Well, it’s time for the finisher! It’s the end, right now, it turns out it’s the end of the Student Blogging Challenge!
Now let’s look back shall we?
Overall with the student blogging challenge, I though It was pretty fun! I think with the blogging was really fun and helped me learn about interacting with other people online. It also helped share my opinions and interests!
My Blogging Reflection
I think that the best way to reflect is compare my first post to my latest post so let’s do that!
My first post was about why I selected a Mii as my personal avatar, I thought that was pretty interesting
My latest post was all about my favourite holidays. I would say a major thing that has changed was the actual length and content of the posts, in the beginning I was writing things that were very short and not very interesting to read. In the end I was writing paragraphs that captivating to read and had at least 100 words. I think something that has stayed throughout was my structure, I usually cut myself off when I think I have said the most I have to say. But that’s all I have to say about my posts, anyways let’s get to the…….
Poll!
In addition to the reflect by myself, I want YOU to reflect on the SBC, what was your favourite part of the challenge? Answer in the straw poll below! https://www.strawpoll.me/19384902
Welp, it’s coming to a close. Term 1 of PLP 9 is going to finish soon, so everybody knows what time it’s is, reflection time! I’m gonna be reflecting on All the videos I have made through this term. Since there are many videos and many competences I am going to cover videos for every 5 competences, let’s start!
Knowledge Constructor
The first example of this competency is my Alberta 9 video, I had to specifically curate the audio and visual content from interviews to see if it fit with the theme of the video and my answer, you can view the video here!.
I’d say for my second example I’d have to go with the Royal Tyrell museum video. Due to the time constraints of that video, I had to be very selective about what I wanted to say and what I could say in that time period. I find that while the final product wasn’t the best, the journey to make it was.
Innovative Designer
I’d say for my first example as an innovative designer, I would say my Run! remake video. With tools I and my group had used, we used our limited tools (iPad,iMovie and Microphone) to create a product unique in its production despite the fact it was a complete remake. You can see it here.
My second example would be my TYKTWD 2019 Video, due to the conditions on the worksite itself, and the lack of activities at bendtin mechanical I was strapped for any major ideas. But with the tools I did have, I feel as if I created something fairly good/great.
Creativecommunicator
I would say a great opening example of this Russian Revolution video. The video uses rap and a more non-traditional of talking about history while still getting the points and history itself across. You can see it here!
A good 2nd example would the Revolution choice video, I and my group created. Essay style with animated segments is usually how history videos work, but by actually portraying the people and talking about the story, it helps you visualize a bit more. You can see it here!
Knowledge Constructor
I find for this competency I can I would have to say my French Revolution Video. We used many sources that we curated into the video, and through informative segments that really showed off in the end. You can watch it here!
For my second video, I would like to refer to my American Revolution Video. To create an interesting and historically accurate video, we had used many sources and use digital tools ( such as iMovie) to create a final product. You can see it here!
And finally
Computational thinker.
I would as a computational thinker my shining example of this, in the beginning, would be my 4 shot film. For the four-shot film, we had overcome the glaring problem of making a film in 4 shots. We had developed a solution to this problem by finding unique angles and ways to shot it. Overall, I’d say it represents me as a computational thinker.
My secondary example would be UNO! A ghost town film. Now Uno was interesting because before filming, we didn’t actually know the area we were filming or the conditions. So we had to solve the unique problem of filming when it’s raining, not to mention using additional to route out our scenes.
Conclusion
Well, that was all of them! All of the videos I have worked on in the past term talked about/critiqued on the curricular competencies they represent. Honestly, this has helped me reflect!
For my event video, I decided to do the most interesting events I have in the next couple of weeks, My mum Cachette pop-up!
So I started with a sheet of things I want to film on location! I made it in notes.
Due to the busyness of the day I couldn’t add a one shot and Voice over opening, but I got a lot of B-Roll, A interview and a fun fact!
I did all my editing through iMovie and I used the YouTube royalty free audio library to add background music. Editing overall was fairly easy as all I was doing was adding video and audio clips on each other.
Due to the fact of not having enough footage, in the ending of the video, I used a summary video of last years Cachette made by a friend!
