So much has happened! As in, I finished my Rube Goldberg. Sure, there were some troublesome difficulties, like Imovie and the goal post, but overall everything went smoothly. And after 3 hours of work I had a finished video. So, how did I do it?
Well, first Dad and I needed to get the catapult fully set up. Sure, it could fling a tennis ball, but we wanted to trigger it, with string. So, first we tied string around the body of the catapult, but then we realised, we didn’t know how to trigger it. Cutting it wouldn’t work, the string wasn’t sturdy enough to tie to anything. So after some heated brainstorming, Dad and I decided to trigger it with our hands. Then, to make the goal, we thought we should use paper towel rolls, but we ended up using water bottles with a sign that said GOAL taped to them. Then we were ready to test…
It was a fail. First our problem was that the ball kept skipping over our barriers, so we had to make them way taller, almost tripling their size, with the help of cardboard. After that our problem was the tennis ball didn’t have enough momentum to knock over the dominoes, so we added more dominoes closer to the tennis ball. As a creative idea, Dad tried to get a punching bag owl in the Rube Goldberg, but that didn’t work out. So, after some innovative ideas, and a few annoying problems, we were ready to try it out.
SNAP went the the string. The catapult flung the tennis ball into the box, down the ramp, and into another tennis ball. Then, the tennis ball knocked into another tennis ball, which knocked into some dominoes, knocking into some Jenga pieces, which knocked the ball into the goal. YES! I had completed my Rube Goldberg. Now it was time to put together a video.
To put together my video, I would not only need my clip, but some old diagrams, and few fails. The fails would come from Dad’s phone, and Claire’s Ipad. I knew that there were a few diagrams in my room. Then, Dad and I worked together to get the clips on Imovie. Then, to get the diagrams onto my computer, we had to scan them. Then Dad said “Nate, I want you to put together the video.” As, I dragged down my first title screen, I thought, Let’s do this!
First I was going to talk about how my first design failed. I used combination of titles, classy transitions, one of my design scan, and some of the fails from Claire’s ipad. I was feeling confident, but the most exciting part was yet to come. Making the part with my finished Rube Goldberg clip. To start I took one of the fails, and sandwiched it between a design scan, and two fancy titles. For the middle of the section, I glued my successful clip in between to titles, and added some stylish transitions.
Now, that my video was finished, it was time to send it to Ms. Boyer. But I didn’t know to send an Imovie, so I asked Dad. He said that I needed to export the video. First, I tried exporting in with the share function, but that just put it in some place called the “theater”. So, then I tried the share tab in Imovie, and successfully pulled up an email. As I typed in Ms. Boyer’s email address and moved the mouse over to hit send, I thought What an amazing unit. Then, CLICK, I sent the email.
My Rube Goldberg Movie