Stop Frame Reflection Essay

Taylor Todd
American Studies
November 6, 2007


Stop Frame Reflection Essay


For my project I did Vasco Nunez de Balboa. He was a explore who ended up in Hispaniola coming from Spain. The time my partner and me worked on this is about 2-3 weeks. My partner was Shane Ball and we did well I think. It was a rocky project but we got through it.

What I though was most fun is playing with the clay and taking pictures. Making little guys to go with our animation. Making all of our scenes for is animation like the background, the people, the waves, and the boat. The pictures where fun to because you got to use a camera. But the hard thing about the camera was if you clicked the button to soon your hand might be in the picture and you would have to redo the scene. Then after you were done with the camera you had to put the pictures on the computer so they could upload. It only took a minute or so for them to upload to the computer.

I think the hardest thing to do on this project was the voice and the computer work. If you put another scene in it would play in it place. Another thing was recording your voice because you want it to be load and good at the same time. The voice was hard because the was not much place to more your voice to different places. If you had to use the library’s camera you had to find your pictures in about 300 other pictures and it took time to find your pictures and it was a pain. Sometimes the camera had to download all 300 pictures so it took forever. Than you had to move the other all the picture to the camera again.

The most important thing I learned is how to use imovie and all how to use the schools computers better. Some things I learned about imovie are how to put scenes in and take out, record my voice, create scene, move ships. I learned how to make movies. I got taught how to cut a picture for the Internet and move it in to the imovie. Some other things I learned about the computers is that you have to save because if you don’t the computer can quite the program that you are in. some thing else I learned is ask for help if you are confused and don’t try to fix it your self. Imovie can help you but it cannot help you.

I hope we did good and got a good grade. This project was fun and confusing in different places like when we had to use the computer and the voice, moving the clay way pain to because our guy fell over and kept get squashed so we had to rebuilt him about 10-15 times.