Our 2nd project for PLP 9 was an interesting way for us to stretch our creative muscles and learn about Revolutions, how so? Continue reading to find out!
Reflection and Videos
I’m going to try something new for this blog post! I’m going to start with a reflection on the project and then talk about the project itself after!
The driving question of this project was: How do ideas drive change? And id like to split this question into 2 parts: Ideas about the book Revolution and Revolutions = Change!
Part 1: Ideas about Revolution (The book)
To learn about literature and the Revolution, we read the book Revolution (2010) by Jennifer Donnelly, the book dealt with themes of Grief, Guilt and dealing with trauma through music. Anyways for this project we learned and discussed through what our teacher ( Ms.Maxwell ) calls book chats!
My favourite and personal best sheet I created for these book chats was my 2nd sheet for the role of creative connector for a 2nd time connector-role. pages, I wrote about the band Radiohead and the iPod.
For a final reflection on the book we created a creative reflection for the book and presented it, Gallery Walk style! I decided to do a podcast which is a format the turns out to work well for me! For the process of making the podcast itself, I researched my topic ( Location in media) and then looked through the book for examples and things to talk about. After having an idea and examples, I created a script! You can see that here:
(This is the first draft and I currently can’t find my second and final one)
After making a script, I used my microphone (which sounds semi-professional) to record the scriptures) Fun Fact: The podcast originally intended to be a video essay but there was nothing overly visual about it.
I’d say that Ideas drive change when we accept our past and towards the future, similar to the man character of Andi in the book!
Driving Change (The Revolution videos)
So for the 2nd leg of the project, we created multiple videos about different Revolutions and different styles. For this project, I worked with Thomas, Brenton and Kaden.
Since most of these videos follow a similar production schedule and you probably don’t want to read a trillion words I going to summarize them all in the production stages.
Pre Production
Most of the videos started with a script! (Surprise, surprise) but the scripts varied for the different Videos. For instance: For the rap video about the Russian Revolution we wrote the lyrics and decided on actions we did on-site.
The next part was the storyboard which was fairly straightforward, we use simply created a collaborative document in the app keynote and brought our words to life! Usually, a day after we started……
Production
For al the video production was straightforward; we find a suitable setting to film and then we had one person filming (usually me) and we filmed! At most, it took 2 days to finish filming and some videos we had special conditions! Like in one of our videos we had extras!
After filming the footage we had the film tasks in……
Post Production
Due to how IMovie works we usually had one person editing while everyone added clips and audio files to add! After we watched it, with our class we usually made some minor fixes to the videos to ensure they were quality.
Crane Brinton and overall Revolutions
The crane Brinton theory is the theory we used to talk about the Revolutions we learned about ( Russian, French, Industrial and American ). The theory helped learn about the Revolutions and was a prime tool to help find out how ideas drive change.
The Videos!!
You can watch vids Here! Reflection:
I think finally after talking about all this stuff I can finally the question: Ideas drive change when we push ourselves to create ideas and learn concepts that Revolutionize our thinking.
Hey guys! Today I’m back with another blog post. Today I’m talking about my PLP 9 Maker project for October and November about a short film called “Run!”.
Beginnings
We started this project right after our first project, the mini-projects in our Alberta ( Our ghost town videos and a 1-minute long video at the Royal Terrell Museum ). Our first task was a personality test to see which of the 16 personalities we were. I found out I’m a mediator! After that, we created a short writing piece on how our personality would help or affect or learning.
We later joined into our groups, I was with ally and Julia as selected by Ms. Maxwell. Our first task was to create a screenplay for the short film recreation, ( you can find the video here ). We finished the script as a group.
Pre-Production
With the next two assignments, we really went into pre-production as we finished our storyboards and our call sheets. We used keynote to create the storyboard as it was easy to use and was implemented for group work. The call sheet was easy as it was similar to filling out paperwork and finding times and places to film!
Production
Production was a fairly easy job due to scheduling, and how it occurred. We came together to film when we had available time and for 30 – 45 mins. I was in the costume of the main character of the short (track pants, sweatshirt, toque )and Julia played the monster which was an easy role. We were able to pull it off!
Post Production
One of the hardest parts of post-production was editing it to look exactly like the short. We had to get everything down which had different aspects. I was the sound editor, Ally was the editor and Julia was doing the titles. we created a first draft which had some minor issues, here they are.
