In narrative 2, we are entering the final stages of our Freestyle journey. Because narrative is a culmination of everything we stand for. Creativity, Skill, Awareness, Commitment, Planning, and most important of all, story-telling! In this unit, we set out to create a story that unites us all. Where in each class, we conquer an epoch of a project. We build worlds. We write scripts. And, we draw lines in order to cut them into wood and paper that reflects the world that I mentioned earlier. So now, what you’re about to see on this page is what was created from that project. I am Landon Qizilbash, and I give you… Narrative 2.
The rest of the Narrative 2 website is in a dropdown option under the Narrative 2 Buttons below.
English Narrative
In english we had the Worldbuilding project. In this project, we read other people’s worlds that they’ve built for most of the unit, and then after doing annotations, discussions, and writing about all of these different stories, we used the time we had left to make a world ourselves to present to the rest of the class. And to support this project, we made a couple things along the way.
Below you’ll see the surreal composition that we made in english class. We used new skills of blending images together in order to create an image that comes from the world that we built.
Artist Statement
Using Photoshop, I created this surreal piece resembling a 1400s painting using techniques of lighting matching and masking. By cutting out images from paintings that resemble a similar painting style, I can compile them together in an image that looks like a single painting.
My world-building research entailed tradition and history, and I wanted to resemble that through my piece by giving it an ancient texture. If you look at any old depictions of civilization and people from the 1400s, aside from photographic recreations it’s all done in painting. So making this surreal composition a painting texture with a frame allowed it to feel like it was from the 1400s. Our world building project also has some really dark themes contained in it, about malice, violence, punishment. And I wanted to depict that in this painting. So I found a painting that represents those feelings, it was an old painting from the story of Exodus, which contains the violence and fear that I want but also the moral and punishment that I want to depict. So I used the mask tool and some careful blending of the mask in order to replace the sky in my surreal composition with the painting’s sky. What resulted was a darker but also more sinisterly magical looking piece that matches the tone of our malice world.
Using photoshop to create surreal compositions to me is not just putting photos together, it’s a blending of different emotions that can be found in different photos to make something new about it. Before this project, I saw using other people’s art contained in my art as just copying and taking from others, but now I understand that it’s kind of like musical sampling. Where it’s still my own art but created in a unique way.
Pitch Video
After we were finished with the world building project, we gave a presentation to the whole class as if we were pitching the tv show to a company. And then we made a video giving that same presentation but just through audio and visuals that we had to animate to be on the internet.