November
17
November
4
Scratch Coding Game Reflection
I have finished my Scratch coding game in D.lab. It’s basically a dinosaur who has to move up and down to dodge a meteor. If you touch the ball, the dinosaur screams, “Death! Death! Argggh!” and you move into another world. It’s really funny. I think it turned out really well–all of the scenes flow together very smoothly. Something I struggled with was whenever I couldn’t get the sprites to move in the right direction at the right time, but I fixed it soon enough.
Something that I’m proud of is that I managed to actually create a cool game with Scratch! When I first learned about it, it seemed super hard and confusing. I wasn’t even sure what coding was! But now, I love it and I do Scratch all the time at home!
This was a super fun project, and I’m really glad I learned to code with Scratch!
November
4
My Fall Music Composition
This is the link to my music composition that I made at class.yciw.net. YCIW stands for Young Composers Improvising Workshop, and it’s SUPER fun!
I use a lot of homophony texture, because I think that sounds the best with my main melody. I love to show emotion, and that’s something that I have definitely included in my piece of music. I begun creating this composition at the start of school, in early September. Now, it’s November 3rd, and I’m still making it better and better.
I play the piano, so composing my own music was sort of my dream. I love to make music, and this was a great opportunity for me to do that–but in a completely different way!
My main instrument that is in center spotlight is violin, but my other two are clarinet and flute. The clarinet and the flute bring in more feeling, and that is special to me.
I posted on my blog about this for two reasons:
1: It was something we had to do in class
2: It was something that was interesting to me, and I wanted other people to know about it.
Making my composition this fall was extremely fun and it was a great activity–it gave me the chance to learn and have pride in myself for creating something I loved!