Rules for commenting on my blog

These are the rules for my blog, please follow them the best you can, as I would love to see the binary comments! Here’s a link to an english to binary translater, if you would like to use it!

The next step of the task was to visit other students blogs and see what their rules for commenting are, and see if you could follow them and create a helpful comment! The comment I chose to create is on Ty’s blog. The rules for  commenting on Ty’s blog were very direct and easy to follow. This is my comment on Ty’s blog.

I think by commenting on a blog I will create a first hand learning connection for both the creator and the commenter.

Thanks so much for reading, and please feel free to leave a comment!

Adlih

More Happy Than Not trailer!

Trailers, or Failures?

In humanities 10 recently we’ve been working on book trailers on the books we chose in class. My group consisted of Luca O, Isabelle, Melika, Logan, and Kailey. The book that we read was More Happy Than Not. More Happy is a book about a boy named Aaron, who grew up in the Bronx and finds out he’s gay, and his father kills him self. The boy undergoes a surgery to make his mind forget about himself being gay, but yet he still remembers. The story is really interesting and would totally recommend reading it!

Adam Silvera (the author) with his book

 For our trailers our first step was to pick what we wanted to film and the shape that we wanted it to undertake. We picked a whole bunch of quotes from the book and figured out which ones worked best, and where they would be placed throughout the trailer. We chose to go with a more romantic-ish kind of action trailer, so it was pretty fast paced and we needed quick quotes.

Our next step was to story board the shots that we wanted, and figure out which day worked out the best for filming. We figured out who would play which character and then used our time wisely to film in class shots during class time. After we thought we had all the footage, I took it together and created a rough draft, of our trailer. It looked good but it was missing something, music.

We had thought a lot about music because when you watch a trailer the music really sticks with you after the trailer is done, and so music is super important. This is where Luca comes in. He wrote and sang his own song for our trailer. It’s called Not With Out Problems, and it fit perfectly with the theme of our trailer. It really tied the whole thing together, and made everything fit.

This is our first draft

We watched them in class and figured out what we had to edit and change for them to look nicer and more composed. Every bodies looked really good and I was really happy with the turnout. Our feedback from the class was pretty positive, all we had to change was the voice over and the quotes. (We needed to make them shorter). I re-edited the video and came up with our present day trailer, I hope you like it and I hope it makes you want to watch more! 

My live event

For my recent filming and attendance of a live action event for maker, I chose a trip to Gastown with my friends, Luca, Isabelle, Celina, Melika and Maggie. (Most of them have blogs and I hope you go an visit them!) The criteria for this event was basically to catch all the footage you could, make sure you got an interview, time lapse clips, slow motion clips, use freeze frames and the ken burns affect on still photographs and, well thats it!

To start my project I made an action plan. An action plan is a list of all the shots you might want to take, since its a live event and you can’t recreate any certain shots. The action plan helped me put all of my ideas into a chart so I wouldn’t be worrying about it in the moment. 

The next step I took was actually filming the live event. The whole night I had my camera out and on. I was filming everything! I didn’t really look at the shape of the clips till later but in the end I was pretty happy at the quality and mass of film, and I felt that I could easily shape the clips into a story. Only one problem, since there was so much film (over 15 mins) it took a while to select which ones could be used and which part. When the first edit was done, I took the video into Vont, a font app that helps with unique titles. I put little tittles on the interviews, for when the audience watches they can tell what the question that was being asked is.

We watched the videos in class the next day, and we found certain things in our own videos that we wanted to change, shape, or just completely remove. We wrote out 3 points that we wanted to change about our videos and got to work.

 

In my final edit I added freeze frames on the interview so you could tell who is speaking. I also layered the interview so that you wouldn’t get bored while watching and it ties the interview back to the story. 

I hope you like the video and have a good rest of your day!

Solar panels and ethical housing

Recently in scimatics 9 we have been working on creating a solar powered structure, these solar powered structures need to be equipped with a purpose and a lot of mathematics. We started with a destination which we chose Kharga Egypt,

and we then had to figure out the angle of the sun, and the different angles of the solar panel.

We used our knowledge in SOH CAH TOA to complete the math and then we put the angles on to our structure, which was a shipping container turned ethical housing development!

In the end we learned a lot about different angles in a real world way! This is the video we created to explain some of the steps we want through while creating this idea! Hope you enjoy!

Recreate and appreciate, or fixate?…

In maker 10 we’ve recently been remaking videos about humour. I’m just going to tell you guys about our process and how they all turned out.

We started this project by talking about humour, and what makes certain people laugh. We talked in class about the serendipities of humour and the scripted versions of it. Ms. Willemse tasked us with the job of making a video that can make us laugh. Thank god we did not have to show these to the rest of the class, because we also had to make them in 5 minutes. This is a practice of unplanned humour. This is the video I created if you would like to watch it!

I am not gifted with the instant humour, but I did learn that a bit of planning never hurt the final product. So knowing this we were tasked with the job of recreating a video that Ms. Willemse found funny, and it was the perfect length.

My group was Kailey and Lucas, but the film consisted of 2 boys, so we had to pick up another character. I made the crazy idea to cast Kai as our second guy. In class we figured out the filming logistics, and picked which day would work for filming and we got all of our costumes figured out. We used our class time to film and got some of the shots done early, but for the main scenes we left them till the end and, well we payed for that. 

We decided to film in the strathcona park because it looked a lot like the actual scenery in the video. I struggled through filming, and took it home to edit it. Kai’s group also needed the footage that we had shot, so I had to send them all of the clips that I had taken. I did the editing and lucas added the sound affects and music to the video. 

The video turned out quite nice and I thought that the scenes were pretty accurate. Here’s our first video, it is a recreation of this video.

After we had created it and showed them to the class, we got our next assignment.

For our second project we had to take a bunch more steps to see if we understood the video, also if we can recreate it to the full potential it will be much nicer. We had to make a storyboard, a story spine, and a screen play. We divided the work up between our group and got it done really quickly.

 

The next step was to talk with your group about props and times that worked well for each of us. Since the movie was filmed in a small room with a basic couch we had to use my house and so we got together and picked a day that would work for all of us.

 

I totally forgot to charge my camera for filming so that was the first mistake and it really affected our final project because we had to use an iPad for the rest of the shots because I didnt have a back up. The rest of the video went by smoothly, lucas had some great acting and we solved more problems than we faced so it went pretty well. I decided to give Kailey the  opportunity to lead and complete the editing, because I had filmed and Lucas had acted. The video turned out amazing and I was really happy with the final project.

This is our recreation video number 2

In the end I learned a lot about filming and angles and I think all of this will come in handy in the future!

Thanks for reading

Adlih