Claymation essay

Ellie and I were partners on our claymation project on Francisco Coronado. This explorer was an interesting person. It seemed odd to think that an explorer in history risked his life and the lives of others to search for seven cities of gold. That sounds more like a character in a fable, not history.
The most enjoyable part of the project was being partners with Ellie. Every day we worked was fun and enjoyable. The partnership worked well for both of us because we planned ahead and completed our work before it was due. Ellie and I got together a couple of times each week to make clay figures and scenes and to take pictures. If my partner’s mom or schedule wouldn’t let them do that, we would never have gotten the project done because it was very time consuming and there was no way to complete this project only during class. Recording the audio was probably the most fun. We had so many re-dos in audio. Ellie was the narrator and I took care of the technical work and dialogue. At the end of a couple of scenes we could be heard laughing or making fun of each other on the audio, but we deleted those recordings. Overall, having Ellie as my partner was very beneficial because we learned to work together and we received a good grade too.
The technical parts were difficult because other people (besides Ellie and me) had access to our work and could tamper with it. We had photos deleted from our videos, audio removed and whole videos deleted. Ellie and I spent way too many class periods re-doing work or looking for our photos or videos on the computer. Even though we were ahead of schedule for taking photos for our scenes, the technical challenges made us get behind schedule. It was challenging enough to complete the project and upload the photos, make a video, get the audio to match the video and do it seven times, but to keep losing it was absolutely frustrating. It was especially difficult to get the audio to match the speed of the photos and flow with the rest of the video. At the end of the project, we added all the single videos to one single big video. We need to make all the videos Quick Time files and then save the videos to the desktop. Four of our videos were missing, deleted, gone. We couldn’t find them on the hard drive for two days. By far, the technology of this project was our biggest challenge.
The most important lesson I learned in this project was to make a separate backup on a zip drive or some other media so our work could be restored without having to start over. It was very challenging to have to re-do photos and audio. I found it a huge waste of time to constantly re-do parts of the project because they were missing on the hard drive. When a part of our project was deleted or moved, and we could not do anything about it, our scene was late and our grade was lower than we wanted. In the future, I would like more control in keeping our project safe by saving it to our own backup. It’s very frustrating to have no control over what happens to our project when it is saved on the school’s computer and we have deadlines to meet. Also, in the future, I would like access to the computer program at home so we can work on this at home. Then if we had extra photos to add to our scene, we could add another clay character and take extra photos and go directly to the program and add them without having to be at school. It would have been good to have the audio at home too so we could make those changes because it was often hard to get the project done on time. Finally, we found it was very important to PLAN AHEAD for anything we did have control over.
In conclusion, I had fun on this project even though it was extremely long. I enjoyed learning a new technology and hope to enjoy the final video if it ever gets finished once we find our missing parts. I also learned a painful lesson to rely on yourself and your own backup and not to trust the school’s computers as the only place to save my work.

River Ellis.

Well there's this kid. named river. so when i first met him, i was like Wat a freak! who names a kid river, but know we are closer than life. he is pretty stupid and gets WAY to hipper some times but that's what makes him river. So i have know him like a year know. maybe 2. i don't really keep track. So his hair is really blond and he is kind of sh0rt. he is really good at soccer, and cants play x box to save his life. i am scared of the day he drives, hope fully he wont always crash around turns. but i am also excited to see the day, when he grows to like, normal height. sorry riv riv. He is so much fun to hang out with. and i can talk to him about anything, i don't even know how many of my secrets he has kept and for that i thank him. he can come to me for anything. i will always be there for him. Our favorite show is lost. lost buddy 1 & 2. We always talk about the seasons and Wat we think should of changes. OK i was kidding, he can play xbox to save his life, but all that i know is that he cant drive 4 wheelers. NEVER EVER should he drive one of those like for real. he is one of the coolest kids i know and i will always love him, my best friend.

Lindsey.Phalen.Angela.

