November 24th 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
What are you doing for Thanksgiving? Do you have any traditions? Go in to detail about your plans for the 5 day weekend

For thanksgiving my family is eating as usual with something different than the usual turkey for thanksgiving. This year we'll probably go melting pot style again. That is boiling and eating the meat our selves in a fondue pot. We have no traditions for Thanksgiving  and we have no special plans at all for the break. We are literally just winging it.

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November 19th 2014

Reflecting on the comments and grade of your stop-motion animation... what you would do differently if you had to do it all over again? Would you manage your time better? Find better lighting for your photos? Come up with a better idea? Explain what you would change about your video.

The change I would make to my video would be first that of who was taking the pictures. The second would be that I remembered that my hat light was on while the pictures were being taken. I would also like to take more time to take more pictures. I also would like something to hold the camera still and stationary .That's all i'd change about my video, I wouldn't change the general blue fire idea though because its too cool.


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November 17th 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your weekend.

Over my weekend we did no do much because of the freezing temperature outside. The 2 things of note I did were going to see the movie interstellar, where I got into a lengthy debate over theories and black holes with my friend. The other was making a more than expectedly creepy smiling face of blue fire in my backyard for the stop animation project.

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November 14th 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your experience with taking your stop-motion photos. What problems did you run in to? What did you find difficult about the process? What would you go back and change about HOW you took the photos? Explain yourself.

My experience with stop animation picture taking was very short. I used my phones function to take a lot of photos. I however would go back and prepare more for what I took pictures of, because I took mine in a rush. However I think they are very cool with my simple yet unique idea I created a small circle of small blue flames. The problem I ran into was that I couldn't make it a continuous circle so I made a bunch of circles of fire instead. What I found was difficult was lighting the flame fast enough to take the pictures before the flame went out. I also intend to add more of these photos to the stop animation.

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November 11th 2014

For my Stop Animation project I have 2 ideas I have narrowed down to. The first is of someone finding a remote that can actually pause the world. This person will then mess with his friend in his paused state till he accidentally hits play and the friend takes revenge. My second idea is a little  weird. It involves my dogs appearing everywhere i go till eventually there chasing me in the woods and eventually corner me at the school. There they give me back the ball I threw.

November 10th 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
What is stop motion animation? If you don't know, look it up! Explain.

Stop motion is what was used to make the new box trolls movie. Its a series of tiny adjustments and picture taking to make objects appear they are moving. Its often used for older movies and generally takes a extremely long time to make one movie.

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5 Frame Storyboard

November 5th 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your idea for your 5 frame story board. What is the plot? How do you plan to make the story creative? Who's the main character? What is the beginning, middle and end? Tell me about your plan of attack.

My plot is simple, Nathan drops an eraser, and I pick it up. Then I search for him and find him, running up to him. Finally I give him back his eraser its a little improvised seeing as how i only had 10 mins to come up with and take all 5 pics.

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November 4th 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Yesterday you edited and uploaded photos to your blog. Tell me more about your photos. HOW did you edit them? Why did you choose the photos that you did? Explain your assignment.

I picked the first picture because I thought that it would look kind of cool in black and white. the second picture I choose was because it was simple and easy to do. I did think about burning his hands though. The third pic I thought looked really cool with the special eye designs  and went with red so it looked sentinalish. the fourth pic was of my seat partner and I choose this because he would not smile. The last pic I turned and made slightly more colorful and choose it because they were the only ones in the school who would smile in a picture.

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November 3rd 2014

Over my weekend which I include Halloween was very bland. on Friday I simply went to my friends house  to hang out a bit till we both went over to another friends house till 11 pm and then i came home. When I got home I took the remaining trick or treater's candy and stripped it of all recces peanut butter cups and sweet tarts remaining. On Saturday I slept in played video games for hours, then I went and shot air soft guns in the garage(the revolver shooting no powder shells would still be to loud) and sharpened my throwing and boot knives while watching the Italian Job. On Sunday I slept in and mowed lawns, then built a fire for my family in our fire pit in the backyard and we all listened to comedy central on Sirius XM.


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