7P10 - Stop motion

10 Good Ideas:

Tea party with frogs
A handshake
An obsticle course
Zoo escape
school field trip
A fire
Christmas
Rainy day
Someone playing with a Yo-Yo
A slumber party

Planning Questions:

Im working by myself.

I will need modiling clay and my Ipad.

My paln is to make frogs having a tea party.

My projects unique qualities will include tiny cups with tea in them.

Daily log:

Day 1: I filled out planning questions and 10 good ideas. With a good idea of what I wanted to do! (I am very exited for this project!)

Day 2: I got all my props ready and made all the characters for my skit, but didn't relize that it would trun my hands green, so that was fun. Also, I had a little trouble figuring out how I was going to make my magnificent frogs, so I had to go through a lot of rough drafts throuout these frogs, but I finally settled on a design.

Day 3: I took pictures of my story and put them all together on IMovie. It felt like it took forever. I actually felt like I was going to fall asleep. Not only that but I kept hitting my camera! It was so annoying! And I only moved one character at a time, which is also really annoying!

Day 4: I edited the video but then Emma told my that I used the wrong app but it was to late so I just made it using IMovie.

Day 5: I started filling out my reflectiom and got through the magority of it so that was pretty good!

Day 6: I finished my very heart felt reflection, published my site, and turned it in! (I would have done a behind the scenes picture but by the time I thought of it, it was already to late.)

My Movie 5.mov

This is the final product! Enjoy!

Reflection:

Using modeling clay, my Ipad, and IMovie, I created a stop motion short film based on a frog tea party because I wanted to do something that I really wanted to do. I've always loved stop motion as a kid, so why not take a stroll down memory lane? Plus, I have always loved frogs and tea. So, that's why I created this project!
During this process, I learned that you have to be paitent. I learned this becuase while doing this project I expected it to be a lot quicker, but it took me at least an hour. Which is not what I was hoping for. I didn't relize that you had to take like 20 pictures just to get your characters to one destionation. Just so you know, I am not a very pationt person. Which made this process a lot more difficult.
The 7 standards of the class are Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. My project ties to Computational thinker because I found straigeies and tested solutions. This ties to my project because well working on this project I had some difficulties with making the frogs so I tested all the different ways I could make them while finding stratigies for how I could make them.
A challenge I overcame on this project was trying to take all the pictures while the camera was in the same spot. I was able to do it by doing my best not to hit the camera while moving my characters. Athother sturgle I had was not focasing on one character a a time. I found myself always just moving one character, when to get them to the table I could have moved them at the same time. I overcame this challange by trying to move two characters at the same time. If you couldn't tell, this was quite a challanging project for me.
Given a chance to do this again, I would change the story did. The reason why I would change it is because I felt like my plot to my story was a little to basic and I could have made it more interesting. I also had planned for it to be longer, but then I came back the next day and someone squished all my things. If I could have preveted it I could have made my skit a lot better and more exiting, rather then two frogs just sitting there with tea cups in their hands... do frogs have hands?
Hastings High School Career and Technical Education Program offers Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, Marketing. My project connects to the Engineering Design CTE program at Hastings High School. My project connects to careers in stop motion movies (like the Nightmare Before Christmas!).

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