Have you ever wondered what plutonium tastes like? I know I have, but unfortunately, we don’t get to play with plutonium until Monday, so why not read what I did at school instead.

Hello everyone! I’m back with one of the first blog posts for a while, cause summer exists. Starting off this year, we jumped right into the action with our field study to alberta!

That was really fun and I enjoyed it but, wow, it was exhausting. The sights were amazing, everything was really, but unfortunately we never really got any time to explore because… well, y’a know, school trip and stuff. So instead of sleeping in, then doing like one or two things, then going to sleep, we were waking up at 7 latest, then driving at least 5 hours a day, and visiting 3 or more places, then getting to back to our hostels at 11, then trying to get to sleep.

One of my favorite pictures from lake Louise.

and of course we had to do work too. If you want to see what I did in humanities, click here:

https://www.blog44.ca/jamesst/?p=269&preview=true

But maker, what did we do in maker? I don’t know, I wasn’t paying attention… kidding of course, we learnt about how to ask questions, analyze data, tell a story, and create interesting videos.

Our driving question was “how might I use the moving image to tell a story?”

First, we learnt about what makes a good story, how to create a hook, story structure, filming on location, and how do a meaningful interview. After we learnt of that stuff that was really useful in making our videos, we had to plan them. Why do we have to plan things, create a solid plan in order to make a good meaningful video, when we could wing it and make something horrible! So annoying.

So after all the planning, I suppose it was fair that we had to film the videos as well. The first video I worked on was our home video, “what inspires me?” We had to create a 1-2 minute video about whew do what we do, everyday, what we enjoy away from school that keeps us going. Then of course we had to edit the video. Ug. I wanted to use daVinci resolve, but I haven’t learnt it yet, so I was boring and used iMovie, so, here was my video!

My “what inspires me?” video

Our next video to complete was a group project. A comedic silent video in the three valley gap heritage ghost town. It was fun working with my group but also kinda’ hard. It was fun but hard for everyone to co-ordinate at sometimes, but overall it went well and I am happy with how the video turned out:

Our silent video at the ghost town!

Next was the hardest one, the investigative video. Not only did we have to think on purpose, outrageous, but we also had to talk to real humans! We’re PLP kids, we don’t do that, and even worse, real random humans. I mean that took it to a whole other level! we had to deal with, bum, bum, bummmmm! Social anxiety. Seriously, talking to people was really hard, just working up to it took up to half an hour at some locations. I only got two interviews but they were still really useful. So after all of that and some editing, here was my video!

my investigative video.

We also did a TikTok style video, which my friend edited and I helped film.

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So yeah, I learnt a lot in this project, and I did really enjoy it too. I hope you enjoyed reading!

Edit: The plutonium was tasty 🙂