Just recently we had our first Destination Imagination, and it was a bit of an DIsappointment. It was a shame because we had done a decent amount of work before the tournament but our machine still felt lacklustre. We had very simplistic machine modules, and it didn’t look the best, as we didn’t put much time to painting it. But after some work the night before, the machine looked like it was going to work as intended. The day of the tournament was not that bad, as we had had lots of time in between our instant challenge and our actual machine presentation to practice our story and presentation. Our instant challenge wasn’t that bad, however I am not able to talk about it until may, so I will not go in depth about that, but I will say that it did require our team to work together the entire time, and let each person contribute.

 After our instant challenge we had 3 hours till our main challenge. During that time, we practiced our presentation, which gave each person a roll. Our entire machine was themed off of Mario, where our script, our art on the machine, and our props were all Mario themed. The actual creation of our machine started right after the winter break, where we started both the creation of the story, and the creation of the machine. I mostly worked on the machine at the beginning of this project, where I tried to make a story based off of Mario without blatantly copying it. After I had finish the story, I revised it, and the with the help of Logan and Izzy, who also worked on the story, and props, we then transferred the story to our script which would be used during the presentation. After we had created the script we started working on props/ our team choice elements. 

Our team choice elements, was the painting of our props and machine, and our recreation of the Mario theme. I worked on the Mario theme, using a keyboard in GarageBand, to record and play my version of the song. The other team choice element was the painting of our things. Some of our props,/ things that we painted were the actual machine, after the completion of it, and some of our props like the turtle we created and Mario style mushrooms. I think that some parts of our machine and some costumes could use some improvement. All thing considered it was a quite good start for DI, and I hope that the next presentation goes better.

Until next post,

Jannik