The video was about 20-30 seconds over the original video, so we had to make it precise.
The sound effect had to be in-house, so we could just overlap the original videos audio or use 3rd party audio.
some shots had the camera too far back, so we had to adjust that.
So we got to work re-filming (the easy part) and then doing the audio (slightly less easy). film the clips were simple, while with the audio we had to manually record sounds of leaves crunching. Since I had the best microphone, they used my microphone and I uploaded it to be edited in.
After all the editing here we have the Final Project!
Reflection
Well, it’s time to reflect on this project, let’s start by answering the driving question, What technology, tools and strategies can we use to create short film? Well we can use many things but the big ones are the filmmaking process (story boarding, scriptwriting and filming), the iPad, the Location and how you use your creative constraints.
Hey guys it’s Jude, once more! Today we will talk about music for this week of blogging.
So since this week we have to talk about music, I want to research my favourite band Kero Kero Bonito!
The Beginning
The band started with the producers and two best friend Gus Lobban & James Bulled. James and Gus gre up in London together and went to school together. When they were forming a band they were in search of a new member and posted many ads online including a Japanese forum known as MixB, they posted it on there due to their fascination with “Japanese Rap”. One of the first responds to the post was Sarah Midori Perry ( or her stage name, Sarah Bonito). They chose her because of her background n art and the fact she was Bilingual between Japanese and English. She didn’t have a career in sing, but she wanted to collaborate with Gus & Jamie so she tried it out!
The group released there debut mixtape “Intro Bonito” in August of 2014. The wrote a majority of the EP using a Casio SA-45 mini keyboard. One of the largest and most notable songs by KKB is Flamingo for how fun and silly it is.
Shortly after KKB announced there first North America tour and success followed with there 3 EP’s and 2 Albums.
Hey Guys! Welcome back! Today I’m going to about pictures and images!
Royalty Free Images: Most images are not free to use and are licensed and copy written as they usually from big companies. There is many resources though for royalty free images and copywrite free images. Here are some sources:
-Pixabay
-Photosforclass
-Creative Commons
Making Your Own image
There are many ways to create your own image, which is copyright free but one of my favourite is to draw! I use Tayasui Sketches Pro, but there are many iPad apps to use, Procreate, Autodesk SketchBook or even Notability. Here is my Drawing!
Task 3 and 4
For these tasks we had to find a royalty free image and either create a image prompt or a poem for the image. The image I found was on the website Pixabay.
Here is my prompt!
“What do you mean you can’t throw vinyl records?”
“Listen, I don’t know how the record got stuck to the roof, but I wanna listen to some tunes!”
Hey guys! This week it’s free choice for our blog post, so I am going to talk about my current watchlist of movies I want to see! Let’s start off the list!
1. Marriage Story – short synopsis (from IMDb) Noah Baumbach’s incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying together. –Thoughts– I am really looking forward to seeing to this movie on Netflix, it looks like the main actors, Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson are giving their best preformances in a while, and Noah Bumbauch is a interesting director.
2. The King –synopsis– (from IMDb) Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life. –Thoughts- The cast alone blew me away with both Robert Pattinson and Timothée Chalamet and the synopsis/trailers so far have left me intrigued. I am skeptical of David Michôds directing but I’minterested to see what Joel Edgerton brings to the script.
3. Little Women (2019) –synopsis-(from IMDb) Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.–Thoughts– I was a fan of Greta Gerwigs directorial debut, Lady Bird and would even say it was my movie of 2017. I am interested to see how she handles not only a remake, but a much large production as Lady Bird was distributed and produced by A24 while this is produced by SonyPictures. As with the latter movie, love the cast, Timothée Chalamet, Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, etc…
4. Do The Right Thing (1989) –synopsis-(from IMDb) On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. –Thoughts– I am excited to see this as it is supposedly Spike Lees directorial high, but it’s a well regard classic and this year is the 30th anniversary of the film!
5. Paddington 3 –synopsis– Plot undisclosed. The third installment of the Paddington films. –Thoughts– PADDINGTON 3 BAYBEEEE!!!
And well that’s it! Those are all the current films I want to see. So you guys next week!
