⏳Woah, well that went quick⏳

Hello peoples! Well what do ya know! Term one is officially over. That went by really quickly. Now in this blog post I’m going to talk about all the videos my class has created this term. I’m not sure if I’m relieved that it’s over or stressed that it just means the next term is starting. But anyway I’m going to do a little reflection on each video we created.


4 Shot Film 

Empower learner ~ I have leveraged technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving, and demonstrating competency in my learning goals 

Now this video was the first one we made this year. I think we actually did pretty good on it. Although the sound quality could be better and I do wish we did a bit better with the transitions, over all it turned out pretty good for our first video of the year. I was pretty surprised as to our angels, shots, time management and communication because since we made this video within the first two weeks of school (before we had learnt much about film making) it had a great out come. My group did well with communication and time management as well as staying organized with the roles. This was definitely a good way to start off the year


Ghost Town Film

Knowledge constructor ~ I can critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts, and make meaningful experiences for myself and others 

In this video we had to create a short film in this little ghost town. I think this video turned out very well. The making if this video was actually very fun. I think we did a good job with this one. We had a good plan for completing it. We worked together, communication and did a good job with time management. So over all this was a great video. Definitely one of my favourite so far in the year.


Drumheller Documentary

Creative communicator ~ I communicated clearly and expressed myself creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats, and digital media appropriate to my goals.

 This video was a little quick documentary on an exhibit that’s e found interesting or important. We didn’t have time to plan this video because our teachers assigned it to us that day, right after lunch. So we had to quickly find an exhibit we liked and plan, film and edit in just one hour. Yes creating a video in one hour is pretty difficult but I think I managed to pull it off. If I were to do it again I would definitely try and fix the audio and maybe think of a script before so I’m not confused on what I should say. Other then that I would have liked to add some music and maybe a better title. In conclusion I enjoyed making this video, it was a good way to learn the ways of film. 


Alberta Video 

Innovative designer ~ I use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful, or imaginative solutions 

If you have read my other post Alberta 2019 you would know that my class went on a filed study to the Rockies. This was an amazing trip and I had so much fun. The reason we went on that trip was to answer our driving question. How does place impact ______? That blank would be filled in with different people group depending on which group you were in. Mine was wildlife. This made it a bit easier because I love wildlife so much. Through out this whole trip we needed to get lots of videos, pictures, information and interviews so we could create this video. This was an individual assignment that we needed to create. I think I did good with my time management skills and making sure I was on top of my work. It was hard at some points because all my classmates are my friends we got distracted a couple times, but it all worked out great. I think my video had a great turn out. And I’m glad to say I’m proud of it.


Run a Remake Video 

Computational thinker ~ I developed and employed strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions 

Now this video was definitely a fun one. If you would want to know more about this project here’s the post so you can check it out yourself. This video took a lot of planning. I think my group did a good job with this video. We needed to work a bit harder on our time management skills and our communication skills, but other then that we accomplished this video on time and got a pretty good mark. I’m excited to do another video similar style to this one in the future.


French Revolution ~ Rap Video 

Knowledge constructor ~ I can critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts, and make meaningful experiences for myself and others 

This video was the first of four Revolution videos. Since it was our first it was prefect but it did give a chance to work on the skills we are not great at so we can nail them for future videos. For this particular video we needed to write song lyrics about the French Revolution. This was not very difficult because we had learnt quite a lot about it in class plus my class was reading a book about the French Revolution. After the script was done we needed to film. But you can’t film without a plan. With my group it was a little hard to find time to film because everyone was busy in different days. In the end it all worked out and we got it all finished. And I must say the end result was pretty good, for our time making a rap video that is.


American Revolution ~ Act It Out Video 

Innovative designer ~ I use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful, or imaginative solutions 

This video was the second one we did about revolutions. Except instead of French Revolution it’s about the American Revolution. After we had completed the other revolution video we kinda had an idea on how to plan. We did much better with our time management and did a great job on our planning. Once we had that all figured out we moved on to filming. We picked a day the worked out for everyone and got it all done. After this video me and my group learned that being on top of things and having a good plan really helps with the video.


