In this week that was when we started the last art in our creative arts rotation.In our Tuesday lesson it was our very first lesson in music.In this lesson we were introduced to our now topic for the rest of the rotation that we have in music.We first spoke about the topic and the teachers introduced to us the title and our topic was now going to be claymation.We then had a presentation where we talked about the basic definition of claymation.In the presentation Ms.Cross then presented the project itself and what we were going to be asked to do. After that, we watched some videos that gave us more information about what claymation is and how it is made.We also saw several videos so that we could learn about claymation and how it was made.For the Wednesday lesson me and my group met together in the music class. Before we got to work we watched a video of one of the claymation final product examples so we could get the idea of what it would look like as a final product.After we watched the movie we then started discussing what we saw in the movie and we discussed the different features there are in claymation.After the discussions we had our teachers clarify our tasks and the project in general for this term. After she presented the project and clarified it whit all it's details we started to choose our groups. Later on after some time we ended up with our groups.In my group I had 3 musicians and 3 artists.My 3 musicians were myself, Rania and myself and for my artists I had Davide, Yusup and Adma.o. That was when we finalized our group for this term. After that we had to choose the type for performance we would have to compose for this term, we decided to choose fairy tale with horror as that was something we would like to compose this term.
Week 2:
After the past lesson where we chose our groups and our type of performance that we were going to work on for the rest of the term we fist gathered at the teachers.When we gathered they showed us a powerpoint that was made by the other grade 8 class.This presentation continued some steps that we needed to know for our planning stage before working on the project physically. On this presentation they showed us the action plan the other year 8 class completed, after that they then showed us a slide where we would have to write and complete our storyline. In this lesson we started created our tory and our action plan for that powerpoint. in the beginning our story was based on Little red riding hood.Our general story was almost the same as little red ridding hood however, the only difference there was, was that we edit all the events in the story to make them some kind of horror and we even turned little red riding hood into an evil, depressed person so that it could add to the element of horror.After we finished the storyline we started discussing the action plan and we were able to complete with the story briefly ( however we didn't put it on the powerpoint yet as it was not finalized and also we were able to partially finish the finalized action plan.IN the Wednesday lesson when we gathered we found out that we wanted to change the story so we then changed the story to make it based on goldilocks however, we didn't change the idea of still making it horror.After we finalized and decided on the full story and finalized the action plan. After that we decided to start working on the project, after we finished the story Kiyara drew the art students some character designs for our project. For the art students we allowed them to draw a brief storyboard to help themselves in their work.For us, the music students we decided to start composing music.Soon enough we started to play the piano and composing different pieces.Between the 3 of us we decided to split the composing of music and allow myself to do the horror music, Rania to do the happy music and Kiyara do the tension music as we felt we needed a variety of elements for music for the story.
Week 3:
For week three on Tuesday we were still gathered with the art in one class however, we divided the work so that each department would start on working on something for the project.For music we started directly into attempting to create musical pieces for our show, we then allow the art departament to start roughly drawing the story board and roughly also draw the characters so that by next week they would be able to start creating the puppets.For the music we directly went into discussing the different types of music that we needed and we briefly wrote the different types of music we needed however we didn't physically create much compositions in that lesson but majorly discussed the music but also help the art as sometimes they would joke around and not do their work which then resulted in us needing to help them complete the work of drawing the characters os that we could finalize the planning and next week start creating the puppets.By the end of the lesson we were able to know the types of the music we needed but fro the art they hardly completed anything and were unable to draw the story board and the characters .For the Wednesday lesson we got divided so the art went downstairs while my department ( the music stayed upstairs).Automatically we divided the music so tat we would be able o complete the work faster but also be able to compose them well individually.For myself I was given the horror music, Rania was given the happy music and Kiyara gave herself the suspense music we would use in multiple scenes.During the lesson we chose one of the practice rooms where we all sat and our music.Me and Rania both chose to use the piano while Kiyara was writing down the scenes and seeing which music we put for each one.By the end of the lesson we didn't compose actual music however, we jotted down the ideas we had.
Week 4:
This week was our second week to split as an art class and a music class.In the beginning after we split we entered the music class.Soon Ms.Cross gave us some announce,nets and notices for the class and the instruments.Later on we then went into the back classes ti continue composing music pieces that we would use for our project performance. As soon as we went in we started working as we already delegated our jobs.Me and Rania started composing the horror and happy together as we were able to help each other in certain stages and in one of our compositions it was actually one idea from me and an idea from her that we combined. With the piano counting all our compositions we were able to create around 3 to 4 compositions of piano for happy, tension and horror..Meanwhile for the Wednesday lesson I was unable to go as I had the tech fair and I had to stay due to the fact that my partner went to a lesson so one of us had to stay. However, I was updated by my peers that they were able to complete more compositions this lesson and that the art group was going okay but also, that we had to add a new member which was Ibrahim into our music departement due to a misunderstanding that he had with his group which forced him to go into out group instead.I was also updated that the music department was able to accomplish some work of composing while the art department was not able to accomplish much due to how they were not seriously working and actually completing work.
