Heeeelllllloooooo and welcome back to my blog! Today I am reflecting on a project that we had been doing for the past 6 weeks. During the course of this project, we had used skills that we learned from our other class, maker. Skills such as making screenplays, storyboards and call sheets. Our driving question for this project was “How Do Ideas Drive Change?”.
*reflection on driving question*Now, let’s get onto the actual reflection shall we?

First I will be reflecting on the curricular competencies that we were being assessed on in this project.

Cause and Consequence:
When completing notes when learning about a revolution, I assessed the causes and consequences of those revolutions on a template in Notability. This helped me seperate and distinguish the parts of our video to make it more of a timeline which would make it much more organized.

Evidence:
During the course of this project I always did extra research to fill in some gaps of information for our videos/screenplays. For example, when we were doing the Russian revolution, I went out and watched several videos to get the most exact information possible.

Create and Extend Shared Understanding:
My group and I often discussed about certain events that we would be talking about in our videos, some information said that it happened at different times on different sources and others had several different details to those events.

Text Comprehension and Appreciation Strategies:
When creating and editing my videos, I think that I could’ve payed more attention to applying the appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral and visual texts to extend my thinking and appreciate how different features, forms and genres of text reflect different purposes, audiences and messages. For example, doing my best of making most of the audios in the videos more consistent if the app doesn’t glitch as much.

Next, I will be showing you and reflecting on my products that I had made during the course of this project. I will also be reflecting on the process of video making process.

French Revolution – Act it out:

This video, being our first one of this project, I thought it wasn’t all that bad. The audio, editing and video quality was good. But, on the other hand, I think that we could’ve had more information about the revolution instead of just 3 or 4 events.

Here is the screenplay:

American Revolution – Rap battle:

For this video, I really liked our lyrics and the fact that we did a rap battle between the patriots and loyalists, it was a great idea and went very well with our subject. But, on the other hand at some points, the sound didn’t match with the video and the editing and the editing could’ve been better as well. But, we had some pretty great shots and lighting.

Here is the screenplay:

Russian Revolution – John Green

I really liked our set in this video, our information that we gave was very clear and that information very well supported thanks to some great visuals. We could’ve changed our audio up a bit or changed locations to get less of an eco and to get better lighting.

Here is our screenplay:

French Revolution – Animations and John Green

For our final video, this one was supposed to be the best video yet, putting every great thing together to make one amazing video. It turned out defineltly being better than our last one but not as amazing as I hoped. Thanks to a whole bunch of glitches on iMovie, there were some pretty big problems with the audio. I also think that we could’ve made our animations longer and have us look down at the screen much much less.

Here is our screenplay:

Also, here’s an example of one of the call sheets that we did:

To conclude, I really enjoyed making videos for this project. Even though it took more  time, I still really enjoyed it and had lots of fun. It was also very interesting to explore different  styles of videos that we can create. Not to mention, putting ourselves in a filmmaker’s place with all the different rules and steps to make a video.