Durning this Unit we were able to further extend our knowledge. We learned applications like Adobe Illustrator, while learning these I had so much fun exploring new products. In the visual narrative unit we created a short story, parody songs, and creatures. And I look forward to learning new application down the freestyle road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The first big project we did a flash fission story, with our very own characters, setting, and plot. My story’s main character is named Sam, and his current life situation. The story is based in Seattle, where the main character Sam lives. We made an audio recording of the story, as well as album covers. This has been my favorite project so far, I felt that I could express my self and my creativity through this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sam was making my coffee one quiet morning when a little paper slid under my old wooden front door. Sam slowly bent down to pick up the paper and to see \u201cBrand new retirement homes for you!\u201d. He tossed the paper onto a growing pile of old newspapers. The thought of moving out had festered in the back of his mind for a few years now as Sam grew old the house seemed to get larger and lonelier. Sam pushed those thoughts behind himself and continued with my day by going out front on the porch to enjoy my coffee and sit down on my old rocking chair. To watch the birds fly past and clouds drift away until a loud moving truck comes right to my neighbors and packs up their boxes into the moving truck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sam was up late that night pacing around in his mind in bed with the restless thought of moving out into one of those retirement homes until he was able to fall asleep. He woke up continuously thinking of all the pros and cons of making the change. He thought to himself I won’t have to deal with the mess, and keeping such a big house just for one person gets lonely. But also I don\u2019t want to be in an old place with no friends or neighbors or clouds to watch. Soon he stumbles out of bed to go make coffee and then right on time another paper comes under the door just to give him another reminder that there are \u201c New Retirement homes just for you!\u201d and then Sam gets an impulse, that I don’t want to live alone with no excitement in my life. So he puts on his velcro shoes and walks out the door to the realtor’s office downtown. On his way Sam passes by many stores and restaurants that he used to go to, and he walks along the sidewalk past the dog shelter and to all of the big ferocious dogs and then a small golden brown corgi in a small cage. And a few more blocks later he gets to the realtor’s office. Sam stands out front the office contemplating whether or not he should make this change, but he gains the confidence to walk inside and hear the realtor out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the long overdue conversation that he had with the realtor, He decided to pull the trigger on selling the house and start the process of moving into a \u201c Brand New Retirement home!\u201d. Sam wraps up with the realtor and walks back home through downtown past the dog shelter to notice that all the other dogs were taken! Except for the old corgi, he was just laying in the cage all sad and alone but in too small of a home with nobody. Sam pauses his walk and and feels a rush of emotions come across his body, as he feels empathetic for the little dog. When he gets home later that day he begins to reminisce about all of the memories that I had, like running around the living room with joy when he found out he\u2019d got his dream job, or when he would enjoy the peaceful views of the clouds on his old rocking chair. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sam felt a slight bit of regret about moving, so he distracted himself by turning on channel 20 News just to fall asleep moments later on the couch. Sam gets up bright n early to make my coffee, then head downtown to the moving company to help moving all of the dusty old furniture and the piles of dated newspapers. As he walks downtown I still see the corgi in the window all alone in the cage. As Sam starts to walk downtown, I can hear a faint bark from the corgi. Sam turns back around, then he feels the rush of regret that came across him last night. And he has an epiphany that he is the small little corgi that is all alone but in this case he is the one who is leaving his big home and the corgi has nobody. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So he walks as fast as his old body can, back to the realtor’s office and he tells them that he doesn’t want to sell his house and he tears papers, and the relator takes back his claim. And Sam rushes down the block into the animal shelter to see the little old corgi, with a collar around his neck, and his name is Eddy! Sam opens Eddy crate and Eddy jumps into Sam’s arms licking him all over his face! Sam signed the papers to get Eddy and just like that Eddy was all Sams. They walk back to the house, and Eddy runs all over his new home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n