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Explain, Like, Most Things

Recently, my class and an assignment where we used the app explain everything to create a YouTube video on how the vote in Canada went from a prick edge to a right. We had about a week to complete this task. First, we had to create a storyboard for how our explain everything would play out. This also had to be accompanied by a thesis. Because my storyboard was pretty much illegible, I had to explain it pretty well, but was still the first person to get the go ahead.

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If you can read the top, the thesis for the video is “The vote in Canada went from a privilege to a right through social pressure and change.” This basically means that through pressure and actions from oppressed communities social change erupted, and the people on top no longer saw these communites as worthless.

After explaining the thesis to my teacher, I began gathering the visuals for the project, and the pictures to use for the animation. This took one class, and the next class I wrote the script for the video. Then, there was only one class so I did the animations at home and we used it for recording.

This was the final product:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSZX4ij6JEI&feature=youtu.be

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Waluigi’s Lullaby

So last week was the final week for groups to get their machines together. We didn’t completely finish, but at least our machine actually works(mostly) as of right now. We wasted a lot of class time fighting on what to do next which I think took place because we didn’t have a true leader. It was hard to explain my experience working for the past few weeks with this group in words, so I have made a short video to compose my thoughts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYmRr3uqCH8

That music is very immersive.

Anyways, I do regret not having the machine up to the level we wanted it to be at by now, but I have hope that by the exhibition it will be looking good.

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Last Last Week Was A Wild Wild Time

Two weeks ago, my group was really set on building our machine. We just didn’t know how to get started. We kept arguing over what should be done first and who was doing what. For awhile, we would just end up doing stuff like this,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8zEhQ_vmOM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Once we finally started to get to work, things came together pretty well. The main concern is we were moving slowly because as soon as we would finish one thing, we would all argue on what to do next instead of all just trying to get everything we could done. By the end of the week, we had about 2/3 of the machine finished, which was farther behind than we would have liked. It was however, closer to being done than the other groups, so we thought we were going to be okay.

Or at least, if we weren’t, we wouldn’t be the only ones in the gutter.

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Tea In The Sink, Tea In The Sink

Last week, we learned about the American Civil War. When told to find a question to research, I automatically went to the Boston Tea Party, mostly because of that one Suite Life of Zack and Cody episode. To introduce my question/topic, I assisted the help of the Sims 4 and iMovie, and made this lovely trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKFyTh8Nv8o

So with that in mind, I watched the Zack and Cody episode. It sparked a question in my mind, who planned the Boston Tea Party? I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Zack and Cody (TV lies).

I did some light internet digging, and found out a “Patriot leader” named Samuel Adams organized it with some buddies called the “Sons of Liberty” (which I must say, sounds like a band). There were a bunch of these Patriot groups around what is now the United States, and they were all interconnected in a way, which is pretty cool. The Sons of Liberty was a pretty big deal and had branches in Boston and New York. The Boston branch was probably way cooler though, because they met under a “Liberty Tree” and threw tea in the harbour. The New York branch hung out under a “Liberty Pole” and never through cool tea parties.

I also found out they did it on December 16th, and the cost of the tea they dumped would today be worth about $700,000. Ouch

SOURCES:

Boston Tea Party Ship

History.com

 

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Apartheid Video Reflection

In February, I was part of my class who went to California. While we were there, we started working on Explain Everything videos on conflicts with groups in high tech high. I worked with Brianna and a group of kids from High Tech High on Apartheid. We worked on it for about a day and a half, and here’s what we came up with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3RMrf58f4A

(Only about half of the uploading worked on this video)

When we got back home, our job was to remake those explain everything’s better than they were before. We spent about a week and a half working on remaking these. Here’s Brianna, Youna, and my video on Apartheid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W244SoCmOQ

I think we defiantly did a better job than we did the first time, but I think if I were to do it again I would make more interesting visuals and better animations. I’ve also been worried about it being too long, but it is a conflict that happened over dozens of years, so it deserves to have its whole story told. These explain everything videos will go at the beginning of our Romeo and Juliet rebelling scenes e-book that we are releasing with the High Tech High students. I hope you enjoy!

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Only Kind of Sleepless in Seattle

A couple of weeks ago, my whole FLIGHT 9 class went to Seattle, where did a whole lot of things. It’s kind of crazy how many things we did. Although, crazy was kind of the point of the trip. While we were there, in groups of three or four, we would explain why a certain thing was crazy in it’s own way, and finish it off with a video. Jolene, Griffin, and I got the topic Sustainability in Zoos, specifically the Woodland Park Zoo. Our first goal was to finish a storyboard before to we left, so this is what we came up with in the one block we had:

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The zoo was the first place we went on our trip. We weren’t there for very long so we only got about 45 minutes to do our filming. With only 45 minutes, we had a hard time getting everything we wanted, and we didn’t really. We had to do some creative things with the footage we had, and although this wasn’t the video we had originally set out to make, I think it shows our efforts. The three of us worked hard back at school to get the video up to a standard we were proud of and I think the overall project reflects that.

On the actual sustainability, we had to show in our video what the Woodland Park Zoo does to make their zoo sustainable, and ‘green’. What we got was a list of programs that the zoo does, including the Green Team, the Zoo Doo project, and quite a few more. If you want to check out any of these programs you can watch our video down below. Or click here to go to the zoo’s website.

http://youtu.be/lQpwjDisDkg

This video is our final project. We worked hard for a couple of weeks to get this out, and had to broaden our iMovie skills to do it. I hope you enjoy our video.

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Lionwalker The Fake Pokémon

I learned that iMovie was a much more complex application than I had previously thought. Having only played around with the app before, I didn’t know it could be used for things like this.

http://youtu.be/vQhmLifQG-U

To integrate science, I threw in a few words about what we were learning about. I do though realize that I could have integrated more than I did into the iMovie.
To integrate the Industrial Revolution, I made my story to be about somebody inventing something to solve an issue in their life. I feel that in the Industrial Revolution, a lot of things that made a huge impact were invented that way.
If I could do this project over again, I would probably spend a bit more time on the filming and music to make the overall effect of the movie better, and not rely as much on voice over.

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