Month: April 2019
blog post number five – final product
Since we did the immigrant interview. We were assigned to make a Spark Video of it. The Spark Video is supposed to be a story told about the immigrant. We were supposed to use narration, text and photos. My teacher said if we have no text on the slide, and just have voice recording then we have to at least have a photo. For the voice recording for the video I had to listen to the actual video to get it together.
The video had to be three minutes long minimum with some what like 20 slides. In Spark Video you can use something called a theme. I picked the” focus” one.
It was easier than I thought to do the slides. I had to find a specific picture that connected with my voiceover. Overall, I am having fun doing the immigrant slide show for Spark Video.
This is a YoutTube video of my Spark Video.
Immagrant blog post #3 – The interview
Before I did my interview I was a little bit nervous. I was nervous becasue I wasn’t confident the video was going to turn out well. For the interview I factimed my grandfather with my mothers phone and I took the video with my phone. I was ready because I had all of my questions ready. When I started the call I became a little more confident as the time passed. The video was supposed to be no more than five minutes long, but I accidentaly made it eight.
When I called my grandfather on my moms phone he picked up right away. I got butterflies in my stomach. So I said the first question. “1 Why did you leave your country?” I thought his answer was pretty good. But when my grandfather said something I didn’t prefer for him to say I cringed. At the end of the eight minute video I was super satisfied. I thought the whole video turned out very good. And I gave a big thanks to my grandfather. I am going to be super excited to put the interview video into spark video.
Blog post number 2 – Spark Video
We make our interview into a video and then put our interview video into a website called Spark Video. Spark Video is a really cool and easy website to make slideshows and more. Before we put our interview video into Spark Video we did a practice video about Rube Goldberg. Which was one of our earlier projects. For our practice Rube Goldberg slideshow we were assigned to make a 10 slide video. We put in pictures and text. Mr. Casal showed us a lot we could do with Spark Video and I was excited to try it out.
Mr. Casal showed us voice recorder which I thought was something really cool that I wanted to use. In my first slide for my Rube Goldberg I wrote This is my Rube Goldberg slideshow for an intro. I kept on working on my slides putting pictures and text. Eventually Mr. Casal showed us something called a post. A post is basically a slide but you can explore and add much more. I made a post and put it in my 8th slide. I am really excited for my next Spark Video slideshow.
Writing the Immigrant Interview Questions – Interview #1
In 5th grade we do an immigrant project. We choose someone to do an interview on about. We choose 10 to 15 questions to ask our immigrant. The questions are immigrant related so that’s why we chose an immigrant. I chose to do 12 questions. There had to be at least 10 green light questions. A green light question is where the answer has to be a full sentence. A red light question is where the question is an only one word answer. I am going to interview my grandfather who immigrated from Hungary. For the interview I am going to call him.
I got a sheet of paper where some questions were. So I used some of the questions on the paper for my interview questions. This is a link to my Interview Questions.
Those were all of my questions that I am going to use for my interview. I am very excited for the interview. I wonder what he is going to answer.