i am no stranger to flash fiction, so approaching this project from the writing side would not have been difficult for me. after an in-class meeting with one of an alumnus of our program, i decided to approach this project starting from a different side than i normally did—i started from the visual side. deciding from my story what the visuals would be (as our class visitor stressed, "*show* the audience what's happening, don't tell the audience"), i pieced together a visually-compelling, emotionally-deep 1-minute narrative through footage i shot on my own camera and Adobe Stock footage.

i compiled and edited all the footage in Premiere Pro, and i am deeply impressed with how visually complete this piece feels. approaching visual narratives from the visual-storytelling side alone presented a new workflow for my writing, and i'm excited to keep using this skill moving forward.