Christopher Columbus: A Whole New World

This is a blog about the claymation Guy and I made. First I'll tell you about the best parts about making the video. Then I'll tell you about the hardest parts. Last I'll tell you about the main things that I learned.

One of the best parts about making the claymation was getting to hangout with my friend. We got to go to each others houses to finish the claymation. I also enjoyed watching the end product, I thought it was really good. It was cool to show all of my friends and family. Editing the movie to make it better was also fun, especially when we put something funny in. I liked making the props and people because every character had something funny about them. For example in the last scene the guy that was taking Christopher Columbus to jail had a comb over. Putting little funny things in was really fun. Like in "First Voyage" when the little guy in the background gets eaten, or in "Back in Spain" where the picture of the queen looks exactly like the clay queen. When I made the son's hat my partner couldn't stop laughing.

This next paragraph is about the hard things. One of the main hard things was keeping the clay to stay hard. When ever we made the people the clay got warm so they didn't stand up well. The clay was also very soft when it wasn't warm making it even harder to get the people to stand on their own. The next hard thing was getting the scenes done in time. We ended up taking the pictures at our houses and doing the computer work at school. We even had to stay after school a lot. It was also hard to get all of the pictures to be the same length, we had to shorten each one individually. Recording was also hard because the computer would cut some of the voice off. Sometimes the pictures would get all scrambled up and we would have to arrange them.

This paragraph is about the things I learned. First of all I Learned that you need to work during a workshop period. The next thing I learned was that you don't need to add to much detail to make it look good. I also learned that if your clay people are to warm that you can put them in the freezer for a little while to cool them down. I also learned how to use the pitch changer. It help with the parrot and the queen. I learned how to change the length of pictures. I learned how to get music easily onto the claymation, just go to YouTube press play then record on your project. I also learned how to put movies on google video. I learned what spaces and computers where best to work at. Lastly I learned that dancing in the bottom level of the two story during workshop time isn't a good thing to do.

I think that the claymation that Guy and I made was really good. I hope you learned something from this entry. That's all for now BYE!!!!!



I won't be writing any more entries on Shmickelhimer, SORRY.
But it will be made into an interactive fiction that you can play yourself!!!