Voices: My Creative Journey
I Can, I Will
By: Julie Pedro
Introduction
Trying to start my Creative Story was struggling, I didn't know what to write about, I didn't think my life was interesting enough to get a story from. I thought about the most important thing in my life, and that was art. I thought of all the high points I had with art, and they were mostly all recent. Of all the good time, you remember the worst moment first, and I thought of when someone I looked up to made me feel like I wasn't capable of doing anything, and how far I've come from that moment.
Materials
Hardware: iPad, MacPro, Windows PC
Software: Adobe Draw, Adobe Comp, Adobe Spark, Microsoft Word
Platforms: Creative Cloud, Behance
Creative Process
This story associates better with students 14-19 years of age, because its about following what you enjoy, and what you're strongest skill is. Like other students, I struggled finding out what I wanted to do and following what I enjoyed later showed me what I really want to do, and with my telling of this story it will inspire other students because most students experience this. The tone of my story is a little bit depressing at the not having someone be supportive to me, but I made the pictures quite silly, and the characters face expressions. I hope people find it quite funny from the Illustrations and enjoy it overall.
Script
First I wrote my script before drawing out my panels.
then afterwards, I started doodling on the Adobe Draw app and tried to create my script into a visual.
Illustrations
Once I had both the script and the Illustrations, I made a storyboard with them.
StoryBoard
Workflow
I decided to use that part of to add and make the down turn of my story. First I created my script on Microsoft Word, and wrote down what I planed to say for the video. As I wrote, I pictured how I would create the picture to go along with the narrative. It took a while to wrote down some points, then change the wording in order for it to be easy to understand and make sense.
When I was finished with the script I moved forward and created the pictures on Adobe Draw app. I did little detail but enough to understand the scene without the audio, I also made the first picture (my self-portrait) very detailed to compare to animation comedies and how they add a lot of detail on up close frames of faces and objects.
Finished both pieces of my story, I brought over my work to Adobe Comp, and created a story board to give me an idea of how the flow and change of the scene would go. Once happy with my line up of frames, I added the pictures to the app, Spark Video, and recorded myself reciting the script.
I named my video last minute, and I felt that I Can, I Will as the best title for my story. I chose a picture of the Cinderella castle in Disney World, because the castle is a huge trademark for Disney and since my dream was to being apart of Disney was perfect.
Conclusion
I enjoyed making this project, and I'm proud of the out come, but they're were some items I had to deal with, for example; I wanted to make more frames and pictures, but then I would only have a few words for each frame, and this isn't really an animation video. Another thing I really wanted to add was start with a black screen, and pretend to be Batman and say, "The screen is black, because the best videos start was a black screen." I deiced to remove it because it felt unneeded but funny if I were to add it.
I'm glad with my video's out come because it was something new that I never tried, and it was fun to be able to do all the makes of a video (the audio, Illustrations, and script).
