Introduction
“Voices: My creative journey” is a project all about telling a story about myself. I was asked to create a video where I was supposed to tell a story about my journey in arts and how it became my life. I looked at this project as the project about my creative way, so I decided to tell about all my creative way and not only in arts but also in my other hobby which is dancing.
Some of the problems that I was given to solve were to right my story, structure it properly, make a storyboard, draw all frames and put my voice telling a story onto it.
Materials
Hardware: iPad Air 2, MacBook Air, iPhone 8
Software: Adobe Draw
Platforms: Behance, Creative Cloud, Adobe Spark
Analog Materials: paper, graphic pen, pencil
Creative Process
Audience: around my age, 15-25 year old, students entering a foundation art program, plus those artists who don’t know where to find inspiration.
Purpose: inspire new students to follow their creative journey. Also, by creating my video I wanted to show that creative person always has more than just one creative hobby.
Importance: I want to share a bunch of different challenges that I had face to get there where I am today. Moreover, I want to share with people some advices about how to find inspiration if you lost it. This project also helps me to understand myself better, to realize why I made curtain decisions, to answer who I am now and what I want to do in future.
Tone: relaxed and friendly, interjectional in some places.
Draft Script
Final Script
Illustrations
As I was wrighting my story i started doing some illustrations to it. here is my thumbnails of how i want to do my storyboard
Storyboard
Here is my final storyboard
Production Methods and Workflow
Afterf finishing my sketches and having a final script, I started drawing my final pictures for my video. At first, I was going to draw all of them by my hand because I love drawing by hand and usually it is much easier for me rather then doing it on computer. However, later, I decided to challenge myself and draw it using Adobe Draw on my iPad.
At first, I made my main character in a separate list. I thought about how I want my character to look like, so I developed the idea and draw it from three main angels in order to understand it better. Here is my character before the main story:
Also, here is a quick short video of how I draw this character
The next step was to draw all of pictures. For some of them I used my pictures or pictures I found in the internet. Then I placed it, made opacity low and draw it. For example, as on picture below:
For most drawings I just used my imagination and some of my memories
Probably the hardest draw I made there was drawing of a dance crowd on street. This drawing took the most of my time because I used several layers in order to get the picture I wanted, and here is the video of how I did it:
Also, I opened Adobe Spark Post in order to create a picture with main phrase of my project "Creative person is creative in everything". I wanted to make something simple, but at the same time catching the eye picture. Moreover, I decided to make it in black and white tones because I wanted to keep it the same colour palette as all my drawings.
After finishing all my drawings, I started to create a video. At first I put all of my images into the video
And then I started recording my voice on all pictures. I tried to keep my voice relaxed and friendly with some highlights in some places.
After that, I chose theme and music I liked more
Conclusion
This project gave me a lot of lessons and useful things. I found how to do a storyboard, how organize my thoughts and story in the way it is not short and not too long, but balanced, how create my own video and put voice into it. Also, I practiced my drawing skills in Adobe Draw as it is still new for me to draw on iPad. To tell the truth, put my voice on video was the hardest part for me because English is not my first language and trying to say all words properly was hard. However in the end I think I did pretty good job with it. Overall, I enjoyed this project a lot. Due to creating this video, I found out more things about myself and how I want to make my future.
Final work
My final video about my creative journey in both drawing and dancing and how it is connected.
