Narrative 2

Introduction to the Narrative 2 unit:

In the Narrative 2 unit, we had to create a short story with dialogue in English; an album cover in design; and a short narrative film with dialogue.

 

English:

In English, I wrote a short story with dialogue about a girl who is driving home with her mom and dad and suddenly wakes up in a hospital. She’s told that she was in a bad car accident, but slowly pieces together the memories of what events exactly led up to the accident.

Read my short story: Driving Home

 

Design:

In design, I had the option to create an album cover, movie poster, or book jacket. I chose an album cover, and designed it based off of my short story I wrote in English.

The design is of a person laying down, and lines are coming out of them. The lines and the color scheme represent the flames described in the story, but also the anger and confusion the main character feels as she slowly remembers how she ended up in the hospital. I used Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign to create this.

Album cover (with vinyl stickers):

Artist statement:

My narrative story is about a girl who is driving home late at night with her parents and suddenly wakes up injured and surrounded by flames. She later finds out in the hospital that she was in a car accident, and after sitting alone in her room and trying to remember the sequence of events that led up to the accident, she realizes how she ended up there, and who caused it.

While creating my illustration, I scrapped many ideas and finally landed on this simple look. I outlined a person laying down, to reference the girl in the story waking up after the accident, and the lines above her represent not only the flames, but also the emotions of anger and confusion as she realizes what happened. This was all using the pen tool and the brush tool, and as I went along with the illustrations, I created a color scheme where not one line is the same, but all within the same area of the color picker. We had so much freedom in this project to create whatever we wanted, and I feel very happy with the outcome of mine because I feel like it is very artistic and something I can be proud of. If I could change anything, it might be the title. Even though it’s not the focal point, I would probably make it smaller or create a new font.

 

Film:

In film, we partnered with one other person and worked on the same film together. Our film is about a teenage boy who is struggling to maintain personal relationships while he battles a demon within him. We used Adobe Premiere to edit this.

Watch the trailer.

Watch the film.

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