Month: February 2022

SUMMARY

Role: Guitarist

Intention (SMART Goal)

By March 2nd I want to learn how to play the solo for Paranoid by Black Sabbath. I will do this by listening to the song, using ultimate guitar tabs, and also video tutorials on how to play it. I will use this tutorial by GuitarLesson365Song. For session 4, group 2

PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY

Leader(s) in the Field / Exemplary Work(s)

Kim Thayil:

Kim Thayil the lead guitarist for Soundgarden is one of my personal favorite lead guitarists, he does wild solos in many of their songs, using a lot of wah wah pedals. Also creating epic rifts for many of their songs. But also capable of doing spacey, mellow chord progressions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Thayil

Training Source(s)

1. 0:13 playing the solo actual speed
2. 0:56 how to play the start of the game
3. 3:43 start of the more complicated part
4. 5:03 fast thing
5. 6:55 next part that is pretty bluesy
6. 8:37 end of the solo

SMART Goal Schedule

I will use a few days during school to exclusively practice the Paranoid solo, those days will be Friday 25th, and Monday 1st as well as 20 minutes each day after school

PRODUCTION

SMART Goal Starting Point Evidence

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15LVUSlNiyohyaTJLvvjCmhurh-1Mj5O-/view?usp=sharing

SMART Goal Ending Point Evidence

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12E4UrCrECukfr1JuuaCgou0cqrd6fDoe/view?usp=sharing

POST-PRODUCTION – REFLECTION

21st Century Skills

Ways of Thinking (Creativity, Innovation, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving)

First, I listened to the solo multiple times to get an idea of how it sounded, then I listened to small parts of the tutorial individually, learning them and playing them slowly. Then I tried to tie everything together still playing it slowly, then I started to speed up

Ways of Working (Communication & Collaboration)

I didn’t really collaborate with anyone, since this was a solo project, but I did ask people questions on how to do things, and also sometimes got people to listen to things I was working on for input.

Tools for Working (Info & Media Literacy)

I listened to Paranoid by Black Sabbath, and also used the tutorial linked above.

Ways of Living in the World (Life & Career)

I got better at playing the guitar (which might be a career opportunity), I also got better at labelling/ stating what I did and worked on and making goals for myself to complete by a certain time

Self-Evaluation of Final Version

I like how the final version turned out it wasn’t perfect and even since then I can play the solo better than when I recorded the final version, but I am happy with how It turned out

What I Learned and Problems I Solved

I learned how to accurately both speed and get the notes right on how to play the solo for Paranoid by Black Sabbath. Some problems I had was I was finding it difficult to play a especially fast blues lick but I eventually got it after playing it slowly and accurately till I played it right.

Grammar and Spelling

I transferred this document to google drive and use grammar and spell check there.

Editor

Connor

SUMMARY

Role:

Level Designer/sound designer (we switched kind of)

Intention (SMART Goal)

By March 2nd as the level designer of team 2 in Game Design I will have made an interactable object in the world by watching a tutorial by Xanderwood and will have created at least one component for the levels in our game, as part of session 4

PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY

Leader(s) in the Field / Exemplary Work(s)

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mike-chapman-433a4634

Mike Chapman Is an amazing game designer, he worked on the games Sea of Thieves and some of the Dirt games. Sea of Thieves is an amazing RPG/MMO game with amazing graphics, and is just an amazing game in general

Training Source(s)

1. Make a sprite to be destroyed link
2. give block solid behavior link
3. Make a particle effect by making particle sprite and then making animation link

Project Timeline

Feb 7th- Mar. 2nd

Feb 23rd- level building/sound

Feb-24th level building/Sound

Feb-25th- Character person/Sound

Feb-28th Character person/Sound

Mar- 1st Object design and code

Mar-2nd Health system

Mar 3rd Fixing up code

Mar 4th Practice presenting/ Commenting on Code

Mar 7 Presenting

Proposed Budget

$0

PRODUCTION – ACTION

Our game

game

Skills Commentary:

I learned this month how to be better at pixel art, but am still not great, and didn’t really know what I was doing and I think slowed down the team a lot because of that. I learned a little bit more of how the process worked and learned a tad bit of how to code but not really.

POST-PRODUCTION – REFLECTION

21st Century Skills

Ways of Thinking (Creativity, Innovation, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving)

First I learned what I needed to do from the rest of my team. Then I started working on pixel art for the game. And I learned how to use tile maps.

Ways of Working (Communication & Collaboration)

I collaborated with my team, especially Aiden, on working with level design and also got feedback on if my pixel art looked good I also asked people how to do things in construct. Also Aiden and I kinda of switched rolls in which I became sound designer near the end and he became level designer since I knew how to do that better,

Tools for Working (Info & Media Literacy)

I watched some Youtube videos on how to do pixel art and also a little bit on how to code for construct.

Ways of Living in the World (Life & Career)

I got better at coding and 2d pixel art which might be useful to get a job.

Reactions to the Final Version

“The music for the game created suspense”- Eric (para-educator)

Self-Evaluation of Final Version

I am not super happy with our final version but I think when we work on it for this next session we will make it a lot better

What I Learned and Problems I Solved

I learned that I should focus more on the coding part then just the pixel art since I think that was the reason that we were a bit behind in the production process

Grammar and Spelling

I put the blog post in google docs and used the grammar and spelling check.

Editor

Spencer James (pre production so far)