Introduction
Welcome to the home of all my websites. This home site allows you the viewer to see all my websites I have made over the course of two years at Freestyle Academy of Communication Arts & Technology. With the many tools available at Freestyle, we are able to produce professional content with the help of our teachers. A few of these tools include the Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Lightroom, etc), the apple computers for every student, awesome cameras, and audio recording equipment, and the list goes on and on. These websites will show you how I have grown as a student, and a person in the last two years.
Self-Portrait
For the Self-Portrait website we were assigned a project to create a website to answer the question "Who am I?" My website shows my Self-Portrait projects. Such as my diptych, illustration, podcast, and my Self-Portrait Essay. It also has family, friends, photo gallery, and webgems. To create this website we used a variety of different applications; Adobe Illustrator for button images, Garage Band for music, Photoshop to edit images, Lightroom to create our photo gallery, and Dreamweaver the most important of all.
Narrative 1
To start off our Narrative Unit, in English we were assigned the task of creating a story with a character with a problem, and a solution to that problem. This story and character were the basis of most other projects during this unit. After creating the story, and developing the character, in English we made the story into a graphic novel and illustrated it in many panels. In WebAudio we scanned in those panels of the graphic novel and used it to make an animatic. This animatic was basically a rough draft of our animation. In Design we took the character and decided what kind of lighting, make up, facial expressions, and props would be needed to express our character through a portrait.
Documentary
The documentary unit focuses on a specific location that we chose to research. We had requirements from each class. In english we were assigned the task of doing research and three interviews with people from our location. We also had to write the paper for our book. In design we designed the book. Finally, in WebAudio we made our website. In this website you will see my book, slideshow, and my Process videos. Each class contributed to the project in many ways. English and Design worked together to make the book, English and Design also worked with WebAudio to make the slideshow, because we were required to interview people for the paper, and we recorded and used quotes from the interview in the slideshow. Also, in Design we were required to take many pictures, so we were able to use those pictures for the slideshow.
Conceptual
The purpose of the conceptual unit was to have a chance to experiment with things we hadn't really had a chance to use before. We made new art, new music, new types of poetry. Also it was meant to wrap up all the other projects from throughout the whole year. In English, we experienced haikus and many other different and new types of poems. In Design, we got to experiment with Fine Arts, I chose to use water color. Finally in WebAudio, we created our own new music and we were allowed to experiment with it to make it new and our own, and we created this conceptual website and made some crazy design choices. In this website you will see my conceptual art, my haiku, my poems, and my animation. In this unit I have really learned to be more free with the choices I make, have fun with everything I do, and just really experiment and make corrections if necessary.
Profile
For our profile project we needed to find an interesting person in our community to interview and find out more about, then find a researchable topic and research it. With this interview and research we put together a magazine, commercial, and photo gallery featuring our profile subject. To find more information visit this page.
Narrative 2
To start off our Narrative Unit, in English we were assigned the task of creating a story with a character with a problem, and a solution to that problem. This story and character were the basis of most other projects during this unit. After creating the story, and developing the character, in English we made the story into a graphic novel and illustrated it in many panels. In WebAudio we scanned in those panels of the graphic novel and used it to make an animatic. This animatic was basically a rough draft of our animation. In Design we took the character and decided what kind of lighting, make up, facial expressions, and props would be needed to express our character through a portrait.
Innovator
For this project we got to choose our own idea for a project. This project is a way that Freestyle is allowing us to explore anything we are really interested in. This is a great opportunity and it will allow a variety of different projects. To find out about mine visit my website.
Portfolio
This website is a website designed to show off all my websites in my portfolio. This includes all my best websites I have made throughout my time at Freestyle Academy. This website shows the ways I have grown during this time. I hope to show you all my improvements. To see my showcase visit my website.
Old PIP
This website is the old version of the website you are on right now. This was the first real website I designed at Freestyle Academy. We obviously had to update them so that you would have a nicer way to see all of our websites on one page, but we leave a link to the old one so that you can see how much we have grown from the first project to the last. Visit this page to see all the changes.