Final Project

In my class, Emerging Tech, we are doing a project about our family history. we had to make a prezi and an infographic about the information that we collected from multiple family members. I first interviewed my grandma and my grandpa to get all of my background information then I sent an email to my Uncle Pat to collect more information to tie everything together. After all information was collected, we put it in a Family Echo web. All that information was then made into an infographic and a Prezi.
You can find my Interview questions here
You can find my email here
You can find my Family Echo here

November 24, 2014

What are you doing for Thanksgiving? Do you have any traditions? Go in to detail about your plans for the 5 day weekend.

Every year for Thanksgiving, I always get together with my family in town. My family usually gets together with my dad's side of the family with my grandparents, cousins and aunts and uncles. This year, we are going to my Uncle's house in the afternoon for a late lunch on Thursday. Then, early Friday morning, I am planning on going shopping with my sister. I'm not sure where we're going but this will be my second time going Black Friday Shopping. 

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November 19, 2014

Reflecting on the comments and grade of your stop-motion animation... what you would do differently if you had to do it all over again? Would you manage your time better? Find better lighting for your photos? Come up with a better idea? Explain what you would change about your video.

If I could do my stop-motion animation again, I would change a lot of things. I feel like my idea wasn't very creative and, in my opinion, I thought it was boring. I think I could have done something that was more exciting and fun to watch. If I did this idea again though, I would have changed the lighting because there were some glares on the fist time doing it. I would have also spent more time doing this. I really rushed into doing this and didn't give it very much thought. Also, some of my pictures that I took weren't very focused so I think I could have spent more time to focus them then take them. 

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November 17, 2014

Tell me about your weekend.

This weekend wasn't very exciting. I didn't really do anything besides hag out with a few friends and homework. I spent hours on hours doing a Biology paper for our year-long project that is due tomorrow. Once I was done with that, I had volleyball practice yesterday which was not my favorite thing to do but I enjoyed seeing all of my friends. After practice, I had an end of the season little get together with my basketball team at Orange Leaf. It was sad to "say goodbye" because I had been playing on that team since I was in 4th grade. But it was even more sad for me because everyone else on my team is playing school basketball so they will see each other all the time and I wont.:(

November 14, 2014

Tell me about your experience with taking your stop-motion photos. What problems did you run in to? What did you find difficult about the process? What would you go back and change about HOW you took the photos? Explain yourself.

While taking my pictures for my stop motion animation, I ran into quite a few problems. First, I had to find a puzzle that had the right pieces and I had to make sure I could put it together quickly. The first main problem I had was that I didn't have a tripod hat held an iPhone; so I had to improvise and tape my phone to a camera tripod so it would stay. Next, I had to put the puzzle together so it wouldn't take me as long to take pictures and I wouldn't move all the pieces trying to find which piece fits which. I finally got the puzzle done and i had to take it apart one by one and put it under the tripod so it could look like I was doing the puzzle as I went. I found at the end that my shadow from the lighting in my kitchen was in some of the shots and the pictures weren't very clear. Some things that I would change about how I took pictures is that I would make sure that I had lighting that was clear and my shadow wouldn't be on the puzzle and there wouldn't be any glares. 

November 11, 2014

What is your idea for the stop motion animation?How is it creative and innovated? How are you going to execute your idea?

For my stop motion animation, I thought about doing a puzzle. I could make it look like it is being put together in a matter of seconds. I think this idea is creative because it seems unique and I don't think very many people would think about doing this. I am thinking that I am going to have a tripod above a poster board and build the puzzle one piece at a time and speed it up all in the end. I'm not sure what puzzle I am going to do but I think I am going to do one that is around 200-300 pieces.

November 10, 2014

What is stop motion animation? If you don't know, look it up! Explain.

"Stop Motion animation is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object or persona appear to move on its own." In other words; its a cartoon made of a bunch of different pictures that look like they are moving.

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