Who do you think you are?

For the final, we were asked to research our family tree and find out more information about our family. To complete this task the first thing I did was interview my Grandpa on my Mom's side to find out more about our family from Italy. Here's the link to the interview with him
Interview with Grandpa

I then interviewed my Grandma on my Dad's side to find out more about my family from Czechoslovakia. Here's the link to the interview with her
Interview with Grandma
By using the information I gained from the interviews I began creating a family tree on family echo, here's the link to that
Family Tree on Family Echo
Then I emailed my dad to let him know what I was doing and to ask for help to gain information and pictures. Here is the link to that
Email about project
After that I created my infographic using the information from my interview with my Grandpa. I decided to create my infographic all about my family tree on my Mom's side and all about my family from Italy. After doing the infographic I created a prezi all about my family on my Dad's side

 

11/24

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

Since my parents are divorced one year I'm with my dad and the next I'm with my mom. When I'm with my mom my whole family on that side including my aunts, uncles, and cousins go to Branson, Missouri and stay at Big Cedar and then go to Silver Dollar City the day after Thanksgiving. When I'm with my dad we normally go to my aunts and then that night we go to the plaza light ceremony which is always really fun to say. This year I'll probably go ice skating with friends on Tuesday and then on Wednesday it is my dad's birthday so we will probably go out to dinner. On Thanksgiving we normally go to my aunt's house around noon and eat lunch and then watch football  and then at night we will head down to see the plaza lights. Hopefully this Friday I'll go Black Friday shopping because I've never been and I've always wanted to experience it. Then on Saturday every year we always put up all our Christmas decorations at my dads and watch the movie Elf and then on Sunday we put up our Christmas decorations at my moms. I always look forward to the long weekend. 

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11/19

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 would definitely change the location of here I did my video even though it had really good lighting  the backdrop looked really really dirty so it made my video look bad, instead I would put a white poster board for the background. I also would use a tripod to make camera stable so that way all the pictures would look the same and hands wouldn't be in the pictures. I liked my idea because it was fun doing it and I think I manage my time pretty well so it turned out pretty good in my opinion. 
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11/17

Tell me about your weekend.

I had a pretty good weekend, on Friday I went to a friends until I babysat my neighbors. On Saturday I went to Catherine's house and then we went to the cheer competition with some other friends. The cheer competition was really fun because I got to see people I'm friends with from other schools and Blue Valley did really good! After that I went to my six year old sister's first competitive gymnastics competition which was really cool to see because when my sister wasn't competing I watched the higher levels. On Sunday I celebrated my Grandpa's 70th birthday party by going to brunch with my whole family at Gas Light Grill. After that, I went to a friend's to study for my math test and then I went out to dinner at Kyoto's to celebrate my birthday early with my dad and some friends because my dad is going to be gone on my actual birthday. 

 

11/14

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.

My design for my stop-motion pictures was quite easy so it made my process easier but it ended up taking a lot longer because I had to place every single skittle down one by one and take a picture but luckily I had people helping me so they placed the skittle and I took the picture. I think I would use a tripod next time to take the pictures so then I wouldn't have to hold my phone the whole entire time because after awhile I got really tired after awhile. 

11/10

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

Stop motion animation is a technique to make objects look like they are moving. This is mainly used in claymation and puppet animation. They appear like they are moving because the movement is broken up into different increments so they can be filmed by an individual frame. One of the best movies that use stop motion animation is The Nightmare Before Christmas. 

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5 Frame Storyboard