Month: May 2021

Music Video

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This is my second blog of this quarter! Today, I will talk about the music video project! In this project, like we did before, we used the platform called Scratch and made a project that makes the the sprites (if you don’t know what a sprite in scratch is, click here because this website will explain what sprites are! Oh and ya… It’s a bit hard to explain here….:https://www.idtech.com/blog/what-are-scratch-sprites)move and dance! We also had to incorporate music 🎶 into our projects which was really fun to do! One of the biggest challenges I faced in the project was finding the right music. At first, to be honest, I didn’t even know where to get the loop musics from Scratch.(or as you want to call it, a bgm=background music) Luckily, I found it on myself towards the end of the class! YAY! I was really glad. Now, let’s talk about finding the right music. Well…. when it came to finding the right music, I had a bit of difficulty since there were too many of them to choose from! In the end though, I used these loops called “ Dance Magic”, “Xylo1”, and “Xylo2”, which sounded pretty good to me:) Honestly, I still have some things I want to figure out. First, I really would like to know how to turn the music down at the end of the project. When I was looking at Sam’s project, I saw that his  sprite stopped dancing after the music got quieter and quieter by each second or so, and I thought that doing that was a really good idea. Next, I would want to learn more about how to turn back the sprites from being upside down. I had to spend a long time trying to figure out, but because of the circumstances, I had to forget about it and submit my project:(…..

In the end,  something good happened. I was able to take a look at my classmates’ projects!!!!! From all the wonderful projects that were on there, I really really liked Sam’s! His music and backdrop matched perfectly and how the sprite moved made me laugh 😂! Probably the best thing was that he made the sound both bigger and quieter in the project! I hope I will be able to do that sometime though it may seem impossible…

Animate Your Name

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This is my first blog post for the 4th quarterly, Computer tech. For the first post, I will talk about the Week 4&5 project, “ Animate Your Name”. Well, you might be wondering, What in the world is that?? This is a project using this app called Scratch which is an app used for coding. In the project, I learned how to move our letters of our first name freely with sound and make them appear in a really cool way:)
At first, the project was called “ Orange square, purple circle” but we changed the project once we finished that. I incorporated an orange square and a purple cicle into my project by making them move around the whole square in circles. This idea, of course, came from my teacher, Mr. Rose. However, my own project came from my own idea. The most suprising thing that happened while making this project was that it was easier to put the broadcast code. I chose my letters font in colors of blue, white, and gold because I thought that those colors will match together really well. I inserted 4 types of music in my project and all of the music are really cool😎. I really liked Rebecca’s project as its music really matched her style and also her letters were beautifully expressed. What was most challenging about this activity was making th letters move and stop when the next letter was moving. I had a very hard time trying to figure out, therefore, today, I asked Mr. Rose for help. Then, he kindly helped me on what to do, and his advice was really helpful. Thank you Mr. Rose!