WHERE YOU STAND WITH YOUR GRADE:

About 200 points left

A 2 letter grade drop if you have done nothing since mid-project.

A 1 letter grade drop if you have slacked off and turn in junk

REQUIREMENT DUE FRIDAY (I will accept this late, if you have it done on Friday - tomorrow!, I will proof-read it before you turn it in):

Everyone must write a summary document (examples below)

A FEW SUGGESTIONS TO GET THE MOST POINTS FROM ME ON YOUR PROJECT:

Movies and Websites Must have some original material - not just have pictures from the internet. Reminder to give credit for pictures, videos, songs…

MOVIES: Need to be able to show and talk about your movie in 5 minutes!! If your movie is longer you need to either show a shorter version OR just show the best part. I will cut everyone off at 7 minutes and deduct points (you’ll get a one minute warning).

Fireworks Editing projects: Some of what you are doing should have before and after pictures (ideally all). All of them should have instructions of how you did it. Expecting at least 20 pictures.

Flash Games - Must show code, explain, and show which parts you changed. Just copying code and changing the pictures will not result in a very good project grade.

Part I – Ideas to help you write your summary

My Goal:

Questions to ask yourself: What was my original vision? What inspired me? Was there something else I’d seen that I was trying to simulate? Did I hope to create something really cool that might be really hard or was I just trying to create something that would get me a decent grade that I thought I could do?

Problems:

Questions to ask yourself: What did I write about in my journal? Did I make good progress every day or were some days slower than others? Why? Was there a particular problem I couldn’t find an answer to? Was there a problem Mr. Taylor or another person helped me with? Was there something I had forgotten how to do? Was I able to find enough information on the internet? Was there anything I wanted to do but couldn’t because I couldn’t find information on how to do it?

Learnings:

Did I enjoy this project? Did the journal help me plan the next day? Did I re-inforce something I already knew? Would I want to work on computers for 8 hours each day? Would I want to do these kind of tasks as part of a regular job? Was I able to motivate myself to work on my project every day? Did the “free time” given to me cause me to goof off or did I work most of each class period? Did I make the project too difficult or too easy?

If I had more time:

Was there anything I didn’t have time to do? Was there anything I wanted to do but had not yet figured out how to do it? Are there other features I would like to add? Would I have liked to make the project bigger/longer/better? Would I like to repeat the project in a slightly different way? Would I like to pick a different project?

Final Result/Self Evaluation:

Is my project good/bad/great? Did I give it my best effort? How does it measure up against all the other projects? How does it measure up against other projects which were similar? Why was my project better or worse than all the others? What kind of grade would I give myself?

Part II – Example Summary (Good and Bad)

Good Summary

(Saved in ProjectSummary.doc in my folder)

Name

My Subject

My Period

Date

Summary of My Flash Movie Project

My Goal:

I wanted to create a movie that was very similar to South Park. I was going to create cut out characters and then animate throughout a hilarious adventure. To make it a little different I thought I would make all of my characters be different computer items. One character would be “mousy”, a computer mouse. Another character would be a keyboard. One would be a printer. And of course the bully in the group would be the all-knowing PC.

Problems:

It was easy enough to come up with some okay looking characters but then it was hard to come up with a script. It all seemed sort of lame. I thought of just ripping off a script from something on Adult Swim but that seemed cheap. I then got the idea to make it about a practical joke that all the other peripherals decided to play on the PC. They would stage his own funeral and pretend as if he were an invisible angel. “It’s a shame his hard-drive crashed – he was so young!!” Each would say a little something and maybe have a flash back to the first time they met the PC.

The next problem is that the scenes, as simple as they were, took forever. And recording the voice-overs for the sounds was fun but it also took a long time and took up a bunch of memory on my student folder so I had to start carrying it around on a flash drive – some days I would forget my flash drive and would have nothing to work on in class – and I don’t have Flash at home so I couldn’t do it there.

Learnings:

Funny cartoons are not as easy as they seem. Not only is it hard to do decent looking animation, getting the sound right and having a decent script is really important. I think this would have been better if I could have worked on it with someone so we could bounce ideas off each other as well as had each other to do the voice work.

If I had more time:

I would go back and re-do some of the scenes. They are okay but I had some better ideas for the scene with mousey giving his eulogy – I thought it would be better to have PC in a window behind where it was raining outside the window and he was out there shouting “I’m not dead!!” with the lightening occasionally back lighting him. Without a better plot the movie was becoming too long anyway so I definitely would not make it longer.

Final Result/Self Evaluation:

I think the animation was pretty good but the story line is still a little weak. It was fun to do the characters and start making the sound but it got a little boring with plotting out the story every day. I’m not sure if I’d ever want to be an animator – maybe working in a team it would be more exciting but it was a little boring at times – although I did enjoy showing it to my friends after each successful new scene. I thought Fran’s movie was funnier than mine although I still think my artwork was pretty good. I give myself an A-/B+.

Teacher Comment: This is OVER 500 words [543]– Student should go back and get rid of at least one long sentence or two short ones. But otherwise would get an A for the summary. The project itself may or may not have been so great but the summary is exactly what the teacher asked for.

Using the Rubric to grade:

Turned In, Named Properly	10
My Goal:	5
Problems:	5
Learnings:	5
If I had more time:	5
Final Result/Self Evaluation:	5
250-500 words	2
Teacher Objective	9
TOTAL (out of 50)	46

Bad Summary (Saved in folder as document1)

No Name or anything

I did project using Movie Maker that was awsome . It had pictures of me and my friends in different places around the bay are. The sound track was made by me by re-mixing old Green Day songs. I couldn’t find no public domain songs that I like so had to use this copyrighted one. This may mean that I can’t upload to youtube but I did give Green day credit in my video. This was a lot of fun and I’d do it again.

Teacher Comment: Only 85 words – Lots of grammar and spelling issues. Didn’t follow format – would be difficult for teacher to grade. Follow directions!! Directions not only help you but help the teacher and make them nicer when they assign grades! While this project may in fact have been awesome – the summary certainly is not.

Using the Rubric to grade:

Turned In, Named Properly	5
My Goal:	2
Problems:	0
Learnings:	2
If I had more time:	0
Final Result/Self Evaluation:	2
250-500 words	0
Teacher Objective	5
TOTAL (out of 50)	16