{"id":292,"date":"2022-03-22T22:29:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LucyG\/?page_id=292"},"modified":"2023-01-15T01:15:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T01:15:13","slug":"narrative-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LucyG\/narrative-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrative 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the narrative unit, we explored and improved our ways of telling and understanding stories, through visuals and writing. We created and read stories in English and Animation, and were introduced to new programs or learned different ways to utilize others for storytelling, such as Adobe Illustrator, Pro Tools, and Adobe After Effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I think I valued most about the narrative unit was how it forced me to step out of my comfort zone and ignore my perfectionism at times. Out of fear of failure and difficulty, I often fail to do things I’m actually interested in, but this unit helped me step out of that. Though I think there are still improvements to be made to what I created, I’m happy I was able to create at all. I also learned different techniques, such as elements of storytelling and how to utilize audio, especially music and sound effects, and further learned how to edit audio using Pro Tools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Story<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The main English assignment in our narrative unit was to create a story in the style of flash fiction. This style is extremely brief, usually one to a few pages. Before beginning the writing process, we reviewed examples of flash fiction and learned to identify storytelling techniques and elements, and began planning out the story, responding to a character questionnaire and creating a plot map detailing the events of the story and the character’s growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I struggled a lot with the initial steps of this assignment\u2014I had no idea what I wanted to write about, and wrote the first few paragraphs of a story I ended up abandoning. Eventually, though, I took the idea of will o’ the wisps, which I had been thinking about for a while regarding this project, and used that to write the story. Afterwards, we recorded ourselves reading our stories, edited the audio and added music and sound effects, and created cover art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Editing story audio in Pro Tools<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Making story cover art in Adobe Illustrator<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n