“How can I use unconventional forms to express myself?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During this semester unit, I as a student was challenged to express myself using unconventional forms of art such as poetry, flash fiction, and short films. I began developing my technical communication skills by learning many different modern applications and programs such as Adobe Photoshop, WordPress, DSLR Cameras, Tascam Audio Recorders, Adobe Premiere Pro, and many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a film student, I highly value being able to make my own films. I have the ability to think, edit, and direct my own films, and to use my own DSLR camera to shoot. I especially enjoyed editing my films on premiere pro; it was an experience I never had before. I had always admired it in other videos I watched, and it was exciting to actually do it myself. I also enjoyed being able to work on and be with other peers when making my movies, which made it all the more lively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During our poetry unit, we wrote many different forms of poetry; for example – haikus, free verse poems, and ekphrastic poems. This unit was one of our earliest units in the year, and it was very fun composing and thinking of a variety of poems. In this project, I chose to use my ekphrastic poem that I wrote in English class, and I developed it in my Digital Media class. I added a background picture, background music, sound effects, and a voice over. I valued learning how to write all these kinds of poetry, and how to develop them using audio and visuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the start of the unit, we wrote haikus based on specific concept statements that we were assigned in English class. My concept statement was “I am exploring the feeling of optimism through viewing architecture.” At first, I thought it was a super confusing and vague concept, but I eventually got the hang of it and wrote a solid haiku based on this statement. After I finished writing the poem in English class, I moved on to the magic of digital media. First, I used photoshop to combine fancy text with an image. Then, I used premiere pro to create a video of my haiku with music and my very own recitation of my poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n