Describe the process you went through to create your production
The process of making an ad in Project X Media started with us getting into groups to create an ad. After getting into groups we learnt about camera angles. We learnt about how camera angles can change the perspective of and how you perceive the character. We also looked at different ads. Some were examples of really bad ads, but some were also examples of smart ads that project the idea well. After seeing different examples we brainstormed different ad ideas and the possible products we would make an ad on. After we decided on the product for our ad which was ice cream for our group, we made a script with the different components of our filming and ad. We also had to create a story board. Media Storyboard.pptx We finalised our script and then learnt how to use the camera, tripod, and SD card. The next step of the process was to film. After filming for 2 weeks we edited the clips together and then presented it to the class.
How did you come up with the original idea?
My group decided to make an advertisement on ice-cream. We had multiple ideas for the ads we were could, but we chose ice-cream because we thought it would have the best end results We also had lot of really good ideas for filming so we went with it.
Describe three obstacles or challenges that you encountered when creating your production
One obstacle we ran into was costumes. My group had some trouble with costumes. We needed to bring them in on the first week of filming and one group member forgot to bring them. That meant we had to work with the house uniform they already had on and the costume rack in the media room.
Our second problem we ran into was the green screen. We wanted a background that matched our ice cream flavour. After filming we got help from Mr Hamilton but when we changed the background it changed the colour of the ice cream to a bad colour that didn’t look very appetising. That meant we set up the green screen for no reason and we have a plain green background when the set was supposed to be a kitchen.
Our final problem was filming in general. We struggled with angles and centring the camera. We also had to film scenes multiple times because we were either distracted or couldn’t stop laughing.
What would you do differently next time?
If my group and I were to do the process again I think we should have finished the story board and the script much earlier, because that would mean we would have more time film and edit. We also should have planned the days we were filming and editing, so that we would know which days to bring costumes or not.
Overall the whole process was really fun and I learnt a lot about editing and filming.
In InnovatED in Term 4 we started on the Christmas Market Project. The Christmas Market is an event All Saints holds every year. Students get into groups and brainstorm product ideas. After brainstorming ideas, we decide on our favourite idea, while also thinking about the affordability of our idea. After deciding on an idea, we research further into it and prepare a pitch for our teachers. If your idea gets approved, you can get the loan money of $30 and start producing your product. Each group then has a couple of weeks to make the products as well as some posters to display around the school. Throughout the whole process we were also doing Economics in Humanities which helped getting through process a lot. Then it is time to sell at lunch time with a float and table decorations. After the process of selling our products, we count up our money and see if we made a profit. After paying back the loan money all of the excess money goes to a charity. In our case it was Salvation Army which is a charity that gives to the less fortunate.
OUR IDEA AND OUR PRICING⁓
My Christmas Market Idea was stickers, and our business name was Sticker Stack. When my group and I were brainstorming we wanted an affordable easy idea that would also sell well. My group wanted our product to be a reasonable, affordable price, whilst also allowing us to make a profit. We made lots of designs and made singular stickers along with sticker sheet that consist of 4 different designs. We did two base design topics: Christmas and Food. We did deals of 1 sticker sheet for $2, 2 sticker sheets for $3 and 3 sticker sheets for $5. My groups original idea was to sell a singular sticker for 50c. We ran into an obstacle with that pricing though. We could not sell our products for 50c because the pricing had to be whole numbers. This caused us to re-think our pricing, so we change to 2 stickers for $1. That when we had a customer’s opinion prior to the market make us re-think the pricing once again. We got told that selling a sticker for 50c cents each was too expensive, and that people would not buy them at this price. So, we changed the pricing to 3 stickers for 1 which meant 1 sticker was $0.33 each and the cost price was about 20c per sticker. This means singular stickers would only make about $0.13 cents profit each.
Throughout the time of the market supply and demand was changing. Towards the end we decided because the supply of our stickers was high, we would decrease the pricing of our sticker sheets. The sheets were originally $2.00 for 1 sheet. But we changed the pricing to $1.00 for 1 sheet. This drew a few more customers towards our stall. We also decided to go 50% store wide since we still had a large supply of products, and we would hopefully increase demand. Our competition was the stall next to us selling pre-made Christmas cards and they had completely discounted to products and that stole some of our customers away. This caused us to decrease our prices too.
