Redo a project. Simple as that.
Okay, so we did a lot of stuff in STEM, and we had a lot of fun with it. We did many amazing things. But you know what's the most important part about doing this stuff? Doing it again, and making it better. Admit it, if we didn't look for ways to improve on stuff we have, we'd still be using Commodore 64s, firing at people with bows and arrows, and driving Ford Model T's around town (actually, we wouldn't even be doing that, because the Model T is an improvement on cars).
The main point is, if you want to get somewhere with a design, learn from your mistakes and do it again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And againandagainandagain. Then you've gone through 6 generations of that smartphone you made, but now it has updated graphics, a browser that TALKS to you, and a bigger screen. (Okay, maybe the phone is just bigger in general, but that's not the point). The point is, NOW you've made a revolutionary device that's changing the lives of millions, putting cash into your bank account, AND, if you keep on updating it, some day it might have a watch counterpart that can read your heartbeat and your calorie burn.
So, what did you redo, you ask?
Well...the physics of sports video.
I felt that while the older one was great and could barely be improved on, I didn't contribute to it as much as I wanted to, and I kept that in mind while I made this video along with my good friends Brandon and Noah.
Then Noah made a "physics of storks" pun.
So we made it a physics of storks video.
And I don't want to brag, but we did a GREAT job!
The main point is, if you want to get somewhere with a design, learn from your mistakes and do it again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And againandagainandagain. Then you've gone through 6 generations of that smartphone you made, but now it has updated graphics, a browser that TALKS to you, and a bigger screen. (Okay, maybe the phone is just bigger in general, but that's not the point). The point is, NOW you've made a revolutionary device that's changing the lives of millions, putting cash into your bank account, AND, if you keep on updating it, some day it might have a watch counterpart that can read your heartbeat and your calorie burn.
So, what did you redo, you ask?
Well...the physics of sports video.
I felt that while the older one was great and could barely be improved on, I didn't contribute to it as much as I wanted to, and I kept that in mind while I made this video along with my good friends Brandon and Noah.
Then Noah made a "physics of storks" pun.
So we made it a physics of storks video.
And I don't want to brag, but we did a GREAT job!
But like every project, we had our pits and peaks. One pit was the day we edited the film at my house. Brandon was putting all the clips together on my laptop, and me and Noah had nothing to do, and one of us suggested that if we didn't have anything to do, we could play Super Smash Bros. Brawl without Brandon.
That's already a pit in itself.
But we did it, and our second pit is that eventually, only one of us was doing everything at one point while the other two were playing SSBB or Gran Turismo 3, or whatever. And when it was my turn to work on the video alone, I realized it was 4:25 and we agreed to get it done by 5:00 but we still needed to add in many clips and effects. I know that it is hard to find three people to do on one tiny laptop, but we really should have tried harder when it came to working together on an edit.
A final pit was when we finished that Saturday, we only had to add a few songs in. But we held it off until Tuesday, and when we came around to finishing it, we noticed that we still had a few other things left to do. So I was in charge of the editing because I obviously was the only one that had access to my laptop, so I ended up finishing and typing up all of this at 9:30 in the evening, originally planning on studying for the Spanish final but now I have barely any time to do so.
We did have great peaks however. We were able to work as a team very easily. We did a good job coordinating meetings. And we each presented our skills and learned from each other. For example, I should them how to make a dual screen effect (i.e the high five) and and a mini clip inside of a video, while Brandon showed me how to split clips and tracks (I had to constantly split Space Jam and a few other scenes) and Noah taught me how to do a freeze-frame (Credits and RIP Dreidel are freeze-frames).
That's already a pit in itself.
But we did it, and our second pit is that eventually, only one of us was doing everything at one point while the other two were playing SSBB or Gran Turismo 3, or whatever. And when it was my turn to work on the video alone, I realized it was 4:25 and we agreed to get it done by 5:00 but we still needed to add in many clips and effects. I know that it is hard to find three people to do on one tiny laptop, but we really should have tried harder when it came to working together on an edit.
A final pit was when we finished that Saturday, we only had to add a few songs in. But we held it off until Tuesday, and when we came around to finishing it, we noticed that we still had a few other things left to do. So I was in charge of the editing because I obviously was the only one that had access to my laptop, so I ended up finishing and typing up all of this at 9:30 in the evening, originally planning on studying for the Spanish final but now I have barely any time to do so.
We did have great peaks however. We were able to work as a team very easily. We did a good job coordinating meetings. And we each presented our skills and learned from each other. For example, I should them how to make a dual screen effect (i.e the high five) and and a mini clip inside of a video, while Brandon showed me how to split clips and tracks (I had to constantly split Space Jam and a few other scenes) and Noah taught me how to do a freeze-frame (Credits and RIP Dreidel are freeze-frames).