Final Project- for Thursday Nov.29

Failure Paper

My biggest failure in this semester was I did not communicate with other students except my two friends.  When you ask us to share our opinions about the articles we read or the videos that we just saw, I just shared my opinion with my two friends, and I never shared my opinion with other students.  Also I did not make any new friends in this class.   I learnt I should share my opinions with more students from this failure, and maybe ask their opinions about my projects, and other people’s opinions can give me more ideas and improve my future projects.  Look back all of my micro projects, and I think my biggest success is micro project 3.  I used Photoshop to put my seven personal items’ pictures in a backpack, I carry all of them everyday but I never notice them before.   I did not notice my other personal items before I did this project, but after it, I began to notice small things that around me, including those things that are always there but I never noticed.  If I can redo one project, I would redo the micro project 4.  I think I did not put all of my effort in that micro project.  I simply recorded different sounds and put them together.  If I could redo this project, I would think it deeper and make it interesting.  I would make it longer, record more sounds in the coffee shop and even some little conversations and use garage band to repeat some sounds to make my project diverse and interesting.

Blog 10 Brainstorm for final project

The final project's topic is narrative.  At first I thought I can narrate Black Friday shopping, from my last year's experience, Black Friday is crazy.  People will wait outside the stores and wait for them to open.  And the stores usually have super attractive deals, like AF had 50% off last black Friday, and it opened at 12:00am.  All of those people are crazy.  Then I looked at my cell phone try to find the pictures that I took at last year's black Friday.  However, when I looked at my cell phone's album, I found I have taken more than 800 photos, and most of them were taken since I came to the United State, and I realized I have came to the United State for more than one year, so I came up with a better idea, which is I can do this project to narrative my one-year study abroad experience.  It will include the pictures of my dorm, my first pumpkin carving, my first Black Friday, I went back to China during winter break and my grandma's birthday, I traveled to Orlando in spring break, my dad came to OSU visit me, my 20th birthday and so on.  But I do not know if it okay to use old pictures to do this project.  After all, I believe this project would be great!

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My word: heap

The project I choose is my clothes.  I wear my clothes everyday, and clothes are easy to alter, so I did not think about it too much when I picked it.  Then I looked up the word "heap" in dictionary, it means accumulate, gather, and load.  After thinking about my word's meanings, I came up with an idea, which is I can heap my clothes together into a pattern.  I have many clothes with different colors and patterns, so I thought heap them together maybe an interesting way to express the word.  I decided to shape my clothes into a heart.  I put my sweater in the bottom, then I heaped my shirts on the top of sweaters to make my pattern looks colorful and nice.