Monday, March 2, 2009

Entry #9

Today my plan was to finish a total of 22 bookmarks and gather data on my research question.
I completed a total of 22 bookmarks. While making the bookmars I also took notes and gathered important data on my research question.
This helps me because I can have more information to answer my research question through a movie.
Next time I plan to make a total of 26 bookmarks and gather more important data.

Index Card 22

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1152964/Secret-footage-unearthed-American-troops-practising-Normandy-invasion.html?ITO=1490
This site contains secret footage and pictures of American troops on the Normandy Invasion.

Index Card 21

http://www.history.army.mil/html/reference/normandy/pictures.html
This site tells the story of the Normandy Invasion through a series of pictures.

Index Card 20

http://www.lonesentry.com/d-day/d50.shtml
This shows the events that took place on the first 100 days of the Normandy Invasion. It contains a calender of each day.

Index Card 19

http://www.3drt.com/3dm/ww2/soldiers/guns-german-ww2-01.jpg
This is a picture of the guns the German soldiers used during World War 2.

Status Report

So far I have started filming the actual movie . We finished filming about 1min into the movie.
I still have plenty to do for the movie. I still have to finish filming it and eventually editting it.
Filming the movie itself is a lot harder than I thought. It tooks us about a couple of hours to film the first 1min of the movie.
What has been a lot easier than I thought are making the Index Cards. Im already about 2/3 complete.
If I could start over again I would film my movie over a different topic such as the Pacific Front. This is because the D-Day topic is overused by many other students.
Before spring break I need to finish my index cards and finish filming the first half of the movie.

Entry #8

My plan was to research on my project and start on the final product.
Over the weekend I have started filming with my crew. We filmed a total of 1min into the movie.
This helps me because I have begun on my final project and made progress into it.
I plan to film more and more over the following weekends.