My name is Adriana Esperanza Orozco, and I would consider myself to be someone who you need to get to know first before I open up to you. I am very introverted and quiet when around people I don’t know, yet bubbly and chatty when I’m around the people I’m closest to. My family and I are Mexican and speak both English and Spanish at home. I’ve been told that I am filled with ideas, but that I tend to hold myself back from sharing them at times due to my shyness. I am artistic, creative, and someone who thinks outside of the box often. My favorite food is pasta and pretty much any kind of noodles, and I have a dog named Buddy.
Some of my main core values are honesty, loyalty, and enjoyment. Honesty is very important to me since I see it as one of the key things that holds relationships together. I tend to overthink things at times and honesty reassures me that everything will be okay in the end. When it comes to loyalty, I tend to follow the golden rule of treating others the way I want to be treated. I value loyalty to my friends and family and will always be there for them. Finally, enjoyment for me is always finding a way to balance school life and home life. I find it essential to make time to relax rather than continuously overworking myself. Below, you can see more of my core values too!
I am currently passionate about art and music. I love to draw in my free time and often find myself doodling on my assignments in class, drawing after school and weekends, and more. I’ve also been in many school musicals and have done choir for a few years now. I’d aspire to have a job in the future that holds some sort of creative value within it. I’d love to one day become an art therapist since it combines my interest of art and helping others into one.
The moment I stepped foot on LAHS my freshman year and found out that Freestyle existed, I immediately asked my counselor if I could apply when it’s my junior year. I was amazed at the idea that I could go to school to learn how to animate, work with advanced technology, and more! To my surprise she told me probably not and didn’t elaborate much. This sort of bummed me out but I also didn’t take a language class that year. Being in AVID required me to take at least 3 years of a language class rather than the usual 2 years. So what did I do? I immediately jumped into Spanish 3 Honors for Spanish Speakers my sophomore year to finish my language credits and make room on my schedule for Freestyle the following year. Since you’re reading this, that means it worked and was possibly the best decision I could have made in my high school career so far!
Core Values Video
Throughout this project, I wanted my video to both balance a more flowy and creative aspect, as well as having a more structured and formal vibe to it. We were given the task of using Adobe After Effects to animate our personal core values moving in the video. My favorite color is light blue, so I wanted to incorporate colors that look good with it. I liked having the placement being more structured as I found it more satisfying to look at, and I enjoy watching how it builds up through out the video. This also plays into my timing in it, as it doesn’t take too long for the next audio or animation to play after another. I chose my animation presets mostly based on if I found them nice to look at, and overall if they seemed fun in the video. All of my core values are positive and something I resonate with deeply. This caused me to choose a more calming but upbeat background music that plays throughout the video. I chose the fonts for the words by imagining what the word would “look like” in person, then matching them based on how I felt it would be best represented by. Overall, I believe that my technological versus my artistic choices are similar because they both combine together for me to piece together my vision for what I thought each value would look like.
After Effects Workspace