Month: April 2017

Capstone #1: Choosing A Topic

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Alright, first off I thought Aviation. When we were told to brainstorm about choosing topics for Capstone my mind went crazy. I thought, aviation, aviation and aviation. Ms. Boyer told us that we had to have a questions for our Capstone, It has to be one big question. I thought and thought then I got a light bulb. I raised my hand and Ms. Boyer called on me, and I said, “My question is, How has aviation improved from the past few decades.” Then after this we were sent to our seats, we brainstormed and brainstormed. I kept thinking and thinking…

Before all this happened Mr. Casal came to talk to us about Capstone and what type of “presentation” you can do, I remember the Ignite presentation and the TedTalk one. The difference between the 2 is the Ignite one had 12 slides ONLY and each slide is on for 15 seconds then It goes to the next slide. The total duration of that presentation is 3 minutes. The Tedtalk can be as long as you want, so I thought the TedTalk would be better for me.

After I got home I kept thinking and thinking further into my topic or question, “How has Aviation Improved From the past few decades?” Then I broke my topic into 2 parts, Safety and Technology. I did that because Safety and technology did improve aviation for the last few decades.

Overall, It is just beginning of this huge and exciting Capstone experience. I just choose my topic so I think now that this is just the beginning, I can’t wait for more to start!

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Stop Motion Immigration: How Is Filming And What Is Next

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We are back with stop motion immigration. We are currently, on scene 6 making much more progress daily! Since scene 4, when we all became sad and gave up, I told my group that when we add the voices and the backgrounds our video will so much better!! Ever since that we made much much more progressive.

We made so much progress and enjoyed doing it! During all the filming we have been doing we only made one mistake, in scene 5 in the train we have a lady on tape stuck to cardboard. we called it, “the fat lady”. After we moved the lady then she opened up… Meaning she turn sideways and it looked like she was opening up. It was really fun but we had to fix it.

We made a strategy. The strategy was after we filmed every scene we would say our lines as the scene goes by, but how would this help us? Well, if we couldn’t finish the script before the next scene we knew we had to extend the scene. Since we did this strategy, this actually helped us for two scenes that were way too short! My favorite scene was scene number 7. Scene number 7 was and is the only scene that actually is different from the others. Scene 7 is a train arriving at Chicago central station, people leave the train and people board the train then the train departs. I am thinking of making another train coming in so the scene could be longer because it is already too short.

After this scene comes scene 8. the final scene. Scene 8 is a neighborhood in Chicago where people will enter their homes and so on, etc. Then after this scene comes the credits. Then we are done filming! Then comes the voice overs and the backgrounds for the green screen. Then we are DONE!

I think back now and I think we have gone really far. We have been working really hard on this immigration process. I am proud of our accomplishments. We have been working really hard and getting a lot of research and a good script. So when I think back now I think we are doing AMAZING.

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Stop Motion Immigration

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We have finally began our stop motion immigration, we had to choose a topic on what part of Immigration to do, I wanted to do Hardships and Jack and Jasper wanted to do settling in America. we disagreed a lot and made a huge big deal out of something that wasn’t so big. But then we just settled on settling in America. I wasn’t happy but I got over it.

After we got that settled we have made a whole lot of progress. I wrote the script as Jack and Jasper made the storyboards and characters, and we did agree on that. We worked hard and hard and one day, suddenly in the middle of school we decided we are ready to start recording shortly after we get our green screen because we decided to do that instead of doing a toy theater. So I texted my mom to get me 2 pizza boxes. There she came and we got them and then we worked and painted it all green. All over it was green. After that we had to finish up our characters, our building and our set. We kept gathering everything and then the next day we were ready to film.

We have begun filming. We started to film on April 17, 2017. On day one we filmed scene 1 out of 8 scenes. It was basically a ship going across the green screen. The next day we had random immigrants popping all over the set and another boat going across the set. We all got board of doing the same thing over and over again. We also thought our movie was horrible and that it sucked. We had been filming for a while, we already had 21 seconds. One of my partners. said we should start over. But I said, “NO!” I thought we were too for into the movie to turn back. I thought when we have the voices and then backgrounds filled in the movie will be amazing.

