11/24/14

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.

This Glorious 5 day weekend I am going to do absolutely nothing except for partake in the time tested tradition of eating my own body weight in turkey and stuffing or until I pass out from the sheer bliss of eating turkey while being away from school for 5 days.

http://www.politicalgarbagechute.com/instead-of-fake-pardoning-a-turkey-this-year/

11/19/14

Blog Post of the Day:
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.

In my reflection of my stop motion animation movie project I felt as if I did a swell job, although there are a few thing that, looking back, I wish I could have changed. First of all I would have picked up the pace of my video and made it shorter because--out of the feedback that I recieved--that was the number one complaint that most people had on my video. Also, I would have took more time and held the camera in a more constant position, whilst also focusing better on every picture.

11/17/14

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

This weekend I spent most of my time keeping a watchful eye of my younger siblings while my parents were not home. I hung out with my friends and the Blue Valley football team lost so now they are out of the playoffs and done for the season.

11/14/14

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 personal experience of taking my stop motion animation photos was very invigorating to say the least. I didn't run into many problems, but what I found most difficult was getting the lighting just right for my photos. There is nothing I would change, as of now, with my photos because I worked rigorously hard, and kept an excruciatingly, diligent mindset whilst working on this project.

11/11/14

My ideas for a stop motion animation video are very innovative and creative. However, I have yet to choose a concrete idea. My heart is torn between a multitude of different possibilities for this project. First I was thinking that I could use some of the legos at my house to create a story of legos moving/building on their own. Although, some other ideas come to mind like scenes that involve people doing impossible things like jumping excessively high or far. These are only a couple of my unprecidented ideas on the stop-motion animation project.


http://collider.com/comic-con-the-lego-movie-panel-recap/

11/10/14

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

Stop Motion Animation is an animation technique that uses material like clay or even legos to create a moving scene with inanimate objects. This is possible by taking a picture of an object in one position an slightly adjusting it in following pictures until you can put them all together in one scene.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/thelegomovie/

5 Frame Storyboard

The Story of My School Day

 Arrival

 Team Sports in the Wrestling Room

Emerging Technologies

  Math

Field Biology/End of the Day

11/5/14

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 five frame story is the journey of my studious school day. This story follows my well rounded agenda that takes place during an average school day. My story will show my hardworking self face the challenges of Blue Valley High School's senior class. The Beginning shows my arrival to school and progresses through my school day from team sports, to math class and eventually even field biology. 

11/4/14

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.

My photos where taken with my phone, most of which at the school. However, there were a few taken at my house, for example the one taken of my little brother Nick. The way chose these photos was fairly random, although they were most likely the best ones that I edited on photoshop. The five pictures I chose were a close up of a friends blue shirt, a medium shot of something significant--my little brother, a close up of my eye, a medium shot of someone seated--Nick Allen, and a long shot of someone waving--Mrs. Scheuereman. This is a wide variety of the types of photos that we were assigned to take.

11/4/14 Before and After Pictures

11/3/14

Blog Post:
This weekend was a fairly eventful weekend, I was admitted to Kansas State University for the Fall 2015 academic semester. On a more important note I played soccer at Stanley Elementary with my boys, some of which are the 2014 XC Kansas 6A State Champions. In this intense game of hard fought will and determination my squad proved victorious due to my lock down defense--I was a metaphorical Rock in goal--and the astounding offence provided by the rest of dem'boys. Shortly thereafter we celebrated with a much need Quick Trip run, during which I through out all regards of decency and purchased not one but TWO toquitos. That sums up my fantastic, yet slightly sophomoric, weekend.

http://www.kickingworld.com/meet-matt-mccrane-k-states-future-kicker/