Russian Revolution ~ Explain Everything Video 

Computational thinker ~ I developed and employed strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions 

Second to last video! Now this video I can’t lie, my group got a little lazy for this one. We didn’t do great on timing and it took us a long time to decide which animation we wanted to do. It did all work out in the end but it was definitely a bumpy ride. It was hard because my whole group didn’t know much about animations and didn’t know how to make them. That definitely made it harder, not Impossible, just hard. But we worked together to learn how to make them and in the ended the video turned out pretty good.


Final French Revolution ~ Act It Out Video 

Empowered learner ~ I have leveraged technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving, and demonstrating competency in my learning goals 

Final video! This video was once again about the French Revolution. For the last videos of the revolution, we were able to pick any revolution we wanted. My group picked French because we knew the most about it and had the perfect idea on what to do. My group really wanted to up our game with this last video, so we took our time planning out the script, we decided a destination for filming and we talked about costumes because we decided to do the Act It Out! style video. This was definitely one of my favourites because we were very proud of the out come.


I really enjoyed creating all of these videos. Even though it took a lot of good communication, time management, critical thinking and team work without all of those the out come would not be as good. So I’ve learnt that using all these techniques and skills you can create an amazing video. I’m excited to see what I can do with the skills I learnt this term! Can’t wait to see what our teachers have in mind for us next term!

 

– Emily ✌️

⚔️IT’S REVOLUTION TIME!⚔️

Hello! And welcome back to yet another blog post. But don’t worry there’s lots more to come. Now this project my class did was a very long and very time consuming one. Yes, my class did learn about the French, American, Russian revolutions and one we got to choose on our own. And I can not say this enough but this was a very long project that was kinda stressful at points. But then again what PLP project isn’t. I’m kidding (no I’m really not kidding though) this project was very  fun and I really enjoyed it. For each revolution we learned about we had to create a video. There were five different types of videos we could create. John Green, Act it out, Explain Everything and Song/Rap. So everyone was put into groups of four. My group was Malaika, Gabe, and Owen. I think my group worked pretty well together, but I do wish we could have worked better on our communication and time management. Okay so anyway, let’s jump right into the first revolution!


The French Revolution ~ The first revolution we learned about was the French. My group decided we would do the song/rap video first. The first step to making this video was of course learn about the revolution itself. The second step is planning how you are going to put all the information you just learnt into a four minute video. This was pretty difficult, but we had some great tools to help us out. There were three tools we had to complete to successfully complete the video. 

Tool #1 Screenplay. A screenplay is basically a script with much more detail about where the cast/crew will be at what par of each scene. My group took a bit of time to get a hang of this, but after we figured out how to do it and understood how important it was, we quickly got on top of it. Now for out screenplay it was part script part directions. Yes, a screenplay is VERY important when trying to create a movie or video. My group relied of the screenplay very much and it helped us out a lot. I think the screenplay is so crucial because without it you pretty much have nothing planned out and would have to just wing it. So yes even though took quite a lot of thought and time, we wouldn’t be able to create this video with out it. 

Tool #2 Storyboard. Now a storyboard is a small presentation, I guess you could say. Well for our case we created a certain amount of drawings and animated them to show how each scene of our video would go. Our storyboard was pretty helpful and did help us a bit with the idea of where we would film and how each scene would go.

Tool #3 Call-sheet. So a call-sheet is a document that has all of the crew/cast’s information. It also includes what days everyone is free to film and where each shoot will will be taken. This is definitely important to making our video because without that information we can’t film. And would get behind on everything. And just be a whole mess.

I’m conclusion I think this video was a great first try. My group did pretty well with communicating. But I do wish we were a bit better at that. And we accomplished everything that needed to be done. So yes I think my group very well on this video.


The American Revolution ~ The second revolution we learnt about was the American revolution. We decided to do the Act it out style video. This one turned out very well I think. But again I wish we were better at communication and time management.

Tool #1 Screenplay. Our screenplay for this video was a bit rusty. We were a little stressed with other work that we lost track of time and ended up having to do it last minute. Which was not helpful and made filming very difficult. We did manage to pull it all together in the end, but it took some time.

Tool #2 Storyboard. Now our storyboard on the other hand was pretty good. This definitely helped us through filming. If we to do this again (and I know we will) I would try to work on being a bit more descriptive through our drawings.

Tool # 3 Call-sheet. Yes of course the call-sheet is very important. It does help us with knowing when we are filming and knowing where.

In conclusion I think this was one of our best videos out of the four because we worked together in the tough times and ended up creating an awesome video.


