{"id":884,"date":"2024-05-16T08:27:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T08:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NatalieE\/?page_id=884"},"modified":"2024-05-16T17:15:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T17:15:18","slug":"showcase-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NatalieE\/showcase-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello! My name is Natalie Emerson and I am a current Senior in Film at Freestyle academy. Over the last two years, I have strengthened my interest in the visual arts as well as the art of storytelling. I enjoy reading and am drawn towards memoirs and other types of literary nonfiction, novellas, and historical fiction. Specific authors I enjoy reading and admire are Joan Didion, Donna Tartt, Ocean Vuong, and Claire Keegan. I have spent a significant portion of my time this year coordinating various events for Mountain View&#8217;s Me Too club, including a school-wide affirmative consent seminar in which I presented, along with the members of the board, to over 2000 students and faculty about the help resources that we pioneered in collaboration with the MVLA Title IX coordinator. I frequently used the design skills acquired at Freestyle in order to create promotional flyers for these events, which was a memorable and rewarding experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The piece that my showcase video focuses on is my Junior Year Lyrical Essay, as I feel that, through this assignment, I was able to exercise the skills I am most passionate about developing further. Going through multiple rounds of revision and learning to cut out sentences I had grown attached to was an extremely beneficial experience that I feel impacted my creative process profoundly. As I will mention in the video, this essay was published in a literary magazine last summer, which I also found to be an extremely rewarding experience.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would like to know ways in which I can work to strengthen my syntax and diction in order to make my writing more effective. Is my use of metaphor and analogy effective? How might I create a more cohesive theme while integrating multiple variables into one piece of writing? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next year, I plan to study Literary Journalism at the University of California, Irvine. I am incredibly enthusiastic to be studying under such highly experienced journalists while living in close proximity to the diverse and creative city of Los Angeles. I would like to pursue a career as a writer and intend on creating more advanced writing portfolios as I navigate my higher education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is my Showcase video. Thank you so much!<\/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=\"23 24 p8 Showcase NatalieE\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lfp5murbJy4?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\">You can find the full version of my essay here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a class=\"fancybox-pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NatalieE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Emerson_Natalie-Lyrical-essay-.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"312\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NatalieE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-16-at-1.26.22-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-885\" style=\"width:122px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NatalieE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-16-at-1.26.22-AM.png 312w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NatalieE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-16-at-1.26.22-AM-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reflection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although this was an independent project, I received extensive feedback from my classmates and Mr. Greco along the way, which helped me finalize it into something I am very proud of. Using memories as a vehicle for storytelling was a valuable challenge in reflection as well as creative writing, as I had to carefully express as words what only exists as a feeling. The essay &#8220;Holy Water&#8221; from Didion&#8217;s &#8220;The White Album&#8221;, reflects Didion&#8217;s complex and emotionally tumultuous relationship with the artificial reservoirs of water in Southern California. The strength in which she evokes a sense of aggression and intention from an inanimate thing, something too large to even consider as one object, has motivated me to attempt to find that observational ability within myself. I attempt to create a relationship between the alienation of the Heron in its supposed natural habitat and the passive comfort of modernity, hence the frequent reference to the car I was in at that moment. Although no clear relationship exists between them, I wanted to avoid creating a message or takeaway that was too linear by showing that relationship through the cycle and loss of memory as time goes on. Challenges I faced during the process included frequently losing sight of the point, and allowing my ideas in the moment to direct my writing. This created a final product that was far too lengthy and entirely impossible to follow. In order to avoid losing clear sight of a goal, what are tactics that might be useful for me to employ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To elaborate on the publication, my lyrical essay was published in the first issue of the student run literary magazine <em>The Empty Inkwell<\/em>. For that cycle, the acceptance rate for an applicant was approximately 4.6%. If you are interested in their publication, I have linked it below.  I have also posted it to my personal writing portfolio (which I will not be linking in order to maintain anonymity). As of now, over 120,000 people have read it. <\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NatalieE\/showcase-2\/\" target=\"_self\">https:\/\/www.theemptyinkwellreview.org\/issue-i<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Showcase<\/span><\/a>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Disconnected from my writing is my Reel, in which I quickly preview my strongest film projects from Freestyle.<\/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=\"23 24 p8 Reel NatalieE\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p4wxV00KLso?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\">Again, I wanted to express my gratitude for the time you have taken to review my work, and I am eager to improve my writing based on your feedback. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Hello! 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