Week 5:
For week five it was our final week in term 2 but we were able to accomplish mnay things in the mysic department but we were only able to accomplosh mininmal thinga in our art deprtment.For the tuesday lesson me and my depratment again fired off with the composing, Me and rania went on to the Piano and we decided to create the compostoitons togther as we foudn that we could creatre better compositions as a dual rather than as sperate indidivduals as we were able to imrpove each others compositions to make them even better.Me and rania spent he lesson creating piano compositions minaly for horror and then as we wereable to help each other a lot mkaing it better then it was.While we worked together we also foudn that we were able to harmonize an combine the pitches which then leadedus to be able to compose s horror compositino was not short but also soundede etremelty good due to the combination of pitches.By the end of the lesson we were able to compose around 4 compostions that had 2 happpy and two horror that me and Raniab worked on.Meanwhile, for our partner Ibrahim ever since he joined he has continuosly been unable to come uo with any comositions and we hvae tried to encourag ehim however we continue to find no result from him .On the wednesday lesson we tried using dofferent intsiruemnts rather than continueosly using the Pianonfro all our compositions.After using the piano for 2 weeks we decided to use some other instrument and decided to use the xylophone.With the xylophone we were able to create around 2 compositions for happy tension and horror.For the xylephone we foudn that we could create mnay dual compositiontions with it if we played it togther and if we matched and were able to harmoize different pitches on the zylaphoe but also of we played the same notes we could create some good compositions.Using the different xylaohones we werwe able t o comnie the different pitches and notes mkaing them sound unison but also sounding extremely good due to the similarity in notes but combination in picthches mkaing it more in unison.By the end of the lesson we were able to come up with 3 xylaphone compositions that had one horror and 2 happy.For our partner Igrahim he was again unable to come up with nay compositions.
Week 6:
During week 6 we were intoduced ot our new teacher, we pent most of the lesson intorducing ourselves to here and talking to here about our project that has been presented to us in the revious term, each student then had to intorsuce themseves ot here and intoduce to her the groups.We sat in our groups in front of here for her t be able to wirte down the groups.For this periodj we were in the art room as the art tecaher was also intoducing her to the project and we will hvae to be doing ofor it.After some time of intorduction we were left to go to out class where we continued to intorduce ourself to the tecaher.With lottle time left in the lesson we were stilll able to fit in osme work so we then composed some running music that was done by Rania and also one horro Piano compositin that we both worked on, Ibraghim also attempted showing us somehting on the drusm but it htne ended up being him joking aorund.By the end of the lesson me and Rania were able to come up with 2 compositions.Meanwhile for the art, out partner Kiyara went dow starts to help them and Davide also got clay for them to work with.Sadly, they still wernet able to complete a single charcter for the whole lesson except for parts of charcters.For the wedenesday lesson Davide forgot his clay so the art were unable to wprk on their chracters.For the music our partner Rania was absent so me and Kiyara decided to go down and help the arts group, Kiyara helped the boys in the art deprtnmet for the bakchgoeunds while I used some pf te clay that was availble in class to create the chicken, Kentocky.By the end of the lesson we endede up with one backgroudn thta was made by Kiyara and a chicken that was made by me, the boys worked for some of the time but mainy messed around while Ibrahim again did not od anything for th whowle lesson and jsut messed around.
