Music Video

This week in computer tech class we were asked to make a “Music Video” however we like! I will be talking about Griffin Kong’s video or “Gk Music Video”. To start off I will be talking about what I liked about the project, I particularly liked how catchy the song was and how it matched with the background. It sounded like farm music which fit the background because the background was a farm. I also liked the 4 chicks walking and dancing, I felt like chicks also matched the farm environment this project had. Next I will be talking about what I liked in the animation! In the animation I rly liked how the chicks were walking and dancing perfectly synced with each other. It really made everything feel even and very smooth. I thought the music really matched the chicks movements and that made it much more fun to watch than  if the music didn’t match the chicks movement. Lastly I am going to talk about what I liked in the soundtrack! As I previously said, I like how the soundtrack is catchy and fits the movement of the chicks and fits the environment. However, I also enjoyed the song itself not just for how well it matches with the project but it really wanted to make you dance! Whenever you find songs like those you know it’s a good one.

About Me Project and Programming 201

This week in computer/ tech class we had to create an About Me project and practice are Tynker skills. In this blog post I’m going to talk about those two things, while practicing Programming 201 I completed activity’s that were about making your character do things like getting my character around objects and reaching certain points. The main reason I like Tynker is because there are many possibilities and you can be very creative with it. It’s almost like your own world you can control. I also think that sometimes it can be difficult to understand how all the different coding blocks work together but for the most part it is pretty well organized. One of the things I learned to do in Tynker is to program a character to do something after it gets touched, I though that was pretty cool.

Moving on to the About me project, I put a Christmas tree and candy cane to represent how much I like Christmas. I made them play festive music and sound effects when they got touched! I also included a picture of a Basketball spinning another basketball on it’s finger, this represented how much I love basketball. I made it so when the basketball is touched it makes a splash sound like a ball going through a net. I also put a picture of chicken wings that played happy music when touched to show how much I love chicken wings. I often used the block “When actor touched” to code. I incorporated that block from Programming 201 where we learned how to code with that block. I thought my project was super cool and I hope you do too!

Computer Science is Changing Everything

In the video, I was very interested in the company Brett worked for. I noticed that the company he worked for (0Power) was made to save energy and I wanted to learn more. Some of the questions I had were, “Does 0Power only save energy from particular things?”, “Is the company very well known?”, “Are there a lot of other companies competing with them to be the most well known energy saving company?”, and “Do there products run off of solar power?”. In addition to those questions, after Brett told us that 0Power had saved the energy of about 1.1 million cars, I had a few questions. I was wondering how much he thought that saved energy impacted the world? And also, did that energy get stored or go to other use? If it went to other use, what was it used for? I think it is amazing how computer science is allowing people to make products like these and I hope it continues to impact our world in a great way!