Week 3: Pictures

Hey Guys! Welcome back! Today I’m going to about pictures and images!

Royalty Free Images: Most images are not free to use and are licensed and copy written as they usually from big companies. There is many resources though for royalty free images and copywrite free images. Here are some sources:

-Pixabay

-Photosforclass

-Creative Commons

Making Your Own image

There are many ways to create your own image, which is copyright free but one of my favourite is to draw! I use Tayasui Sketches Pro, but there are many iPad apps to use, Procreate, Autodesk SketchBook or even Notability. Here is my Drawing!

Task 3 and 4

For these tasks we had to find a royalty free image and either create a image prompt or a poem for the image. The image I found was on the website Pixabay.

Here is my prompt!

“What do you mean you can’t throw vinyl records?”

“Listen, I don’t know how the record got stuck to the roof, but I wanna listen to some tunes!”

Week 4: Free Choice

Hey guys! This week it’s free choice for our blog post, so I am going to talk about my current watchlist of movies I want to see! Let’s start off the list!

1. Marriage Story – short synopsis (from IMDb) Noah Baumbach’s incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying together. Thoughts– I am really looking forward to seeing to this movie on Netflix, it looks like the main actors, Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson are giving their best preformances in a while, and Noah Bumbauch is a interesting director.

2. The King –synopsis– (from IMDb) Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life. Thoughts- The cast alone blew me away with both Robert Pattinson and Timothée Chalamet and the synopsis/trailers so far have left me intrigued. I am skeptical of David Michôds directing but I’m interested to see what Joel Edgerton brings to the script.

3. Little Women (2019) –synopsis-(from IMDb) Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.Thoughts– I was a fan of Greta Gerwigs directorial debut, Lady Bird and would even say it was my movie of 2017. I am interested to see how she handles not only a remake, but a much large production as Lady Bird was distributed and produced by A24 while this is produced by Sony Pictures. As with the latter movie, love the cast, Timothée Chalamet, Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, etc…

4. Do The Right Thing (1989) –synopsis-(from IMDb) On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.Thoughts– I am excited to see this as it is supposedly Spike Lees directorial high, but it’s a well regard classic and this year is the 30th anniversary of the film!

5. Paddington 3 –synopsis Plot undisclosed. The third installment of the Paddington films.Thoughts– PADDINGTON 3 BAYBEEEE!!!

And well that’s it! Those are all the current films I want to see. So you guys next week!

How Does place impacts who we are?

In September of 2019 ( this year ), my PLP 9 class and I went on a trip to Alberta to answer the question, how does place impact who we are? In this blog post I will tell you the journey of the video we made to answer this question.

Part 1: The Lead up

The beginning of this project and the lead up to my trip was sped up since the trip started on the 15 of September only a couple week after school started. The beginning helped us look through social lenses. In this stage of the project we formed our groups, I was in the Albertans group! The other choice included ( but weren’t limited too) Business owners, Artists, tourist and more! My mission as apart of Albertans was to interview Albertans about culture and the impact of place.

Our assignment were: The launch of the project, a creative response about a place that impacted me (I created a poem of east van), looking through a humanitarian lense on a article about Alberta and oil and finally a pre-trip plan, which include a shot list, Question to interview to and even a script to tell you how to start a interview.

Part 2: The trip

We left for the trip on Saturday the 15th and off we went! Our first interview stop was the lake Louise hostel which was a couple days into the trip. Due to different people and me in my groups priorities we weren’t able to get the interview. So our actual first interview was at the Lake Minnewanka boat cruise in Banff which was great because he gave us answers that really helped us to know Banff. I also interviewed a gift store owner in Banff but it was only audio. One of my best questions was how do you think Albertan or ( your Albertan towns ) culture impacts you?