Week 7:
During week 7 we were able to finalize all our compositions by the end of the week and for the music department we mostly wen to help the art deprtment to finsh there work.On the tuesday lesson, for the music deprtment we finslized all our music compositions and we made sure that we have written all the notes to the compositions in the notebook so that next week we wouldrecord them on to muxcrft to out thme all in one file.Next Kiyara orgainzed the scenes neatky in correct order, and she also out the tyeoes of music fir each scene so thst nrct errk uding the order er eould be able to use it to put the music in order fo the scenes.For the other hald of the mudiv we went doewnnand helped the art.When we went down we foud thatthey hardly did any work and onely had one backgeound done for the whole time.I found it quite disapponintng as I imagined that they could have down musch more in the time they were given.When we saw that we strted working in the clay puppets.I strted working on the parts of the three witches as I found myslef able to complete that.By the end of the lesson I was able to finsh all the parts of the witches and me and my oartner Kiyara decided to meet afterschool to finsh some of the artwork as the art deoprtment hardky didb anywork.By the end of the lesson I was able to finsh all the parst of the witches and they were able to foisnh another background.For the wedensday lesson we continued working on the art deprtament as they needed quite alot of hlep so that we would be able to finsh the art deprament form the project.For the lesson I finshed the wit hes fully and I made all there parts and I also collected wire pices to make the actual witch and to out it all together.For the about 15 more minutes I continued to wrok on the final witch and then to put it all together i decided to stay afterschool with my partner Kiyara so that we could finsh the charcters and out the all otgether for the next lesson.For some of the time I also went upstirs with rania and made sure that we had all our music done for the scenes so that for next week we would strt putting them on mixcraft and finally out them all on one file.By the end of the lesson I had all the pices of the witch vharcters and all the wire so that afterschool I would just need to put them all togther and also for the golcilocks as it was partially ruined and I had to fix them again.During the afterschool I was able to finalize all the characters.By the end of the week we were still unable to get any results from Ibrhuim from our dpeartmeny and we couldnr give him any responsibilities to complete.
Week 8:
For week 8 we were able to finalize all the individual recodirings fro hte music and we are ready to out them all in one file next week to finalize the music.For the tuesday lesson we played dome of our copostitions and decided which one we woudl use in which scne as we had multiple ones from one type which meant we needd ot decide which eact composition would go in which scene.All this oinfromation was recodede in my temate\s book Kiyara where we kept all the ocmpositions and their infromation.For that lesson we allowed miss to listen to our music and we asked her for feedbaclk and she said that if we wanted we could add anything but it is extremely good at this point but as we were done and had free time sh esaid we coudl.But, we though that we were happuy with our music so she agreed with us and we deicded that we should dtrst recodring to finalize all the ixcraft recodrings.Sady the lesson was over by that time but we were now ready to record by next lesson on to mixrcaft.For the wednesday lesson me and my parttner arnia stayed upstairs in the music room and we bith worked on individuallyyy recodring the compositions.We divided so tat each of us would record some compositions that we would then out together all in one.In the beginning I found it quite hard to use mixcraft as it was my first tiem using it this yera so I wasnt very confsident using it.So I decided to try and see if mauybe Ibrhaim would be able to help us here as I was trying to give him a task as he was unable to come uo witht a ocmposition.Sadlly e was unable to and just left and went to fool aorund.I then deiceded to ask Rania as she found it much easier to miscarft so she tauht me and we btih strted recodring,During the lesson both of us helped each other in some way throughiut.For kiyara she went and also helped the art ot finslize some of the things like some of the chracters and one backgeound as some of thme broke and dried up.By the end of the lesson we were able to have all the indivivual recordings and kiyara was able ti help the art deprtemnt mwnawhile, Ibrahim still did nt help in any of the depratments again.
Week 9:
For week nine it was the final week where we needed to finalize all the details and strt filming and editing fro the perfromnace.For the week me and my deprtamnet were done with all the compositions and we had all the individual recordings.For the tuesday lesson we went down to the artand dissapointingly we found that they were not done with the work which menat we were unable to film anyhting until now.So for the lesson me and rania went upstairs ti the music room and then we foudn out that we had to convert all the compositons to a certain type so, we spent the lesson converting the reordings.When we finshed we allowed miss to listen to them and she was veyr happy eith them and she siad that all we had to do was put them in one rerding.For that we deided that since kiyara still needed to add simething we would sned it to her and she would out thme all in one.Then we sent them all to kiyar and we all wen down to help the art.By the end of the lesson we were able to finsh one more background which was the forstet background and also the fram background.For our partner Ibrahim he was still unable to delver us any work.For the art deprtamnet Kiayara mainly did all the work whil ethey partially helped her.For the wedenesday lesson me and Rania foudn out that Kiyara was unable to open the and she was a;so unable to put her recording.So for this lesson me and Rania deicede to finalize the one file that inludes all the recordings of the scenes.We used the book where it inluded th eorder of the scenes to out the music i order.For the recoridigs we decided to leave the timing thye were in and then once we strted editing we would strtech the recordings according to the timing of the scenes as much as we want .Me an dramiba were then able to finsh the recrding half through the lesson so thne we deiceded to go down to the art deorptment to strt filimg.When we went donw we found thta they still ddi nto finsh and that the boys were not working instead Kiyra was the inly one working in that time.So wedeicede to help Kiyara as we foudn out that the chickne which I have created before was actually ruined and also the goldilocks.So for the time we had in the art deprtmnet we finslized all the props so that we would be able ot have everything finalized.By the end of th elesson we finalized all our recordings for the music and all we had left was one setting for the art art.Also, me, Rania and KIyara decided to come afterschool to the week after on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday to film and finslize eveyrhting.For thsi week Ibrahim still did not gov eus any reults and for the secind lessson we allowed him ton jyst work on hi blog as he was very far behind on it.
