My Movie

Plot, Character, Setting and Mood

Explain how you figured out what your Avatar would look like:

I was able to create an avatar for my main character because I had a clear description from the book of what she looked like. The book described almost everything about her physical appearance, and then the whole book was about her first person perspective in her head.

How did you choose the plot points?

I figured out the main points in my book by seeing what events matched each point like: Initiating incident, rising action, climax and denouement. Also, I looked at what parts of the book were the most important and made a big impact in the book. An example is when Melody got to be apart of real classes, and where she interacted with new classmates. I picked this for initiating incident because this really fit best, as it was what really the event that lead up to the climax.

Explain how you figured out the setting in your story. Why is the setting significant to the story?

I figured out the setting pretty quickly because the “quote” that I used was near the beginning of the book. This was very important to find out because the whole book was basically at the school, which is a big part in Melody’s life and learning experience.

Explain what the word mood means and how/why you picked the song that you picked?

For me, “mood” is the way that you are feeling, and it is something that you can express with emotion. When choosing the song for my PowerPoint, I wanted it to match the emotion of my book. Something not too dramatic as it is not a horror book, and something that is not too sad. I wanted something calm and happy, which represents Melody’s personality and attitude the entire book. When people listen to the music and watch my PowerPoint, I want them to feel emotion and connect to the slides.

Competency Reflection

Choose and write 3 of the prompts:

I can contribute to and work with criteria to improve my own work; evidence of that is:

Before I start an assignment, I make sure I read over the criteria and make a note of everything I need to include in my work. Also, I read through everything I need to do to reach “proficiency”, and then I think of ways where I can “extend”. I can show evidence of this because when I do long PowerPoints or big posters, I tend to forget small sections in the criteria. Reading the criteria sheet when you finish really helps because you can sometimes catch small things missing before you hand in your project.

An example of where I built upon someone else’s ideas is:

I can really connect to this sentence, because it is something I do when I am doing groupwork. Whenever the teacher tells me to get in a group and brainstorm ideas, my group and I work together to build upon each others ideas. Also, I feel like every class does this because when the teacher asks a question, a bunch of people contribute and pitch in different ideas.

I appreciate feedback on… and prefer it comes in the form of:

I absolutely appreciate feedback on my work, especially from my teachers because it lets me know how I can do even better, and not make the same mistakes again. However, I prefer it comes in the form of positive feedback, and just letting me know of things I could change: Instead of hearing all my “bad mistakes” and things “I did wrong”. I also like to hear my feedback in private, and it makes me uncomfortable when my “mistakes” are shared with the class. If somebody tells me feedback, I will make sure that I listen to it.