Throughout the span of four months, I worked on multiple narrative projects for my three classes: Film, English and Design.
Film
My senior narrative film, “Pros”, follows two inept criminals as they attempt to win their corporate crime boss’s approval by pulling off the ultimate crime. My partner Josue Martinez and I wrote, directed, shot and edited this original short film for our high school film class throughout the span of three months.
English
In my short story, “Family Values”, I practiced balancing the amount of dialogue, description, and action. We were instructed to develop a character-driven plot.
Design
For this project, we were instructed to create advertising material for either our film or our short story. I chose to do mine on my film.
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Artist Statement:
I made this poster to accompany my film project. The film follows two inept criminals as they attempt to win their corporate crime boss’s approval by pulling off the ultimate crime.
I took two photos: one of the jewels in the bag and another of two people posing as my main actors. In Photoshop, I made selections of the jewels and turned up the contrast and brightness to make them sparkle more. In a separate document I selected the two men and filled the selection to make them appear like shadows, making the background transparent and placing it into the document with the jewels. I selected the bag and its shadow, and placed the two men slightly behind it to make it look as if they were part of the photo. I then opened the project in Illustrator and live painted it to give it the painted effect. Next, I saturated the photo and used the spotlight lighting effect to bring more attention to the jewels. In an Indesign document I added the text. I am pleased with how it turned out.