In the end we did manage to make a profit of $2.02, but because we decreased the pricing, we did not make a large profit.
WHAT I’VE LEARNT⁓
Throughout the whole Christmas Market Process, I have learnt a lot. From pricing to designs all the way to the social aspect.
If I were to do the whole market process again, I would completely change the product we were selling. I would choose a product that was not so labour intensive and that I was confident would sell. Stickers were a very labour intensive product and require a lot of time to make. Customer demand was also a big aspect of this process. Our stall did not have much customer demand because people just bought them with their spare change after purchasing more expensive items. If we sold I completely different product, then we may have got more demand which would cause us to decrease the supply and increase the sales. This will there for increase the profit made. Stall location is also another big aspect due to the weather. There was a lot of wind and rain on the day of the market so, the locations of the stalls were all very different. Our location was away from the wind, but inside the breakout space so not as many people new that our stall was there. It was out of the way and not as much of a hot spot as some other stall locations. Having a stall close to the entrance would increase customers visiting the stall and purchasing our products. The packaging of the product generally is what sells the product. For our stickers we packaged them in draw string bags, so they did not fly away and so that people had a cute little bag to keep afterwards. If we did not have packaging to place the products in, we might not have sold as much. I would change the packaging colours to Christmas colours as well so that if this was a gift for someone it was already in packaging to give it to them. Before pursuing the product though I would check the availability of resources and materials to make the product though. If the resources were not available, I would re-think the product I am making. Overall the Christmas Market Project was a learning opportunity for everyone no matter weather you made a profit or not.
CAPABILITIES AND CONCLUSION⁓
The Christmas Market Project required a lot of Collaboration, Effective Communication and Creativity. We had to collaborate with our peers and our teachers to create a good Christmas market product as well as making a profit. We also had to communicate with many students, staff, and customers that were buying from our stall because socializing with the customers is what sells the product. Finally, we needed be really creative with the designs of our products especially because our products are hand draw and are completely original designs. Overall, the Christmas Market was a fun experience that taught us me and my group a lot about Economics.
During InnovatED these past two terms we have been working on Project Utopia for Fremantle Port. This Project is a about re-designing Fremantle Port after it moves to Kwinana in an estimate of 10 years. We worked in groups and with our class to collaborate and create ideas that will benefit the environment, as well the people living in Fremantle. Eventually we moved into separate groups in our class and brainstormed ideas onto a vision board. My groups focus was clean energy and entertainment that was sustainable and fun. After that we moved into another set of groups and our focus was transportation. We wanted sustainable and affordable transportation for everyone in Fremantle. After brainstorming different options we settled on a Tram system. With our mixed knowledge of Transport and Sustainability we designed our Tram system on a model and on a digital platform called Co-Space. After refining our ideas and adding more detail we presented our ideas to our class as well as our parents.
Our Ideas and the Global Goals Connected
Our ideas resolved into a sustainable and affordable tram system. This tram system goes all around Fremantle, making travelling around Fremantle very reliable and easy. At the very start of the Project Utopia process my first group focused on sustainability so personally I wanted to incorporate my knowledge of sustainability. We are incorporating sustainability by using solar panels instead of non-renewable energy to decrease climate change and a negative environmental impact.
The Global Goals that are related to our ideas are:
11 Sustainable Cities and Communities – This is because our tram system is trying to decrease the environmental impact of transportation, by decreasing the size of most transportation vehicles.
13 Climate Action – Climate Action is very important and we wanted to make sure that this system supported climate action. To decrease the amount of fossil fuels created by transportation we are using solar panels instead non-renewable energy sources. The trams will have solar panels on top of them to power them.
14 Life Below Water – By using renewable energy, we are decreasing the negative impact of creature that are living in the ocean near the port. Our precious Great Barrier Reef in Queensland is slowly losing its natural reef due to the amount of fossil fuels created. By using clean energy we are decreasing the likeness of this happening to our reefs in Fremantle.
