Monday, November 17th

Tell me about your weekend.

My weekend was uneventful once again. Except for two things. I went out to IHop with my friends and ordered a bunch of coffee. We were so hyper that we started to annoy the other people, until two guys even more annoying than us came along, at which point we decided to leave. I also went to go see Fury with my dad. Fury is a war movie about a tank crew in WWII. Needless to say, at the end, everyone except the main character dies. This seems to be a reoccurring theme in war movies. Lone survivor is also an example, and Saving Private Ryan if you switch Tom hanks with Matt Damon. Everyone around him dies, including the people hes met. Its sad, but i guess its a part of the movie's realism. 

Friday, November 14th

Tell me about your experience with taking your stop-motion photos. What problems did you run in to? What did you find difficult about the process? What would you go back and change about HOW you took the photos? Explain yourself.

I had no experience with stop motion photos before this project. I was familiar with time-lapse, however, which is basically stop-motion photos, except over a long period of time. One of the problems i ran into while making my stop-motion video was the lack of M&M's that I had. I needed to go out and buy more if I wanted to complete the video. One of the things I would go back and change is the stillness of the camera that I used because i felt like it kept moving as i was taking pictures.

Monday, November 10th

What is stop motion animation? If you don't know, look it up! Explain.

Stop motion animation is when you move an inanimate object by small increments, taking a picture for every increment. This gives the viewer the impression of the object moving on its own. I always thought it was cool to look at, but realized how much time it would take to make a movie like Wallace and Gromit, and how much time you would need to have the movie be two hours. I remember how hilarious Wallace and Gromit, Curse of The Were-rabbit or something like that, was, but I couldn't imagine making something like that where you have to remake the character's face, and then take a single camera picture for a full 2 hour movie.

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November 5th

Tell me about your idea for your 5 frame story board. What is the plot? How do you plan to make the story creative? Who's the main character? What is the beginning, middle and end? Tell me about your plan of attack.

The plot is about a student at Blue Valley that battles an intruder at the school. The story is creative because the intruder is a fire breathing tiger, and the story takes place in a parallel world where monsters such as that live. The Main Character is Stephen Laidacker, and he is here to save us all with his magical red book of spells named, "Simplex". Stephen was just sitting minding his own business, when all of a sudden, a giant fire-breathing tiger comes and starts attacking the students. Stephen whips out his book, and fights the monstrosity. Tired, he goes and drinks up at the fountain before confronting the beast again. Stephen strikes the final blow and kills the beast, laughing at the end.

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Monday, November 3rd

Tell me about your weekend - details please!

I was planning to take part in "Senior skip day" on Friday, but my parents didn't want to call me in sick. Although this normally wouldn't faze me, Iv'e already had some detentions because of the school I missed, and an ISS was probably next. Come Friday, I decided that I would skip anyways, and the whole day off I played video games.  On Sunday, I went to see John Wick with my dad. We both thought the movie was fantastic. The sound and size of the I-max was great and worked so well with the loud and deep engine of his car. The bullets and bullet wounds were so realistic they almost reminded me of Lone Survivor, although the casting of Lone survivor made the movie just good overall.