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still motion video

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 * 6-01-09:** This week we are planning to finish our project by Tuesday. But we are having some problems, Mr. McCloud was not here, so we cannot use the Macs. So we went to Mr. Brown's room to ask if we can use the Macs, but he said no because Mr. McCloud is not here. This is a problem because without the Mac we can't do any of our stuff because all of our video is saved on the mac. But later Mr. Brown let us use a Mac as long as we bring it back before the end of class. We plan on doing our screen toaster video today. But we are having another problem because we coulde not find a quiet spot to do it. We will but it in youtube because we think that screen toaster is the reason the mac crashed the last time. Because of that we put the screen toaster video into imovie. But other wise we will be able to get a good video. It will tell you how to put together a still motion video, change the speed of the pictures and crop them so that they do not have any animation. Then tommorow we will put the video on to the wiki for our final project. When we were half way throught the video all the three four came through the hall and we had to do it over again. Some strategies that we will use this week, are problem solving skills. Some Our advice for this week is to always find a quiet stop where you cannot be disturbed by anyone out side of the group.

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 * 5-29-09:** This past week we took pictures of the chicken and Quail. This was hard to make a still motion because we could not control how they moved. So we will probably not make a small video of them. We also added all of our pictures so the still motion is complete. When you have all the pictures you first have to put them all into the correct order. Then you have to highlight all of the pictures and take off the Ken Burns effect. You do this by pressing the small icon in the corner of each picture and click the bottom option that lets you change, Cropping, Rotation and Ken Burns effect. After the Option screen come uop all you have to do is click "FIT". This will make it so the picture does not zoom in and out throughout your video. Then you have to change the time that the pictures show. To do this what you do is highlight all of the pictures and then click the video adjustments options. One of the options is duration; change the number in the box to .1. This will give the illusion that the pictures are a movie. Our advice for people is to always learn about what you are doing so you do not get lost.
 * 5-26-09:** This is week four. This week we are posting a video.


 * 5-22-09:** This week we have redone some of the play ground area. We did this because the lighting from the sun was different in our previose pictures. We added a section were Shant floats over Danny, a section where Danny goes across a handrail like a balence beam, then we had a soccer ball apear, then Shant through the ball at Danny and then that ball disapeared. We did this by having the person twist so you can't see the front of them. Then we would put the ball into the person's hands but still not showing the ball. After that we had the person move forward so it looked like the ball apeared. Once Shant through the ball to Danny, we did evey thing in the backwards order so the ball wopuld disapear. Then we wnt across the monkeybars with our heads between the bars, so it looked like we were moving through them. we did this by doing a pull up each time we went on a bar. Then we got off the monkey bars and ran inside. We tried to make it look like we were jaining speed, we did this by moving a larger distances between each picture. We have completed our goal of finishing the playground area, we also added more than we thought we would. We added the monkey bar section. We also acheved our gaol of going back inside and finishing our video that we will edit on video. Our advice for other people is to always plan what you will do for that week. But you have to make it a resonable amount so you don't stress your self.

This week we our goals are to finish taking pictures by the play structure area, go back inside the building, transfer all of our pictures to a different Mac because the IMovie has not been working, and put all of our pictures in the correct order. We did this by transferring all of our pictures on to a disc. Then we will put that disc into another Mac laptop and retrieve all of our picture that we need. All of the pictures are out of order, so we will have to put all of our pictures into the correct order. Steven, Shant, and Danny will keep working on taking the pictures, and Hussein will put everything into the correct order. Our advice to everyone is to save your work in multiple places. To transfer the pictures and burn them on a disc you need to put a empty disc in the mac. Then drag all the pictures onto the icon in the mac Desk top. Then all the pictures will be downloaded so then all you have to do is take the cd out and put it in another mac and drag the pictures in another folder. If all of the pictures are out of order, then sort them by date.


 * 5-15-09:** This week we had diffulculty with the wind, we were using a large piece of black paper, so when we were going to take a picture the paper would always move. then we would have to set up again, and we had to do this abouut 3 times each frame. We did not get as far as we hoped this week. We did not finish, and conect the playground area with the other areas. All we did this week was go out to the basketball courts and disapear into a black square. I believe we did not gets as far as we hope to because we had problems with the weather, had the lawn crew in the way, had Mac problems, ran out of batteries, and the glare of the sun. We are planning to fix the Mac problems by putting all of our pictures onto a disc and transfering them to a different computer. We learned that it is harder to get our pictures than we thought. This is because, on Adobe there is no save button. Also for the people who do not know haow to use Adobe it is hard to find the export button, which is like the save button. But, we did come up with some good ideas for the project. An example of this is having us disappear into a black sheet, and then reappear on the playground. what we did to fix the paper is put small rocks on the corners of it so that it would not blow away. We did not fix the mac only uses a different one.


 * 5-11-09**: This week we plan to fill in for the day that Steven was not here. This area includes when Shant, Steven, and Danny going out to the play structure area. We are also going to finish the pay ground scene. We have already had Shant and Danny go up the big slide, go over the bridge, down a couple of steps, and go across the slidy thing. We still have to go across the little section to the side, and then go back inside. We have also decided to give up on the tree time lapse pictures because we are missing to many days in the week. We have having some difficulty keeping the same zoom for all the pictures. This is because we have to have to have all the people in the picture and still be able to see their faces.


 * 5-8-09**: This week we did more than we expected. We got our script done and aproved. Then we started to make our still motion video to edit at the end of the project. We made Shant go through a window, and then he "stateboarded" on our backs. We did more than we expected this week because we could move more between pictures, and still have the still motion video look good.


 * 5-5-09**: This week we are making our stript, we will look on you tube for ideas for our story line. We have already found some good ideas such as moving across water, stakeboarding on someone's back, and taking pictures of a tree blossoming. We are planning to seporate our still motion video and breaking it into sections, for example, the section in the room next door, basketball area, and playground area. Are goals for this project is to have at least 500 pictures by the end of the section to explain how to make the still motion video.