Final Project

During this project, I learned a lot about my family. I really focused on our race, because I think that it's a really interesting combination. One thing I learned about my family (in my Prezi, atleast) is that I get the same racial combination from both sides of my family, plus a little bit of Korean. I knew that I was part Scottish/Irish, English/Brittish, and a little Korean, but I didn't know that I got all but the Korean parts from both sides of my family. It's roughly the same percentage from both sides, too. I thought that was really cool! I also got to learn more about how both of my families came to America and that was really cool. Overall, I enjoyed doing this project!

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Interview 2

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Family Tree

November 24, 2014

What are you doing for Thanksgiving? Do you have any traditions? Go in to detail about your plans for the 5 day weekend.

This year we're doing things a little different. Since we moved here about three years ago, we've started figuring out what traditions we're going to start for Thanksgiving. We used to just have a nuclear family celebration, so just my siblings and parents, because we lived so far away from the rest of my family. Well now that we're a lot closer to my grandparents and cousins, we started alternating whose house we have Thanksgiving dinner at and what we do for Thanksgiving. This year, it's my grandparents from my mom's side's turn to host Thanksgiving, so we're going to Branson, MO, for a few days and we'll probably go to Silver Dollar City for a little bit. It'll be really crowded from all of the vacationers, but we'll go anyways. We go to Branson frequently, especially when it's warm because my grandparents live right on Table Rock Lake, but the only times we ever go to Silver Dollar City is in the winter when it's freezing cold outside for whatever reason. I'm excited to go back to SDC because if we didn't, we would probably go to another comedy show that they have on the strip, and we don't really think they're that funny. In fact, I don't even know why we keep going to these shows because we all pretty much hate them. So it'll be good to shake things up a little this year!

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November 19, 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.

I would work on my camera angles and lighting. I noticed that my pictures were slanted at different degrees in almost every picture. If I could do it over again, I would pick a different way to angle my camera to ensure that the angle stays the same for every picture, so maybe on top of the locker pod or the tables or on the floor even. Attaching it to the back of a chair wasn't really a great idea, but it worked fine. I would also find out why the camera changed lighting in a couple of frames. That kind of irritated me, but I didn't notice it until I uploaded them and watched the whole stop motion. I think my idea was good enough and simple enough to play out, but if I could do it again (especially after seeing how cool some other peoples' stop motions turned out) I would probably do something simpler, like moving skittles out of the bag and arranging them in cool ways or some sort of food item dancing or something easier to work with and arrange than people.

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November 17, 2014

Tell me about your weekend.

This weekend was pretty uneventful. I just hung out with my sister all weekend which is pretty awesome because I never really see her. I went to my friend's birthday party on Friday night for a couple of hours and then I met up with my sister and watched Pitch Perfect. On Saturday, I slept in for the first time in forever which was probably the highlight of my weekend. I also went to church Saturday night with my family, went to the gym with my sister afterwards, then watched Pitch Perfect again. Then Sunday I did homework the whole day, went to youth group, then watched Pitch Perfect again. As you can tell, I really love that movie because it's freaking hilarious. 

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November 14, 2014

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.

Well the main problem I ran into was figuring out a good story line. We just kind of went with whatever, and it turned out pretty funny. I had trouble getting the camera angle to stay the same. I set up the tripod on the back of a chair, but it seemed to tilt every so often so it was kind of crooked with different angles the whole time. If I could change anything, it would be getting my camera to stay the same straight angle through the whole story.

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November 11, 2014

What is your idea? How is your idea innovative and creative? How are you going to execute your idea?

I'm not sure what exactly I'm going to do my stop motion animation on, but I plan to make one on some sort of inanimate object moving or doing something that it doesn't usually do, like a pair of shoes wandering the halls or some sort of food piling itself in a bowl. I plan to take my pictures either in class today if I get it down to one idea, or at home with my dad's tripod that I think he still has. I will probably finish it today if I get down to one idea.

November 10th, 2014

What is stop motion animation? If you don't know, look it up! Explain.

Stop motion is when you take a bunch of pictures with little changes in position in between each picture. When the pictures are played together really fast, it looks like a movie with fluid movements, just like a video would look. Even though there are several frames, it looks like it's all one moving picture. It usually consists of several frames played quickly with minor changes between each frame. This was how movies were made back in the day. This is usually common with things like clay models or legos.

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