{"id":200,"date":"2021-03-19T18:45:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T18:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/?page_id=200"},"modified":"2021-04-12T17:57:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T17:57:36","slug":"narrative-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/narrative-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrative 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"banner introductionbanner has-huge-font-size wp-block-heading\">Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Visual Narrative Project was a unit in which we learned about Storytelling and the medians in which they are told. Through art and music, through interpretation and Storytelling. We learned all about it. We used Adobe Illustrator along with Protools to mix around and learn how to create some impressive art. In English, we learned the importance of how to tell a story with some tips and tricks on the Hero&#8217;s Journey, along with common writing techniques to make our stories pop. In Digital Media, we messed around with Adobe products and many different kinds of image editing to break down how professionals create banners, art and logos. In Animation, we learned how to do 2D animation to create characters that really look like they are moving. Overall, this unit was insanely fun, as we got to toy with many things and many medians that otherwise we wouldn&#8217;t be introduced to for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"banner storybanner has-pink-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\">Story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In English class, we were given the opportunity to create and record a short story to tell. We were also challenged to create Album art similar to how bands and artists create art for their stories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thuber_Aidan-Short-Story-Art.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"219\" data-link=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/practice-section-banners\/thuber_aidan-short-story-art\/\" class=\"wp-image-219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thuber_Aidan-Short-Story-Art.png 1000w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thuber_Aidan-Short-Story-Art-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thuber_Aidan-Short-Story-Art-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thuber_Aidan-Short-Story-Art-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thuber_Aidan-Short-Story-Art-660x660.png 660w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thuber_Aidan-Short-Story-Art-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thuber_Aidan-Short-Story-Art-606x606.png 606w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">A depiction of what the story is about. Cycles.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_AidanPro-Tools-Short-Story-Session-1-1024x551.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"220\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_AidanPro-Tools-Short-Story-Session-1.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/practice-section-banners\/thurber_aidanpro-tools-short-story-session-1\/\" class=\"wp-image-220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_AidanPro-Tools-Short-Story-Session-1-1024x551.png 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_AidanPro-Tools-Short-Story-Session-1-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_AidanPro-Tools-Short-Story-Session-1-768x413.png 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_AidanPro-Tools-Short-Story-Session-1-1536x826.png 1536w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_AidanPro-Tools-Short-Story-Session-1-990x533.png 990w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_AidanPro-Tools-Short-Story-Session-1.png 1911w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">A picture of the Pro Tools Session I used for the audio<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/991425013&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/freestyle-academy\" title=\"Freestyle Academy\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Freestyle Academy<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/freestyle-academy\/story-by-aidant-2021\" title=\"Story By AidanT (2021)\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Story By AidanT (2021)<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The assignment in English was to create a short story using audio. My inspiration for the story were thoughts and philosophies I&#8217;ve had about the weird reality that might be sooner than we think. A world where we upload our brains to machines and lose what makes us human. We forget all that made us sad, all that would make us feel even the tiniest bit uncomfortable in a search for utopia. Along the way, we lose our humanity and are jealous of those who still have it. I valued how we were able to make a recording to tell the story how we envisioned it read. It was super cool to create art to go along side it as a little omen of our ill fated future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"banner illustrationbanner has-pink-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\">Illustrations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We created many illustrations in this unit to show our strength in Adobe Illustrator. Here are some of the few we did in Digital Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_Aidan-Learning-Illustrator-Part-3-1024x724.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"225\" data-link=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/practice-section-banners\/thurber_aidan-learning-illustrator-part-3\/\" class=\"wp-image-225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_Aidan-Learning-Illustrator-Part-3-1024x724.png 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_Aidan-Learning-Illustrator-Part-3-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_Aidan-Learning-Illustrator-Part-3-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_Aidan-Learning-Illustrator-Part-3-933x660.png 933w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_Aidan-Learning-Illustrator-Part-3.png 1315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"792\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_Aidan-Stickers-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_Aidan-Stickers-1.png 612w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_Aidan-Stickers-1-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_Aidan-Stickers-1-510x660.png 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><figcaption>My inspiration for this project was a hero from the game Heroes of the Storm known as Nazeebo that a streamer I like plays. I\u2019ve been watching him for years and despite whatever changed, and whatever meta was most important at the time he stuck with his hero. This is a inspired piece of one of his emotes of the champions. The Simplistic design I went for was to show how a simple hero can be played so many different ways and despite everything that can be changed, it all comes down to a couple lines to really make the character who they are. A few struggles I had was coming up with an idea for the Narrative Illustration, as I had far too many and tons of ideas. I ultimately settled with the current design due to the streamer I love finally reaching 100,000 followers. If I could change anything, it would probably be having a title at the top saying \u201cTAZDINGO!