“How can we explore personal narratives through a variety of media?”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
In English, we learned how to write short stories, how to annotate them, effectively provide visual details, and convey a message in our short flash fiction stories. It was a challenge to create a story, a world, in a limited amount of space and give the audience important details without just explaining them but instead showing details through narrative language instead of explaining those details mundanely. We read a multitude of short stories in order to familiarize ourselves with the concept. We read the classic novel 1984 by George Orwell, annotating, and questioning each chapter and coming together each week to discuss the latest reading. This was one of my favorite assignments in this unit, reading 1984 gave me a perspective from a book I had never even thought about previously. We then created a concise presentation outline that asserts our argument on a current event relating to 1984, in terms of an authoritative government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Digital Media, we engaged with more complex applications such as Adobe Illustrator, Pro Tools, InDesign, Dreamweaver, and more. We did a deep dive into graphic design (which I was completely ecstatic about, given Graphic Design is my career of choice), by creating illustrations for presentations, our website, personal projects, and album art. We created our own parodies, recorded them in the music studio, formulated the lyrics, and edited them together through Pro tools. We recorded our flash fiction story in English using our portable recorders, we then used Pro Tools again to edit and add SFX’s to invoke emotion in our storytelling. We continued to add to our monthly photo blogs to practice photography. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Design, we connected all the work from digital media and English in order to create a digital illustration based on our flash fiction story in English using Adobe Illustrator. We created our own creature based on the main character of our Flash Fiction. We learned how to use one-point and two-point perspectives and practiced by recreating our bedroom through Adobe Illustrator, and finally, the background to place our creature on. We then created a conceptual photograph with a custom model, location, colored lights, composition, props, costumes, and make-up, that accurately represented the main character of our flash fiction story. We used massive lights of different brightness and color to evoke an emotion in our photograph. We created artboards, learned about color theory, and revisited the essential subject of elements of art and principles of design. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Throughout this unit, I improved as a storyteller by learning how to write in a constricted space while using more engaging visual details. I improved technically, by familiarizing myself with Pro tools and Adobe Illustrator. Lastly, I improved as an artist and as a creative by learning how to further my thinking, conceptually, compose photos, and illustrate complex pieces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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