Here are some imgaes of out project:
Week 11:
During week 11 it was th week where we had to finalize th eporject and hand it in by the end of the week.For the tuesday lesson we decided to finalize the editing ofo the music so that we would add it once we wer done editing the video which Kiyara was currently working on.During the lesson the buys worked with us to try to fugure out if we would be able to use an app but also not have a logog on the video.We tried to reserahc different techniques t try to do it and in the middle of the lesson we were able to finsh editing the video.However near to the end of the lesson, I had to elave early as my dad came to pick me uo however.Kiyara was almost done editing the video at the time and my partner me and Rania were able to edit the full file and made it all in one file ans saved however, we were unbale to adjust them exacty with the timingd sof the video as we were not dine edting the whole video unbaling us to fully finslize the music.But, after I left Rania, Kiyara and th rest of the group stayed and continued their work in the lesson.Meanwhile Kiyara and Rania staye after school so that thye would finalize doing the music and save it while Kiyra continues to edit.
For the wednesday lesson, we finalized the whole video, the music and everything however, we deidede that we needed to do the voice overs.During the lesson as a group we sat and we recordede the voice overs and we tried to look for a way to pout them in th evideo when we deit so that they can be claer but by the end of the lesson we fiund out that we couldnt accomplish that.For the lesson we also put on the tomings where we out the speech and we were also able to out the music onto the video but not precisly instead we only briefly out them on the app without adjusting that as we deiceded to leave that for later.During the lesson we finslzedthe whole video except editing it and adjusting it to exact timings so that it could be finalized.By the edn of the Lesson we were bale to finlize everyting except we were still unable to know how we were goign to show the text or even narrate the video.For that me and my partners Kiyara and Rania decidede to stay afterschool so thta we would finslize it fully and submit it on time.By the 2 lessons we wer eable to finalize the whole video and submit on time.
Final Reflection:
throughout the whole unti me adn my group hav worked incredibly hard on theis project.We spent 11 weeks working on this clay,aton ever since we strted art and music.From the very beginning we have worked hard from both sides Art and Music.Evnethough we worked hard on this project, we still had or ups and downs.For this whole project we have successfully been able to complete the assignment well and had it in one time however, throughout there creation of the project we still faced many, many issues I terms of editing, collaboration creation of art pieces and many hinges I general.One problem that we faced was that for our art group they took a long time to create the characters which the music group was able to create in around 2 lessons however, it want their fault all the time as sometimes we faced issues as that our characters were taken from the class and broken and we couldn't do anything about it as we also,lost a character and we had to create it again.Also sometimes the characters would dry up and we wouldn't be bake to work on them the next day.For the problems we faced with editing I was the one editing the final video and it took me very long time for me to be able to do it well with timings accurately as in when to put the music and also I found it very hard to use iMovie but also it was extremely hard to make the speech and the music accurate.Also, we were unable to use the voice overs as it would have ruined the music so we decided to use subtitles which took a lot of time to edit and also took a lot of time in the video.Other than that it also made he video much longer which was a problem that I faced as i had to spend a lot of time to make it shorter.Overall for editing it took me around 3 hours to finalise which was a very big problem that I faced. The last problem we faced was that sometimes our art group didn't work efficiently marking the process of creation slower. even though we had math problems we were still able to overcome hen by the end and successfully finish the assignment.
Week 2:
After the past lesson where we chose our groups and our type of performance that we were going to work on for the rest of the term we fist gathered at the teachers.When we gathered they showed us a powerpoint that was made by the other grade 8 class.This presentation continued some steps that we needed to know for our planning stage before working on the project physically. On this presentation they showed us the action plan the other year 8 class completed, after that they then showed us a slide where we would have to write and complete our storyline. In this lesson we started created our tory and our action plan for that powerpoint. in the beginning our story was based on Little red riding hood.Our general story was almost the same as little red ridding hood however, the only difference there was, was that we edit all the events in the story to make them some kind of horror and we even turned little red riding hood into an evil, depressed person so that it could add to the element of horror.After we finished the storyline we started discussing the action plan and we were able to complete with the story briefly ( however we didn't put it on the powerpoint yet as it was not finalized and also we were able to partially finish the finalized action plan.IN the Wednesday lesson when we gathered we found out that we wanted to change the story so we then changed the story to make it based on goldilocks however, we didn't change the idea of still making it horror.After we finalized and decided on the full story and finalized the action plan. After that we decided to start working on the project, after we finished the story Kiyara drew the art students some character designs for our project. For the art students we allowed them to draw a brief storyboard to help themselves in their work.For us, the music students we decided to start composing music.Soon enough we started to play the piano and composing different pieces.Between the 3 of us we decided to split the composing of music and allow myself to do the horror music, Rania to do the happy music and Kiyara do the tension music as we felt we needed a variety of elements for music for the story.
