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The Conceptual Unit introduced the students to a myriad of different technical applications and pieces of equipment, and also encouraged personal touch on all of the products. During this unit, we were able to work with Adobe Photoshop, ProTools audio editing, Tascam Audio Recorders, DSLR Cameras, etc. Through this, we had a relatively comprehensive understanding of a wide breadth of medias, and we were able to take our own style to a similarly wide selection of works. We also, in typical fashion, wove together all the different class contents to create products that were intertwined with multiple skills. Unfortunately, when working on this webpage I was out for much of class time, and in the final stretch got sick and had issues with the Adobe license at home. Because of this, only the works are shown here, and none of the “behind the scenes.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I personally had a lot of fun in this unit, but particularly held on to learning the workflow of freestyle. This sort of pacing and load is something I was unused to, but jumping straight into it was effective and let me start producing pretty quickly. Since Design and Digital Media cover similar things at the same time often, it was often interesting to combine the skills from both classes in the same projects. As a whole, it simply feels like I’ve gained a whole slew of skills to use, and I’ve become much more an expendable person than before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Project Poem that I wrote was an Ekphrastic Poem, or poetry written in response to art. Entitled Familiars<\/em>, I wanted to capture the ideas and flow projected by the piece
“Monster,” by Mark Bradford, in words instead of line. I also used Photoshop to composite the work in conjunction with the poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This project was wildly entertaining for me to do, as I have been listening to various spoken word artists and have always loved writing different lines and also listening to others perform. The highlight of this production for me was certainly the writing, as it was one of the areas this unit where I got to feel completely in creative control of the outcome instead of being put into completely unfamiliar territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo Haiku and Video<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This project was based on the Haiku poems we wrote in English, and was fully produced by the DSLR photography, Audio recording, and Video editing skills from Digital Media to create one cohesive video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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