After Tuesday, I'm pretty much sure that walmart will never let us back in. On Tuesday(no school) i went over town with phalen and Lindsey. When we first where over town we went ice skating. About 45 minutes later, i had fallen about 6 times, Lindsey about 1 time, and phalen...none. So that had to be taken care of. we where not leaving without her falling more than once on that rock solid ice. So after we whent ice skating we went to the mall and had panda express. OMG I LOVE THAT STUFF! anyways, then we just walked around the mall while my mom and my sister looked for a present for my cousin. We found a photo booth. Sp we took our first picture and then then felt things getting thrown at us...ohhh Lindsey was pissed. so there where like 2 Lil kids out side throwing candy at us. Then we went shopping in walmart for like 2 hours. We first got just random outfits with ugly clothing on. then took some pictures. then it got interesting. we went out and got boy clothes,like men clothing. so big baggy pants, shirts, hats, sweatshirts, and shoes. i think. and OH my god that was pretty funny because3e my pants, WOULD NOT STAY UP FOR THE LIFE OF ME! so i had to stand with my legs as if i was doing to splits. Then we got footy full suite pajamas for Christmas. i looks like Santa clause because it was all red with white dots. Lindsey's was light and dark blues stripes, and phalens was red and green stripes. and then we just went around putting lots of random hats and glasses,scarves and stuff on. and there where clothes EVERYWHERE by the time we left. it was such a fun night and i love spending time with them. Love you Pay Pay Love you Lin Lin

High School

Next year i am hopefully attending Archbishop. i have just this year been thinking about it. There was an entrance exam the first week of December and i was very scared because my English is not so good. but besides that i hope i have a chance of getting in. There school program is very very good there and if you have that on a collage transcript, it is very good. There volleyball team is the best in the region and i love volleyball and i made a premier volleybal team over town becouase i want to play so bad. i cant wait till next year and i hope i get in. I am kind of tired of people giving me crap about going there and saying our high school is better because i hope you know that by you saying that makes me want to go there even more. So please be supportive of me. Because i know you guys are all that good of friends.And you love me.

Thanks

Phalen!

OMG! its phalen! i love this girl with almost all of my heart( we wont talk about the other part). I trust her with my whole life. i have only know her for a year but it had been the best year of my life. Shes is so easy to get along with. it didn't take me that long to realize that i love her to death and that i would be her friend for the rest of my life. She is an amazing dancer and singer! especially with Hayley Newman. i love her and she is a very good vballer and soft baller. but the balls don't come very soft from her....so this girl i call my best friend is named phalen. And she always will be my best friend no matter wat kind of silly outfit she i swearing. i love you pay pay!

Sienna Frikken Schaal.

Sienna Schaal. Wat a retard. But i love her to death. I love all of her retartedness. Sienna is probably one of the most trustworthy people i know. But i can tell her whatever i feel like even if i am super duper embarrassed and i know she would never laugh at me. That she would always be there to support me in everything i needed. She is such a goofy ball. And always know what to say and when to say it. She is a very very good volleyball player and i hope she will forever know that. She can get moody during vball games but i will always forgive her for that becuase i get that at horse shows and i know how she feels. I love her to death and i love spending time with her during class out in the library taking pictures with riv riv then deleting them becuase our faces where spread out and all conjumbled. I can talk to her about anything and will always love her.

10.10.10

ON October 10, 2008 i went to 10 10 10 with my friends scarlet Inches and Nora Wilson. It was so so much fun. At half time during the football game we got picked up and started to go over town. bu the time we got to a gas station me and scarlet were so hipper you said hi and we would laugh till we cry ed. So we stopped at the gas station and scarlet and Nora wanted gum. So we went inside, then we saw a GIANT monster energy drink so we had to get it. then a box of Twinkies and 2 bags of skittles and two 2 letter mountain dews. So then after the gas station we went to Starbucks. oh dear. Scarlet got the biggest size you can get of mocha chocolaty mess of coffee. with whip cream. then she was about to take a drink and i made her laugh and the whip cream just went EVERYWHERE! hahahahahahaha i could not stop laughing. oh and that i just the beginning. When we first got to the church, we hung out for about 15 mi nuts then we went to Fantasia fun park. ALL of the games where free! we could do them however many times we wanted to. Then we went back to the church, had pizza then went to skate and bowl. Free roller skating and bowling. After that it was the ice rink. but not how you normally ice skate, with your shoes on. and they had obstacles on the ice like tug aware and blankets so you could pull people around. then to the giant swimming pool. at this time it is 4 in the morning. At the pool there was a wave pool, slides, hot tub, floaties. everything! and it was so so much fun! by the time we got home it was 8:30 in the morning. no sleep at all. it was way to much fun and i will never forget that night.no matter how many pounds of banana loaf i eat. never ever. i pinkie promise that. " you can break a promise but not a pinkie promise!"

Life Graph

This is my life graph. So all the most import and painful or sad things in my life re graphed on this piece of paper. The most important one yo me tho is probably the day i was adopted. If i was not adopted, i would not have the wonderful life i have right know. It is something for me to think about every day, but something new to think about. i different Question for me to ask my self and hope maybe i will get an answer. But for know i just always hope i will. always think about the life i would of had if i was not adopted. i go so deep when it comes to my adoption because it was the best thing that ever happened to me.

