Hi Taylor,

I am sorry that Meghan was under the weather, and you both couldn’t make it today!  Gaby and I missed you and can’t wait to see you both next week. 🙂

Today, I observed Mya and Mary work on their final cut pro video project, and I picked up some new skills that will help us in doing the editing for our final project.

I am excited to record the new script and to finish the DIY (Do It Yourself) good luck star video.

Until next week,

Sarah

So, we decided to go outside because the room was so hot.  We decided what we were going to do for our video with Meghan and Gaby.  We decided to make paper stars because they’re cute.  And, then we did a test run for the video.  We decided we were going to record sitting on a bench.  So that when we were ready to record we would go over to the bench.  The first take didn’t go so well because I (Taylor) started laughing too hard.  The laughing was for a pretty good amount of time.  For five minutes I was practically dying!  I was laughing so much because we had a script and I’m a bad actor. But, the second one was better because I wasn’t laughing anymore and we decided not to do a script.  We finished recording and will do editing next week!

Today we continued finding and editing images for the final cut pro digital story.  We also did the voice recording. We just want to do final edits and then will upload the final
The Hook digital story next week.

Hi Taylor,

Sorry that you couldn’t make it today!  But, we will continue in two weeks from now, when we are back from October break (so we aren’t meeting next Tuesday, October 21!)

Today, I worked with another student, Sean, who likes drawing and animation too!  I think you two could share tips as fellow animators and how to incorporate your artistic skills in this class.  We shall see 🙂

– Sarah

What we did today:

We decided on the Halloween theme for the final cut pro story.  We looked through various stories, until we found one that we liked.  We picked “The Hook,” because of the fact that we thought the couple was going to die but they didn’t.  This was a surprising ending.  They almost did though!

Then we started finding pictures.  And, we used photoshop to enhance the pictures.  For example, we made car head lights turn on and removed a watermark.

For next week, we will record the story, time it, and find more pictures.  Next, we will put the pictures in sequence with the story and then add sound effects!  Then, finally we will upload it (very important detail).

Tata for now,

Taylor and Sarah. and stay tuned for a spooky story!

party hard

So, today we made our podcast.  We started with editing the script we wrote last week.  We took out some words and took out extra details that weren’t necessary.  Then, we recorded!  And, edited!  What an experience. Here it is, check it out:)

– Taylor and Sarah

1. Topic: talking about and giving my opinion of the Divergent series ending

2. Audience: older kids; teenagers interested in reading

3. rough draft: introduce self. introduce the book series and give background on it. talk about the POV changes. talk about how the book ended. talk about how the ending was unexpected due to the main character dying & then switching to her boyfriend’s POV at the ending. talk about how i felt about it (bittersweet ending)

4. script: hi im taylor. today i’ll be talking about the book series Divergent. its about a girl named Tris who lives in a society who is seperated into factions based on certain personality traits. Brave – Dauntless, Selflessness- Abnegation, Intelligence – Erudite, Honest – Candor, and Peacefulness – Amity. Tris is Divergent, which means she doesnt fit into just one faction, she fits into multiple factions. The Erudite faction tries to overthrow the current government by developing a technology to use the Dauntless people as puppets. Tris finds out about this plan and tries to destroy their plan, and they do succeed with the help of Factionless people. The factionless people take over the government and run it, and Tris escapes the city she has been in for her whole life and ends up at a bureau where scientists have been studying them and explained what they were studying. They said the people in these factions were genetically mutated so they only fit into one category, where divergent people were bascally normal everyday people before this experiment. (*going to edit to make shorter plot summary of series)

The ending of this books was interesting, the point of view switched throughout the book between Tris and her boyfriend, Tobias. In the ending, Tris was shot and killed by the main scientist of the bureau, David. The point of view from then on was only Tobias’. It was pretty unexpected, considering most books the main character lives, while a very important character to them will die instead. I wasnt expecting Tris to die in the end of this series, which was pretty shocking and interesting way to close the book. (*will write more about why this series ending is significant and use this ending to encourage others to read the book because it stands out)

– Taylor and Sarah

Summary of what we did today:

1. Listened and learned what podcasts are 2. decided what genre of podcast we wanted to do – not a PSA 3. we started writing down on paper of what to write 4. we (Taylor) typed outline 5. started writing rough draft of actual script and thought about how to write given the audience of teenagers and our goal of getting them to read the series. 6. We talked about what we did today and were kinda sleepy so decided to list what we did!  Hope that’s okay 🙂

Hi, I’m Taylor Nevins. I go to Poughkeepsie High School and I’m a sophomore there. I take various advanced classes, including AP European History, Trigonometry, and Chemistry. I love to draw and design characters in their own world. I doodle a lot and like to think about the various scenarios I can put my characters in. One of my characters is Anko, a male peasant who lives in a tyrannous kingdom with  greedy king. He is a thief, who steals because he needs to get by in life with his family. He is saved from getting his hand cut off by a mysterious man who is executed a few days later. Anko is still alive in the present, and went back to his thieving ways even after he almost lost his hands.