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November 24th, 2014

What are you doing for Thanksgiving? Do you have any traditions? Go in to detail about your plans for the 5 day weekend.

For my five day weekend I will be staying in town instead of going to Iowa like normal. The Dowlings invited us to come and have dinner with them. So now I am staying in town and am going to get a bow and arrow for hunting. All of these weekdays I don't have planned out but I am guessing that I will go over to friends and maybe go deer hunting. This last weekend marked the end of rifle season and this weekend will be antlerless deer hunting so I may go up to Missouri for a weekend. I got my first deer this weekend and it was my dads first time hunting so I had to teach him all I knew and that was interesting. I'm happy to say that I am hooked in this hobby and will be hunting more often.

November 19th, 2014

Reflecting on the comments and grade of your stop-motion animation... what you would do differently if you had to do it all over again? Would you manage your time better? Find better lighting for your photos? Come up with a better idea? Explain what you would change about your video.

I honestly think that the score I received is unfair because Boushka over here had about 100 pictures going at one frame a second while mine was well over 300 pictures with multiple different settings and ideas involved. I would probably do the exact same thing but I think it is also unfair that our teacher skimmed over everyone for about thirty seconds then moved on. All this effort was valued in little time which was in my opinion a poor way to grade. My time management was fine and I thought the pictures all had even amounts of light throughout. Also my pictures were taken partially on the move to make a better effect on the outcome and were not very jumpy for the extent that I used them but I guess that is not what the rubric states. I guess if I were to change something it would be to include more "stationary" shots and to tell a story.

November 17th, 2014

Tell me about your weekend.

This weekend on Friday night I went to see the movie Interstellar with one of my friends who goes to Rockhurst and a few other people. It had a pretty good story behind it and everything came together at the end. Although there were some plot holes and the movie was about three hours long. Then Saturday I slept in not realizing what time it was because it was dark outside and I looked at my phone and it was 12:15. Then some of my friends called and we played PC for an hour or so. Then I rearranged all my furniture. On Sunday I went to the Chiefs game and it was very well. Seeing Jamal Charles play against the Seattle defense he killed it. Also Lynch was bigger then I thought and just trucked through tons of D linemen. He was huge but not very fast and it was close until the lat minute when Chiefs stopped the final drive.

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November 10th, 2014

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

Stop motion animation is the ability to make a video out of tons of pictures that have little movement in between. It is a form of animation that requires lots of time and effort to make the objects look smooth and have the transitions look smooth. The final project can be good and these types of movies tend to have higher amounts of respect considering the effort to make them. 

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5 Frame Storyboard

November 5th, 2014

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. 

For my five frame story board it is about Ryan Peterson and eating a banana for lunch. The plot is he wants to eat the banana but it falls on the floor and he can't eat it. My story is creative because I don't think anyone else would come up with this idea. The beginning is Ryan looks into his lunchbox and searches for some food. He finds his only source, a banana. So he takes it out of the peel and accidentally drops it on the floor! now his life is over and that's the end.