Imagine

Our invention was the Food Phone, “our” as in four middle schooler’s who don’t know anything about working as a team, but we did it and had a great time while we did it. Our idea was to make a phone be a food teleportation device. Three things we had to do were make a poster and script, make a storyboard and video, and last we edited and shared the video.

Coming up with the idea was easy–we all like food and we all like cell phones. We put it together and we got The Food Phone. We thought about the prices and the things it would do and we came up with charging $500 for the retail price and $15.99 a month and your first three months are free. We came up with the idea that if we had the technology to teleport things we would have food be teleported by texting in the food you want and it pops or “poofs” out of a space from your cell phone. We made a poster by drawing and coloring in the pictures and writing facts and guarantees.

After that we wrote a script and Ralitza and I decided who was going to play whom. So Jonathan G played the kid who doesn’t have any money with him to buy food and is sad until his friend (Ralitza) comes and lets him brrow the Food Phone and he get his food. I was the spokesperson who announced things and did most of the transactions and Cassandra was the camera person.

After all the writing we also did some drawing or as Mr.Goldstien calls it, storyboarding. To make a storyboard you have to take multiple kinds of shots which include close up, even closer us, and even closer up. so our close ups were first you see me (spokesperson) and then we close up to Jonathan. Then we zoom out to me, then close up again then you show all of us then we made a montage of kids in our class with the food phone and a bag of little bites and a drink with smiles on their faces. Then we shot our video, which caused a lot of problems, we couldn’t stop laughing. Jonathan wasted time getting annoyed and Cassy kept moving the camera. Mostly Jonathan wouldn’t smile, but I had a great time even though we had to keep retaking it. I don’t think I would have done anything differently.

Next we edited our video. Which mostly me and Jonathan did was get music for the titles and credits and picking out transitions together, and Cassy and Ralitza helped. We shared it, Jonathan mostly did that. Which we posted on our class room blog http:// weblogs.pbspaces,.com/mrgoldstein.

Our group worked great together because we all made each other laugh, each of us contributed an equal amount of wok and ideas into our project. The only problem we encountered was that we honestly were so busy having fun that we wasted our time by making mistakes. I guess we worked that problem out by finishing on time and the video coming out great. I think the thing that in particularly enjoyed about making a video and having the whole world being able to see it. I think the thing that our team worked best at was the editing because we got it done the quickest.

I loved creating the food phone and doing the invention project. Something I learned about this project was a lot of fun and making a commercial is really easy when you have Mr. Goldstein as a teacher. Don’t forget to watch our video!

My Claymation is about the world cup finals. Also known as soccer tournament in America. We made up this idea by ruining our first Claymation project idea. So my partner Berk wanted to do soccer. I agreed and my other partner, Jon agreed to. So we figured this out by Berk making this idea. We made things up as we worked.
We got our ideas by just doing what ever we want to do. Our Claymation designer, Berk just did all the moving clay to all himself, and he did whatever he wanted to do. We triggered this idea by that. We worked together well as a team. We helped out by adjusting the camera and making the music and etc. The benefits were the amount of time we had. We encounter some hand parts because Jon was not paying attention. It was hard. We worked this problem out by doing nothing. We just said, “Do your job.” I enjoyed the most is editing the music and credits. There were easy to use. We had so much fun, including me.
The challenges were nothing. It was just easy and simple. There was a little struggle in the end because of deleting the pictures. Everything went well. It was so fun. I enjoyed it. If we had the chance to go back and fix something, it would be making the video longer and more editing. My project was so much fun, and I had a blast with my partners Jon, and Berk.

World Cup Finals