5/21/15

1. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dCs_sSLlYdWn6hMDWkRyBPcxBgoT2heKklhe8HP311E/edit
2. https://docs.google.com/document/d/14TJL7nXq9EtT9l3RhKohyWjy_hOfd6zja-B6m3tS97g/edit
3. http://www.familyecho.com/

4/28/2015

What do you think about it? What is the teacher trying to say? In your own words explain what "the main event" is.

I think that this teacher is trying to stand up and tell his students the truth about what goes on and he wants them to improve at it. What I think the teacher is trying to say is that it is okay to make mistakes in your life because you will and you need to embrace it by trying your hardest and not giving up on it. He wants his students to be better students and focusing on what is important rather than not paying attention in class. The main event is to stay focus and get your work done.

4/17/2015

1. What was your stop motion animation about? Why did you choose your video to be about this? Was it because it was easy, because it would be fun, or it would be challenging? Explain your reasoning behind your project (and be honest). My stop motion animation was about making a bunch of designs using the scrabble board and the scrabble tiles. I chose scrabble to be about my video because at home I looked up multiple other stop motion animation videos and I stumbled across a scrabble one and what he/she did was really cool with the designs and that is why I chose it. I wanted to make as many designs as possible when I first picked scrabble but then as I watched more of these scrabble videos I came across one that made it look like you were playing a game and so that changed my thought later on when making the video.
2. If you could rate your stop motion on a 1-10 scale. 1 being low effort and no very good and 10 being out of this world/mindblowing, how would you rate your project? Explain why. I would rate my stop motion animation video an 8.5 out of 10 because overall I thought I did pretty good when taking the pictures in the first place but when I was adding them into movie maker the quality didn't look as good as I hoped but in the end I was proud of how the video became.
3. In hindsight, what would you do differently the second time around? Better lighting? Time management? Explain yourself. What I would do differently next time would be taking my pictures in better quality, lighting as well and try to get it done while it was still light out instead of  doing half at night.
4. Explain what makes your stop motion animation unique. How do you believe you thought "outside of the box" on this project? I would say what makes my video unique is what I did at the end of the video where I spelled out the word scrabble enlarged and one at a time. I never saw a scrabble video that did something like that and to me it felt like my idea as it came to my head.
5. What grade do you feel you deserve on this project? Explain your reasoning. I feel like my grade should be either a high B or a low A. My reasoning for this is that I had good ideas for each individual picture and that I didn't do continuous designs during the whole video; meaning I was trying to keep the viewers attention the whole time. I think I could have grabbed the viewers attention even more by doing something very unique. 

4/14/2015

3 day weekend... how was it? Give me a good story or something funny that happened this weekend. Go.

My weekend was pretty boring overall, I didn't have much going on except for a soccer game which at one point we were down 4-0 and came back to tie it 4-4. Other than that I was at home chilling out either watching Netflix or playing Xbox. It was nice having an extra day off of school; most of that Monday I was working on homework.

4/7/2015

Tell me ALL about what your idea is for your stop-motion animation. I need detail. Who is going to help you take photos? What props do you need? Where do you plan on shooting? EXPLAIN everything.

I am going to do something with a scrabble board; I am going to make a bunch of different words appear in weird ways and then towards the end try to stack them in some way. My mom and I are going to take the photos. I am just using a scrabble board as my prop. I am planning to shoot it at home. I am going to make it look like they just appeared out of no where making different designs like shapes, towers, buildings, etc.

4/6/2015

Tell me all about your weekend and please share photos!

On Friday, I was hanging out with my cousin and friend. We pretty much just played board games but we also watched Netflix and played a little basketball outside. On Saturday, it was my birthday and I got to spend the morning working on biology homework. In the afternoon, I did many things to make up the time lost from homework and then I received some presents to make my birthday complete. Finally on Sunday, it was of course Easter and did some more homework for biology, until lunch we had a lot of good food like cheeseburgers, chips, pickles, tomatoes, etc. In the end, the weekend was pretty awesome being with my cousin, having my birthday, and then Easter Sunday to top it all off. 

5-frame Storyboard