design used a fellow classmate as a model to bring the main character they originally created in English for an original short story, to life.

They learned new techniques for shooting photographs using 3-point lighting in a studio setting.

They were required to use props, three different strobe lights with reflecting umbrellas, hand held light reflectors, backdrops, makeup, and clothing. They ‘directed’ their model to achieve the emotion they wanted.

They also learned numerous editing techniques and lighting filters in Photoshop to enhance their portrait.