devyani_investigate



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__**Introduction**__
This page has my brainstorm and my research. During this step, we had to find out what we were going to do. Apparently, it was "What makes us happy." We also had to prepare for our giant iMovie. To prepare, we made a brainstorm. Our brainstorm was about things that make us happy and since our iMovie was about things that make us happy, the brainstorm was kind of to get our thoughts down on what to put in our iMovie. Our research was the pictures that we got that we were to use in our iMovie. The research had the picture and the URL (URL is basically the website address) underneath it. Each person had to find **at least** 10 pictures. If you got more than 10 pictures, you would get extra credit. You also had to have pictures from a variety of sources for extra credit. For example, different sources would be scanning, getting it from a digital camera, pictures from the internet etc.

__**ESLRs**__
In this part of the project I think I proved to be a/an:


 * Academic Achiever**, because I managed to get more pictures than I was meant to get and I got pictures from a huge variety of places.


 * Critical Thinker**, because I was thinking of different ways of getting images on the computer for my research and I was also thinking about details that I could add to each topic and subtopic in my brainstorm to make even more branches.


 * Effective Communicator**, because by making a brainstorm, I showed what makes me happy in a different technique. (I didn't just do it verbally but I did it by using a software that I don't usually use).


 * Involved Citizen**, because I put the source of each image underneath the images that I took from the internet for my research to give credit to the person who originally had the picture.

__**Files**__
Take a look at my brainstorm:



Take a look at my research:



__**Reflection**__

 * 1. What pictures will you include? How do these pictures represent things that make you happy?**

I will include the pictures that are about my hobbies. For example, I’ll put the picture that describes music, talking on the phone and watching T.V. If there is more than one picture for each hobby, I’ll try to pick the best one. These pictures represent things that make me happy because even if I’m sad, these things will brighten up my mood when I’m doing them, unless I’m listening to a sad song. But I usually wouldn’t listen to a sad song if I were already sad enough.


 * 2. What special features of iMovie will you use to make your movie exciting to your audience?**

I will definitely try to use each feature, if not, most of them. But some of the features that are absolutely going to be shown on my iMovie are transitions and the title effects. Also, I’ll put music and hopefully some videos. The effect that I hope to use but might not, is the “Ken Burns Effect” since I’ll probably always use the zoom effects so I won’t have to uncheck it.


 * 3. What challenges will you face when completing this project? How will you overcome them?**

The challenges I will face are editing my iMovie since I’ve never made my own iMovie before but I’ll just be able to look at my iMovie “handbook” and get the answer. Also, another challenge would be to videotape without my face showing. I’ll be able to do it if I make sure that I (or someone else) am always facing my back to the camera.