What is a storyboard?

From commercials to great movies and even training videos, these ideas all came from storyboards. All great ideas came started with storyboards. A storyboard illustrates drawings representing how the video will unravel, shot by shot.

Storyboards are made up of squares with drawings and notes on about what’s going on in the scene. Also it contains what will be said in the scene. Storyboards don’t have to be very detailed. It just needs all the characters that will be in the scene, enough visual reparation on what’s going on and what the general framing will look like. 

A storyboard is a great way to share your vision, it makes production much easier and a storyboard saves time.  

What's happening at ACSS?

I went to Mrs. Malory's cooking class for grade 11 and 12, during B-block and D-block. In both of the classes they were helping the teacher make tempura. So they could all sample the yummy dish. 

Most of the students in D-block were asked to cut up a variety of vegetables to deep-fry. 

A hand model holds a buttercup squash

                         A kitchen unit posing for the camera. 

Student Deanna chops up some broccoli and sweet potato.

One student makes the dipping sauce for the tempura.

All students have to wear a apron when cooking and when they are finished they go in the dirty laundry bin.

  Mrs. Malory asked a student who was attending ACSS, from Japan to help prepare the batter and some more vegetables.

  

After the vegges are chopped and brought up to the demonstration table, Mrs. Malory begins to cover the vegetables in batter. Than proceed to put them in the oil.

Once finished the first batch of vegetables, students are allowed to sample them while she deep-fry the rest.

the finished product.

During B-block most of the vegges from D-block were unused, so students didn't need to chop vegetables.

 Sarah and Taylor excitedly waiting to try some tempura. 

After Mrs. Malory finished the demonstration and everyone had there fill of tempura. She asked everyone to help clean some cutting broads and than put them away. 

Once they were done the bell had rung marking the end of class. 

  

 

Social Media Safety

Today on November 12, ACSS had a presentation on social media safety, presented by Darren Laur. The presentation was a very fun experience, even though it talked about hard topics. The presentation was about teaching kids, and teens concerning safety on the internet. Being safe on social media sites, pups, rats, cyber bulling and black hatters are just some of the topics discussed. Not sharing too much personal information, not to take pictures of car licenses are what I learnt from the presentation. But it’s not just about the hackers and the stalkers; it’s about cyber bullies as well. Cyber bullies are very persistent awful people. They feed on the fact that they can hid behind a screen. One way to keep them away is to ignore them or delete them from your social media site. If it counties a parent, principal, teacher or the white hatter are the best people to tell about your harassment. The information provided by the presentation, I found was very useful. It feels like sexual harassment, cyber bulling, hacking extra, which happens over the internet is a normal thing, but it’s not and it needs to stop.

Here is a link to the White Hatter’s facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-White-Hatter/136487353183161

Here is a link to Social Media safety: http://www.staysafeonline.org/stay-safe-online/protect-your-personal-information/social-networks      

Remembrance Day

Part A

November 11 is a day dedicated to remembering the Canadian soldiers that died in war, to win our freedom. Not only do we remember the soldiers, but also the other men and woman that contoured to their country during war. On November 11, Canadian citizens take a moment to pause for two minutes of silence to tribute the dead. Canadians also attend ceremonies in memory of the heroic soldiers. The poppy is a symbol of remembrance and are worn on Remembrance Day.  

This is a photo of a few lost souls of soldiers who are wondering through a filed of poppies.  

Part B

There was a recent shooting that took place on October 22, 2014 at

Parliament Hill and also in Ottawa. The shooter Michael Zehaf

Bibeau took the life of a young soldier. His name was Corporal Nathan Cirillo. Nathan Cirillo was on ceremonial sentry duty at the Canadian National War Memorila, when he was killed by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau. But Michael Zehaf-Bibeau did not stop at the slaughter of Nathan. He attacked members of Parliament of Canada attending caucuses at the nearby Centre Block parliament building. Thankfully he was stopped by parliament security personnel in a gunfight. The Nation will not forget this young soldier on Remembrance Day.

 

Here is a link to a great Remembrance Day website: http://www.veterans.gc.ca/

Halloween Origins

Halloween is a festive time of the year, which is celebrated on October 31. Carving pumpkins, children going door-to-door collecting candy, spooky decorations, visiting haunted house attractions are just some examples of Halloween actives. But Halloween wasn't always this cheerful and festive. 

Halloween came from the Celtic culture from over 2,000 years ago. Celtic people celebrated an event called Samhain. Samhain is a festival marking the end of the harvest season (summer) and the beginning of the darker half of the year (winter). The Celtics believed that during the time of the transition of summer to winter, the bridge to the world of the dead opened. 

There is many feasts, wearing ghoulish costumes, bonfires, sacrificial offerings (for example candy, crops and animals), and homage to the dead during Samhain. A lot of iconic ghouls were associated with Samhain for example ghosts, vampires, werewolves, witches, and zombies.  Not a lot of Samhain practices survived to present day Halloween traditions.