The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year
For our Winter Exhibition, we were to write and perform a play related to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, which was a murder mystery novel. (For more information on the play, see It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year Performance.) For this class, we had to create a stage design that cohered with our group's original play idea. While my group's play was different from the play we would put on as an entire class, we still created accurate versions of a stage design relating to what we wrote on our script. After many rounds of critique, 1,218 lines on Desmos and over six and a half hours of hard work on my digital sketch, it was complete. With my Desmos graph as well as those belonging to the other members of my group, we pasted some different components of the project on a piece of poster board, which would hang up in our school's commons area during our Exhibition night. Below, you will find my group's play description, the drafts of my hand-drawn designs, my digital drafts from Desmos and my final poster.
This project was especially challenging because of the lengthy process we had to go through to get to our final product. We started out by brainstorming what we wanted our set design to look like, and then we transferred this sketch onto graph paper, where it would fit to scale. If we chose to do so, we could then refine our graph to a more accurate depiction of our set design following our first attempt at it, and from here we went on to make our graph digital. With a computer program called Desmos available that is used to graph equations of lines, we studied and discovered the linear equations for each of the lines on our graph sketch, and then we typed those up into Desmos. My graph had so many lines that often times I would have to copy and paste equations of lines that were similar to others and alter them to their correct form so that I would be able to finish on time.
With the project now over but a lot of experience in graphing lines taken away from the lessons we learned and the problems we solved, I am now significantly more knowledgeable about graphing lines than I was before this project. The concepts of domain and range and the equation of a circle were ones that I felt were very helpful to the welfare of my project, which turned out to be one of my most successful pieces of work this year. By becoming aware of these topics through a variety of worksheets, assessments, sketches, and programs, this unit will be one that will stick to my brain for a while. Sometimes I have that feeling that all of the work that I do for a project will not be beneficial for the future stages of my learning, but this was not the case. Because of this, I feel that I used the HOHAM integrity the best throughout this unit because I was able to push myself above and beyond yet still have the responsibility to take the initiative to make my project the best it could possibly be. "The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year" Set Design was a big hit, and I cannot wait to display my group's set design poster on Exhibition night!
This project was especially challenging because of the lengthy process we had to go through to get to our final product. We started out by brainstorming what we wanted our set design to look like, and then we transferred this sketch onto graph paper, where it would fit to scale. If we chose to do so, we could then refine our graph to a more accurate depiction of our set design following our first attempt at it, and from here we went on to make our graph digital. With a computer program called Desmos available that is used to graph equations of lines, we studied and discovered the linear equations for each of the lines on our graph sketch, and then we typed those up into Desmos. My graph had so many lines that often times I would have to copy and paste equations of lines that were similar to others and alter them to their correct form so that I would be able to finish on time.
With the project now over but a lot of experience in graphing lines taken away from the lessons we learned and the problems we solved, I am now significantly more knowledgeable about graphing lines than I was before this project. The concepts of domain and range and the equation of a circle were ones that I felt were very helpful to the welfare of my project, which turned out to be one of my most successful pieces of work this year. By becoming aware of these topics through a variety of worksheets, assessments, sketches, and programs, this unit will be one that will stick to my brain for a while. Sometimes I have that feeling that all of the work that I do for a project will not be beneficial for the future stages of my learning, but this was not the case. Because of this, I feel that I used the HOHAM integrity the best throughout this unit because I was able to push myself above and beyond yet still have the responsibility to take the initiative to make my project the best it could possibly be. "The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year" Set Design was a big hit, and I cannot wait to display my group's set design poster on Exhibition night!