Voices: My Creative Journey

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Introduction:

For this assignment, we were tasked to create our own video about our creative challenges, obstacles and lives, and how we got to where we are now and what are plans are for the future. The video is supposed to be a combination of our voices and images to get our point across to a target audience.

Materials:

Hardware: iPad, Laptop/Desktop.

Software: Adobe Draw, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft word, Photoshop

Platforms: Creative Cloud, Behance

Creative Process:

Audience: Young teens/adults (ages +14), Friends, Classmates and Peers, and those intreasted in my story.

Purpose: To inspire those who are close to giving up, those who keep doubting themselves, and anyone looking for inspiration.

Why: If my story can help make a difference in even one person's life and help them to keep going even when the going gets tough. Also, Because I found this as a way to open up about myself a little more.

Expected Reaction: I hope that the viewer will be filled with hope and determination to keep moving forward no matter how tough the road ahead is.

Hook: The End of Grade nine for me.

Dramatic Elements: My high school life

How: A video using pictures and drawings while my voice narrates.

Style: I will be using both drawings and photos to tell my story.

Tone: Friendly and casual, As if a friend was share a story with another friend.

Mood: Hopeful, sad and happy.

Past:

My Earliest Creative Influences: My sister Brandii, Marvel and DC comic super heroes. They were what caught my attention and influenced me to start taking pictures and drawing.

My Earliest Memory of a Creative Accomplishment: In grade 6, we had to draw a picture of anything and I decided to do my to favorite pokemon and surprisingly the teacher really liked it.

What Stood in my way: Myself, I kept doubting myself and not believing that i was good enough to do something i really enjoy.

Area of interest: I really like designing characters, giving them a backstory and a voice. Also being able express my creative ideas and thoughts.

Experience from Early Life: Being able to have the freedom to express my creative thoughts and draw them.

Past Event that Affected my Decision: Just being able to watch cartoon and animations and being able to say, i want to do that was enough for me.

Who Influenced me: My Family and Friends who have supported me, and have been nothing but understanding and help through out my journey.

Present:

Interests that have affected my life: My interests have always been things that i would be proud to show my family when i was done, finishing a huge Lego set in just a couple of hours.

My Design Philosophy: "Never limit yourself to what you have seen from others". It means not to compare yourself to others you think are better than you, because one day you might surprise yourself by the work you have done.

How does my creative work represent my Creativity: I think my work shows how important I fell it is for people and characters to have a voice and the importance of how the differences work (i.e fire and ice, sun and moon, good and evil, etc...)

How has my time at school challenged me: I feel like this year I was giving the chance to give it my all and see what i was capable of doing.

Epic win on an assignment: My classmates and I (in grade 10) were put in to groups of three and had to do a presentation on a charity in Toronto. I did a poem and my group won because of it! we won a donation for our charity that we picked. It made me wanna put effort in my work, help my team win was a nice feeling.

Epic Fail on an assignment: In grade 5, My teacher was writing cursive on the whiteboard and i attempt to copy what she did because it was my first time ever seeing cursive, however, I a drew a big line of random lines. The teacher was not happy about that. It taught me to Pay attention to details when doing things.

Future:

Where do I see myself in 5 years: I see myself just graduating from college looking for a job doing Animation or Concept Art, while doing photography as a side job or hobby.

Next Steps after the Foundation program: Apply for Animation programs around Toronto and Practice my skills more.

Lessons I learned this year: Always give it you best and pay attention to detail.

Advice I would give: Don't half ass anything you do, it will be rewarding in the end.

If I could make a wish come true: To be able to obtain enough money for m my family and friends, that money would not be an issue.

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