The Russian Revolution ~ The third revolution we learnt about was the Russian revolution. For this revolution we chose to do the Explain Everything video type. This one was definitely the hardest because well first it’s all just animations and my group wasn’t very good at that. It was easy to do the drawing part but when it came to the actual animation part it was very difficult for us. If we were to do more videos with animations I would like to learn more about them.

Tool #1 Screenplay. You know what the screenplay is. We used this screenplay for our script and what type of drawing/animation we would create. 

Tool #2 Storyboard. For this revolution we did not do a storyboard because with the type of video we were doing it would just be the same thing but as a very rough draft. Which would be fine but since this style video was so difficult we needed as much time as we could to put towards our animations.

Tool #3 Call-sheet. Pretty self explanatory, you should know by now what it is. But we used this for our communication. We did get better at our communication which trust me is so so so important. 

In conclusion i think my group did okay with this video but it was pretty new for us even though we had worked with animations before we were very rusty and probably could have used a refresher. But anyway I think this was a good attempt at this style of video.


Our Choice Revolution ~ And for our final revolution my group decided to do the French Revolution once again because we knew the most about the French and we knew we could do better then our first because we had now done three videos and have more experience.

Tool #1 Screenplay. Now since this was our last video about revolutions we wanted to really succeed and do our best. So we took this one very seriously. We were focused and got everything done on time. So our screenplay was done very well and it helped us out so much.

Tool #2 Storyboard. Now for our storyboard we did a rough drawing of how each scene would go. This did change later on as we realized that we wanted to change how our video went. Everything did work out, even with the big change in the middle.

Tool #3 Call-sheet. This call-sheet was very important. We to have this done early because something we struggled with in the past was time management. This was been very difficult for my group and we knew it was because we did not get the first steps done in time to plan out and film our video. Now that we know we will be more prepared and stay on top of things.

In conclusion I think this was our best video, yes there were so rough spots but we figured it out and successfully accomplished this revolution project. I think me and my whole group did well with all of our videos. And we definitely learnt a whole lot about pre-production and post-production (if you don’t know what that is, I did a big explanation about that in my other blog post called i don’t like anything horror)


And finally it’s time to answer the driving question. How do ideas drive change? Well I think idea drive change because everyone is always coming up with amazing ideas. Some people take those ideas and create something out of it. Others don’t, instead they chose to keep them to their selfs. Which is okay. But for the people who decided they wanted to do something with their idea and put it to good use. That’s how ideas drive change. There are so many amazing things in our world that started from just a simple idea. But those people knew they wanted to make a change, so they took their idea and made it an reality. Without these people who are brave and know that even if their idea is a small one, it still makes a big change to your life and to other people’s life that are all around you. So don’t be afraid to share your ideas I bet it would come in handy at some point.

 

– Emily ✌️

😎Emojis😎

Hello peoples! Welcome back to another SBC post! This week’s challenge is EMOJIS! This was a fun challenge and it was pretty. There were a couple of things we got to choose to do so I did emoji math and emoji art.

~ Emoji Math ~

☀️ + ☀️ = 20

☀️ + 🌧 = 65

☀️ + 🌧 + 🌈 =  165

☀️ + 🌧 + 🌈 +❄️ = 1,168

 

~ Emoji Art ~

This is my emoji art that I created. Hope you like this very short easy blog post.

 

– Emily ✌️

🎵Music🎵

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 ✌️

🎉Celebrations and Traditions🎉

HEY GUYS! Hellooo if you’re new here you should definitely go check out my other SBC (student blogging challenge) blog posts and learn more about it. Anyway this weeks blogging challenge we had to make a post on our celebrations and traditions we do all year, with your family, etc. So I decided to chose everyone in my family’s birthday. I decided to chose everyone in my family’s birthday because for my family it’s a big this we do. So what we will do is who’s ever’s birthday it is we will let them chose what we will have for brunch that morning and where we would go and what we would have for dinner. But I’m lucky because my whole family all lives pretty close(as in one hour away at most) but we always send as much time together as possible. Sometimes it’s annoying but sometimes it nice having them around (I’m kidding it’s always nice to have them around). Everyone’s family has very different traditions so if you have one that’s very unique and special, comment below and let me know what it is. I love hearing about you guys!

 

– Emily ✌️

😰I don’t like anything horror😰

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 ✌️