Introduction

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story

We brainstormed the story line and character in English class, and wrote our ideas into a real story. The project in English was started with George Orwell’s 1984. Followed up with other people’s flash fiction. I struggled with the length of the story a lot at the beginning. My inspiration came from a dream that I had before. Originally, I was going to exactly what happened in the dream with its process, but after talking to Mr. Greco, our English teacher, he pointed out that it has passed the words limit.

I recorded my audio production of my story in a voice tone that I think match with the story. But I really wish that I can level up my voice and speak more clearly next time.

• The design of the album is based on a scene from my narrative story.

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Illustrations

We learned the creative program Illustrator, and we corporate different kinds of small project by using Illustrator to do works.

Exquisite Corpse

Exquisite corpse is a really fun project that we done in Digital Media class. Three of us (me and Ori A and Dhrithi V) grouped together for this project. We drew the following pictures without telling others, and this is what it turned out!

Illustrator Project

Project name: Curving History

My inspiration for this piece came from a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. I saw the cultural relics that came from ancient Egypt. The repetitive and summary patterns of the murals that used to be a part of tombs, patterns’ function is to provide the needs of their owner the necessity of the afterlife. As I further learned from books about ancient Egyptian art history, the 2-dimensional composition is formed by the idea of “drawing the things they know”, rather than seeing or feeling. So I created this piece for two of my most important friends, recording the eternity in our friendship by embracing the culture we love.

I grew a lot with this project, I learned and practiced how to be summarize and clear about what I want to express visually. This project is definitely a good practice for using Illustrator. And it helped me so much to further understand the ancient culture. I struggled to write the words in Egyptian on the cup and find the shape of the cup that I really wanted. I did not prepare a lot for this project, it is more likely to just float out from my inspiration. I did a lot of research on Egyptian writing and asked one of my friends who actually knew how to write, and the final word that I decided is “Eternity” and “Bestie”. One thing that I would like to change is that if I could know the size of the cup ahead, so I can draw the design more accurately and reach a better effect. 

This opportunity to explore the culture of ancient Egypt was so fun to me and I felt really passionate about learning other cultures and putting them into my work. The skills from this project and the idea of it can help me for my future projects, in my education and career. I saw and practiced the combination of ancient art and culture in modern design, and understood how a commodity can be turned into an artwork, I felt very inspired by this project. 

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music production

“Learning With Our Brain Gone” by Sylvia C, Maisie R, Alex S

The song we chose to make a parody out of was Dancing with Our Hands Tied by Taylor Swift. We chose to do our topic about the stress of school as it is something relatable to all students. We learned how to use Adobe Audition and use skills like decompressing, amplifying, and many other vital tools to enhance our project. Overall, it was a very fun project as we were able to rock our hearts out to a familiar and nostalgic song as well as mess around with the lyrics.

My lyrics of the parody project

Song Parody Planning

• Song: Dancing with our Hands Tied
• Theme: School- Junior year (testing, hoco, people)

Sylvia

Maisie

Alex

EVERYONE

I, I came back from summer

First sight, this year will be harder

Oh, I’m sixteen years old

Oh, homework overload

My, my brain had been frozen

Want a break, but they gave me more homework

Oh, and it stressed me out

Oh, testing is coming close

I used to spend my summer with fun dramas and road trips

Sitting on my bed with my headphone noise on canceled

My friends said let’s hangout and stay up until the sunrise

I had a bad feeling

I can’t keep on waking up with two hours of sleeping

Packing up my backpack with my notebooks and lunch box

Glancing all around to see all of the new freshmen

I had a bad feeling

But we should study 

Putting on our, headphones, headphones

Yeah, we were crying 

Praying we pass, exams, exams 

Yeah we were studying 

Studying with our phones off, phones off

Yeah, we were stressing

And I had a bad feeling

But we should study

I, I stay up in spite of

Deep fears that I might fail on the test

So, can we have a break

Oh, so I can stay sane

and say, say it’s just one  

I’m a mess, and the one might fail on test

Oh, cause it HOCO week

Oh, and the  S A T

I could’ve been studying but I stayed in bed watching

Movies on repeat, don’t even know whos on the big screen 

You said “the test was lightwork don’t need to study” 

I had a bad feeling

But we were crying

Starin we g at a, bad grade, bad grade

Yeah, we were stressing

overwhelmed with, aeries, aeries

Yeah, we were wishing

That we had just, studied, studied

Yeah, we were sobbing

(Ooh, we were studying)

And I had a bad feeling

But we were stressing

I walk in as the bell just rang

Praying to get a good score 

I’m stressed out as the teacher walks in 

If I can study it again

I’d pay a little more attention

Taking notes as I was told

I’d told myself to work a little more 

and I really did try my best

Praying we pass, exams, exams

Yeah we were stressing

overwhelmed with, aeries, aeries

Yeah we were studying 

Studying with our phones off, phones off

Yeah we were working 

And I had a bad feeling 

I can’t keep stressing

Stressing, stressing

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design

In design, we learned Illustrator and corporate with English, created a Illustration piece based on the story that we wrote.

“Foctopusfly” by Sylvia C

My narrative story is about a girl called Vitachra who accidentally falls into a “rabbit hole” and experiences a whole adventure in this grand underground opera theater hall, which ends up being just in her dream. She first arrived (or dropped) at the Great Hall and met Lady Lustina who was her guide on the tour, then they saw a huge fish tank with mermaids in there who had an exact face like Vitachra. It is a story about how Vitachra found her inner self through the journey, where the dream and reality are aligned. 

I first brainstormed what animals I wanted to represent Vitachra. I chose fox to represent the characteristics of smart, butterfly for beauty, phoenix for ambition, octopus for insecurity, and snake for self-center. Then I draft out the basic shape of the creature, using the pictures of animals I found online for a better and more precise outline, with the techniques of using Illustrator pen tool to finish the line structure. After that, I filled in colors from my color scheme and used the skills we learned in class about making feathers and fur effects. I chose the sense of the inside of the Great Hall, a Western-style architecture and a point perspective with a huge fish tank in the center of the room. 

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