When exploring the realm of visual narrative, we learned how to tell a powerful and well-structured story that portrayed complex emotions and ideas. In our elective class, we created our own narrative films from the ground up, and our learning process carried over from Film into our Digital Media and English classes, where we broadened our storytelling skills by creating flash fictions that laid out the foundation for the big film project.
The narrative project helped teach me how to rely on visual skills when trying to convey complex concepts and emotions to an audience. Not being able to rely on dialogue encourages out-of-the-box thinking. Being able to express myself without the use of words has made me a better filmmaker and writer. I look forward to applying the skills I acquired to future projects where I am able to use dialogue because then the sky’s the limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In English, we delved into the narrative unit by making our own flash fiction, where we created unique characters and stories that followed the typical narrative outline with a setting, rising action, climax, abyss moment, and resolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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After we finished creating our flash fiction in English, we then took them into our Digital Media class and produced an audio version by recording our own vocals in Pro Tools, and mixing them with music and sound effects to create an entertaining audio story. I valued the opportunity to use Pro Tools again and continue to learn my way around audio, as it can be a very critical element in one’s communication skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n