And that is where we are currently on day number 3 of filming. This was the story from the beginning of this Stop Motion Immigration process.

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THE HORRIBLE KING GEORGE THE VII: PART 4

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Previously on, “The Horrible King George The VII” is “He turned the plane around and he continued the plane to the original destination; Tokyo.”

I took the plane and pulled it left, all that way! I did a 360° turn. I turned it around and thought that was Tokyo, so I held this wheely thingy and held it straight for ten minutes. Then I got bored. The clouds grew darker, as the sun disappeared. That told me it was night time, so I sat back and fell asleep.

Lewis was screaming all over the place at the airport, “Where the heck it that flight!? ITS SUPPOSED TO LAND NOW! WHAT DOES AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SAY???” He ran out of his way to the tower with the airport security, as he got to the tower he slammed the door open and said, “#%$@! WHERE IS THAT PLANE?!” One of the air traffic control workers said, “Sir if you would please ca…” “CALM DOWN!!?!? #%$@! OUR KING IS OUT THERE!!! WHERE IS THAT PLANE?! TELL ME NOW!! NOW!!!” Lewis got out of his rage and pushed one of the air traffic control workers to the ground, “TELL ME NOW!!” The air traffic control worker got up and pointed to screen, and pointed to something tha said, “BA 1437” then he said, “Lewis, that is the plane King George is on.” Lewis yelled, “WELL WHY IS IT HEADING TO TOKYO???!! IT SHOULD BE LANDING NOW!!!” The air traffic control worker responded, “Lewis, we recorded the last thing we heard, this is it, “(the captain of the plane said) Hello This Is British Airways flight 1437 we are currently… [The door slams open] (King George says) Out! Now! Or something very bad will happen! (Then the recording ends)”. Lewis looks like he is in his own world then manages to say, “Did… that boy… actually do that?” The air traffic control worker says, “It seems and he is flying the plane in that direction, the exact same as the plane was heading before.” Lewis then says in a low voice, “So King he’s heading to Tokyo, but why?” The air traffic control worker was about to say something but Lewis interrupts, “He is going to Tokyo, because he is running away from the Willows!” Lewis’s voice get louder, “Get a plane! Get a pilot! Get everything we need! We’re going to track down and find that plane!”

King George woke up to a start, he flew out of his seat to the side, then he get up. “Blimey!” he says. King George gets up and looks out the front window, seeing nothing but dark gray clouds. He says, “We’re in a storm.” The plane starts to shake. “Oh my gosh!, what is going on?! What do I do?” King George shouts, panicking. The plane starts shaking like crazy. The planes is going up and down, up and down. On one bump King George is thrown to the ground. The planes starts fly out of control. It’s now spinning and rocketing toward the ground. “HELP! HELP ME!” King George puts his hand to his head then put his hand in front of his face, his hand is covered with blood. “HELP! HELP ME! I NEED HELP!” King George screams. Then lightning is heard, BOOM. Then something shuts down. The planes starts leaning to one side.

Lewis runs into a private jet at London Heathrow, he quickly jumps in as the plane quickly skips the whole line for takeoff and takes off. Lewis opens a laptop and goes to the air traffic control screen, he goes to the search bar that says, “Track Planes” and he types in “British Airways Flight 1437” then the flight pops up, he looks amazed, he sees it is in a big danger and that it is plummeting.

King George watches as the plane flips over and then flips back upright, then BOOM! King George is sprun from his seat to the pilot seat, the controls are covered with blood, and he barely manages to breath. Then he looks with his eyes, just barely and on one plane screen it says 5,000 FT, and it drops quickly. King George then shuts his eyes and braces. Then he heard two Loud noises from the plane, “250 FT!!!” And then “PULL UP, PULL UP”.

Thank you! Hope you enjoyed!! Please comment If you’d like more!!! 🙂

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