So, the second SLC’s are here, so let’s start.

This time I have two things that are my favourite – the first thing is my Renaissance poster. I feel this was one of the best things from this year or terms work because I spent a lot of time thinking of the metaphor, and making the poster itself, which I had many different drafts for. The metaphor for this visual is that the three flowers represent the different people I had chosen from the Renaissance, and they are close together because they didn’t live very far away. If you want to see the blog post on this, click here. Here are some of those drafts:

The second thing I am proud of, is my blue sky design project. If you want to learn more about that, go here. This is also one of the best things I have done, because I spent most of my time on all of it. Whether it be the script, the dialogue, the locations, and everything else. I also think I did a good job at making the movie in such a slim period of time. Here are some pictures from the movie, and the process:

I would now like to discuss how I have grown as a learner. During this term I feel that I have been doing very well on the assignments that have been handed out. And you may be asking, how does this show your growth? What are you even talking about James? Well, that’s because last term I didn’t hand things in on time, and now I have exceeded that goal, and I am excited to pursue even more excellence in the future of PLP. I feel like I have grown to work harder in class, and spend my working time even more wisely.

Now onto the final part of the confrence. Which is what I was the least good at this year or school term. Well, I feel that during the time period of work for my blue sky, a lot of things were late because I had to work on the design project. I also had two different projects to do as well. I feel like I could have done a little bit better, and as I am a perfectionist, I could have worked a little harder.

So, the second blue sky project is a thing. For this one, I decided to make a short film that was engaging to new people, made on a low budget, and on a small amount of time. So I started to work on a script, which was the first part of the design project. I had many different drafts for this, and I spent a lot of time on this  part of the project. Here are some different drafts for the first page:

Then the second part – finding a cast and scouting locations. This didn’t take much time, as there weren’t many location or members. The locations were key, and we were then ready to start filming! Here is a picture of one of the locations:

Then the second to last part – filming. This took the most time, because we were constantly changing the story, scenes and dialogue. Apart from that, the acting was solid and we didn’t have to do many takes. Here is a picture of one of the shots from the movie:

Now the final part – editing. There was not much music, or many sound effects, so that was pretty quick as well. I think this was the most important bit of the project, and unfortunately the editing on iMovie was quite annoying. Here is a screenshot of the process:

Overall, the result for this design project is that you can make a short film, with hardly any budget, and have it be engaging to new people. But, you can not do it in a small amount of time, as the movie was too short because of the small amount of time. The movie is currently on my films channel, which you can check out here.

So we had to make a museum exhibit as an addition to our science project and blue sky. We had three different groups for this, desire, means and results. I was assigned to be in the desire group. So for this, we started to do research for the desire of the exploration. This part of the process was pretty easy, as we had a google doc to do all of it, and we worked well together as well. Then we went on to do the planning for the exhibition, which we also did easily because we had the idea for it pretty fast. Finally we move onto the exhibition itself, and this was the hard part. For the exhibition we had three boards for each sub heading, and we had to carry these boards outside to the hallway, which was kind of frustrating. So then, we finally got onto the part where people arrived and starting looking around. Unfortunately during this time, no one even looked at the area with the exhibition! Overall I thought this was an okay experience but I prefered the blue sky part of it.

How did the raven bring the light? Well the story is a thing in itself, but my project reflects it on another level. As you can see in this cardboard box, there is essentially a mini theatre. This mini theatre projects the raven from a light shining at the cardboard wall with a raven cut into it. There are two lenses you can look through, the convex and concave lens. The flashlight is in the box, and the light shines from it, which is bouncing off a mirror, which finally reflects to go through the hole. This makes a projection of a raven on the far wall of the box. This happens because light won’t go through a surface that isn’t translucent or transparent, or see through in simpler terms. I know how to do this, because we learnt about the property of light, and how it works because we learnt about it in class. Here is a picture: