For the Conceptual Project, us Juniors developed our abstract thinking and communication to answer the question thrown at us, “How can I use unconventional forms to express myself?”

The project I present to you shows off the creative risks through poetry, art, music and web production, this challenged us to express our options through our personal aesthetic. We were able to develop our technical communication skills by learning many modern professional equipment and applications such as DSLR Cameras, Tascam Audio Recorders, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Pro Tools, Word Press, and Google Apps.

From this unit I really got to stretch my limits, see how far I was able to go in forms of expressing myself. I was also able to use professional level equipment to further my learning.

Conceptual Poems

The poem unit felt really liberating since we mostly did free verse poems. That allowed me to go anyway I wanted and think beyond the box. To the left is my ekphrastic poem. When Freestyle went on a field trip to the San Francisco MOMA, I found an art piece that inspired me too write this poem. The painting reminded me of mania and the act of creation.

Pro Tools

I’m not a big music maker but after awhile of learning the ropes of Pro Tools, I found myself enjoying being able to warp the audio to do what I wanted it to do. In the photo I show you the outcome of what my audio looks like with all the editing done. Including SFX sounds and music in the beginning and in the end that fade in and out. I also was able to cut out all the pauses and stutters I made in my voice recording which I recorded with a Tascam Audio Recorder.

Photo Haiku and Video

In English class we were given two prompts, a feeling and an actions. The one I got was I am experiencing the feeling of excitement with making music. How I interpreted it was that the noise inside you mind when you are excited is the music inside your mind when you are creating. With these prompts in mind we had to create a haiku with a photo to represent it. In Digital Media were were told to make a video of our haiku with the photo with textual animations.

Premiere Pro

This was also my first time working with Premiere Pro and I gotta say it’s very tricky. It took me forever to figure out how to work out the commands for the text. Even though making the video was very stressful, I had fun with making the Haiku and diving deep into my mind and then taking a photo that went along with it. The video allowed me to show it through actions of the text and audio.

Elements and Principles of Art

In Digital Media we learned the 7 elements and 7 principles of art by making a google slide with three pictures of each element or principle. The three photos had to be of Traditional Art, Photography, and Modern Art. The elements and principles of art are everywhere there in every art piece or photo ever made and even in real life. It’s very important to know these so you can use them in your own art.

Elements and Principles of Art Title Page

Design Conceptual

In Design so far we have been learning how to use DSLR cameras. We have been assigned work of taking photos of certain elements, our names in nature, and an abstract photo with a meaning behind it from English class.

Conceptual Photo

In Conceptual art the idea behind the art is more important than the finished product. Its all about the meaning behind something.

For our conceptual photo we used the prompts we got from our English class, I used the same one from my Haiku photo and video. The feeling of excitement through making music. I used my DSLR camera with a 80mm lens and used Photoshop to edit the photo to the way I wanted it. We also added Vignette which is the dark shadowing around the photo. We used this to add more empathize on the thing we want your attention to be more drawn towards.

Artist Statement

Alphabet Name Photo

This time we were given the challenge of finding the letters of our name in real life. Not the letters spelled out literally but to find shapes that look like our letter. For example a shadow of a chair could look like an A depending on the chair and the way you angle it. I found the E’s and L’s pretty easily but my big problem was finding the B. I came up with the way the water fountains were positioned with one being longer than the other, it made the shape of a B. We then used Photoshop to edit the photographs and then pulled it all together to look like our name.

Elements of Art Collage

After we did the Google presentation in Digital Media of Elements and Principles of art in Design class we were assigned to make a college of the 7 elements of things outside our house and edit them in Photoshop in an attempt to drill the 7 elements even more into our brain.