I have ventured through my imagination to landscape ideas and concepts to create stories that I would find meaningful to me personally.  I learned through this course that I naturally followed a path, that told stories about my connection with nature.  If I find meaning in the stories I learned to tell, then I will become better at telling the stories that I am meant to tell.

Through creating this flier, I learned that the imagery can carry the viewer's eye on a path that tells a story about what the flier is actually about.  I didn't exactly succeed at this when I finished this assignment but I learned this later on through the course.  Part of the reason that I chose the photo I did, was because I felt that it was a landscape, or nature-like scenery that expressed where my poetry is coming from.

In this Political Ad, I continued my pursuit of bonding with nature.  I haven't ever used fear tactics before, but I found them persuasive.  My Ad was just a snippet of the bigger picture, of the endurance our Earth is undergoing against our human race not cooperating on being green and clean.  While using these fear tactics I came up with ways that I thought would scare the listener into doing something that was helpful like "recycling".  I believe it's the simple little things that will help our planet overcome its disasters.

Here in this PSA, I attempted to convey the message of how easy and fun it is to grow sprouts.  Like I said the story is about having an adventure in the kitchen.  So I put a song from my ocarina into the background to give the video an Earth tone.

Through using Descript, and on my second round of interviewing my Mom, the two of us found a rhythm.  During the first take, both my Mom and kept cutting each other off during the conversation.  As well during the first take our discourse was very programmed, or artificial.  So during the editing of take two, I was able to cut out a lot of "um's", to increase the flow of the final recording.  And for this take, on the theme of Mother Earth, well I'm interviewing my Mother.

Again, here is the theme of how I like to tell stories about our Earth.  And not just our Earth, but the Earth orbiting the Sun, and becoming 1 year old.  I found great amounts of amusement in this.  In this animation, I drew dozens of sketches, to the extent that my back became terribly sore while craning over the sketching table, my hand became all shaky from so much doodling, and became uncomfortably light-headed from using a sharpie for 3-5 hours.  But hey I finished an orbit around the Sun.

I found the shooting of our short film, Eclipse, incredibly rewarding.  Throughout the duration of the course, being the Director of the film, was some of the greatest growth I have had this semester.  I learned that I can guide people to express a common vision.  I haven't ever really been in a position where I have had to tell people what to do... but while shooting Eclipse I felt respected and appreciated by our classmates.  And once again, my connection with nature couldn't have been greater than to shoot a film, about the epiphany of the moment of our Eclipse.