Today’s post will be about our Argh Matey project which was about the age of piracy.
We first watched a movie about modern day pirates in Somalia so we could understand why they were pirates and what was there motivation for what they did. We learned that pirates were mainly motivated to be pirates because of poverty. In the movie we watched the Somalian pirates hijacked a cargo ship and then took the resources and took the captain of the ship for ransom money. In the end the US navy had to shoot the Somalian pirates because they weren’t cooperating in giving back the captain of the ship. That movie really helped me understand what pirates did and what they were motivated to do.
The main focus of our project was early pirates from the age of exploration and the different types of pirates from that age. One of the more interesting types of pirates were the Barbary pirates who were from Africa and would kidnap Europeans and would take them as slaves but they had a choice to be released if they wanted to but they had to do one thing. The Barbary pirates would set them free if they were successfully converted to Islam.
Our final product was to make a mini movie with this new app that we were introduced to called AR Makr which was a really cool app actually, you got to draw objects then put them in the app and you open a camera and you could put your objects around in the space on your camera and you could walk around 3D objects. So we had to make a script of what Christopher Columbus and/or England and France did to venture over to the new land which is now known as North and South America. Here is my script:
After we had made our script we would film our 3d AR Makr video and then voice over our script then we would post it onto YouTube.
This project overall was pretty cool and fun to learn about even though it was a shorter project then normal.