{"id":205,"date":"2025-12-10T04:12:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2025-12-10T04:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:24:09","slug":"before-and-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Before and After"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Visual<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For my visual work, I created two pieces exploring memory through photo manipulation. “Story Within Photos”<\/strong> started with separate stock images picturing a USB drive and family photographs. Using GIMP, I layered the family photos over the USB image and adjusted opacity to 40-70%, creating a ghostly effect where memories appear trapped inside the device. I also applied Gaussian blur for a dreamlike quality. “Beautifying World”<\/strong> used a lakeside family scene from Unsplash representing happy memories stored on the USB. Minimal editing was needed, as the original photo’s warm lighting already captured the nostalgic mood I wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story Within Photos (5 stars):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beautifying World (2 stars):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Design<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My design pieces visualized memory and time through typography and image arrangement. “Motivational Poster”<\/strong> began with a USB photo beside a laptop keyboard. In Canva, I added the quote “Some memories hide in the dark, waiting for the light” in script font with shadow effects, creating a visual metaphor for forgotten memories. “Storytelling Through Pictures”<\/strong> required gathering 8 images representing my narrative arc (family, USB, grief, drawers, calendars, reunion). I arranged them in a grid in Canva, creating a wordless visual timeline that flows left-to-right, top-to-bottom from happiness through loss to healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Motivational Poster (3 stars):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Storytelling Through Pictures (3 1\/2 stars):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Audio<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For audio, I told the story through sound alone. “Sound Effects Story”<\/strong> combined individual sounds from freesound.org. I found a baby’s laughter, drawer closing, clock ticking, silence, drawer opening, and a computer turning on. Using Audacity, I layered them with volume adjustments to create a 30-second piece that represents the 8-year journey. “Played From Another Room”<\/strong> transformed a song using Audacity effects: low-pass filter to reduce highs, some bass boost and treble reduction. The result sounds like music playing from inside a closed drawer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound Effects Story (3 stars):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Played From Another Room (3 stars):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Video<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My videos brought static images to life with motion and music. “30 Second Memory”<\/strong> used Clipchamp to arrange 6 key images on a timeline with 5-8 seconds each, showing happy memories of the family. I applied fade transitions and emotional music to create a 30 second piece that feels like watching recovered memories. “Pictures Are Larger Than Words”<\/strong> arranged 7-8 narrative images as a slideshow with fade transitions and cinematic background music, telling the complete story in 30 seconds purely through visuals and sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

30 Second Memory (3 stars)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pictures Are Larger Than Words (2 1\/2 stars):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Visual For my visual work, I created two pieces exploring memory through photo manipulation. “Story Within Photos” started with separate stock images picturing a USB drive and family photographs. Using GIMP, I layered the family photos over the USB image and adjusted opacity to 40-70%, creating a ghostly effect where memories appear trapped inside the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-other-assignments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}