{"id":27,"date":"2024-10-18T17:19:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T17:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LoganN\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2025-06-02T17:29:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:29:02","slug":"showcase","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LoganN\/showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi! My name is Logan Nilotruong, and I&#8217;m a first year senior taking the Film elective. My dream is to be a professional screenwriter and cinematographer. Despite the fact that I&#8217;m leaving with only half the time most other students got, I feel like this was the most impactful school year of my life. I learned a ton of technical skills such as how to use a camera, how to handle film pre-production, as well as navigate the many, many, many Adobe apps. But beyond that, I learned what it&#8217;s like to collaborate with others, to communicate, to make art together. Freestyle has genuinely been one of the funnest and fulfilling courses I&#8217;ve ever taken, and I hope being a student there has put me on the path to be in even better places. This coming school year, I&#8217;d be attending the University of California, San Diego, as a Cinematic Arts major.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"24 25 p8 Showcase LoganN\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0_fN3KsCd2s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A little backstory, my childhood dream career was to be a novelist, but I stopped pursuing it since I realized it wasn&#8217;t very practical. After years on the STEM, engineering track, I realized that I still wanted to be a writer. At the end of my Junior year, I decided to try screenwriting, which is why I became a film student at Freestyle. Anyways, I&#8217;ve tried to write short stories before, but never had anything so large and planned out as Worlds Apart. It&#8217;s also the only narrative treatment that I&#8217;ve ever shared before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s the link to my World Building process doc: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Uv76nCoSN349FKbdsB9mruiQ-l9TDhm7oOpZNM79_AM\/edit?tab=t.0\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Uv76nCoSN349FKbdsB9mruiQ-l9TDhm7oOpZNM79_AM\/edit?tab=t.0\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Uv76nCoSN349FKbdsB9mruiQ-l9TDhm7oOpZNM79_AM\/edit?tab=t.0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"24 25 p8 Reel LoganN\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j9S075UHxgI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is my Film Reel, featuring &#8220;They Way Things Work,&#8221; &#8220;Ping Pong,&#8221; &#8220;Track Hawk,&#8221; and &#8220;Office Offense.&#8221; I also included two Digital Media projects, my Colored Mandala: Series Shot, and Motion Graphic: Rho Aias, as well as &#8220;Parrot Party,&#8221; which was an After Effects practice assignment. Despite not technically being films, I really liked how they turned out and wanted to showcase them. Although, if anybody asks, I&#8217;ll just say they&#8217;re supposed to be animated films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And Zenith Project: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"24 25 p8 Zenith LoganN\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VTM2OpuL0V4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of my Junior year, I hadn&#8217;t even held a DSLR before, hadn&#8217;t sat down and tried to write a narrative, hadn&#8217;t considered that I could have any future in art. But it&#8217;s been a year. A year of learning Adobe Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects. A year of introspective essays, of scripts, of narratives I would never have attempted to create before. This was the year I found the passion I&#8217;d been lacking for 16 years prior, made a new dream for myself. And Freestyle gave me the time, experience, and skills to make that dream a real possibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! My name is Logan Nilotruong, and I&#8217;m a first year senior taking the Film elective. My dream is to be a professional screenwriter and cinematographer. Despite the fact that I&#8217;m leaving with only half the time most other students got, I feel like this was the most impactful school year of my life. 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