Building of a nation

Part 1

Confederation

In humanity’s 9 we have been learning about confederation and the people who made it happen, so I though I would give you a quick recap of what went on to unite this beautiful country!

Our story begins in the colonies of Canada, because at this point Canada was just a group of mini country’s and there leader was the queen of England. Now these colonies were covered in problems. Some had to many people, others had no money, some had access to ports, they also had a raging enemy just below them. All in all these groups were in need of change. They had parliament meetings but people could not meet at anything. The main reps were John. A. MacDonald, and George Brown.

These two men had it out for one another, and would never have joined forces without the help from George’s wife, Anne Brown. Anne told George that he was being silly and that there was more at stake than just his pride. Now the men were able to communicate and end the dreadful war between them. They were able to agree on confederation and the building of the railway. And all of a sudden a tiny tiny country was born. There were other colonies that would join confederation but at the beginning it was just Canada East, Canada West, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. Our little Canada…

Part 2
Heritage Minutes

In humanity’s recently we have been making our own heritage minute videos. Heritage minute’s are minute long videos that pack a bunch of information on a topic. Our heritage minutes had to be on someone or something that was around at the same time of confederation and had a major effect on our society today. So my group, which consists of Kailey and Robin, decided to do our heritage minute on Anne Brown, the wife of George Brown, and a mother of confederation.

Anne Brown was a mother of confederation because she pushed her husband to become allies with John. A. Macdonald instead of enemy’s. And because of her work we have one country not two separate ones! Anyway after we had done the research on Anne Brown, we had to make a storyboard.

 

Our storyboard failed to show truly what our video would be about but it did help us figure out what to use to portray the story. After we had that down we needed to move on to figuring out a script, ( our first major deadline ) and filming logistics. Our plan for filming was to have the narration as Anne Brown reading the letter she was writing to George, and have clips of what she was talking about on the screen and once in a while flash back to the writing. We mostly stuck to the plan, but throughout filming we tweaked a few things. After we had planned all of the shots that we wanted we headed back to our script, to make sure it was ready to be in the film. We had had a rough draft of our script but now we needed something that would make the video clear and concise to the people watching. Kailey finalized the script and I was amazed, it sounded so good and fit the video perfectly. Now it was on me to edit the clips together, I tried my best to make the video fit to the standards, and I think I did ok! I made a first draft that did not have voice overs or music but it did have titles and all the shots were in place. It was 4 minutes.

I guess its better to have more shots, than less! But I knew it was going to be a tough job to cut down the video to 1 minute, so I got to work and it turned out that I was mostly wrong, it didn’t end up taking that much time and when I was done I was able to watch it and only have 1 minute go by not 5! So now we had to move on to voice overs. The voice overs were done by Kailey, since she was Anne. Our first draft of voice overs were a little crackly, so we put it as top priority to fix, because that day was our first showing to people out side of the class. We were showing the heritage minutes to Mr. Braum’s humanity’s 9 class. It was pretty stressful, and I was nervous to get the peoples opinions. Ms. Maxwell handed each person in the class 2 slips of paper that had some questions regarding the videos on on it, and what feedback they would give us. Our slips came back with really helpful feedback and it helped us to progress and adapt our video to the viewers!

We then had the weekend to fix and edit the video to bring it to a higher level of satisfaction. On Monday there was another due date, The Outro Competition. I dont know if you’ve ever watched a heritage minute but at the end of the video it will fade to some shots of other heritage minutes and then pop up with the logo and some information about the makers of the video. Historica Canada’s one goes like this

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Now that would be extremely hard to create for a group of kids in grade 9, but some kids were able to pull of a really good remake version. We had a vote on which one we liked the best and ended up picking Daniels. This is Daniels

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Pretty good huh! I was super happy at how professional it made our videos look, and much alike it was the the Historica Canada’s. Now that we had an outro we were practically finished. Just editing and fixing all the tiny things, the voice overs were redone, and sounded much much better, and we refilmed a few clips. The final product was sitting right in front of me and I am happy to say that I was proud of all the work that had been put in, and that it was all worth it in the long run. There were a few thing that could have been avoided, and I thought I would share some with you!

Part 3
Things that we learnt

Filming logistics. It is a very good idea to have knowledge of what your story is about, and how you plan on filming it, before heading out into the field and filming. Because when you don’t know what to do while filming it is just a waste of time. And knowing what your filming and where helps you to feel organized an on top of things. Our class did a sheet called filming logistics and it was very very helpful. I am definitely doing it for all of my filming projects!
Script. I think I have this problem every time that there is a script involved. I always write to much and in way to much detail, and then all of a sudden it’s impossible to edit down… Well anyways I did this again and it was hard for me to work with my script that was in such detail, so I had to spend extra time editing and revising, when I could have been planning for filming or maybe even watching TV! So when writing a script try to keep it to the most important things and keep it interesting!
Voice overs. This wasn’t that big of a problem for my group, but it would have been nice to have it perfect in the first draft. Things we learned from this were: – don’t record when there is movement around you, it just causes for crunchy noises. – only use the mic on your earbuds or an actual mic to record, if your just recording without either of these then there will be a lot more noise filtered in. – add emotion into your voiceovers, with out emotion it sounds like your just reading it off the paper, but with emotion it really feels like your there!

