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Through my Art Immersion class sophomore year, I further developed multiple forms of creative expression as I learned alongside an array of professionals in the community. This page shows how I developed new, artistic ideas as well as interpreted, presented and shared artistic work. This page also illustrates my understanding of how the arts convey meaning and my ability to connect artistic work with personal meaning and external context.
Final Product - A honey pot for a Winnie The Pooh play adaptation
Taping Process - Me in the middle of stacking the styrofoam rectangles and taping them together
Sculpting Process - Me in the middle of sculpting the stacked styrofoam rectangles with scissors to make the ends round
Prop Design
In preparation for making props for our school play, I read an article about the job of a prop designer. This allowed me to fully understand the work and effort that goes into what a prop designer does, and how someone becomes one.
Throughout the process of making my assigned honey pot, I did research on designs from the original Winnie The Pooh book. I took those original designs and implemented them into my rough sketch idea. Finally I began the grueling process of sculpting with styrofoam with scissors and smoothing it all out with a layers of paper. In the end, we had a beautiful honey pot ready to go for our play.
The Outcome - Me holding the honey pot on stage after two wonderful performances of a Winnie The Pooh adaptation
Picture Process – We went around Salisbury and took an abundance of pictures of whatever we thought looked appealing or interesting.
Learning Process – Wayne Hinshaw visited to talk to us about the process of taking good photos
Photography
I had the opportunity to get a more indepth view of the process behind taking pictures by talking with photographer such as Anthony Johnson, Wayne Hinshaw, and John Stamp. From them I learned all about the many different steps and thoughts that come into play when taking a photo.
To increase my knowledge on the intricacies of photography, I had read an article on Compositional Techniques. Through this, I learned the terminology for some of the techniques that I would subconsciously use while taking my own pictures. Some of these techniques included the Rule of Thirds, Balancing Images, Focus, and many more. After taking photos, we then went in depth about the power of editing the photos to even further improve the quality.
Learning Process – John Stamp walked us through taking professional picture in his studio
Final Result – Photo of train arriving at the Salisbury Depot
Final Result – Photo of Downtown Salisbury
Stories with only audio – Me and Eve Rich trying out the podcast/radio studio at Livingstone College
Story Process – Brad Stephenson talking to our class about to present a story.
Recording Process – Me recording sound for my audio only story/podcast
Storytelling
I was able to put the creative storytelling side of me to good use with this unit. As an actor/performer, I had already had quite a bit of experience in this field, but by talking with a fellow theatre artist, Brad Stephenson, I got to further enhance the skills that I use. Though I had acted out plenty of stories in my life, I had not yet done an audio only story before, so learning all the logistics behind it through people like Mrz Good Newz at Livingstone Radio was quite the fun and opportunistic experience From them I learned all about the many different steps and thoughts that come into play when taking a photo.
There was a lot of time and effort that was put into the making of my audio story. Firstly just coming up with a story and a whole script was enjoyable but energy consuming. Then I had to go and record myself acting out the whole things and making sure that the audio quality was good enough. After that I had to then put all of the different recording snip-bits into Imovie. I couldn't have just had audio, I needed sound effects and music to make the story have ambiance and truly come alive. I went and recorded plenty of sounds and music to use and then carefully placed each sound into the spot the alligned correctly with the vocal audio. It was a long, meticulous, and repetative task, but in the end, it was done. I was proud of the finished product.
Final Product – Audio Story, Tale of the Forgotten, By Luke Bardinas
Lifelong Skills
Lifelong Skills
RESILIENT INDIVIDUAL:
My practice and resilience was tested during these processes as I had to work diligently to master making appealing props from scratch. In the photography and storytelling units, I took careful and beautiful pictures and recorded my voice to sound just right. The quality of my final products are proof of my resiliency.
MOTIVATED STUDENT:
I demonstrated motivation when I had all the equipment and control ready to make the honey pot, when I studied and practiced to find what the right photography style was for me, and when I planned out what story I wanted to tell. My preparation and readiness show my motivation.
COMPASSIONATE CITIZEN:
I showed my compassion when I was able to connect all of these different subjects of art and technique together with the work that goes into our community's theatres. Networking and working with directors and understanding the processes they go through opened my eyes on the process that takes many different types of art and delivers wonderful performances to the community.
CONFIDENT COMMUNICATOR:
I was a confident communicator when I talked with my fellow director Jenny Hubbard to get her approval on my pot design, when I expressed myself through my photography, and when I collaborated with Eve in the podcast room.
CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVER:
I flourished in creative problem solving when I figured out how to make a charming honey pot instead of lazily buying one, when I found a way to make the photos look really good with editing, and when I came up with a way to tell an entertaining and entertaining story with just sound. My final products all show how my creative problem solving pushed through the obstacles.
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