Claymation Reflection Essay

In this essay I will tell you a little bit about my experience with my claymation project. We were working on these claymation projects for about a month. For this claymation project my partner was Andrew Holt.

My favorite part about this whole claymation project was learning how to use a lot of the different applications on the computer. This was my favorite part because I did not know how to use some of the applications like iphoto and imovie. At the end of this project however I was was pretty good at using all of the applications on the computer. I learned how to shorten clips in imovie and how to put in music. I learned how to upload videos into iphoto from my camera and then transport them into imovie. Sometimes uploading the pictures to iphoto was not the easiest thing to do. My camera had to be in a certain mode to let me upload the pictures. I did not know this until about half of the way through the project but after I Knew what to do it became easier. Another cool thing that I learned how to do was ad voice and make titles in Imovie. That was my favorite part about the claymation project.

The hardest thing about this project was moving the clay for each picture. You had to move each prop and or clay person the slightest bit before each picture. This was hard because sometimes the clay people would fall over and then you didn't know where they were standing so then you would have to guess where they were standing and sometimes you would be way off and then the claymation would have a big jump in it. Another reason why this was so hard was because after you move the clay so many times it will eventually rip. When the clay people rip you have to re-attach there body parts and they sometimes look different. After you fix your clay people and take more pictures and move them more they will rip or become deformed again, when this happens you have to fix your people again. This process repeats over and over. Moving the people is also hard because the people are so small. This makes it hard because their arms and legs are also very small. When your clay peoples legs are small it makes it hard to position your clay people. The smalls arms also give you a disadvantage because if you want your clay person to pick something up it is nearly impossible because their arms are so small.

The most important thing that i learned when i was doing this project was time management. This is the most important thing that I learned because if you did not get you scenes in on time you could not get full credit for that scene. Another place that time management comes into play is when you are shooting your scenes or making your props. Time management in these situations is and issue because if your scene is due in two days you would probably want to make your props the first day then shoot you scenes the second day. If you did not do that you would be stuck with making your props and shooting your scene all on the same day which is not an easy task. Andrew and I were fairly good at getting our scenes in on time. The only scene that we did not get in on time was the final scene with the ending credits. I usually wait until the last day to do thing on big projects but on this project you could not do that. You could not and should not wait until the last day to do everything on this project because it is not all due on one day, each scene is due on its own day. Over all I think I learned how too manage my time better on big projects.

This was a reflection on my claymation project. This project was one of my favorite projects I have ever done. It is one of my favorites because it gave us a lot of freedom we were pretty much on our own every day. I hope you enjoyed reading about my project and I hope that I have given you some good advice that you can use if you ever have to do a project like this one.


By: Cameron Coupe

My Interests

In this blog I will alk about my interests. One of the things that I really like to do is play sports. I play a lot of sports, i am always playing a different sport. A few of the sports that I really like to play are soccer, football, basketball, and I also like to run track. I have played soccer since i was four years old, I have really gotten better over the years and so has our team. The last three years i have played on a traveling team with all of my friends from school, over those three years we did not lose a single regular season game. This year are soccer team moved up to select and we are playing 15 and 16 year olds. We are not doing very good this year , we have lost evey game. Now i will move onto basketball. I have also beeen playing basketball for as long as iI can remember. I played school basketball last year and had a great time. I am playing basketball agian this year. On to football. Last year was the first time I had ever played football. I played kicker, slot back, punt returner, kick returner, corner back, and in one game a played tail back and I scored a touch down. Last year we did not loose a game. We did not loose a game this year either. At the beginning of the season I had a broken foot and it was broken all through the football season but I was still able to play. I didnt play anything other than kicker through the first three games. Last year was also my first year ever doing anything that had to do with track. I had a great time. I decided to run hurdles about three days before the first meet , and what do you knw I was a natural. I think that I was good because my mom ran hurdles in highschool. Last year I won the cascade league champion ship title in hurdles.

Adventure ed trip continued

This is a continuation of my last blog called My Adventure Ed. Trip. I will pick up right where I left off last time. I believe I left off last time right after I had spilled my food all over myself. After I had spilled my food all over my self I went to my campsite and got some baby towels to wash it off. After I washed off my food I went back to the fire and I finished my food. After I finished my food I went to bed. In the morning we woke up early and packed up our tent and backpacks like we do every morning, but today was harder because it was really cold out. It was a real challenge taking our tent down and stuffing it into the bag. After we were all packed up we went to the creek that was close to the campsite. At the creek we started to skip rocks like we always do when we have a little spare time. We ended up staying at this campsite for quiet a while in the morning, so there was really no reason for us to get up so early. When we started walking the hike was not to hard but once we had been hiking for about an hour the rocks started to really slippery and wet. during today's hike me and Andrew had to go back and carry other peoples backpacks which was no the funnest thing. When we arrived at camp it was almost dark so I cooked my food and went to bed. On this night I got to eat 2 mountain house meals because I had an extra. In the morning we had to wake up and start hiking pretty early. This morning I did not want to get up but I thought about how it was the last day and that gave me the energy to get up and out of bed. When we started hiking I was feeling pretty good and once we could see the parking lot we could take a rest and eat some lunch, and guess what I did I skipped more rocks. When we got to the parking lot the first thing I did was go and use the bathroom. After I used the bathroom me, Sam ,Andrew, and Snelling played some frisbee. When the bus showed up it felt so good to get on the heated bus and lay down.

