During the conceptual project unit, we were challenged to take creative risks through poetry, music, art, animation, experimental film, and web production. This was to help each of us find our own personal style and aesthetic when creating art. We got the chance to use professional equipment such as DSLR cameras, Tascam audio recorders, Adobe apps (Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and After Effects), and Pro Tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What I value about the English and Digital Media classes at Freestyle is that the assignments you do in those classes are connected to each other. For example, with the poetry unit we made haiku and free verse poems in our English class, then recorded them and edited them in Digital Media. I think having assignments connect to a different class makes me feel more engaged with the assignment itself. I know that I\u2019ll be producing what I write in English as an audio recording or a video, which encourages me to push myself to do better on the English assignment and vice versa. Overall I like how we get to continue to creatively build on our ideas in Digital Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Something specific that I like about Digital Media is that I get a chance to learn how to use more professional softwares that can apply more to what the other elective courses would use. I think that having this opportunity to learn about these softwares will also be very useful when I’m older because the line of work I’m planning on going into will most likely use these or something similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For our haiku assignment, we were each given a different random a random topic to write our haiku about while also including something in it alluding to a season. A haiku is compromised of 5 syllables for the first and last line and 7 for the second (5-7-5). My topic was betrayal through friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n