Juan Ponce de Leon Claymation and Reflection

Stop Frame Reflection

For My Reflection Essay, I will cover the following topics: The parts that were most fun, most difficult parts, and what I learned.

The part I thought was most fun was making the people, backgrounds, and terrain. I also liked filming it. I liked how instead of making lots of people, we made one do all the parts. It was fun putting them on the computer and arranging them in the right order. When Mitch and I stayed after school, we spent 50 minutes trying to figure out why we could not do recordings. We then realized that our computer did not have a microphone! Then we saved it on the server and accessed it on a microphone computer.

I think that the most difficult part was keeping the characters clean. If you watch our movie carefully, you will notice that in the scenes we filmed first, the characters are clean. In the later scenes, however, our characters are smudged with lots of different colored clay. It was difficult keeping our tiny characters not lost, so they wound up in the middle of the clay bin.

I think that the most important thing I learned was that Juan Ponce De Leon was originally looking for The Fountain of Youth.
It was rumored to make you live for millions of years. He never found it because it did not exist. On his journey, he discovered Florida and was the governor of Puerto Rico for several years.

In conclusion, I think this project was a stressful activity while it was going on. We had to meet due dates with all the scenes. But I also think it was a fun way to learn about our country’s history while sharing work with a worldwide audience.