Or, yanno, the French revolution. That title is a wee bit dramatic. I reflected the final days of the metaphor machine in this post, (and made one amazing video), but I must admit, the actual storytelling video has just a bit more effort put into it.

And now, in the stylings of Brianna and Kirby,

French Revolution Metaphor Machine: The Final Cut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOdvdbyAlvg

So once that god-awful debate was finished, our two teams had to join forces to create a 60 Minutes style video where we considered both sides of the argument. And I’m going to say, right off the bat, our group (which consisted of me, Harry, Spencer, Matthew S, Matthew D, and Jacob) wasn’t working very well together. We didn’t know how to work together to make a video that was good and a product of all six of us. For the next two or three weeks we fought over stuff and didn;t get as much work done as we should. There was a lot of back and forth, but eventually we got our video put together. So, may I present, American Military Taxes Debate: The Movie.

(M. Night Shyamalan directed this movie. The plot twist was that we actually finished.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdL7KpE1O8I&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop

My blue sky project has actually been coming along pretty well. I have half of the stories written, and have spent the rest of my time drafting out the pages for my “book”. I’m not sure if I will be the one doing the drawings(hopefully not, I’m not very good). But So far I know what all the drawings will be of, and where they will be on the page. I’ve just been drawing them out on lined paper, but my final plans will be made as soon as the stories as finished.

I really need to get going on completing the rest of the stories so I can make final drafts of them and publish them on iBooks. I really need to have everything completed on time and I have such a short amount of time left, so I better put aside some time for this whenever I can.

Week two of our machine projects, we’d started putting together our machine and it’s parts. We started on our guillotine (aka our pride and joy). Our issue now is figuring how to work it into our actual machine, because our original plan may not work anymore.

I was worried we wouldn’t be done on time, but I actually think we might be able to pull it off. The only thing we might have to cut short on is making our machine look nice. Hopefully we can make it not look like a sad pile of wood. And hopefully, we won’t break it before we get to use it.

This week, we’ve began working on our Blue Sky Projects during maker block on Monday. I actually didn’t do any work on my project until Friday because I wasn’t at school the other two days. On Friday, it took me most of the block to figure out an idea, but I finally have one.

My project is based around the fact that I like to write, but I am also seen as a very negative person (I’m actually not mostly I swear). I thought of the most negative stories I could come up with and it led me to thinking of the German children’s book Struwwelpeter, by Heinrich Hoffmann.

It’s pretty much a collection of things children shouldn’t do written in cute little rhyming stories. The thing is, they are not cute. A lot of the children end up murdered or horribly disfigured after they disobey their parents. The most popular story is about a boy who sucks his thumb and then gets it cut off because why not? Below is a video I found of the story on YouTube.

My project is write a collection of small stories like these ones, rhyming and unhappy. The catch is mine will warn children about the dangers of the internet, because what is more 21st century than the internet?

I’m concerned about how I’m going to illustrate these, because I was told by my teachers I have to add some illustrations, and spoiler alert, I’m not the best artist.

Let’s hope that sorts itself it out.

This week, we’ve started working on a project for humanities where we take a revolution and use metaphors to create a machine representing it. My group chose the French Revolution and have gotten pretty far so far. First we were told to create a timeline. Ours kind of looks awful but it gets the point across, and we finished pretty quickly after following Britons revolution theory.

After we finished that, we got the go ahead to start planning our machine. I think our machine is actually pretty good so far. We have tons of good ideas with great metaphors behind them, although I am worried we won’t be able to pull them off. Here’s our ideas so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDinxaA0zSU