{"id":17,"date":"2025-09-24T16:10:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BenKr\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2026-06-06T00:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:20:33","slug":"explorations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BenKr\/explorations\/","title":{"rendered":"Explorations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FILM<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The explorations project at Freestyle is meant to be where you learn a new skill within your elective and show your use of the skill.  For my explorations project I chose to make a comedy film as I had never tried making one. To learn how to make a film funny I studied many famous shows and movies such as <em>Friday<\/em>, <em>Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/em>, <em>The Office<\/em> and many more. I wanted to mostly focus on deadpan and satirical comedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BenKr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-05-120511-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BenKr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-05-120511-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BenKr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-05-120511-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BenKr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-05-120511-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BenKr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-05-120511.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"COP(S) | A Comedy Short Film\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a1Cjdi0qRrU?start=13&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"25 26 p4 Explorations Celebration BenK\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RdSXqJZWxuU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I said in my presentation video, I do wish I let the actors go more off script and add their own silliness to the film. This being said, I learned a lot from making this short, especially when it comes to working with actors and letting them take more creative control of their roles. For all of my future films I will keep this in mind by sometimes not constraining actors to specific lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ENGLISH<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the poetry unit in English I really appreciate the freedom we were given. The first week of the poetry unit we had a publish poet come in and teach us about writing poetry. That week completely opened my eyes to the worlds of possibilities that could be reached through poetry. I started to see poems as portals into new worlds rather than just words on a paper. In my poem, <em>Divided<\/em>, I wanted to explore how I always feel split between two sides in life. I always remember not being able to fit exactly into one group and would float between two. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This phenomena (internal division) has followed me throughout my life and defines me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"25 26 p4 Poetry BenK\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ivwssoNlYAI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The poetry production conveyed the internal struggle of the poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I decided to paintings for the visuals so that the viewer can really get encapsulated in the poem.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILM The explorations project at Freestyle is meant to be where you learn a new skill within your elective and show your use of the skill. 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