Our next interview stop was “the dinosaur stop” the world biggest dinosaur, in Drumheller Alberta alongside the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller as well. Due to scheduling and different issues with the group, we could get a interview at the Royal Tyrell Museum. But we were able to get a interview from the gift shop owner at The Worlds Biggest Dinosaur! The store owner was great interview as she had some great ideas and answers to our questions. I didn’t want that interview because it also was a audio interview.

Our final interview was at the Lake Louise gondola/ ranger program, where we our trail guide was a great interview as he shown the perspective of Alberta through not only a Albertan but also as a Albertan whose live revolves around the mountain.

Part 3: The Video

After the trip we were in full on video creation mode, and we worked. The first draft was due only a week after, so I wrote and VO ( Voice overed) a script and added my video interviews. The things I had to fix were:

– The Audio was way to low, as some of the interviewees held it wrong

– More Clips

I put these critiques into my final video which you can watch here:https://youtu.be/ZJZfw9kKH_w

Conclusion

I believe that throughout this project we kept getting different answers to our driving question: How does place impact who we are? And all of these different answers helped to form our final, video answer.

PGP 9 Alberta

Hey Guys! This is going to be a bit of a different blog post as I’m reflecting on my Alberta trip, and the core competencies I used to learn about myself and how I learned through this trip.

Let’s start with the first Core Competencies

Managing Impulsivity: I find that a great example of this is when I was making my Alberta Video. There were many opportunities for me to goof off on location like at the world’s biggest dinosaur, or at Lake Louise Gondola/ Ranger Program but I was on topic and working when it came to the Alberta video.

Gathering Data through All Senses:

Honestly, I don’t think I can find an outstanding example of this though the trip. Most of the data and information I received I think was very audiovisual, while I could have used more opportunities to senses like touch. So instead I will turn this into an ’I Will’ statement. I will gather data through all senses by truly trying to comprehend information with all my senses instead of just Audio and Visual.

Thinking about thinking (Metacognition):

I’d say that a great example of this is My Royal Tyrell museum video. I had to be aware of my working strategies and feelings too, work with, my partner (Julia). So I will turn this to ’I have’ statement. I have thought about my thinking by thinking about my working strategies and how I think of video production to utilize video creation.

Questioning and Posing Problems

A good example of this for me is my Uno! A ghost town video, video. When planning the video out we weren’t familiar with the locations of the conditions of the locations with this video, so I had to with my group, question data such as, What’s the weather going to be like? How much time do we have to film? How big is the location? So I am going to turn this into an ’I have’ statement. I have Questioned and Posed problems by question data needed to finish video production and to utilize location and similar data.

And finally…….

Thinking and Communicating with clarity and precision

Honestly, I don’t think I can find a good example of this, I might have overgeneralized and distorted details and data in my research and production. So, I want to change this by doing thorough research and investigating for more information. I will be thinking and Communicating with clarity and decisions by investigating for information and thoroughly researching.

Well, that’s all I have for this post. See ya later folks!

Gaming with a EXPONENTIAL amount of fun

The laws of exponents are one of the fundamentals skills of math. But how does it translate to a game? In September of this year (2019) I worked on a PLP 9 Scimatics project to answer that question.

Introduction and Milestone 1

The introduction to this project was simply, create a game with 2 – 5 dice and the games included exponents,  as it said on the rubric all of our games use logic and problem solving. 

This opening milestone was a good introduction for the project and w as fun. 

Laws of exponents and milestones 2 – 3:

Since this is a math project, we had to worksheets and in doing this we 

Since this is a math project we learned math. We learned all about the laws of exponents, using resources liking Textbook worksheet, guides and videos from math antics. We learned the laws of exponents..

Milestone 4 – 5, the game drafts

when we finished learning the concepts that we were going to use in our game we started writing out our rules for our games and the concepts. I worked with my lovely classmate Malaika  and we decided to center our game around diseases and exponents. The games make mechanic was that: You are on a disease level from 1 – 6 and you have to be cured as different dice rolls affect you.
Conclusion

I believe that this project has helped me learn about exponents and games in a fun  and creative way.

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