In this Narrative unit we explored the art behind story telling. In English we wrote an actual story about whatever topic we wanted, I chose to do my story about a college student going through struggles with both his academics and his personal life. While we were making this story we were learning illustrator in Design so that when we were finished our story we could make an illustration about it. We used Illustrator to draw our character; however, we didn’t actually draw our character. That was too easy, we named 5 traits about our character and then we found one animal, reptile, sea fairing creature, insect, and bird that corresponds to a trait. After we choose our different creatures, we drew them on Illustrator and merged them to form one giant made up creature. Then we made a background that had some connection to a setting in our story, but was also unique. This came out to a huge illustrator project that reflects our story from English. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
During this unit I improved in so many ways, I improved upon my Illustrator skills, my ability to not procrastinate, and story telling. Even just looking back to the beginning of this unit I realize how far we have come in only one unit. I valued this unit for all that it taught me including story telling. I really hate writing, but in this unit I learned a lot about story telling techniques and I started to enjoy it. My original story was really dragged out and not very descriptive, I ended up re-writing it 3 times but at the end I fell like I ended up with a good final product. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was harder than we thought just to think up a character with distinct traits character quirks, a personality, and motives. This Character Questionnaire was meant to help us create a character, in a certain background, and with definable traits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\u2019s your name?
How old are you? I am twenty three years old
What are your two most physically defining features that cause people to recognize you? I wear glasses and I always have two different socks on.
How do you typically dress? What do your particular clothing choices \/ accessories say about you? I always wear shorts or sweat pants depending on the season and weather. I also always wear a sports team shirt or a shirt that has some movie reference on it. However; I usually have a jacket covering it which suggests that I am scared to show everyone how much of a nerd I am.
Empty your pockets. What\u2019s there?: Gum, a paper clip, my phone, headphones, and my ID
Where were you born \/ where have you grown up? I was born in Hawaii, but I grew up in Los Angeles
Where do you live now? (give a location and type of living space, for ex: renting a room in a mansion in Los Altos Hills): I now rent an apartment with two of my friends, and we live a block away from the UCLA campus.
Where are your favorite places in the world and why? My favorite places in the world are the movie theatre and the beaches in Hawaii
What\u2019s your primary mode of transportation? My primary mode of transportation is my bike, and public transportation
How do you make a living (what\u2019s your source of income?) I don\u2019t make money, I just accumulate college debt, but I do work at the local ice cream shop year round. I also have a summer internship with apple.
Who are your parents? My father is a college professor at UCLA, and my mother is a politician running for mayor
Do you have any siblings? I have a younger and older brother
Are there any other family members\/relatives that are of special significance to you?
Did you have a happy childhood? Explain: Yes, but it was kind of dull because I never truly found my calling until my Sophomore year of college
Where have you attended school? (And are you in school now? If so, how\u2019s it going?) I am attending UCLA for graduate school, and I just finished undergraduate from USC where I transferred after two years of community college.
Are you religious? Why\/why not? I am not religious but I will raise my kids to make them a little religious
What do you like to read? Watch on TV? Favorite movies? Music? Other art\/entertainment? I love watching the CW\u2019s arrowverse shows on TV as well as shows like Star Wars the clone wars All American and How I Met Your Mother. Some of my favorite movies are deadpool, the mcu, Star Wars, Ride Along 1 not 2, and 21 + 22 Jump Street
How do you best express yourself? I like to listen to music and draw to express how I am feeling.
