Hey, I’m Hannah Goodsell, and I’m from Marshfield, MA! 🙂 I’m a senior IMGD, writing student, but I also work a lot in audio design and implementation.

Since high school, I have been interested and passionate about using technology as a way to create art, regardless if it’s an in person or digital experience. I was a part of my theater club as the lead sound designer and engineer, which lead to my first job as a sound engineer for our town. I’ve mainly worked as a sound designer or engineer for theater in high school and college, but I also was an extra in an indie film, Neptune, from Maine and lead hair and make up artist for another. With both of these crew, I loved getting to know the actors while getting them ready in the green room and the mad dash of production week to get it all together.

I’m not too familiar with digital art, but it is something that I’ve been interested in learning about. I’ve explored a little with embroidery and pastel work in previous art classes, and I really enjoyed those. This is a little pendulum board I made last year as a mini project just for fun. I really only work on art projects like these as a hobby and to relax. I really enjoy making soundscapes and small music arrangements. I’m most definitely biased, but I think audio brings such an immersive element to projects. Music, background noise, and sound effects almost pulls the whole project together as a finishing touch.

What I love about art is how it can be used a form of storytelling and connecting people with one another. I work as a videographer, and my first job was to create a short video for a museum exhibition featuring Refugee Artisans of Worcester. In this video, our goal was to show the audience the artisans’ craftsmanship, skill, and their art process as a way for visitors to truly understand how exhibit pieces were made. The whole reason I decided to become a writer was to tell other people’s stories, and this project was such an amazing experience to work on. I was so sad to see it come to an end, but thrilled to see the exhibit come together at the end. Here’s the YouTube link for anyone interested, it’s just 3 ish minutes. This project taught me what I should think about when communicating to not only a broad audience, but how the exhibition layout would effect visitor interest in the video (there was no seating, so we had to keep the video under 5 minutes).

I use writing as a means to express myself or share my reactions and thoughts, and I’d like to get back to running my poetry Instagram where I posted these. I worked on different forms and challenged myself to use couplets in almost everyone poem I wrote. I would post three times a week, and I kept up with it for awhile until school picked up. It was a nice way to challenge myself in thinking how I could use a short structure and rhyming scheme to communicate a thought or experience I wanted to share. I found that I could take topics like my emotions and mental health as well as day trips inspired me to write. Some of my poems I’m proud of and love while others are okay, but I posted something. This whole account was just a way for me to practice and get used to sharing my work with others, because that scares me to be honest. This poem was actually a commission from a friend when I first started my account.