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During the visual narrative unit, I learned how to tell an effective and complex story that conveyed emotion and messages to the audience. Using a variety of genres of media such as graphic design, film, and music, I was able to present the audience with a well-structured story using the narrative techniques I learned in class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The visual narrative unit really helped me progress my storytelling skillset past surface level. This unit focused on the importance of HOW to tell a captivating story and what makes a well-executed narrative well executed. All the subjects we learned in English ultimately transferred to my Film and Digital Media classes and helped me create original narrative material from scratch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adobe Illustrator was a huge focus in digital media during the narrative unit. One of the things we were tasked to do in illustrator was creating our own images to become stickers or printed on clothing. I chose to make a sticker depicting popular musical artist Frank Ocean’s face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The inspiration for this project was how much I love the popular music artist, Frank Ocean, and how little merchandise is available on the internet for a low price. I really wanted to have something physical with Frank Ocean\u2019s face or brand on it and this was a great opportunity to think outside of the box and create something I really enjoy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I grew my Illustrator skills a lot during this project. I think there is a lot of problem-solving required to do this project because it\u2019s not just following the instructions of Mr. Florendo, it\u2019s using the skills he taught me to create something original. I didn\u2019t have Mr. Florendo\u2019s hand to hold through this project so it pushed me to be creative and try new things. If I could go back and change something, I would make fewer stickers but make them bigger. I\u2019m super proud of this project, I like the earrings especially. The subtle gradient on the earrings is so cool to me and I think it adds so much to the little detail.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project will definitely influence my future art because I got really good with the pen tool. I can use problem-solving skills that I learned along the way to not only apply to my future work in Digital Media but in my life as well. Creating digital art is definitely hard to do and even harder to get good at. This perspective has definitely provided me with greater respect for graphic designers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During learning about music production, we were tasked to make a parody of a pre-existing song of our choice. I chose to work with Jack Dees and together, we created a parody of the song “Industry Baby” by Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow. We called the song “Shac and Dees Baby” because that’s both of our last names. As a film student, music production really pushed me out of my comfort zone and made me try new things that I wasn’t necessarily used to. I focus so much on getting the perfect shot and perfect camera angle that focusing more on the audio portion was like opening Pandora’s Box (in the best way possible). This really helped when making my future films because I was thinking more about audio than I was before and instead of just slapping a sound effect onto the clip and calling it a day, I thought about how could really make the sound effect sound real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n