Tuesday, April 28

Read THIS blog post by a teacher. I mean actually read it. Take it in. Think about it. And then, write about it. What do you think about it? What is the teacher trying to say? In your own words explain what "the main event" is.

I thought that the blog post was a very good story for his students to hear, because of how it told them to not be a quitter and that they should do something great with their lives. Another thing that was good in that story, was the fact that the teacher told the students that he would be there for them, and being a student for 10 years I have learned that a lot of teachers do not care about you and do not care about how you do in life, but that teacher did. Again I believe tat he was trying to tell the students that the teacher was trying to tell his students to not give up and to try working in life. I think that "the main event" is just school in general, or maybe even life as a whole based on how he uses the words "the main event."

Wednesday, April 22

Blog post of the day:
Talk about your stop motion and what it will be like.

For our stop motion, me and Vito are going to be doing someone at a vending machine and what happens there. It is going to start out as either me or Vito walking up to the machine and then we will drop the money. Then the camera will go down to the money and then it will begin to crawl up the machine and put themselves in the coin slot.

Friday, April 17

GIANT blog post of the day:

Answer the following questions thoroughly on your blog. 

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).
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.
3. In hindsight, what would you do differently the second time around? Better lighting? Time management? Explain yourself.
4. Explain what makes your stop motion animation unique. How do you believe you thought "outside of the box" on this project? 
5. What grade do you feel you deserve on this project? Explain your reasoning.

1. My stop motion was someone playing a snake game. I decided to do this, because the last time that I did a stop motion, I did people moving and that was really hard just to get them to stay still and do exactly what yo want, so I thought that I would do something with paper and that was the first thing that popped into my head.

2. If I would rate my effort on this project, it would probably be a nine. I would give myself this grade because sometimes I would be talking to my friends and that caused me to make a few issues regarding which way the snake was moving. So for example, at one point the snake was going right, then after I went to help with another project or just talk to one of my friends, I would accidentally make the snake go the backwards.

3. If I could do this a second time around, then what I would do is make them out of full sized sticky notes on a big wall because it took a lot of time to cut out every single piece, opposed to just sticking up a full sized sticky note. Also if I were to use sticky notes on a wall, then I could place the tripod in a better position opposed to just having it hanging off of a computer and being at an angle.

4. Now that I think about it, I don't think that my stop motion was "outside of the box" because I could probably go on google and find TONS of stop motions that used the snake game idea, or using sticky notes the sane way that I did.

5.  I say that I would give myself 60 out of 65 point. I would give myself that score, because it did tell a simple story of someone playing snake game, I would give myself half of the points on style and consistency because I did mess up on the direction the snake went at some points. Also I did use the appropriate lighting and focus, the camera was stationary, I had a title and credits, my music fit the length and mood of the video, and finally i turned it in on time.

Tuesday, April 14

Blog Post of the Day:
3 day weekend... how was it? Give me a good story or something funny that happened this weekend. Go.

My three day weekend was great. Saturday, I didn't do much besides sitting at home and watching Breaking Bad. Sunday was another day for me to just relax and spend time with the neighbors. But Monday was when things got interesting. That day I had a double header. We won both of those games and I did really well. In the first game, I pitched for a few innings and I still have an ERA of 0, but when I was hitting, the dumbest things would happen to me. For my first at bat, I just missed the ball and it began to spin off towards first, but there was a hole in fair territory where the ball funneled in to and it stayed fair. I ended up getting a hit on a ball that only went three inches. My other at bats were either walks or sacrifice bunts to move the runners on base.

Tuesday, April 7

Blog Post of the Day:
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.

My idea for the stop-motion animation is going to be a snake game made out of sticky notes. It is going to start out as a hand reaching out to 4 sticky notes spelling our the word "play" and pressing it. The colors of the notes will change and then open up to a big snake game. The game will go for a while until the player makes a wrong turn and then the words "game over" will show on the screen. I don't think that I will need help on taking the photos but maybe someone taking pictures when I press the "play" button. All I am going to need is my phone, sticky notes, and my hand. One issue that I might have, is where I am going to shoot these photos, I was thinking on one of the empty walls of this classroom. I am really looking forward to this project.

Monday, April 6

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me all about your weekend and please share photos!

My weekend was not the best. Saturday was the best day of the weekend, because I could just relax and sleep in. The only productive thing that I did was starting to work on my Honors Bio Project. Sunday, however, was not a good day. I woke up at about 6:00 in the morning and couldn't go back to sleep after that. I went to church at 9:00 with my family, and that was good. But after church my family came over to my house for brunch and while they were here, my cousin who is in kindergarten decided to start a fight with me. What I planned to do was pick him up and throw him on the couch, but that didn't end up working. About half way through my throw, I threw out my back and dropped him on the floor. For about two hours I couldn't even move and I was laying down, alone, in my room missing out on brunch. 

5 Frame Storyboard

Wednesday, April 1

Blog Post of the Day:
What do you love most about this time of year? Explain why you love it

The thing that I love most about this year is the warm weather, baseball practices beginning, and school is ending! I don't really think that I need to explain why warm weather is a good thing, so I will just talk about the other two reasons. I really like this time of year because baseball is starting up for the summer and I am already having games. And finally, I like this time of year because in just two more months, school will be ending.