Week 3:
For week three on Tuesday we were still gathered with the art in one class however, we divided the work so that each department would start on working on something for the project.For music we started directly into attempting to create musical pieces for our show, we then allow the art departament to start roughly drawing the story board and roughly also draw the characters so that by next week they would be able to start creating the puppets.For the music we directly went into discussing the different types of music that we needed and we briefly wrote the different types of music we needed however we didn't physically create much compositions in that lesson but majorly discussed the music but also help the art as sometimes they would joke around and not do their work which then resulted in us needing to help them complete the work of drawing the characters os that we could finalize the planning and next week start creating the puppets.By the end of the lesson we were able to know the types of the music we needed but fro the art they hardly completed anything and were unable to draw the story board and the characters .For the Wednesday lesson we got divided so the art went downstairs while my department ( the music stayed upstairs).Automatically we divided the music so tat we would be able o complete the work faster but also be able to compose them well individually.For myself I was given the horror music, Rania was given the happy music and Kiyara gave herself the suspense music we would use in multiple scenes.During the lesson we chose one of the practice rooms where we all sat and our music.Me and Rania both chose to use the piano while Kiyara was writing down the scenes and seeing which music we put for each one.By the end of the lesson we didn't compose actual music however, we jotted down the ideas we had.
Week 4:
This week was our second week to split as an art class and a music class.In the beginning after we split we entered the music class.Soon Ms.Cross gave us some announce,nets and notices for the class and the instruments.Later on we then went into the back classes ti continue composing music pieces that we would use for our project performance. As soon as we went in we started working as we already delegated our jobs.Me and Rania started composing the horror and happy together as we were able to help each other in certain stages and in one of our compositions it was actually one idea from me and an idea from her that we combined. With the piano counting all our compositions we were able to create around 3 to 4 compositions of piano for happy, tension and horror..Meanwhile for the Wednesday lesson I was unable to go as I had the tech fair and I had to stay due to the fact that my partner went to a lesson so one of us had to stay. However, I was updated by my peers that they were able to complete more compositions this lesson and that the art group was going okay but also, that we had to add a new member which was Ibrahim into our music departement due to a misunderstanding that he had with his group which forced him to go into out group instead.I was also updated that the music department was able to accomplish some work of composing while the art department was not able to accomplish much due to how they were not seriously working and actually completing work.
Week 5:
For week five it was our final week in term 2 but we were able to accomplish mnay things in the mysic department but we were only able to accomplosh mininmal thinga in our art deprtment.For the tuesday lesson me and my depratment again fired off with the composing, Me and rania went on to the Piano and we decided to create the compostoitons togther as we foudn that we could creatre better compositions as a dual rather than as sperate indidivduals as we were able to imrpove each others compositions to make them even better.Me and rania spent he lesson creating piano compositions minaly for horror and then as we wereable to help each other a lot mkaing it better then it was.While we worked together we also foudn that we were able to harmonize an combine the pitches which then leadedus to be able to compose s horror compositino was not short but also soundede etremelty good due to the combination of pitches.By the end of the lesson we were able to compose around 4 compostions that had 2 happpy and two horror that me and Raniab worked on.Meanwhile, for our partner Ibrahim ever since he joined he has continuosly been unable to come uo with any comositions and we hvae tried to encourag ehim however we continue to find no result from him .On the wednesday lesson we tried using dofferent intsiruemnts rather than continueosly using the Pianonfro all our compositions.After using the piano for 2 weeks we decided to use some other instrument and decided to use the xylophone.With the xylophone we were able to create around 2 compositions for happy tension and horror.For the xylephone we foudn that we could create mnay dual compositiontions with it if we played it togther and if we matched and were able to harmoize different pitches on the zylaphoe but also of we played the same notes we could create some good compositions.Using the different xylaohones we werwe able t o comnie the different pitches and notes mkaing them sound unison but also sounding extremely good due to the similarity in notes but combination in picthches mkaing it more in unison.By the end of the lesson we were able to come up with 3 xylaphone compositions that had one horror and 2 happy.For our partner Igrahim he was again unable to come up with nay compositions.
