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__**8th grade graduation- documentaion page**__

What changed.... our entire plan, the song and video, what we had to do, and more

what we discovered.... you got to keep in mind that you are using a software and it could shut down or have problems, having more people helps, overwhelming, dificult, much harder Here is the song: media type="file" key="Goodbye.mp3"

last week- last week we got our project approved and got a list of all eighth graders. Ryan's goal is to get a good head start in the lyrics. Next week we would like to learn how to use imovie, and maybe rockband to put the lyrics together. We hads some time problems this week, we didnt leave a space at the end of the class, to download and edit videos and stuff so we learned from that. So next week we will try to do the interview first thing then come back and documentate adn upload. Our plan is to get all the footages we need, then upload tehm and put them in a good order, then once ryan is done with the lyrics we will put the lyrics on rockband and edit/ put them behind the video. we considered that our goal for next week is to get 10 pics and 3 videos to start. We notice that imovie and garage band are both difficult apps and require knowledge of them to work so we are both going to get help and practice with that. We realize that this is not an easy task and it will be very easy to get side tracked so it is our jobs to keep each other on task.We are having difficulty with posting and stress/ frustration. this problem can be solved by assigning each member of our group a day to document.

Week of may 11- We went to the office and got a list of all 8th graders and there homeroom and have developed a plan for how we will keep track of who we have taken a video and or picture. Emilia and i have been working on our video and we had a problem with the sound, but with our learning community we fixed it and solved our problem. Our goals for the video is to have 15 videos and 30 pictures by the end of next week. so far we have 6 videos and 11 stills. Ryan has now started recording his guitar part of his song and his goal is to be done with juyst guitar, in two weeks. we didnt get as far as we could/ wanted to because both emilia and i and ryan are trying to record at the same time and it is creating tension and frustration in our group. there fore we will have a discussion and conclude a plan.

Week of may 18- we want to learn how to use garage band and imovie and import songs. We think that the lyrics will be finished this week and that we will start putting the movie together and adding videos/ pictures. we broke our project into three parts, ryans lyrics/ song, clip music and video. This is it just broken up for the beginning we will later break it up into more specific stuff such as editing, transitions, special effects, etc. we were having difficulty at first with finding our videos that we took, and didnt know how to upload it. next time we will leave a wider space of time to document. We are trying to get at least every 8th grader once if we manage to get them all we will just use extra pictures, this is our plan for now. We have been forgetting to post/ document so we are trying to correct our posts and make them more detailed and make sure we follow the "Online Documentation & Reflection" sheet. This week we think we will finish the lyrics. The lyrics are coming along well and ryan is finishing them up. Ryan is learning how to put his music onto garage band so he can arange it and then send it to the imovie to put it behind the video. We are still trying to find a plan for figuring out what we should do about us both being in the same room.

week of may 26 This week we think that we are getting off to a right start. But we are struggling to get all of the 8th grader, in 8th grade. This is because the same people out during fifth hour. We believe that if we take videos and pictures during lunch, free time etc, then we believe we will become more succesful. We went to the office and got a list of all 8th graders and there homeroom and have developed a plan for how we will keep track of who we have taken a video and or picture. We are halfway done with the video and we have discovered that if we work in the room next door it is much easier, quieter and more focused. we figured out a way to compromise on our problem of both emilia and i trying to record songs and ryan playing guitar in the same room. It was just to hard, and didnt work. So emilia and i would go take footage and or pictures fore 15- 20 mins and then Ryan would use that time on garage band, and the song of course. Then we could come in and upload the pics/ videos, while ryan continues working. Then when we are ready to record we can tell him to be quiet. But our problem and question, we keep telling ryan to work, but how can he be able to work while we are telling him to be quiet, and when we are recording? I feel that i am getting in the way of ryan finishing his part of the project. May 29th today i(erin) had a lot of trouble with imovie. there was a problem with it and it will open but it wont play our video. So she got 4 more songs for the video instead today. Emilia suggested that we each do something else, so we did. Ryan added the beginning of our song and he believes that he will finish the entire song on Monday if we give him the whole room to himself. So that day we will go and take pictures of the rest of the people. Emilia went and toke more pictures today. Only 33 more people!! i was trying to figure out imovie, which still isnt working so i got songs instead :/ i really hope that it will work on monday!

June 5, 2009 After too much work, the song is finally finished. I had the room to myself yesterday, so I could work extremely fast, getting all vocal tracks done. I'm very happy with it. Hopefully everyone else will like it.

__Documentation Order-__ Emilia will do the first week and the second week and edit our old documentation. Erin- will do week 3 and week 4 Ryan-will do week 5 and week 6 and so on