Do you have art\/music talent? Not really but I do like sketching sometimes
What is your taste in art\/music? I just listen to whatever is on the radio or today\u2019s hits
What is your most prized possession? My limited edition Tony Stark prescription Edith glasses
What is your greatest achievement? Graduating from USC\u2019s undergraduate program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Relationships:
\nAre you in a romantic relationship? With whom? Describe them by choosing several of the details listed above. No
\nAre you satisfied with the relationship? Why\/not? Not in one
\nDo you want to be in a relationship? With whom, and why? If not, why not? Yes but I don\u2019t know who
\nHow did your last relationship end? It ended when we went to different graduate schools
\nWhat kind of friends do you have? My friends are other nerds
\nName your best friend. Why is he\/she your best friend? My best friend is named
\nName the friend with who you are the least satisfied. What\u2019s the problem? I don\u2019t have any dissatisfying friends
\nDo you have enemies \/ rivals? Name them, and briefly indicate the conflict you have with them. I don\u2019t have any enemies
\nWhat conflicts among your friends or enemies concern you the most? I am concerned because we are about to get a new apartment and only three of my closest friends can move in with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Look deeper:
What\u2019s weird or quirky about you? Why do you think you have this weirdness \/ quirkiness? Is there a story behind it others don\u2019t know about? I am constantly shifting and squirming. It is because when I was a kid I was shot with a stray bullet from across the street where a convenience store was getting robbed, and it still hurts to sit on the spot that I got shot in.
What do you wish others would understand about you? That my dad being a really harsh teacher should have no affect on how they view me as a person.
What don\u2019t you want others to know about you? (This could be a painful or embarrassing secret): That I secretly want to be living in Hawaii, but the colleges aren\u2019t very good there
What do you worry about? Why? I worry about my future because I want to be successful, but I also know how hard that is.
Do you think you are a leader or follower? Why? I am a leader because I have a lot of good ideas and I am very good at directing other people’s talents in useful ways.
Are you practical or a dreamer? Why? I am a practical, but I still like to dream of a future where I have achieved everything I want to in life.
What\u2019s your greatest fear \u2013 what\u2019s terrifying to you? I am terrified of having no impact on the world, with just living for about 65-85 years with significance to my life.
What\u2019s your greatest regret in life? That I didn\u2019t play a sport in college
Who has let you down? Have you told them? If you haven\u2019t, what would you say to them? No one has ever really let me down in any significant way.
When have you let yourself down? Explain: I let myself down in my Junior year of highschool, when I messed up my grades so bad that I had to go to a community college for two years before transferring to USC
Who do you need to stand up to? Have you ever stood up to anyone, or have you tried to stand up to this person? How it go? I once stood up to my high school bully, we got into a fight and I beat the shit out of him, but then all his friends came and beat the shit out of me
What do you want most out of life? (By the end of your life, you want to have\u2026?) I want to be successful and raise my kids to have a fun good childhood
What do you want most this year? This year I aim to see my brothers more
What do you want most this week? To do well on all of my midterms
What do you want most today? I good steak dinner with a side of mashed potatoes
Choose at least 2 of the last 4 questions and explain: What\u2019s stopping you from getting what you want?
I can\u2019t really get a good steak dinner because it is an expensive dinner
I also can\u2019t see my brothers more often because one of them is out of state living in Hawaii. He is older and lived there for about 8 years of his life and I only lived there for 3 years. So he misses it more than me. My younger brother is studying abroad for his junior year of college, and he is in Denmark where my fathers side is from. However, I will see both of them soon for Christmas
How do you think you need to change? I need to become more outgoing. I have a lot of friends but I never really go to a lot of parties or anything like that
How do others think you need to change? Other people think that I need to spend less time playing video games and procrastinating
How do you feel about at least one of those people who thinks you need to change?
I think that they are all right, but they all also have stuff to change about themselves. For example, my parents often tell me to not procrastinate so much but they are both all work no play and need to loosen up a bit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This assignment was meant to help us have a place to start, we made a rough description of our character to help us bring good visual detail to our story. We also set up a narrative structure as many stories do follow a similar, but sometimes different structure as they go through their story. The Narrative structure was meant to make our story not just a block of text, but a well flowing story with a beginning, middle, and end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rough Description:
\nTony is having a really hard time, he just can\u2019t catch a break. First he just got dumped by his girlfriend. Then tell the story of how that happened. Then he failed his multi variable calculus midterm, then talk about the story of how that happened and it was partly because he couldn\u2019t focus because his girlfriend dumped him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Narrative structure:
Explosion
Complications
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
Status que<\/p>\n\n\n\n