Friday, November 15th

Here's how you will vote:

1. Create a new post on your blog.
2. Create a list of the top three people who's video you liked the best
3. Include the following information:
• Student's Name
• Video Idea
• Why you believe it is one of the best in the class
4. Submit your post to your blog

1. Claire Shafran: I thought her video was really good with the different colors and eating the muffin and I liked the music.

2. Katie Gemperli: drawing, it had a lot of pictures and a lot of details.

3. Nicole Hagel: passing notes, she took a lot of pictures with different colored posted notes and it looked cool.

Wednesday, November 13th

Journal - How did you stop motion animation turn out? If you could give it a grade, what would you give it out of 60 points? What did you learn from creating this video?

My stop motion animation video turned out pretty good, overall I would give it 55 points out of 60 because a few pictures in the video show my feet which wasn't supposed to happen. I learned that when you make a stop motion animation video, it looks so much better when you take lots and lots of pictures. Also, setting each picture to just last less than half a second is the best to make your video look like its really in motion. Overall my video turned out the way I wanted it to. 

Monday, November 11th

Journal - How far along are you on your stop motion animation? What did you do over the weekend to work on you stop motion animation? Do you have all your pictures today? Will you have all your pictures by the end of the hour? Give me a detailed updated.

I was gone over the weekend so I did not get a chance to take my pictures. I have a plan on what I want my video to look like and I have a camera to use. I'm taking my pictures tonight.

Wednesday, November 6th

Journal - What story will your storyboard tell? Explain in detail.

My storyboard will tell how to make cookies. First, you put the cookie dough in a bowl. Secondly, you spray the pan. Third, you make balls with the cookie dough and put it on the pan. Fourth, you put the cookies in the oven for 14 minutes. And lastly, you take the cookies out and eat them.

Monday, November 4th

Journal - What photo editing tool(s) have you used so far on your 5 photos project? Do you like the tool? Is it easy to use? Hard to use? What's good about it? Whats bad about it? Give a detailed review of the tool.

The photo editing tool that I used is called fotoflexer.com I really like this tool because there are many different options on how you can edit your picture. Personally I think it is easy to use because everything is organized and laid out nicely on the screen when editing a photo. You have the choice to upload a photo from your own Facebook which can help many people in the future. I don't think it is hard to use. The good thing about it is that on the top you have all the options on editing your photo and they're all laid right out on the top of the screen. I haven't found anything bad about this photo editing tool yet. 

Friday, November 1st

What are the pros and cons to photo editing? What are some examples of when photo editing is fun and appropriate? When can photo editing be inappropriate or too much?

Some pros for photo editing could be making something look better on the picture than it really is in person. For example, food or clothing. Another pro could be to improve the quality of a picture. If a nice picture that you want to keep turns out blurry or if there is red eyes in the picture, with photo editing you can easily make the picture clear and take out red eyes. A con for photo editing could be that the picture turns out with too much edit and it looks fake. For example, if a girl gets senior pictures and if they are really photo edited, it's really clear that the picture was edited to make her look better. Personally, photo editing it fun when making collages with different filters, fonts, texts, and colors. An example when photo editing can be too inappropriate is making a picture of someone look fake. Another con would be that photo shop is too strong to cover up or change something to look different in the picture.