As a cohort, Year 7 visited Fremantle and got to explore a number of locations including, the jetty, part of the loading dock, and some of the Maritime Museum. Visiting Fremantle gave us a first hand experience of what the Port looked like and the sheer size of it. Getting to explore also informed us of what buildings or structures we wanted to preserve to keep Fremantle authentic. When we visited there were thousands of shipping containers, which took up a lot of space, so while we were there, we took into consideration how much empty space there will be. This is because Fremantle Port is mainly industrial.
As part of visiting we had to fill out a booklet with a variety of different questions for us to fill out. This booklet helped us in the future, to re-fresh our memory of Fremantle and gave us something to work up from.
After visiting Fremantle we got put into groups and brainstormed ideas that would benefit the people of Fremantle and the environment. My group focused clean energy and entertainment. Our ideas were a aquarium that supports endangered species that live in the ocean. Our other ideas were green spaces and community batteries. Because Fremantle is mainly industrial we wanted to make sure that there were places for people to have some space and relax. We also wanted to create community batteries in suburbs to make sure we are using our energy to its full potential. After creating vision boards to showed all of our ideas, we presented them to our grandparents.
The next step of the process was to make a detailed report of our ideas which explained everything we wanted to do in thorough detail. This was a source we could relay on when we needed to explain our ideas.
Liveability
Eventually our Humanities subject was liveability which definitely helped to understand if our ideas suited Fremantle. We did research on what liveability factors would benefit Fremantle the most. This resulted in us doing an assessment on liveability. The assessment was us trying to find similarities between a chosen city and our Fremantle Port ideas.
Re-thinking Fremantle
After looking into all the liveability factors we re-thought our ideas for Fremantle in small random groups. We focused on small questions to help us create more innovative ideas. These questions included how to get from A to B?, what kind of entertainment will there be?, is the project sustainable?, etc. This resulted in us changing our ideas completely and getting into groups for the final idea.
CoSpace
CoSpace is a digital platform that we used to present our ideas. It is a detailed 3D model that you can place objects on. We used the background of Fremantle Port as a base for us to work up from. Our idea was a tram system, so we placed cylinders that represented train stations. After placing the tram stations we added train tracks to show where the tram system ran. After finalising the stations we moved on to entertainment in our allocated sections. We labelled each entertainment buildings as well as the tram stations. We also placed buses on the areas that the trams didn’t run. The forms of entertainment we made were Movie Theatre, Parks, Shopping centres, Day care centres and etc.
Model
As well as making a digital model, we created a physical model. We hot glue to scale structures that represented all of our structures. We had to research the scale of Fremantle and our model. After that we cut out the buildings/structures and glued them on. We highlighted the tram stations in Fluro so people new not to design on top on the tram stations. As the physical model was a shared with the whole class and split into 8 sections, we had to work around people.
Presentation and Conclusion
After refining our models both digitally and physically we put together a presentation as a group. This presentation was a detailed explanation of what our ideas were and how we were going to execute them. We presented our models and our speech both to the class and our parents. We learnt our speeches off by heart and resisted our speeches to them. We first presented to the class once. Then when the parents came we had about 6 groups of 7 that we presented to. This meant if we made mistakes the first time we would have corrected them by the third. After every speech we explained the models further so that the parents could have a more thorough knowledge. We also answered all their questions about our ideas.
Overall, the whole of Project Utopia gave us a deeper knowledge of how to design real life buildings and structures, what the cost of living is and how to work through that, and how people live their daily lives. I believe that my group and I came up with great ideas and that Fremantle would be great with all of our designs.
In our Nexus Connected Learning lessons, we learned how to present work more interestingly. We also learnt how to use platforms to their full potential. I found this session very helpful for me because using different platforms to present work makes it more interesting. I focused on Canva and made an animated poster. I made it from scratch without a template and tried to make it look as aesthetically pleasing as possible. I focused on Canva because I thought I could make something cool and interesting with all of its creative options. Something I found difficult was finding all of the elements for the poster. It took a long time to find all of the elements because there are lots of options in the library. I believe that these skills will help me in the future, to make my presentations more interesting for everyone. This was also really fun to make and I hope you enjoy it! ✨✨
Grey Water Recycling and Impacts on the Water Cycle
GreyWater Recycling
Greywater is wastewater from non-toilet plumbing systems like sinks, washing machines, showers and baths. When produced, greywater can be reused in gardens. Don’t reuse from toilets or dirty nappies because they are not clean and may kill the plants in your garden.
