The Whelan Family

My moms side of the family has some missing pieces to it's history so I could only work with this. I interviewed my grandma.

My Dads side on the other hand, has a lot more of an interesting history: click here I interview my grandpa.

I interviewed both history nuts on each side of the family, so my information is accurate.

My short but honestly very pervasive e-mail is here.
My family tree doesn't want to be embedded into this to save my life at the moment so you will have to settle for a link: Here 


I have made a five frame story board. Click here to view.

As you may or may not notice that King Richard appears several times during my presentation. Yes I do know all the stuff that King Richard never had a child. This however in incorrect, he had a singular daughter that married into an Irish clan in exchange of support for the crusades. It is an old family tale, and we take great pride in it. When it comes down to history however, who don't exactly have any pruff

12/2/13

Where are you right now on your "Who Do You Think You Are" project? What did you do over the break for the project? Did you interview anyone? Use the checklist below to figure out what you have finished, what you are still working on and what you still have to do.

For the most part, I am heavy in an closing in on completion. None of my grandparents came over for thanksgiving, so I wasn't able to get interviewing done. I'm going to finish my prexi (for the most part)  today.

Stop Motion Animation Top Three

1. Abigail Krump
   Climbing Around the World
    It takes a lot of skill and upper arm strength. Also was the longest.
2. Maila
   M&M figures.
   It takes along time to move each M&M like that, and making sure all the others stay in the same place.
3. Dana Oudegian
    Sticky Note Art
    This not only takes time but amassing hand eye coordination to get everything right.
   

11/13/13

How did you stop motion animation turn out? If you could give it a grade, what would you give it out of 60 points? What did you learn from creating this video?

It turned out not as well as I originally hoped probably grade wise a 50 out of 60, so not to bad. If there is anything I have learned from this little project, is that stop animation requires a lot of time, and is very boring. I have new found respect for whoever makes full length stop animation movies for a living.  

11/11/13

How far along are you on your stop motion animation? What did you do over the weekend to work on you stop motion animation? Do you have all your pictures today? Will you have all your pictures by the end of the hour? Give me a detailed updated. 

I had to scrap my original idea, but fortunately, I always have a backup plan. I took some 160 some pictures, and I really don't have an exact count, but I finished over the weekend, after three hours of work. I still had one of my lego drop ships still intact, including all the missiles and bombs (all legos naturally) for it. 

11/8/13

What are you planning on doing for your stop-motion animation video? What story are you going to tell? How will your video be fun and different? Who is taking your photos? When are you taking your photos?

I'm planing on doing something very simple for my video. Sense I know martial arts, I will do one over a martial arts form. It should be basic, but it requires a lot of photo's will little room for error, so only a simple form would suffice. 

11/6/13

Journal - What story will your storyboard tell? Explain in detail.

It is story put into the form of an analogy. The sink that appears in the pictures represents the ocean, while the swimming ring represents the animals. It shows as humanity slowly drains the oceans for resources the animals of the oceans slowly die.