During our Conceptual project, our central question was, \u201cHow can I use unconventional forms to express myself?\u201d<\/strong>. As we tried to answer this question, we developed our abstract thinking and communication skills. There was a concentration in taking risks, whether it was in our writing, animations, music, and art, as we tried to develop our own personal artistic style and aesthetic. We learned to use a wide variety skills, technology, and applications to help us with this goal, including a DSLR Camera, Tascam Audio Recorders, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Avid Pro Tools, and WordPress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What I value about being in Freestyle are all the opportunities for hands on learning as a lot of it is project-based. There is very little of the \u201clectures, followed by a quiz and a test\u201d, but rather an overarching end goal with mini projects so we could learn the tools needed to create a great final project. It was a mix of instruction as well as trial and error in order to develop our own style of doing things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Our first major project was a collaboration of Digital Media and English. We first learned about haikus and studied them before starting to write our own. We spend about a week creating haikus based off of prompts before we were given a concept statement to base our final haiku. My statement was \u201cexploring the feeling of despair through the act of growing up\u201d. After we finished our Haiku in English, we brought what we had written and the photo we took to Digital Media to put into video format, as well as add a voice over and background music with Premiere Pro. <\/p>\n\n\n\nHaiku<\/h2>\n\n\n\n