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 English wrote short stories and those stories were produced into an audio story using Pro Tools. Students recorded their story and mixed in music and various sound effects to enhance the story. Each student also produced an "album cover" with Illustrator to accompany their story featured in this gallery.