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Hello, and welcome to my page! My name is Valorie Spade, and I am a senior at Mountain View High School and Freestyle Academy. I am in the Animation elective at Freestyle Academy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next year I am continuing my education at Temple University Japan. I plan to major in art and continue to develop my artistic abilities, as well as branch out into more new mediums. In the future, I want to pursue a career in art education, as being a teacher is something I’ve been interested in from a very young age. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For my first showcase item, I chose photography. As part of our Digital Media class, we had monthly photo blog assignments. In shooting photos for the weekly prompts, I developed a love for photography. I soon learned, however, that taking good photos was harder than I had initially thought. I took a lot of photos in my two years at Freestyle using a variety of cameras and lenses. I even got into film photography, and purchased darkroom chemicals to develop my photos at home. Below is a collection of photos that I feel represent the variety photos I took with the various techniques and skills taught to us in our Digital Media class. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I feel that my photos utilize composition, framing, colors, and other techniques to make them interesting pieces, but I also feel that a lot of them may lack depth or emotion, which ultimately make them boring and hard to connect with. A lot of this may come from the fact that I am still unexperienced in photography and am too preoccupied with simply shooting my subjects, but I want to improve my ability to convey more with just a photograph. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For my second item, I chose my Zenith. The Zenith project is where everyone at Freestyle was truly able to do what they wanted, and even though I was an Animation student, I wanted to try something more design based. We dabbled in doll-making in junior year with our stop motion dolls and I enjoyed the process a lot, but I knew I could do a lot better if I ever attempted something similar again. And so, for my senior year Zenith, I did exactly that. The goal this time was not to make a doll for stop motion, however. This doll was more of a base for clothing and costume design, as that is something that I’ve been wanting to teach myself for a while, but never was able to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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