Roller Coaster Challenge:

Have you ever been on a roller coaster? I’ve always wondered why people like to go on these horrible rides. It’s actually because the experience of danger stimulates the release of endorphins in the brain, which makes people happy. In the project “roller coaster challenge” I learned about the the roller coaster work, and we build a real roller coaster with paper tubes. We use a marble as a passenger, and we put it on a roller coaster. Our group got the third place, and our score is 21 points. The project was very interesting and I learned what I was interested in. I hope there will be more projects about building things.

Stop Motion Video: 

I always think that those stop motion video things on YouTube are really cool, but I never think about I make one of them myself. However, I don’t even know how to make them before this project. After I learned about the video and learned how to edit video, I start to really like to make stop motion videos. 3d stop motion animation is the most common one. First you use clay to make characters, and when every time they need to move. Take a photo with a stop-motion app. Repeat the process. Once the character is made, it can be used many times, but you also need to make scenes and items. And requires a location and equipment (which you can do at home). That’s the way I did it.

In this project we learned about making films, setting goals, and learning what we really want. I learned about movies knowledge, history of movies, and storyboards for making them. I also went over shots and angles to consolidate my knowledge. I think my film making skills have become better after learning this project, and I can use it flexibly with other themes. Students will use more videos in their projects as we enter grade 9, and it’s useful to learn them now. The teacher taught me how to set goals. Goals make a clear direction for my behavior, and make me fully understand the purpose of each things. Goals let me know what is most important and help me manage my time. It also makes me stronger and more confident. Therefore, goals can make me a better learner. Knowing what I really want helps me to know more about myself, which can helps me to have a clear goal. Having a goal is very important to me on my way to becoming a learner.

Skill 1: Clips. I tell a visual story in clip about what inspired me. This is the link to my video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4jRbsDup7aI&feature=share

Skill 2: shot and angles. It is bad that I am absent, but I write a story about how I finish my goal.

When I was eight years old, I made a goal in the summer vacation. Which is is to wash my own dishes after eat every day. After make this goalI I really wash my dishes every day. I was a very lazy kid, but it was amazing that I really did it at that time. although sometimes I will go out to play and then not do it, but it is only a small part of the time. I still accomplished my goal.

Skill 3: planning and shooting. It is an tutorial video on how to open a locker. Each clip was shot from a different Angle. I’m a person in the video that trying to learn how to open a locker.