This was a great experience for me and hopefully my teammates. For this Festival Del Sol project was one of my favorite and hardest project I have ever worked on. We had to make a Kinetic Sculpture with found objects. We started by going to the Architectural Salvage, where we had to get inspiration for our sculpture and have ideas of what we could usetoputon our sculpture. We gathered up all the objects which was just wood, string, and paint. It might look really easy to make but it was really hard. Making the measurements correctly putting it together, attaching the strings. That took us the whole two weeks and we had to come after school to finish. And the sculpture was not even done for festival we still had to paint it.
Personally going to the Architectural Salvage place did not really help my group get any ideas. We first had this idea of an infiniti sign hanging from the ceiling but that never worked out. After we had several meetings with our teachers we were getting this idea with strings but never really got the design. We mainly got the design by going through pictures on the computer and getting help. By going to the Achitectural Salvage helped us by thinking of Ideas. Maybe it did not help me that much because I did not go with my group I went with another group
Before we did our sculpture we had to go all around the school and find two things that represent our school, I could of been anything. We chose the bench, the bathrooms the front of the school, the flag and the grass field. We chose this because students have worked on these projects. This represents our school because we make things we have creativity and this school is a project based learning school. We dont just buy things but we make them and we put them in the bathrooms. And show how everyone gets to be a part of this school. Each students work is up somewhere around the school. We dont make projects just because teachers want to but there is always meaning behind the project. We also chose the front of the school because there is an important piece there. That has meaning and will stay there in memory of Sean.
This touched my heart when I heard Sean's story. It affected me and made me have a different perspective of the artwork shown in the front of the school. Our team cared so much about this we discussed this during class and took a whole period. It was really deep and opened our minds to make meaning in our sculptures. Before that discussion we did not realize how important meaning was. Well at least I didn't. This girl made this mural as her senior project as memory for Sean. We were talking about this and I was thinking that it is important to have meaning in sculptures and that we can not just do it because it looked pretty or it was a good idea. After we all went around school to find inspiration everyone's mind change. Their point of view changed.
Open Group 4 Presentation #1
Before we went and build our sculptures we had to make a pitch presentation of our ideas. I pitch presentation is putting our ideas and thought of what we want the project to be and getting ideas from the audience to improve on the project we want to do. We had two presentation. Which would be two different ideas. We seperated the group in half. So it was half and half. One group did one presentation and the other group did the other presentation. The first Idea was making Kind of like a fountain. The second one was making an infiniti sign with plastic tubes. These were completely different ideas than what we ended up with.
Our design changed do much from what we had. We ended up with this frame that connected strings together. From using water to using strings. We Changed our whole idea completely. I feel that it was a good change
because I did not like either one of them. It improved in many ways than what we had. It is more simple. Our first designs were to complicated I did not even get what we were doing and I was in the group. Everyone was getting frustrated and mad because we changed our idea so many times but we finally came up with a better idea and simpler.
Our Final design had a good meaning and was in a good place that will stay there forever. Many wanted to stick with what we had first, but it's a better idea to change and not stay with the same idea, and make some modifications.
Open Group4SculpturePresentation2
Our Narrative is "Catch the Ropes of Opportunity". We struggled so much with our Narrative. Our narrative was either too short or too long. It was never right. We came up with different ideas. We were either trying to make it longer or shorter, we never got it right. We finally were able to come up with a perfect Narrative. I believe it was one of the best.
For me "Catch the ropes with opportunity" is much more than just words. This school teaches you to never give up and go for your dreams. To reach higher every time. And make goals for yourself. We wanted this to represent our choices. Even though there's good and bad choices in life.
Personally going to the Architectural Salvage place did not really help my group get any ideas. We first had this idea of an infiniti sign hanging from the ceiling but that never worked out. After we had several meetings with our teachers we were getting this idea with strings but never really got the design. We mainly got the design by going through pictures on the computer and getting help. By going to the Achitectural Salvage helped us by thinking of Ideas. Maybe it did not help me that much because I did not go with my group I went with another group
Before we did our sculpture we had to go all around the school and find two things that represent our school, I could of been anything. We chose the bench, the bathrooms the front of the school, the flag and the grass field. We chose this because students have worked on these projects. This represents our school because we make things we have creativity and this school is a project based learning school. We dont just buy things but we make them and we put them in the bathrooms. And show how everyone gets to be a part of this school. Each students work is up somewhere around the school. We dont make projects just because teachers want to but there is always meaning behind the project. We also chose the front of the school because there is an important piece there. That has meaning and will stay there in memory of Sean.
This touched my heart when I heard Sean's story. It affected me and made me have a different perspective of the artwork shown in the front of the school. Our team cared so much about this we discussed this during class and took a whole period. It was really deep and opened our minds to make meaning in our sculptures. Before that discussion we did not realize how important meaning was. Well at least I didn't. This girl made this mural as her senior project as memory for Sean. We were talking about this and I was thinking that it is important to have meaning in sculptures and that we can not just do it because it looked pretty or it was a good idea. After we all went around school to find inspiration everyone's mind change. Their point of view changed.
Open Group 4 Presentation #1
Before we went and build our sculptures we had to make a pitch presentation of our ideas. I pitch presentation is putting our ideas and thought of what we want the project to be and getting ideas from the audience to improve on the project we want to do. We had two presentation. Which would be two different ideas. We seperated the group in half. So it was half and half. One group did one presentation and the other group did the other presentation. The first Idea was making Kind of like a fountain. The second one was making an infiniti sign with plastic tubes. These were completely different ideas than what we ended up with.
Our design changed do much from what we had. We ended up with this frame that connected strings together. From using water to using strings. We Changed our whole idea completely. I feel that it was a good change
because I did not like either one of them. It improved in many ways than what we had. It is more simple. Our first designs were to complicated I did not even get what we were doing and I was in the group. Everyone was getting frustrated and mad because we changed our idea so many times but we finally came up with a better idea and simpler.
Our Final design had a good meaning and was in a good place that will stay there forever. Many wanted to stick with what we had first, but it's a better idea to change and not stay with the same idea, and make some modifications.
Open Group4SculpturePresentation2
Our Narrative is "Catch the Ropes of Opportunity". We struggled so much with our Narrative. Our narrative was either too short or too long. It was never right. We came up with different ideas. We were either trying to make it longer or shorter, we never got it right. We finally were able to come up with a perfect Narrative. I believe it was one of the best.
For me "Catch the ropes with opportunity" is much more than just words. This school teaches you to never give up and go for your dreams. To reach higher every time. And make goals for yourself. We wanted this to represent our choices. Even though there's good and bad choices in life.