Happy new year guys! Today I am writing about my winter exhibition of 2019, this year’s theme? Star Wars! We used Star Wars to learn about storytelling and creative writing.
Part 1: The Phantom Project
We started the project with an opinion piece about Star Wars, we had to back up our opinion with facts. I decided to talk about how I believe Star Wars is not an ‘Important’ film series. You can read it here!
We shortly later learned about the timeline of this project with a project pitch sheet that introduced us to our driving question: How might we build an interactive exhibit that represents the hero’s journey?
Our first leg of the project was all about short stories and journey the characters went through, we read many stories and each explored an element of the story, from irony to characters, we learned about most parts of a story. We ended this part by doing a literacy test to test our knowledge of these stories and understanding of a story.
I think this part of the project really helped connect and fully realize the story we will be telling.
Part 2: Attack of the Original Content!
The next part of our project was to form our character from our planet, our character should be someone who made an actual impact on the Star Wars mainline story, and a character we can explore the hero’s journey with. My group was the Death Star, and after a bit of research, we decided to do the side character Hurst Romo did. 
We decided to make a semi-canon Star Wars story, where Mr.Romodi was the imperial agent at the other end of the intercom on the Death Star in Episode: IV A New Hope.
We decided who was going to do what parts for the hero’s journey, and I decided to do the end. I intended (and did) make a melancholy ending to the story which followed the character and scenarios in the story.
We ended this part of the project with an outline of our character’s journey.
I find this part of the project really helped me articulate the character we were writing and it helped my growth in my writing skills
Part 3: Revenge of the review
To show our literary knowledge and ability to criticize literacy, we had to write a review on a piece of media for the New York Times contest. I personally, am very into film and understand techniques and tropes in movies, so I decided to review a movie I have recently seen and was fresh in my mind; Peanut Butter Falcon starring Shia Leboeuf.
I find this part of the project was really interesting as I already like and know film criticism and I got the ability to do that.
the-peanut-butter-falcon-review.pages
Part: 4, 5, 6 The original exhibition
These parts are very similar so I grouped them together! In these legs of the project and milestones, we developed our story and brought it to life! At the very end of the story, I wrote about how general Romodi reflects on his life before the Death Star blew up. I translated that story into a short animation which represents what he saw seconds before the Death Star blew up.
See photos and videos of the final exhibition!!
,https://www.blog44.ca/juded/files/2020/01/img_1683.mov
Rogue Maker: A PLP story
Meanwhile, while we were developing and finalizing our stories, we also had to create something to represent our part of the hero’s journeys. At the end of our story, our character General. Romodi blows up and reflects on his life.
The idea I developed to represent this leg of the story was a video of the x-wings targeting the Death Star and dropping the bombs in the vent.
You can watch me develop this in my maker journal ( the file was partially corrupted, so I could only salvage most of it )
And here’s the final product!
Reflection.
I found this project really helped me develop my skills for writing and understanding a story, and understand the core competencies we learned in this project.
Thanks for Reading! Bye!