Category: Projects

The final stage of this task is to produce an e-portfolio entry to summarise the engineering process.

Your e-portfolio should have the following parts:

This project was very hard to meet all the requirements needed. Our tower met all the requirements but lacked how stable it was. Our tower was very unstable and breaking lot when we left it overnight. It took us a long time to get the right type of building with was the best. We did a lot of research to come up with our design.

When designing the tower we would use builds that are made for earthquakes, to better enhance the chance of our tower not falling. We did some trial and error when testing our first design, and at the end, we had around 3 to 4 different designs with our last one being the most successful. We would draw an idea of how our tower would look like, then we would build it and then test it, if the test goes wrong or we can’t build what we drew, we would change it to make a similar design from the drawing. Then we would see of the new design works or not.

Teamwork and collaboration:

Our team teamwork is all about communication and working as a team. I think we split our work quite equally, even though most of us were away. We had a team group chat to talk about anything from this project. Each of us used our strength to complete our tower. I was very hands-on with the building because I enjoy building things.

Overall the project for me was very successful with all the aspects being quite good.

Our topic is deforestation. We want to show the impact when trees are cut down. We use funny scenes and educational parts to show how big the impact is when one tree is cut down.

When we first wanted to find our idea we looked at change (the topic for the competition), and we slowly cut the ones we did not like or were not interested in. We first started writing the script down and sharing it with everyone in our group. We gave everyone a role according to our script. We started by filming all the scenes that we can in one lesson. After we have finished all the scenes we started editing the video.

When we were filming we had some disagreement about where we filmed. After that, we rarely had any disagreements. When we did argue we all find a way to resolve the issue. E.g. when we did not agree on where to film, we just listened and find more ideas. (We just went with the original idea.)

We first started by thinking time and place we will be filming. we checked the time and always use small amounts of time. Most of our places are near or at the same place. (We film some at the same time.)

Some of the thing I think we should work on is a costume, places to film, and time. I think we should work on this because most of us forgot costumes and we had to film without them, making it odd. some of the places we filmed was loud and did not really fit the scene. sometimes we slacked off and talked instead of filming.

Overall I think my group is really good when filming and communicating when we are talking.

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