SCARLET!

Scarlet Inches! Oh my goodness! what should i say about this one? oh ya i remember! i am so close to her! she is one of my best friends! we have had so so so many crazy adventures together! So this one time we where going to go to my youth group down at calvery chapel.But we got there a hour early. So we are trying t think of things to do when i here" IM STUCK IN THIS CART! ANGIE HELP ME!" and i turn around to find scarlet half in one of the baby car things that EVERY little kid has! she had like her legs out the doors and her "self" out the windshield! so she couldn't get out so i found a whinny the pooh cart that didn't have a top on it but was still really hard to get in to. so then once i did we found this HUGE hill that we just decided to race down as we are both half in these little car things! yeah BAD IDEA! she fell out the windshield and my car rolled down it! and it being the hill. So after that we wanted to get the volleyball out of the other church, and at this time Casey was there( the youth group leader) so he wouldn't give us the keys cuz he was down stairs so i took all the keys off the key rack an and finally found the right one. Then once youth group actually started, we really wanted otter pops but Casey said" NO MORE OTTERPIZZLES!" because we had already eaten like 100! so that is just one of the many stories between us! i love her to death and can trust her with my life! So spaghetti girl, Sid,or scars, i love you to death.

Volleyball!

My volleyball team is the best! JV,Varsity,they both are so good! Most the time, at school,or in practice, we treat each other as just people. Friends, but not "good friends". But when we are on the court playing our games, everything changed. everything on the world! its like a whole new team. We play during practice,but never like a team. we talk during school,but never like a team. We play our games, and ALWAYS like a team. Everyone has such a good personality! they all are so easy to love! and i love every single person on our team. Ellie and Lindsey. Maddie and Sienna. Meagan and Phalen. Jennie and Hannah. Hannah and Kaitlin. Newman and Ally. Jordan and Jenna. Taylor and..me i guess. And our manager, Rachel! See this team, yes see it? well love it because its the best we got and we will always be!

Fat Fat!

His name says it all."fat fat" is the hungriest horse you will ever meet! he eats EVERYTHING he can get to. no joke. he eats the old moldy hay out of the manure pile, yeah, that's how low he will go. But he gives his all for me ever time i ride him. he has a lot of energy but the kindest heart and the funniest personality. you know why? he is five years old. He makes mistakes. just like everyone does. But he always picks him self back up and keeps going. i love him so much and adore his personality to no end. I love it when im just standing in his stall and he comes up behind me and rests his head on my shoulder. Or nibbles on my hair. The little things like that just make me smile. You should really meet this horse. FatFat is the cutets thing on four legs and NO ONE can tell me other wise.

Lindsey Linsabeth Grimm!!

Linsabeth!!BEST FRIEND! till the end.I could write a frikken book about her! i know everything in the world about my best friend and i love that. i have known her since preschool! our moms wanted us to be friends, but no, we HATED each other! hardcore HATED! but volleyball last year changed everything! that one coupville game made us best friends! and i will never ever stop loving her.never. we have been through so much and yet, here we are still hanging on. I will always hang on. I will NEVER let go of this friendship, it is way to importnt to me just to loose like a ten dollar bill. To me, it would be like loosing the world. She means SO much to me. More than so many things! my list could go on forever! The amounts of love we have for eachother and the secrtes we have told, oh man we could be here all day. Between 2007 and know,we have taken about,oh I would say about one thousand pictures! and i love all of them! she means the world to me!Everyone says not to act like your friends just to fit in,to be in the cool group. and they always say, if your "friends" jumped off a cliff, would you fallow? in Lindsey's case, i would. i would fallow her off that cliff in a heart beat. if shes jumping I'm jumping with her. because that is just how best friends roll. Thats wat most people call best friends, but to us its more like sisters.We are the most random peopel you will ever meet in your hwole life.so many thingswe say, NO ONE in the world would ever get. So have fun trying to figure us out!

Maddie!

Maddie Frikken Hamilton!~everyone in the world should know this girl!one of my best friends! in the whole world! we are the men! i am so so close to her. she knows almost everything about me! we both play volleyball. outside hitters, and im a setter.i love everything about her, her huge buff arms down to her itti bitti feet. her personality is out of this world! it is so...Maddie~everything about it is so funny and loving all at the same time! i know i can come to her for anything and everything i need! It makes me laugh so much when she gives me that frustrated face when i ask her what 3/4ths of 60 minuts is. HaHa. It is her face and its so funny. She knows im not the brightest student in the world, or in the school, but she puts up with me and i love her for doing that.She is an amazing dancer and a very good singer of bop to the top. love you maddie!