History of Vancouver

Vancouver may not be that old but it does have a lot of history. There are many places in Vancouver that have weird names. Have you ever wondered how they got their names? In PLP we have been learning about the history of Canada and recently we have been focusing on this history of Vancouver. November 20-26 was Canadian History Week so for a mini project we had to get into groups of 2 or three and make a small video about the history and namesake of place in Vancouver. I partnered up with Sydney and we got to pick the place, so we picked Gastown. We picked Gastown because it was one of the first popular towns in Vancouver and we knew it had a lot of history.

To start the project we did a lot of research on Gastown. Gastown has a very rich history and most of the history is about the name. After we had done our research Sydney and I wrote the script. We wanted to make this video entertaining so instead of just spouting out facts we decided to make it a fun conversation. After we had written the script we had to get the visuals for the video. Luckily for us, Sydney and I were both going down to Gastown multiple times before the project was due so we were able to get lots of our own pictures and videos. We took pictures of the important things in Gastown such as the steam clock and the statue of Gassy Jack. We also took video of us driving through Gastown at day and at night. After we had collected all of our materials, we put everything together.

To start putting the video together we put all of the visuals in iMovie. We then recorded our script in GarageBand then added it into the iMovie. We edited the visuals to make sure they lined up with the audio then we were almost done. The last thing we had to do was get background music. We found some good non-copyrighted music that fit the theme of our video and we were finally done. After the video was done we did a bibliography and then posted it to YouTube. It was a really fun project and I hope we do more mini projects like this in the future.