Week 6:
During week 6 we were intoduced ot our new teacher, we pent most of the lesson intorducing ourselves to here and talking to here about our project that has been presented to us in the revious term, each student then had to intorsuce themseves ot here and intoduce to her the groups.We sat in our groups in front of here for her t be able to wirte down the groups.For this periodj we were in the art room as the art tecaher was also intoducing her to the project and we will hvae to be doing ofor it.After some time of intorduction we were left to go to out class where we continued to intorduce ourself to the tecaher.With lottle time left in the lesson we were stilll able to fit in osme work so we then composed some running music that was done by Rania and also one horro Piano compositin that we both worked on, Ibraghim also attempted showing us somehting on the drusm but it htne ended up being him joking aorund.By the end of the lesson me and Rania were able to come up with 2 compositions.Meanwhile for the art, out partner Kiyara went dow starts to help them and Davide also got clay for them to work with.Sadly, they still wernet able to complete a single charcter for the whole lesson except for parts of charcters.For the wedenesday lesson Davide forgot his clay so the art were unable to wprk on their chracters.For the music our partner Rania was absent so me and Kiyara decided to go down and help the arts group, Kiyara helped the boys in the art deprtnmet for the bakchgoeunds while I used some pf te clay that was availble in class to create the chicken, Kentocky.By the end of the lesson we endede up with one backgroudn thta was made by Kiyara and a chicken that was made by me, the boys worked for some of the time but mainy messed around while Ibrahim again did not od anything for th whowle lesson and jsut messed around.
Week 7:
During week 7 we were able to finalize all our compositions by the end of the week and for the music department we mostly wen to help the art deprtment to finsh there work.On the tuesday lesson, for the music deprtment we finslized all our music compositions and we made sure that we have written all the notes to the compositions in the notebook so that next week we wouldrecord them on to muxcrft to out thme all in one file.Next Kiyara orgainzed the scenes neatky in correct order, and she also out the tyeoes of music fir each scene so thst nrct errk uding the order er eould be able to use it to put the music in order fo the scenes.For the other hald of the mudiv we went doewnnand helped the art.When we went down we foud thatthey hardly did any work and onely had one backgeound done for the whole time.I found it quite disapponintng as I imagined that they could have down musch more in the time they were given.When we saw that we strted working in the clay puppets.I strted working on the parts of the three witches as I found myslef able to complete that.By the end of the lesson I was able to finsh all the parts of the witches and me and my oartner Kiyara decided to meet afterschool to finsh some of the artwork as the art deoprtment hardky didb anywork.By the end of the lesson I was able to finsh all the parst of the witches and they were able to foisnh another background.For the wedensday lesson we continued working on the art deprtament as they needed quite alot of hlep so that we would be able to finsh the art deprament form the project.For the lesson I finshed the wit hes fully and I made all there parts and I also collected wire pices to make the actual witch and to out it all together.For the about 15 more minutes I continued to wrok on the final witch and then to put it all together i decided to stay afterschool with my partner Kiyara so that we could finsh the charcters and out the all otgether for the next lesson.For some of the time I also went upstirs with rania and made sure that we had all our music done for the scenes so that for next week we would strt putting them on mixcraft and finally out them all on one file.By the end of the lesson I had all the pices of the witch vharcters and all the wire so that afterschool I would just need to put them all togther and also for the golcilocks as it was partially ruined and I had to fix them again.During the afterschool I was able to finalize all the characters.By the end of the week we were still unable to get any results from Ibrhuim from our dpeartmeny and we couldnr give him any responsibilities to complete.
Week 8:
For week 8 we were able to finalize all the individual recodirings fro hte music and we are ready to out them all in one file next week to finalize the music.For the tuesday lesson we played dome of our copostitions and decided which one we woudl use in which scne as we had multiple ones from one type which meant we needd ot decide which eact composition would go in which scene.All this oinfromation was recodede in my temate\s book Kiyara where we kept all the ocmpositions and their infromation.For that lesson we allowed miss to listen to our music and we asked her for feedbaclk and she said that if we wanted we could add anything but it is extremely good at this point but as we were done and had free time sh esaid we coudl.But, we though that we were happuy with our music so she agreed with us and we deicded that we should dtrst recodring to finalize all the ixcraft recodrings.Sady the lesson was over by that time but we were now ready to record by next lesson on to mixrcaft.For the wednesday lesson me and my parttner arnia stayed upstairs in the music room and we bith worked on individuallyyy recodring the compositions.We divided so tat each of us would record some compositions that we would then out together all in one.In the beginning I found it quite hard to use mixcraft as it was my first tiem using it this yera so I wasnt very confsident using it.So I decided to try and see if mauybe Ibrhaim would be able to help us here as I was trying to give him a task as he was unable to come uo witht a ocmposition.Sadlly e was unable to and just left and went to fool aorund.I then deiceded to ask Rania as she found it much easier to miscarft so she tauht me and we btih strted recodring,During the lesson both of us helped each other in some way throughiut.For kiyara she went and also helped the art ot finslize some of the things like some of the chracters and one backgeound as some of thme broke and dried up.By the end of the lesson we were able to have all the indivivual recordings and kiyara was able ti help the art deprtemnt mwnawhile, Ibrahim still did nt help in any of the depratments again.
