You know that your life must be pretty great when you have to travel for a project. In 9th Grade.
For the past two weeks students on the Strong - Swaaley team have been working on creating Immersive Nature oriented media. In laymen's terms, pretty nature videos that make you feel like you're in them.
My group for this project spent the first week planning to take an immersive video of the beautiful Escondido Falls. (In LA.) We presented this idea to the class and to the teachers, and we were given a bunch of super helpful suggestions with regard to how we could make the project better, what equipment to use, and a whole bunch of other technical stuff. Things were great. Then, we discovered about a week later that due to the massive drought here in California, Escondido Falls was completely dried up. A whole week of planning and work for nothing.
We spent the next Monday working to try and come up with a different plan, and, to my surprise, we actually came up with a bigger, more ambitious plan. We planned to travel to LA and hike along these three trials, The Cave of Munitz, Sturtevant Falls, and the Devil's Punchbowl. This totaled to over SEVENTEEN MILES OF HIKING. We decided that if this was going to happen, we would need to stay in LA for a couple of days. We spent he first hour of the next day trying to figure out all of our expenses. We then spent the next hour weeping because we forgot to factor in the cost of eating DINNER and then after factoring in the costs of dinner, we spent the next hour trying to scrap together ANOTHER plan because the other one wouldn't work with our budget.
For our next plan we decided to keep our trip local, yet retain the same idea. We decided to visit these three locations, Sunset Cliffs, Paso Picacho Camp Grounds, and Lake Cuyamaca. We would hike about these places, and we would would use GoPros and a Binaural recording system to record our experience during our hike. We would compile these tracks onto one video that had some voice over work detailing our experiences, and the importance of experiencing nature. We would also take a couple of 360 Degree panoramic images of the places we visited, and talk about nature's beauty and all that stuff; ans so far, this plan seems to be pretty set in stone.
We lost a week and a half of precious work time because we had overlooked a couple of super important details. We could have known that Escondido Falls was dry from the get-go if we had dried out if we had simply read an article about the location written in recent years, and we could have been a little more thoughtful and realistic about our hotel plan, because that could have been solved if we had simply looked through our plan a little more thoroughly. I learned that it's a good idea to do some fact checking before you try to set your plans into motion, because if you don't, you'll be disappointed when you find out that the place you're trying to visit has been in ruin for nearly a decade.
MISTAKE.LEARN.GROW
For the past two weeks students on the Strong - Swaaley team have been working on creating Immersive Nature oriented media. In laymen's terms, pretty nature videos that make you feel like you're in them.
My group for this project spent the first week planning to take an immersive video of the beautiful Escondido Falls. (In LA.) We presented this idea to the class and to the teachers, and we were given a bunch of super helpful suggestions with regard to how we could make the project better, what equipment to use, and a whole bunch of other technical stuff. Things were great. Then, we discovered about a week later that due to the massive drought here in California, Escondido Falls was completely dried up. A whole week of planning and work for nothing.
We spent the next Monday working to try and come up with a different plan, and, to my surprise, we actually came up with a bigger, more ambitious plan. We planned to travel to LA and hike along these three trials, The Cave of Munitz, Sturtevant Falls, and the Devil's Punchbowl. This totaled to over SEVENTEEN MILES OF HIKING. We decided that if this was going to happen, we would need to stay in LA for a couple of days. We spent he first hour of the next day trying to figure out all of our expenses. We then spent the next hour weeping because we forgot to factor in the cost of eating DINNER and then after factoring in the costs of dinner, we spent the next hour trying to scrap together ANOTHER plan because the other one wouldn't work with our budget.
For our next plan we decided to keep our trip local, yet retain the same idea. We decided to visit these three locations, Sunset Cliffs, Paso Picacho Camp Grounds, and Lake Cuyamaca. We would hike about these places, and we would would use GoPros and a Binaural recording system to record our experience during our hike. We would compile these tracks onto one video that had some voice over work detailing our experiences, and the importance of experiencing nature. We would also take a couple of 360 Degree panoramic images of the places we visited, and talk about nature's beauty and all that stuff; ans so far, this plan seems to be pretty set in stone.
We lost a week and a half of precious work time because we had overlooked a couple of super important details. We could have known that Escondido Falls was dry from the get-go if we had dried out if we had simply read an article about the location written in recent years, and we could have been a little more thoughtful and realistic about our hotel plan, because that could have been solved if we had simply looked through our plan a little more thoroughly. I learned that it's a good idea to do some fact checking before you try to set your plans into motion, because if you don't, you'll be disappointed when you find out that the place you're trying to visit has been in ruin for nearly a decade.
MISTAKE.LEARN.GROW