I hope you enjoyed reading this, and I hope you like my video!

Till next time

Adlih

 

Math blog post

Math blog post

Recently in math 9 we have been planning a trip. Our trip could take us anywhere we wanted to go but we had to stay on the land, so no boats or planes! I am also aloud to bring anyone I want with me, so Isabelle Hūmenny, and Luca Jacoe, will be joining me for my trip. We were also given 10,000 (imaginary) dollars to complete the trip. Our trips had to start in NYC and after that they could go anywhere! So let me tell you about the most amazing trip that I am about to embark on, fasten your seat belts because its about to get crazy!

PART 1

My Trip Plan

My trip begins in NYC, like everyone else’s, and the final destination is Mexico City. But its going to take around 90 hours to get there so my first destination is Philly, or Philadelphia as its properly pronounced. But before I can get to Philly I need a vehicle to get me there, and the vehicle I chose for this trip is the 2009 Gulfstream Yellowstone, or a RV.

Now that I’ve got my vehicle and location, I’m ready to go! It takes 1 hour and 55m to get to Philadelphia and when I get there, I plan on going to the Please Touch museum and doing some shopping on south street.

I have a pretty big day of driving the next day so I should limit my day in Philly. I will stay in Owego camp for the night.
The next morning I have an 8 hour journey to Charlotte, Pennsylvania.

In Charlotte I will spend the night in McDowell Nature Preserve Campground. The next morning I am traveling for a startling time of 9 hours and 54 minutes! Crazy! I am traveling to Memphis and I probably wont spend to much time there, I’ll be pretty tired! But for the night I will spend my time in the Graceland RV park.
On the fourth day of my travels I will be headed to Dallas.

It’s a shorter trip than the day before but it will still take 6 hours and 56 minutes. I will explore Dallas a little bit and then head to bed, because I’ll be beat! In Dallas I’ll stay in the Northeast campground.
The next day I will leave Dallas and head for Laredo, the drive will be 6 hours and 29 minutes and I’ll have my jams playing the whole way! I think I would like to explore Laredo so I am staying in a very central campground called Camping Laredo.

On the sixth day I went from Laredo to Monterrey. In Monterrey I stayed in La Aldea. It takes 8 hours to get there and I will definitely need to rest up before the final leg of my journey!
The next morning I will be traveling from Monterrey to Mexico City, in Mexico City I will spend one day there and I will stay at Las Estacas, and then on the way back up I will do the same thing again!

PART 2

Costs

Now that I’ve finished my trip plan I need to explain the costs of gas, lodging, and food. There was 3 choices for what you wanted to eat, you could have $200 per day for high quality cuisine, $100 per day  for healthy nutritious meals in a family dinner style, or $25 per day for fast food kind of meals.

I chose to spend my extra money on family style cuisine, to stay healthy and happy throughout my trip. The next choice was where you wanted to stay over night. There was Luxury Suites for $500 per night, Hotel Rooms for $100 per night, or campgrounds for $25 per night. I chose campground because I have an RV and it would be a waste to spend money on a hotel! And lastly the was the choice between high quality duffels, designer bags or plastic bags. I chose plastic bags to save me money! Since I know my food and lodging cost I have to figure out vehicle costs. My RV costs $150 per day. For my trip gas is a big part of it and to figure out how much gas I need, I have to figure out my miles per gallon. My RV has 8 miles per gallon, and I am traveling 5694.4 miles. So the gallons of gas needed would be 711.8. Acording to the ILLEST ROA TRIP OF ALL TIME gas costs $2.80 per gallon. So that would mean that I am spending $1993.04 on gas! That’s a lot! I had to graph the costs so I could see how long I could spend on the trip.

Now that I had the graph, I had to support my concept with some math. I had to figure out an equation that would tell me exactly how much money I would spend each day on food, lodging, and gas and vehicle costs. My equation for food and lodging costs is 375 y. Y is the amount of days, and it is the variable in my equation. For the vehicle equation it is, 150 x + 1993.04. X is the variable in that equation. Below is a photo of the equations and steps I used to figure out the amount of days I can go for.

Part 3

Sponsorship

I had the lucky chance of getting 3 different choices for sponsorships. Pepsi,  Coca Cola, and Snapple. All three of these sponsorships cater to varying lengths of trips. The graph below will help to see that.

As you can see green ( Snapple ) would benefit a longer trip, where as black ( Coca Cola ) would benefit a shorter trip, and red ( Pepsi ) would benefit a medium trip. Since my trip is 15 days long, I decided to choose Pepsi. But I wasn’t just able to stumble upon this graph so I should explain my steps to this final product. I started with the equation y=mx+b. I then took the information about what costs were on which days ( in the black in the photo below ) and I graphed them on the graph above. Once I had finished graphing the costs, I needed to find the slope. To find the slope you must divide rise buy run. Rise is the amount that changes vertically from point a to point b, and run is the amount that changes horizontally from point  a to point b. Now that I had the rise and run, I divided and I received my slope, or m in the equation above. The rest of the equation just fell into place after replace the variables with the information I had received. If you want to dive deeper into the mathematics of this the photo below is all my work on this question.

Anyways  thanks for reading my trip outline and I hope you enjoyed my illest road trip!

adlih