Week 9:
For week nine it was the final week where we needed to finalize all the details and strt filming and editing fro the perfromnace.For the week me and my deprtamnet were done with all the compositions and we had all the individual recordings.For the tuesday lesson we went down to the artand dissapointingly we found that they were not done with the work which menat we were unable to film anyhting until now.So for the lesson me and rania went upstairs ti the music room and then we foudn out that we had to convert all the compositons to a certain type so, we spent the lesson converting the reordings.When we finshed we allowed miss to listen to them and she was veyr happy eith them and she siad that all we had to do was put them in one rerding.For that we deided that since kiyara still needed to add simething we would sned it to her and she would out thme all in one.Then we sent them all to kiyar and we all wen down to help the art.By the end of the lesson we were able to finsh one more background which was the forstet background and also the fram background.For our partner Ibrahim he was still unable to delver us any work.For the art deprtamnet Kiayara mainly did all the work whil ethey partially helped her.For the wedenesday lesson me and Rania foudn out that Kiyara was unable to open the and she was a;so unable to put her recording.So for this lesson me and Rania deicede to finalize the one file that inludes all the recordings of the scenes.We used the book where it inluded th eorder of the scenes to out the music i order.For the recoridigs we decided to leave the timing thye were in and then once we strted editing we would strtech the recordings according to the timing of the scenes as much as we want .Me an dramiba were then able to finsh the recrding half through the lesson so thne we deiceded to go down to the art deorptment to strt filimg.When we went donw we found thta they still ddi nto finsh and that the boys were not working instead Kiyra was the inly one working in that time.So wedeicede to help Kiyara as we foudn out that the chickne which I have created before was actually ruined and also the goldilocks.So for the time we had in the art deprtmnet we finslized all the props so that we would be able ot have everything finalized.By the end of th elesson we finalized all our recordings for the music and all we had left was one setting for the art art.Also, me, Rania and KIyara decided to come afterschool to the week after on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday to film and finslize eveyrhting.For thsi week Ibrahim still did not gov eus any reults and for the secind lessson we allowed him ton jyst work on hi blog as he was very far behind on it.
Here are some imgaes of out project:
Week 10:
For the fitrst lesson on thursday we continued ti film as we werent done yet and we stayed during the lesson in one of the classes and we then spent the whole lesson taking moreimage of more scenes as we firgured out that we didnt have enough miuntes for the claymation presentation so we decided to addd a scene that would make it a little longer so that it could be between the range that was asked from us for the presentation which was 5 to 10 miunyes so we decidede to add some more scens so that the claymation oresnetaio woudl be the appropiate length.During the lesson the rets of the group stayed on theur electrinics as the rest of the boys stayed on their laptops and then Kiyara apent the lesson on editing apps and also one some of the work on music in mixcraft, she spent the lesson in a different rooom thn the rest of the group.After that me and Rania strted working so that KIyara could use it when editing it.By the end of the lessn we were able to have all our scenes ready si thar we would be able to have all pour pictures so that we could use it.For the next lesson we planned t strt editing and put all our iages in order and also try different editing apps.
For the second lesson of the week we found an app thta oculd help us edit.Automatically we strated useing the app.After that we decidede ti show it to miss to ensure that it would be okay as we didnt want to handit in wiht any mistakes causing us to hav ea problme incase we didnt show it toi mis before we handede it in.Whehb we showed it to her she then said that there canno t be a logog shown on the video which we foubd a problem as almost all apps that are made for editing ahve a logo.For most of thw lesson we tried to find a way to try t either blurr it out or maybe even crop it out os that the video wouldnt have a logo and we would be alowed to use an aop.Evn thigub we did a lot of research we were still unable ti find a way to crop out the logo so then we wpuld be able to use the app to create our clyamtion as of we used any reular software it owuld take us a longer time to edit the video and to be bale to finsh it by the dealine.By the end of the lesson we were able to decided to use imovie for the presentation.
