Our first quarter at freestyle was spent focusing on the Conceptual Unit where we would take risks in our creativity through poetry, music, art, animations, and web productions. We were given prompts fo different projects to teach us how we can express ourselves and opinions through our own aesthetic. We developed our technical communication skills by learning how to use professional equipment and applications like DSLR Cameras, Tascam Audio Recorders, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Animate, Adobe Premier Pro, Adobe After Effects, WordPress, and Google Apps.<\/p>\n
This unit was an intense learning point for me. All of these applications and equipment were things I had never used before, so the first time I started with each of these I was overwhelmed with all there seemed to know. I started to realize I was catching on after practicing in class, learning from videos provided by Freestyle, and meeting deadlines for assignments by working at home. Long hours went into each assignment, but I was happy with the outcome. As I said in my introduction, each class at Freestyle is intertwined, they all have something to do with each other, so each application or piece of equipment I started to understand came in handy for a project in another class. Digital media helped me grasp some practice at each application and piece of equipment, animation (after several beginning products) helped me to develop my understanding and skills as an animator in progress, and English helped me to develop a voice for my thoughts and develop a mature understanding for poetry and literature.<\/p>\n
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In this assignment we pulled an emotion and an experience out of a hat to create our concept statement, which is what the photo haiku would be based off of. I ended up with: “I am exploring the feeling of defensiveness through the experience of dancing”. Through this, I developed my Haiku. Eventually, I added music and fade ins\/outs, text, and a photo in Premier Pro.<\/p>\n\t\t\t