Documentary

IntroDuction

The Documentary Unit was one of my favorite times at freestyle academy. In Animation we

learned to put together a large composition of all the things we learned to do into something that

was truly special. We incorporated the things we were learning in or english class into our animations.

I documented my sister and her struggles through quarantine and how she has overcome challenges

through her time in isolation. Putting these emotions and struggles into art was very special to me

and this unit will forever be a reminder of what I can create with the things I learn in freestyle.

Through the unit there were three main projects that really made it special, one in each class.

All classes have their values and in this unit I explored the utility and value of taking each of

these classes at freestyle. This Unit was a project that spanned all of the classes and was based on

profiling someone for an article in english, A print option in digital media, an I used the interview

recording in my Animation Classes. The best part about freestyle in my opinion is the connections

between the classes and this unit really displayed that interesting and rare style of learning

environment.

The first project that was very helpful and taught me lots of interesting skills was using

InDesign to create a brochure in Digital Media. Using this software allowed me to bring my profile

article to life by using slick formatting and interesting color schemes. This project taught me how to

use the software and how to make unique text documents that can be printed out and used in real life.

I can see myself using these skills long after freestyle is over to create fliers and formal documents to

enhance my professional and personal life.

Documentary Brochure:

In our english class, we were tasked with interviewing a

noteworthy subject and creating a profile article on them and I choose to profile someone who was

struggling with mental health because it is a very important topic for me. I profiled my sister’s struggles

with mental health and the pandemic and how she learned to cope and overcome these adversities as

well as some advice that she has for people in her position.

This is Gloria Copeland. She is in the sixth grade

and through lessons learned through her struggles

in the pandemic she has learned to rely on herself

and other to cope with the isolation Covid instilled

on younger generations of students. She is doing

much better now that the pandemic has ended and

has adapted to a bad situation.

My profile article covers the struggles Of gloria and how she was able to overcome them using coping

skills and reaching out to the people that cared for her. We see an interesting story of how the pandemic tore

her down, and how she built herself back up after being crushed by the isolation of quarantine. We also see

some insight from gloria on things that others can apply to their own bad situations to make themselves able

to cope much easier.

In animation I took an interview recording

from a conversation between me and my sister and I created a unique animation out of the interview

recording. This project was one of my favorites because we were given complete creative freedom to

create whatever we wanted with the audio that was given.

Thank you to all of the lovely Freestyle teachers, this was one of the best units yet!