Another Four i-Movie Reflections!!!!

Maria's and Andrea's iMovie.

Maria's and Andrea's iMovie was about Ramses II. I think that they did a pretty good job achieving the expectations in the rubric. They had transitions between pictures, a creative theme, and all their images were of good quality. The images matched the narration throughout, which was good. There were no background noises, there voices were clear and loud, so everybody could hear and understand. What I really liked about their presentation was that they not only created one imovie, but two. The second one was all acting, and it was HILARIOUS. They introduced their pharaoh well, telling about what period of time he ruled in, which dynasty and everything. They also spoke clearly about his achievements and architectual accomplishments.

Stephanie's and Kennedy's iMovie.

Stephanie's and Kennedy's iMovie was on Hatshepsut. I think they intruduced Hatshepsut well, and did tell us about the achievementsand architectual accomplishments. Their voices were loud, but not all that clear, and there were some background noises. Although the matched the narration throughout, they of good quality. I'm not sure if they did the citations in MLA format or not, because on their blogs, the video the uploaded wasn't very clear. There were transitions between pictures, which made the iMovie interesting to watch.

Ashika's and Alvin's iMovie.

This iMovie was based on Queen Nefertiti. They did describe the accomplishments and architectual achievements, but they were talking waaaaaayyyyy too fast. Their images were of good quality, and if they had talked slower, I believe their voices would be clear. They did have transitions between pictures, so that was good. They did cite their sources in MLA format, which was really good, because hardly anyone did. There images did match the narration throughout, so in conclusion, it think that apart from the speed of which they talked in, everything else was pretty fine.

Laura's and Megan's iMovie.

Their imovie was on Akhenaten. There voices weren't that easy to listen to, and they had background noises. Megan spoke most of the time, but Laura hardly discussed anything about the achievements and accomplishments. She only said things like "OH really? Tell me some more?" and all those stuff to make the iMovie a sort of conversation. I don't think they did their MLA citations or not because the sources went really fast. Their images did match their narration, and there were transitions though. The good about their's is that they some acting scenes as well.

Pharaoh i-Movie reflection

In humanities, we got into partners and created an i - movie about Ancient Egypt's pharaohs. Me and my partner, Yu Ern, chose the pharaoh Tutankhamun. I think that we didn't do too bad on the i-movie itself, but the bad thing was we weren't able to finish in time, because we only got about one day two work together. The rest of the days it was either me absent, or Yu Ern, so that wasn't really good. But now that we've finished, I can reflect on our i - movie. What I think that did not meet the expectations in the rubric was that we forgot cite our sources in MLA format. I think we did achieve the contents required in the rubric, mostly I think we got a four on that. The images were good, I think that the quality of them weren't too bad. All of the images fit with what we say, because you just can't simply put a picture of a random guy when you're talking about Tutankhamun's famous monuments....that's just wrong.

About the voices we recorded in the imovie, I think it was clear and well-done, apart from one thing in the beginning of the presentation. We decided to act out a small "skit" to introduce and lead into out imovie, but that didn't work that well. We filmed it in a corrider, so that the darkness gives it abit of reality/emotion. The bad thing about that was that there were noises all over in the background. I think that because of the background noise, some parts of the skit was a little bit too soft. That was kind of a pain....overall, we did and redid that skit for about nearly ten times. One of the times, we were about to finish the skit (we were on our last sentence), and this 8th grader just simply came in and shouted "Yo, whatz up, you guys. Stop doing your stupid thing" right in front of our screen. To tell the truth, we were quite angry with him....the bad thing was that he didn't even feel sorry.

Now...I'm supposed to reflect on somebody else's imovie presentation, right? Well, maybe I should comment on Ashika's and Alvin's. Their presentation was pretty good actually. I think that they met the course expectations, but I'm not sure. The thing I can really say they didn't quite meet the course expectations was the narration. They literally spoke at the speed of light, and that was why I can't tell if they actually met the course expectations or not.

However, their imovie had a good theme, and it was very creative of them to put a picture of the globe and run an arrow to show where Egypt was, at the beginning of their presentation. I understood some parts of their presentation, and was able to tell that their images did match what they said. The quality of the images were good.