Impacts on the Water Cycle
Pollution
The pollution affects the water by polluting it with plastic and toxic substances. It also decreases the quality of the water making it less healthy for us to drink. It affects the eco-system because for plants to grow they need water, and the plants feed animals and the animals drink water. Having polluted water does affect the eco-system. When pollution goes into the water the sun evaporates it, then rains it back down. This means when it rains back down it will pollute everywhere it rains. The pollution also gets evaporated into the atmosphere polluting the air in the atmosphere.
We can prevent this from happening by picking up rubbish and putting them in a rubbish bin. Also make sure if you are washing your car to clean it near a grassy area. This means that once your done, the dirty chemical water will go onto the grass instead of the streets where it can go into the ocean.
Acid Rain
Acidic Rain is water that has acids in it and goes through the a water cycle with it. The water is acidic and not good for our eco-system. The water can kill lots of plants and animals. This means it will also affect all of the steps to the water cycle. Underground water will hold acids and affect lots of growth in our eco-system. When it goes through the water cycle it is raining down on all of earth and polluting it with bad chemicals. This is all because humans are polluting the water with rubbish. Fossil fuels also pollute the water a lot.
We can prevent acid rain by reducing the amount of fossil fuels we and use renewable, clean energy. This can be wind turbines and solar panels.
Renewable Energy Resources Compared to Non-renewable Energy Sources
Wind power compared to Coal power
Coal power is a more reliable source when it comes to how long it works and how much energy is produced in a certain amount of time. Wind power works about 35% of the time, while coal power works about 90%. This means that coal works and produces almost triple to amount more than wind power.
Although the comparison of efficiency has a clear winner, the cost is very different. Research has been done and coal power is much more expensive than wind. It is said that coal power costs more than wind and solar power added together. Wind power is in fact one of the cheapest energy sources.
Solar power compared to Coal power
Solar power is a reliable source when it comes to environmental safety. Although it only works when in direct contact with the sun and only during the day, it is much better for the environment. Coal power is more reliable when it comes to getting a lot of power in a short amount of time, it is not a renewable source. We will end up running out of coal eventually. Solar power is good for the environment but not as reliable as coal power.
Solar power is s lot cheaper than coal power. Coal power needs mining tools and hours and hours of work, but solar only needs the sun to be pointing directly to it to make power. Although family households would not get enough power from solar panels, it is still a good renewable energy source to get power.
Example of a coal power stationExample of a wind turbineExample of a solar panelExample of clean renewable energy
I have been organised through all my classes in the first 4 weeks. I have all my books ready and haven’t been late for class. I believe having organisation is a good skill to have especially in the transition form primary school to high school. I prepare for test, assessments, and assignments so that I’m not stressing out on the due date. I have gotten comfortable with the idea of high school and am okay with the workload.
Creativity
Creativity is a special thing. If you have a boring assignment you can make it more you and think of a creative idea that will change it and make it look better. I think I have that skill and have used it to the best of my ability so far this year. I believe that when you show creativity it gives a good impression on your teacher and that is always a win-win situation.
In class groups researched our defining moments in history and put it into a presentation. We also designed a badge that we sold at a Christmas Runway.
These are the pages of work my group and I did.This is the badge me and my group designed. We donated the money we earned at the Runway Market to the Salvation Army, seeing that is the service learning focus for Term 4.
This is a page with some projects I’ve done during the year.
I did my Energy Inquiry on Solar Panels. This explains my answer to the big question in six smaller questions. It is a result of a lot of research and preparing.
As a class we each individual a did an oral presentation. I could have improved by looking at the audience more. I also could have just said some of the information and not but all of it on the Word page.
