Project Frankenstuffie, was probably the most complicated projects in my PLP history. It wasn’t only complicated because of how it was a fiction non fiction story, but also because you needed to use stuffies. Now you can see how this project could get very silly very fast.

Unfortunately, that was a little bit of an restraint, because it couldn’t be silly. Even though on one hand this project is about a stuffy that physically morphs or adapts to its surroundings by changing its physical features. Though on the other hand its about matter cycles a some what complex scientific theory. So basically you had to keep your story between a fine line of fiction and non fiction, whiteout it being too silly or to serous and boring

Now this is how our teacher described this project in our project briefing. “Your task for this project is to create an interesting short film that illustrates the adaptation of your Frankenstuffie to an environmental change or disruption introduced to a physiographic region. Your short film will be based on the epistolary story you will be writing that shows the whole story arc of your creature and its adaptation to this new change to its physiographic region.”

Unfortunately after reading that I had a little bit of a breakdown because we only had a month of school and after school work time to finish this project. A two thousand word story, a one thousand word script, and a six minute video. Now I understand that for some older college graduates this might not be that much work but you halve to understand the PLP way is different. For every one main stepping stone there would be at least three days of critique and revision, there were seven different stepping stones.

Let me give you a brief look into what the seven main steps looked like.

Step 1: Research the epistolary story. We did this in the form of reading the Martian by Andy Weir. This took up one fifth of our class time and a lot of after school work.

Step 2: Start writing episodes 1, 2, and 3 of our epistolary story. This includes critique and revision. By the way our story was divided in to six episodes, a beginning, two rising actions, a climax, a falling action, and a resolution.

Step 3: Start writing episodes 4, 5, and 6. This part was hard because it included the climax which turned out to be the length of two episodes. Also lots of critique and revision because this part had to include the matter cylcles.

Step 4: Start writing your script for your beginning, and two rising actions. You had to include dialogue, a shot selection, and transitions. Also includes critique and revision.

Step 5: Start writing your script for climax, falling action, and resolution. You also had to include dialogue, a shot selection, and transitions. Also includes critique and revision.

Step 6: Finally start your filming and editing on your script parts beginning, and the two rising actions. There was also critique and of course revision for this step like all of the other steps.

Step 7: lastly we finished our video, and submitted our finished project to Showbie the current assignment app we are using.

In hindsight I think that this was a creative project and definitely a hard one, though I think that it would be better if there was more time for each step so that the project could be stronger.