Operation Weight Deck
Camp Half-Blood finally completed
Saturday, May 5, 2012
I know I already put a reflection, but I have to say that we have finally finished the Camp Half-Blood. After at least six hours of grueling work, we have accomplished so much. Katlyn and her father talked about how to make the forest look real to our viewers. Mr. Humrichouse decided to bring actual tree branches and stick them into the batting cage. It looks extremely awesome, and even better when we added some creatures and other mythological beings. Katlyn had plenty of supplies to work on her cabin. She used huge plastic, paper, and spray paint. Today I ran to the library after getting back from a band contest, and made my battle strategy and maps larger. It turned out not even charging me a cent. It is a good thing I work there. I spent most of the day taping battle strategies and maps on the board. I found many battle strategies not put in any chronological order, and surrounded the on the side board as if they were actually put up by the Gods themselves. Sean worked hard on her environmentalism theme looking in various places for tree branches, even bugging Liam to scavenge some, but had trouble. Mollie really worked on her various Gods cabin, by getting down and dirty with painting the sun gold for Apollo and making a moon for Artemis. Then she continued to put items that represented each and every God in a certain way. Dani wasn't here today because of Dance, but I know she will get the attic done by Monday. She has all the supplies, and all she has to do is put everything together.
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Friday, May 4, 2012
Visual Literacy Reflection #3
Operation Weight Deck #3
Friday, May 4, 2012
Today I saw that we finally have cabins, and now I realize why Katlyn has been bugging me to make things bigger.My booth is Athena and Ares so the major themes are battle and strategy. I made a cool backdrop for my cabin that looks like two rolled up maps. I'm working on making a huge map and pinpointing battle grounds. I have discovered that I will need a bigger table, and a bigger strategy board, but I am totally on that. Dani brought all her supplies for the weight room to make the attic, and I can't wait to see it completed. As for Katlyn's booth, it is really cool seeing the three pedestals, and the real skeleton bones. Sean has been doing a great job with her drawings, and her satyr and D-Dog booth, and even stops by my booth to help me tape something or hold something while I do something else. Mollie unfortunately was not here today, and I'm worried that she will have to do a lot of work on Saturday. I believe we have accomplished a lot today because we have all our supplies, and we are going to work extremely hard Saturday as soon as a few of us get back from Band Contest. We will definitely get this thing done by Monday.
Reflection of Visual Literacy Project:
When I first heard of this idea to decorate Ms. A's room with the themes of the Percy Jackson series , I was okay with it. As we started reading the books, I enjoyed reading them and comparing them to the one Percy Jackson movie. I knew that this huge project was going to be a little challenging because one person may be more creative than the other, and other classmates might ruin all your hard work, but I didn't really think about that too much. I just worried about reading the books, but soon we were done reading them and had to start on this project two weeks later. The AP class decided we didn't want to decorate the English room, and so we discussed many alternatives for about a week. We discussed doing a project as one big group or two small groups. Finally, it was decided that we have boys against girls. The boys doing a movie and the girls recreating Camp Half -Blood. I will have to say that this has the been the most stressful project this year. It seemed like we had all these problems with the weight deck and how the school was going to put up a net, and how we were going to move it to continue with our project. Finally we clarified that we are doing our project on the weight deck. We have all our supplies and we are going to get this done. Overall it was an okay project, but I had a few problems with my creativity, and the amount of time needed to work on the bringing the supplies and make the posters, and pictures. I still somewhat remained calm throughout these couple of weeks.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Visual Literacy Project
Operation Weight Deck Reflection#2
Wednesday May 2, 2012
Today we finally got confirmation that we can move the net on the weight deck so we can start our project. because before that we have been working on our props and etc. to put on the weight deck in the classroom. We figured out that we can't use the dividers from the 4-H building so we are using dividers from Katlyn's church. We are going to divide our cabins by two pieces of cloth on each side of the dividers. making everyone bring their own pieces of fabric. Everyone huddled into a little group under the net talking about what our ideas are and what we need.
My idea for the Athena and Ares cabin is that I make the backdrop red and black using construction paper (red for Ares and Black for Athena), and by putting red and black fabric on each side to make the backdrop and sides of the cabin match. I am also planning on bringing one of my stools to school, using it as a table for a battle strategy board, surrounding the weapons and shields around the stool. My new ideas for Ares is to draw a motorcycle and cut it out of cardboard making it either stand up or stick it to the backdrop. Clarisse who is Ares' daughter needs to be properly represented also so I thought of bringing in a huge spear, and that will allow the symbol that I made for Ares to represent his children. For the Athena part of the cabin, I have found an variety of owls including one with a graduation cap as the main symbol of Athena, which is wisdom. I been thinking that maybe I can put some smaller owls on the fabric if they will stay. I'm still thinking about what I should use to symbolize Athena's daughter Annabeth. Dani gave me the idea of bringing in the invisibility cap, so I can find a random baseball cap.
We all agreed that we will have to work after school on these past couple days, and that we will have to work on Saturday. Four out of five of the members in our group asked Mr. Schwartz about getting access to the weight deck on the weekends since it is usually locked. Mr. Schwartz said that he would open up the school when we finally get there. Katlyn and I have band contest, and won't be back until 11:00 or 12:00. Therefore, we will meet between those times, and spend many hours working on this project.
Wednesday May 2, 2012
Today we finally got confirmation that we can move the net on the weight deck so we can start our project. because before that we have been working on our props and etc. to put on the weight deck in the classroom. We figured out that we can't use the dividers from the 4-H building so we are using dividers from Katlyn's church. We are going to divide our cabins by two pieces of cloth on each side of the dividers. making everyone bring their own pieces of fabric. Everyone huddled into a little group under the net talking about what our ideas are and what we need.
My idea for the Athena and Ares cabin is that I make the backdrop red and black using construction paper (red for Ares and Black for Athena), and by putting red and black fabric on each side to make the backdrop and sides of the cabin match. I am also planning on bringing one of my stools to school, using it as a table for a battle strategy board, surrounding the weapons and shields around the stool. My new ideas for Ares is to draw a motorcycle and cut it out of cardboard making it either stand up or stick it to the backdrop. Clarisse who is Ares' daughter needs to be properly represented also so I thought of bringing in a huge spear, and that will allow the symbol that I made for Ares to represent his children. For the Athena part of the cabin, I have found an variety of owls including one with a graduation cap as the main symbol of Athena, which is wisdom. I been thinking that maybe I can put some smaller owls on the fabric if they will stay. I'm still thinking about what I should use to symbolize Athena's daughter Annabeth. Dani gave me the idea of bringing in the invisibility cap, so I can find a random baseball cap.
We all agreed that we will have to work after school on these past couple days, and that we will have to work on Saturday. Four out of five of the members in our group asked Mr. Schwartz about getting access to the weight deck on the weekends since it is usually locked. Mr. Schwartz said that he would open up the school when we finally get there. Katlyn and I have band contest, and won't be back until 11:00 or 12:00. Therefore, we will meet between those times, and spend many hours working on this project.
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