In class for a long time we did a Star Wars unit, it was awesome just because instead of learning something boring and getting zoned out during class I actually have something that’s fun and I’m wanting to learn and not counting down the minuets till class ended. This was all leading up to the last day of school before winter break where we were going to see “Star Wars the Force Awakens”. Everybody was super excited, but before that we had to do a “Mini Blue Sky Project” that had to be based on Star Wars. Again it made learning so much easier with the subject on something that I already love. My teachers gave us a sheet to fill out that stated what our project was going to be on and you had to fill out everything and if there was something that you couldn’t awenser you would have to make your question more complex.(I had to do that, it wasn’t fun.) I chose how did they create the blaster sound and can I re-create Han Solos Blaster sound.
I finished it and everything was good but now I had to start it. My project was one where I might not be able to fully answer the question because all my project is just experimenting. At first when I started I just got the information of all the other sounds and it was all pretty interesting. Ben Burtt (Sound Creator for Star Wars) is pretty creative when it comes to making the sounds and some of the ways he created the sounds were by accident. I made the page that I was working on interesting with pictures just to spice it up a bit.
A lot of pages right. Although I still had to see if I could re-create Han Solos blaster sound. One weekend I decided to go out with my dad to try and make the sound and hit things with a hammer, but I never found the right sound. I searched for it all over Deep Cove, just couldn’t quite find the right sound, but I got excellent video of me hitting things around Deep Cove.
When we got close to the end my teacher put us into groups with similar projects for the exhibition on the second to last day. To make it feel more like Star Wars our group was assigned a planet, ours was Hoth. We had to make it look like Hoth, have some food/drink, ours was “Hoth chocolate” with storm trooper marshmallows. We also had to have some entertainment like a game so I came up with pin the arm on th wampa. I didn’t know what the whole place looked like because I had on a plane early in the morning to go to Puerto Rico. I didn’t see the movie until the Sunday before school started (It was awesome I highly recommend it.) That was our awesome Star Wars unit that I got to do and I hope that there are more units that are close to being as good as that just because i don’t think it can get much better then that.