My first day of MMM-by Susan

My first day of MMM!!

By Susan

My first day of MMM is fun!! As I’m writing this for my blog, I’m also going to post this on the MMM blog as my homework! So I’m catching two fish with one hook (at least I think I am!!)! let me start from the beginning…

This morning, when I arrived at MATV, I was really excited. I’ve met the teacher, and she’s really nice. I wondered what we will be doing today. Soon I found out.

In studio A (the big one), we sat around the table. I knew most of the people. Joanna, my friend from fellowship, three people from KVA (kids adventure workshop. I went there last year), and three people from ELL. I didn’t know Gio, whose was helping our teacher, Lisette (sorry if I spelled her name wrong!!), teach the class. At first we made Flipbooks.

Today is all about animation, so we are going to draw a series of drawings on index cards and flip through them real fast so we see a smooth motion instead of a bunch of drawings. We did a dot dropping to the bottom of the page first. Then, we did our own animation. I did a stick person doing jumping jacks. I used the dot as the head. Some people did flowers, people fighting, and other very different and creative things. I think this class is going to be fun.

When we took a tour, we all went downstairs to the props. We were allowed to take one prop each, and most people took like a gun, or lifeguard hoop, saws, or small things. I took the best thing there—a cherry blossom tree!!! It was really heavy, but I got it down.

Lisette also introduced us to some new instruments. We had a little portable camera shaped just like a phone with a tiny tripod, called a flip. That’s because, as we soon found out, it had a little flipping USB hidden inside it. The other audio recorder is called a zoom, and is used to record audio (Of course! What else!?). The camera also has audio, but not as good as the zoom. We used them after we watched a video on Youtube called ‘Human Skateboard’. It’s created by an animator called Pes. It showed a person riding a skateboard, doing difficult jumps and twist and turn, and even jumping over a car! However, the skateboard is a person lying flat on his belly!! He actually stood on his in real life for hours and hours! Wow!!

Then, we made something like that using a software called Frame thief. We all stood in a row at the back of the room, and the computer took pictures of us every time we took a step. Then, we did some funny turns and stuff, and when we played it, I looked as if we were gliding towards the screen, glide back, turned round and round, and did silly moves. That’s called Pixilation. We also did a thing called stop motion. We put our props on the ground and moved them around. We took pictures of them in different positions, and it looks as if the props are haunted! We added animal noises, cartoon noises, and spooky noises with the zoom. Then, we imported them in to iMovie and Garageband. Those are editing softwares I have no idea how to use. I think I like final cut pro better.

We also played Museum, which is also Statue in the Park. I lost. Then, we watched some more REALLY COOL Pes animation. We also explored some chose your own adventure videos and I think that was a really cool and awesome day, and I love it.