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🎵Music🎵

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Hello peoples! And welcome back to my amazing blog! Sorry that was cringy, let’s try that’s again. Hey everyone! Today I’m gonna talk about music, since it is week 5 of the student blogging challenge. (okay that was better I guess) Anyway if you guys do not know what the blogging challenge is you should definitely go check out my other SBC (student blogging challenge)blog posts to learn more.

So music, music is amazing I love it so much. I have played quite a few instruments. Such as recorder, flute, guitar and ukulele. But ukulele is by far my favourite. Where do I start. I know first I’ll talk about why I started playing ukulele in the beginning. So about two years ago is really when I started. But before I did I was playing guitar, I do still play it but not as much as I used to. I knew that I wanted to play a different instrument but I wasn’t sure which one, so I continued to play guitar (which I had no problem with I just wanted to try something new). Then I heard about my friend who had just stated to play ukulele and I thought that was so cool and that I wanted to learn how to play it too. So we were looking for a ukulele for me but they were all very expensive, lucky for me we had an old one from when I was little. No it wasn’t in great shape but that wasn’t gonna stop me from learning how to play it. So we got it fixed up a bit and at first I would just look up songs that I wanted to learn on YouTube and just teach myself. But it was a little difficult so I asked my parents to put me in ukulele lessons. They did and I got to do them with my best friend who I had introduced me to the ukulele. Things were going great, I had a great teacher and I was learning a lot of different songs and chords. Now when someone says that sentence it kinda sounds like something bad is gonna happen. Nothing did it only got better. As time went on my ukulele started to break and it wasn’t really working. So I begged my parents for a new one. And I am so grateful they did.


I got my new ukulele which I love so much! After all my lessons were over I decided that I knew enough that I could continue by teaching myself. There are quite a few songs that I learnt just from watch a single video. The ones I learnt from YouTube are I’m Yours by Jason Mraz, Riptide by Vance Joy, Over the Rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, Lava by Kuana Torres Kahele, Lost Boy by Ruth B. and Hey There Delilah. My favourite to play is definitely Hey There Delilah. I love this song so much plus it is my favourite song ever! I’m not sure what it is about it but just hearing it makes me happy and brings back great memories. So like I’ve said I love ukulele so much and I hope that I can keep with it till I’m older. I do try to play it everyday but I only end up playing three or four times a week. That’s okay but my is to play it more often so I can get better. I I hope you guys liked hearing about my journey with ukulele. And I would love to hear about any of the instruments you play or if you know the same songs as me.

– Emily ✌️

😰I don’t like anything horror😰

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Welcome back! Today I’m gong to talk about our project called RUN! Now in my class right now we are learning about video skills. So to work on this we needed to recreate a short film called RUN! This project was very fun and we learnt many things. So pretty much this video we had to recreate was a short horror movie. When I say short I mean 1 minute long. Now my group had to recreate this movie to be exactly the same. I’m not sure if we did it to match it one hundred percent but it was pretty close. If you want to watch the original video it will be right below. 

So before we started filming there was a couple things we needed to finish first. In my class we call these little projects that help us get to our goal, milestones so when I say milestone 1 it’s just one tiny project that helped us finish our video. We had 5 milestones that we needed to complete before starting our video. I think these milestones were pretty easy and did help us out a lot.

We learned that the first step in making a video was to write a screenplay. Since we weren’t actually writing a movie and just recreating an already made short film, it made it easier to get the screenplay done. The next step in making a good video or movie is to create a storyboard.

A storyboard is like a screenplay but instead of words it’s all drawings and images. This helps by showing you what exactly you need to film and where it’s needs to be done. Our screen board was animated so that we could see exactly what the character was doing and how long each scene would be.

The last step is making a call sheet. A call sheet has all the info of a crew member, actor/actress or any other extras they need.It talks all about where we are shooting each scene and on what date, as well as when and what, characters and crew are needed for that scene. The call sheet is very good for organizing a large group and making sure everyone knows what is happening. Our call sheet was mainly about when everybody was free and when and where we would actually be filming everything.

All those steps I just talked about are called the pre-production. Now let’s talk about our final video. Which is just called production. My group decided we would film on this trail that looked very similar to the original video. We did miss a couple shots that were supposed to have but now we know for next time that we should go over all our shots and look to see if we missed anything.

Overall I think my group did very well with this project. I definitely learnt a lot about pre-production and production. I really enjoyed this project, even though our video didn’t come out as well as we had hoped, I do think it was pretty good for a grade 9 class. I’ve got to say I’m happy that it wasn’t as scary as the original because I’ve got to admit I definitely jump after watching that.

 

-Emily ✌️