December 8, 2010

Today, I finished the Design Brief section for our evaluation. I also started to work on the Evaluation Document. I tried to help Lillie on shaving off some seconds of our video. It is too long and I am afraid we might get a bad grade. We had some problems and needed Mr. Staffle's help and it was kind of hard.

December 6, 2010 Process Log

Today in tech class, Mr. Staffle explained what we needed to do today. It was a lot of things. We had a couple of problems. One was that our stop motion animation is forty four seconds long and it is supposed to be twenty seconds long. We are all afraid that we will get a bad grade for it being too long. Lillie and I shaved off four seconds of the video, but we will need to find a way to make it even shorter. We are going to delete un necessary pictures. I helped work on retyping a design brief and got it almost all the way finished. We have a sheet for homework and I hope I can get it finished.

December 2, 2010 Process Log

Today in tech-ed, we had a couple problems. One of which was that our camera would not turn on, so I replaced the batteries and it worked. I had to take all of the pictures today because that was the roll I was assigned. Towards the end of taking pictures, the camera would make the pictures look white and blurry. Molly helped us fix the camera. You can add music, voice, and some other things too. I am excited because I am ready to get this video done. I think it will turn out great, but we are not near being finished with taking photos. Molly, Greta, Lillie, and I are going to stay after school because we really need to finish taking photos. I am kind of scared because I am worried that my group and I won't get enough pictures to make 20 seconds worth of video. We only have about 70 pictures and we need about 400 pictures. Next class period, I am going to try and stay more on task and hopefully our video will turn out okay.

November 30, 2010 Process Log

Today in tech-ed class, Lillie, Greta, and I tried to take pictures for our stop motion animation video. We had a pretty bad day because we had to wait for about five minutes to get our camera, then Shukri accidentally signed off on our camera so we had to wait for her, then our camera died. I went down to the library to get new batteries and that took a while. After that, our camera would have a powerful flash, so we tried to turn off the flash, but didn't know how. We barley got any pictures taken. The pictures were either blurry or too bright. Next class, I think we should try and turn off the camera flash and maybe zoom out a little bit, so it won't be blurry. At the end of the day, we started to get things straightened and it ended up a little better then I though it would. One more problem is that our tripod  you become loose or crooked. I hope next time it will go better and that we can get more shots taken.

November 23, 2010 Process Log

Today, Molly, Lillie, Greta, and I filmed about maybe 40 pictures. We would have been able to film more, but we had a shorter class and one of our characters kept falling down. We taped its feet to the ground so it would stand up and it worked. Some of the pictures either turned out blurry or shiny, so we had to erase them and take a different one. Also, we had some trouble getting the camera to focus, so we either zoomed out or just took the picture and it turned out better. Next class, I am going to try and make sure all the props are stable before we start shooting. I am also going to make sure the camera is focused and that it is not crooked. I am very positive that our video will turn out very good and cute.

November 19, 2010 Process Log

Today in tech ed class, Molly, Greta, and I all helped take pictures for our stop motion animation. We had a problem standing up our wire character, so we taped her feet to the box. Also, we made some final touches to props. We helped Lillie create some of our bibliography. During shooting, we had a problem with a character being shiny so we zoomed the camera out a little bit. The alphabet border kept falling down so we taped the back of it to the box. I am excited to finish our video. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that we had to take pictures for our teacher.

November. 15, 2010 Process Log

Today, Molly, Greta, and I finished our prop box. I set up where each character should go and to make each prop stable and be able to stand up without falling. I helped Molly hot glue some objects to desk and I glued a small poster to the classroom wall. I thought of a problem that some of the characters are shiny and might have a reflection, so Greta and I tried to cover them up with felt clothes. It didn't quite work as well as we hoped it would, so we gave up. On Wednesday, we are going to start filming. Maybe I can make some characters at home that aren't as shiny. Okay wish our group luck on the filming.