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Day in My Life

Unit Overview

  • WatchRocks, Pebbles, and Sand Story (< 2 minutes)
  • Watch The Time You Have (In Jellybeans) (2.75 minutes)
  • Watch Interlude (4 minutes)
  • WatchTime by Pink Floyd (7 minutes)
    • The highlighted lyrics:
      • “Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
      • You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
      • And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
      • No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.”
        • THEN STARTS ONE OF THE BEST GUITAR SOLOS EVER!
    • This album spent 15 years on the Top 200 album chart
  • Why is time so important?
    • Read the statement below from David Allen about GTD (Getting Things Done)
      • “There are several, but the main ones are:
        1. CLEAR YOUR HEAD – Your head is for having ideas, not holding them. In other words, build and maintain an “external brain” to keep all your significant reminders of commitments and creative thinking. You need mental and emotional space to be present at the moment, optimally creative, strategic, innovative, and ready for change and surprise.
        2. THINK AND DECIDE – Whatever has your attention needs specific thinking and decision-making to put it onto “cruise control” and be appropriately engaged with it.
        3. KEEP A TRUSTED SYSTEM – You need a trusted system to maintain a current inventory of your commitments and intentions, reflected upon regularly.”
    • Watch The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
    • Explore Mr. Le Duc’s GTD bookmarks
    • Read Don’t Waste Your Mind as an Office by David Allen
  • Trusted Systems Ideas
  • For this project, you will:
    • Create or use your a trusted system to track your time and keep organized
    • Write down what you do for a 24-hour period of time in your life
    • Learn brain research about learning, productivity, creativity, and happiness
    • Learn to plan a large project
    • Learn how to create your own create a color palette
    • Choose and install a font for all text design choices; pie chart, film, etc.
    • Create a pie chart in Google Sheets or Adobe Illustrator to better visualize the data (Tufte) and use your font and color palette
    • Write a script describing your 24 hours and include realizations from the exercise in your conclusion
    • Record your script narration with professional techniques
    • Edit the audio narration with an audio editor (Audacity) or digital audio workstation (DAW); GarageBand, Soundtrap, etc.
    • Make a storyboard of the images that will accompany your narration (Storyboard Paper)
    • Gather Creative Commons images to tell your day in your life story (Creative Commons)
    • Create a video with Premiere Pro; use your font and color palette
    • Publish via Google Docs

Steps

  1. WatchMr. Le Duc’s Time Project Overview Presentation
Time Slideshow
Screenshot of modified asdfmovie @ YouTube
  • Create a trusted system to keep track of the data for this project and all projects for class and LIFE!!!
  • Track your data for 24 hours
  • Learn brain research about optimal creativity, productivity, and happiness
  • Learn about the story arc
  • Learn about iteration
  • Make a schedule
  • Organize the data into 6 to 10 general categories like eating, sleeping, school, etc.
  • Create a blog post titled, A Day in My Life
  • Create these headings:
    • Summary
    • Font
    • Color Palette
    • Pie Chart
    • Script
    • Audio Editing
    • Storyboard
    • Video Editing
    • The Documentary
    • What I Learned and Problems I Solved
  • Choose a font and add it under the heading
    • Watch tutorial
    • Use Georgia font for this project
    • Upload and Embed the image from Flickr
  • Create a color palette and add it under the heading
  • Make a pie chart with Google Sheets and add it under the heading
  • Write your script and add it under the heading
    • Add text under the heading
  • Practice reading your script aloud many times, focusing on vocal tempo and inflection
  • Record your script in a quiet place
    • The unedited audio recording .wav file will be saved to the server folder with your first name
  • Create a storyboard and add it under the heading
    • Upload and Embed the image from Flickr
  • Install Audacity for audio editing, if it is not installed
    • Audacity
  • Edit your .wav audio file in Audacity to remove the errors
  • Screenshot your Audacity editing screen and add it under the heading
    • Upload and Embed the image from Flickr
  • Gather images from Search.CreativeCommons.org and save the date (you downloaded the image), site, username, and name of the image for citation at the end of the movie
  • Watch Premiere Pro tutorials
  • Edit your iMovie video
    1. Add your edited audio narration
    2. Add your pie chart as many times and you will reference it in the video
    3. Add the images into the timeline in the order on the storyboard
    4. Adjust the time of each picture and pie chart image to fit your narration timeline
  • Screenshot the iMovie screen and add it under the heading
    • Upload and Embed the image from Flickr
  • Extra – find Creative Commons soundtrack music to add to your movie
  • Finalize the movie and Publish your video to YouTube as unlisted
  • Embed your video in the blog post under The Documentary heading
  • Finish writing the What I Learned and Problems I Solved and the Summary sections
  • Have someone proofread your blog post and turn in the feedback form

    • Sample Blog Posts

    • Coming soon Spring of 2023

    Goal of Project

    • Learn and apply cybersecurity concepts to daily life
    • Learn about productivity
    • Learn more about digital storytelling
    • Learn basic design continuity
    • Learn basic audio editing
    • Learn basic video editing
    • Learn basic infographic creation

    Skills

    • 5.1 Define the elements of design ( e.g. line, form, color, space, texture, value, shape)
    • 5.2 Define the principles of design (e.g. emphasis, unity, balance, proportion, rhythm)
    • 5.3 Identify elements of composition C.R.A.P. (contract, repetition, alignment, proximity)
    • 5.4 Combine text, images, and sound by incorporating information from a wide range of media (e.g. films, newspapers, magazines, online information, television, videos, and electronic media-generated images)
    • 5.5 Use the selected media skillfully, edit appropriately, and monitor for quality
    • 5.6 Scan photographs, objects, and drawings
    • 5.8 Panel Elements and Structure
    • 5.9 Export window and settings
    • 5.10 Test audience response and revise the presentation accordingly

    Tutorials and Resources

    Recording Narration of Your Script

    Camera Plus Separate Audio

    Camera Audio

    Editing in Audacity

    More Resources

    Feedback Form