Week 11:
During week 11 it was th week where we had to finalize th eporject and hand it in by the end of the week.For the tuesday lesson we decided to finalize the editing ofo the music so that we would add it once we wer done editing the video which Kiyara was currently working on.During the lesson the buys worked with us to try to fugure out if we would be able to use an app but also not have a logog on the video.We tried to reserahc different techniques t try to do it and in the middle of the lesson we were able to finsh editing the video.However near to the end of the lesson, I had to elave early as my dad came to pick me uo however.Kiyara was almost done editing the video at the time and my partner me and Rania were able to edit the full file and made it all in one file ans saved however, we were unbale to adjust them exacty with the timingd sof the video as we were not dine edting the whole video unbaling us to fully finslize the music.But, after I left Rania, Kiyara and th rest of the group stayed and continued their work in the lesson.Meanwhile Kiyara and Rania staye after school so that thye would finalize doing the music and save it while Kiyra continues to edit.
For the wednesday lesson, we finalized the whole video, the music and everything however, we deidede that we needed to do the voice overs.During the lesson as a group we sat and we recordede the voice overs and we tried to look for a way to pout them in th evideo when we deit so that they can be claer but by the end of the lesson we fiund out that we couldnt accomplish that.For the lesson we also put on the tomings where we out the speech and we were also able to out the music onto the video but not precisly instead we only briefly out them on the app without adjusting that as we deiceded to leave that for later.During the lesson we finslzedthe whole video except editing it and adjusting it to exact timings so that it could be finalized.By the edn of the Lesson we were bale to finlize everyting except we were still unable to know how we were goign to show the text or even narrate the video.For that me and my partners Kiyara and Rania decidede to stay afterschool so thta we would finslize it fully and submit it on time.By the 2 lessons we wer eable to finalize the whole video and submit on time.
Final Reflection:
throughout the whole unti me adn my group hav worked incredibly hard on theis project.We spent 11 weeks working on this clay,aton ever since we strted art and music.From the very beginning we have worked hard from both sides Art and Music.Evnethough we worked hard on this project, we still had or ups and downs.For this whole project we have successfully been able to complete the assignment well and had it in one time however, throughout there creation of the project we still faced many, many issues I terms of editing, collaboration creation of art pieces and many hinges I general.One problem that we faced was that for our art group they took a long time to create the characters which the music group was able to create in around 2 lessons however, it want their fault all the time as sometimes we faced issues as that our characters were taken from the class and broken and we couldn't do anything about it as we also,lost a character and we had to create it again.Also sometimes the characters would dry up and we wouldn't be bake to work on them the next day.For the problems we faced with editing I was the one editing the final video and it took me very long time for me to be able to do it well with timings accurately as in when to put the music and also I found it very hard to use iMovie but also it was extremely hard to make the speech and the music accurate.Also, we were unable to use the voice overs as it would have ruined the music so we decided to use subtitles which took a lot of time to edit and also took a lot of time in the video.Other than that it also made he video much longer which was a problem that I faced as i had to spend a lot of time to make it shorter.Overall for editing it took me around 3 hours to finalise which was a very big problem that I faced. The last problem we faced was that sometimes our art group didn't work efficiently marking the process of creation slower. even though we had math problems we were still able to overcome hen by the end and successfully finish the assignment.
Most of the creation precises well for he unit.asome if the things that went well weremusic due to how as Soonnas we are red the unit we were able to start creating the music which made t much easier when it came to crating the actual music as we all had experience with instruments making it easier for us to create them on time for the assignment.Another thing that also went well but could have gone better was the sets as they all seemed to be good but hey could have been improved in terms of appearance as they weren't the most aesthetically pretty ones but also they didn't include much detail no making them look extremely pretty however, they stilll looked good in some way.Other than that even though it took them a very long time the clay characters were good however they weren't very good as they weren't made very well and we were unable to make them with details and as pretty as we wanted them to be.Another thug that went well was that I was able to collaborate well and we didn't have much problems collaborating together however I was able to collaborate really mainly with tow partners which were Kiyara and Rania however, with the rest of the gorionI was still able to coppbaorat well hit not very well.The last thing gay went well was the siting of the music as we didn't find it too hard as we already had experience with mixcrafft but we still ha d'Aimé issues using it however we were able to do the editing well.To conoïde I believe that we did a good job completing the assignment how ever it could be much there next time and we cils improve in many ways however, it was still very good and the final product was elves good but could till be imported in terms of creation and finializibv.