\u201d As it is the catchphrase of the character. I\u2019m most proud of how I was able to recreate his emote from the stream into a simplistic design.&nbsp;<br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"banner musicbanner wp-block-heading\">Music<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Digital Media, we did a unit on Music Production and were able to learn how to professionally sample music as well as edit stuff about it. For our Parody Project, we were tasked with creating a parody of a beloved song and sing our own lyrics. The goal of this was to learn how to remove vocals from audio and put in your own. Techniques we used were to input special kinds of filters to remove high pitched audio. We also used the fact that it was in mono to overlap the different tracks of music just the tiniest bit so that the vocals were unnoticably out of sync. With these two together, we were ready to remove pretty much all vocals in the original song and upload our own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/All-Star-Parody-by-AidanT-1.mp3\"><\/video><figcaption>Some hobbit once told me the world is gonna roll me<br>I ain\u2019t the sharpest riddler in the shed<br>He was looking kinda dumb with a morgol blade in his thumbs<br>Asking me the way out of the mine<br><br>Well, the riddles started coming and they didn\u2019t stop coming<br>Fed all the hints and he hit the ground running<br>Didn\u2019t make sense to let him win<br>So I decided i was gonna eat him<br>So much to eat, So much juicy<br>So what\u2019s wrong with taking his bodys<br>You\u2019ll never leave this cave you know<br>You stupid hobbit Bilbo<br><br>Hey now, your a hobbit get your riddles on, get dead<br>Hey now, i have precious, your not taking my head<br>And all that glitters is PRECIOUS<br>Gollum is gonna eat your headssssss\u2026(GOLLUM)<br><br>Its a dark place and it keeps getting darker<br>You\u2019re getting outplayed by THIS BOULDER<br>But it seems the hobbits beg to differ<br>Judging by the blade in his STUPID LITTLE HANDSES<br>The rocks we stand is getting pretty thin<br>The blade is getting closer so you might as well PRECIOUS<br>My worlds on fire, its time to rushes?<br>Time to trick this hobbitses with my precious<br><br>Hey now, your a hobbit get your riddles on, get dead<br>Hey now, i have precious, your not taking my head<br>And all that glitters is PRECIOUS<br>Gollum is gonna eat your headssssss\u2026(GOLLUM)<br><br><br>Hey now, your a hobbit get your riddles on, get dead<br>Hey now, i have precious, your not taking my head<br>And all that glitters is PRECIOUS<br>Gollum is gonna eat your headssssss\u2026(GOLLUM)<br><br>Some hobbit once asked<br>Whats in his little pockets?<br>\u201cNo its not my hands or a knife\u201d<br>I said \u201cThen what could be\u201d<br>Then I checked my pockets<br>And I realized what was in his<br><br>Well, He took my precious and he hit the ground running<br>GONNA GET HIS GREEDY LITTLE CUNNINGSES<br>I GOTTA GET THE PRECIOUSES BACK<br>FROM THAT THEIFY BIBLO BAGINSIS HACK<br>GOTTA GO RUN GOTTA GO FAST<br>GOTTA CETCH THAT THIEFY HOBBITSES<br>HOW DARE HE TAKE MY RING<br>MY PRECIOUS PRECIOUS PRECIOUS!<br><br>Hey now, your a hobbit get your riddles on, get dead<br>Hey now, i have precious, your not taking my head<br>And all that glitters is PRECIOUS<br>Gollum is gonna eat your headssssss\u2026(GOLLUM)<br><br>And all that glitters is NOTHING<br>And now my precious is gone\u2026.<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Inspiration for this was simply that I was re-watching lord of the rings&#8230;again&#8230;while all star played as an earworm in my head. Sorry Howard Shore. I ended up writing these lyrics and thought they fit pretty well in the Gollum voice as song lyrics. It&#8217;s beautiful, Isn&#8217;t it precious?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"banner animationbanner wp-block-heading\">Animation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Animation this quarter, we were able to create characters and puppets to go along with our story telling. I ended up creating a mysterious dog named Burly, who was created by a witch. We were tasked to animate him along with a 3D version of the character. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_Aidan-Mood-Scene-Animation.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were also tasked with to create a lip synced animation of a character in a scene. I ended up using Tahm Kench (From a video game) as my character base, along with one of my favorite scenes from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World&#8217;s End.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1500\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 2100 \/ 1500;\" width=\"2100\" controls src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thurber_Aidan-LipSync.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Please Read Mr. Flo:) We haven&#8217;t finished our Narrative Animation in class, so there isn&#8217;t much I can add here yet. I&#8217;ll email you if you&#8217;d like once this section is finished, but for now I can&#8217;t really add anything to here<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction The Visual Narrative Project was a unit in which we learned about Storytelling and the medians in which they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/narrative-1\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Narrative 1<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-200","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AidanT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}