Conceptual

Intro To Conceptual

The Conceptual Unit’s ultimate focus is to introduce the tools that will most primarily be used throughout the Freestyle Academy journey in order to properly ease students into developing the required skills for their endeavors. Through experimental and creative projects, video editing practices, writing exercises, and equipment training (such as audio recorders and DSLRs) students are given the time and resources to properly begin to express themselves in ways that are true to them and learn how to navigate in the modern digital space. This Unit was very effective for me because it helped me get through all the conventionalities that were pushed on me in normal school and unearthed my work ethic with hard projects that I legitimately enjoyed doing. It also set my expectations for how involved I should be in Freestyle by giving me an adequate amount of work and preparation for the upcoming larger projects. Ultimately it was a very enjoyable and creative unit!

 

COLLAPSED: A Photo Haiku and Video

For this project we were told to take a haiku we wrote in English class and find a complimenting photo for it. We then were tasked with creating a creative video with narration and optional music for said photo haiku in Adobe Premiere.

Balls soar like dead leaves

Collapsed, devouring the air

Red as a target

I relatively enjoyed this project because there were not many guidelines as to what we had to explicitly do for our video. So, as you can see (or hear) I made the haiku a metal song and narrated it in a kooky voice to make the video just a little more special. I really reveled in the creativity and values the open-ness of the experiment. All in all, I think it turned out pretty well!

 

Two Audio Poems

These are two of my favorite poems that I have written besides my photo haiku. The aim of this project is to learn how to record two separate poems and create album art for them.

THE ARRTS

 

PUSHED INTO A CORNER

These poems were a challenge to make for me because I really am opposed to making poetry in the way that my English teacher wanted me to. It wasn’t limiting in a way but it was demanding, and I was a little perturbed by the fact that my writing couldn’t have the same freedom as my film endeavors. So I decided to write a poem about being forced to write a poem (“Pushed into a Corner”), and a poem about all the things I like that are much better than poetry (“The ARRTS”)

 

Photoshop Blend Modes:

Blend modes are mathematical equations that you can add onto a photo in order to give it specific instructions as to how it should appear when exposed to another photo underneath it such as appearing darker with a lighter photo underneath or vice versa.

CREATIVE BLENDS:

The Making of Creative Blend 2 (The One Above)

This project was important to me because I had never known what blending modes actually did, I thought they were merely filters for images. But this lesson taught me how to properly use them and in what situations I could use them to enhance my photo editing.

 

Experimental Film Project:

This was an experimental film we were tasked to make in my third and main Film class with Mr. Taylor. The purpose was to introduce us to the tools we’d be using to make other works of film, to familiarize us with the gear such as the Cannon cameras, and to give us a lenient and less consequential first project.