My Adventure Ed. Trip

This week i went on my first adventure ed. trip, and now i will tell you about it. We left for the trip on sunday and rode the bus for hours. When we got to the coast we started hiking right when we arrived. The first days hike was only 3 miles on a board walk through the woods so it was not very hard. When we arrived at are first campsite its was around 3:30 so we had some time to hang out. That night when we went to bed it was not raining so that was a good thing. When we woke up in the morning Andrew (my tent partner) realized that raccoons had stolen all of his trail mix for the entire trip. That morning when we started hiking the wind was blowing and the rain was coming down pretty hard. The wind was blowing so hard that it broke Andrews umbrella. After we had hiked for about two miles the wind started to die down and so did the rain. Halfway through the hike on the second day we came to a big hill and me and Andrew climbed up it and ate lunch. That night we stayed at my favorite campsite out of the whole trip. This campsite is located on the top of a cliff right above the beach. later that night me and Sam went down to the beach and hung out for a while. In the morning we woke up and went down to the beach and skipped some rocks. On the third day we met the other group halfway through the hike. We stopped and talked to them for about 15 minutes then started walking again . At the next campsite we stayed at we went and picked some muscles of one of the near by rocks. we cooked the muscles over the fire by putting them in our pots then pouring water into our pots and waiting for the muscles to open. Later that night I was making my mountain house meal and it spilled all over me. To be continued.....

My Life Graph

This is my life graph and im going to talk about when I crashed crashed my dirt bike into a tree. I got my first dirt bike for Christmas and i was really excited because I had been asking for a dirt bike for the last couple of years. It was a KTM 50cc 1999 model. The first time that I went to go ride it I was just putting around but then my dad said go a little faster, go a little faster , go a little faster so I kept going faster and faster. But I started to go so fast couldn't control it anymore and I was heading strait for a tree. Before I could redirect my course so I wasn't going to hit the the tree BAM! I smashed right into the tree. Luckily I wasn't hurt but I was really mad at my dad for wanting me to go faster and faster. After I hit the tree i swore I would never ride the dirt bike again. But I was persuaded to ride it again and when I did I loved it. We made a mini dirt bike track in our back yard with jumps and everything. I rode my dirt bike almost everyday. Then i started racing my dirt bike over in bellingham. I was really good but then for some reason i stopped. A few years later my dirt bike broke but then i got a new one. I am still riding dirt bikes today but I am no longer racing them.

My Best Friends

I have many best friends so I will list them and tell you why they are my best friends.Andrew Holt,Guy Sparkman,Connor Mccauley,Camden B,Isaac R.,Hayden Nichols.,Mike Schaaf,Sam Turpin,River Ellis, That is only a few. I will describe the rest in a later blog. First of all i will talk about Andrew Holt. Andrew Holt is one of my best friends because he is really funny, he is nice, he has a lot of the same interests as me for example we both like golf, soccer, basketball, and other things. Now i will talk about Guy Sparkman. Me and Guy are really good friends because we are both pretty short, we have a lot of the same interests, and we both like to joke around. Now I will talk about Connor. Connor and I are good friends because we are both really competitive so we each push each other to go harder and harder. Camden B. is one of my best friends because he is very funny. We like to joke a lot in class. Isaac is one of my best friends because he is very hugable , and he has really cool hair. Hayden is one of my best friends because he can always make you laugh even if you are having the worst day ever. Now I am going to talk about Mike Shaaf. Mike is the most random kid i have ever known. He is really funny but he gets in trouble by Mr. B a lot. Sam Turpin is one of my best friends for many reasons One he is very funny and iI like people that can make me laugh, he also really likes to play soccer and so do I. River is one of my best friends because he is usually really laid back so if if I just want to hang out with someone he is one of my first choices. River can also be very hyper at times also. This is just a list of SOME of my best friends and why i like them. I hope you enjoyed reading this blog entry.

Video Bar

The man that is blending things in that video is not very smart. Why would you blend those things?

My Trip to Longbeach

this summer for my summer vacation I went to Longbeach with my family. The worst part about the whole trip was the drive down to Longbeach because we got a little bit lost. Once we got to our hotel we all wanted to get out of the car and do something really bad because we had been sitting in the car for the last four hours. So we went to the beach with are dog. On the beach we saw alot of cars which was wierd because here we cant drive cars on the beach. after we had walked the beach for a while we went back to are hotel and tried to think of what we could do. We decided that we should go eat dinner at a local resteraunt that we had heard had very good food. It turned out that what we heard was true that was so of the best food i have ever had. Once we got back to our hotel it was time to go to sleep. The next day I woke up early and thought it we be fun to go swimming so i got a room Key and went to the pool. When i got to the pool I was suprised to see that there was no one else in the pool. After i was done swimming i went back up to my hotel room and my mom was cooking breakfast. For breakfast we had eggs, bacon, and sausage it was delicious, After breakfast we went into town and looked in some stores and then so a horse and moped rental place. My sister and mom rented horses and me and my step dad got a moped. As my sister and mom were off riding horse we were on the beach riding the moped. After riding the moped on the beach we went to an old baseball field so i could drive the moped. I was going 25 miles per hour on a bumpy dirt road and caught air because i hit a pothole. After that we went back and met my mom and sister. to be continued.....

First blog ever

my blog is going to be the coolest blog on the whole internet.