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1. overall, do you think this is a sweet and fun memory?

2. what other feelings do you have looking at this?

3. please explain why

4. do you think this story is from a preschool teacher's point of view?

5. please explain why

6. do you feel a sense of nostalgia looking at this?

7. by looking at this frame, what do you think this is about?

8. please explain why

9. do you think the children enjoyed their time in school with this teacher?

10. please explain why

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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1jBF9KnSi4PKgqO6_lwV4NuLv5p-JahwvNKala7s6FF0/edit

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- as my video wasnt ready yet, i had to show my friends my progress of this project. i showed them slides from my mid crit and they gave me feedback based on it. areas for me to improve are included in the pdf document above.

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this is the overall results of the second testing comparing with the results from the first testing in this pdf

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- education path after secondary school

- life as a prechool teacher and a mother

- losing a loved one

- adopting a cat
- fostering a kitten

- moving into a HDB flat from a kampong house
- favourite memory with parents/ siblings
- school memories
- wedding

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keywords:
happy, successful, pleasing, enjoyable, achievement,

red= proud feeling
light green= growth and new beginnings (with a new group of children in the following year)
yellow= happiness
orange= success and enjoyment
pastel orange= enthusiasm, creativity, joy
gold= achievement
pink= sweet memory
light purple= nostalgia

images plan/ideas:
pictures of my mom teaching the students, children in a classroom, rainbow colours, stationaries for children, simple arts and crafts, storybooks, table and chairs, graduation gown/caps

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some information about her

shes turning 48 this october 2nd

works as an early childhood teacher for a long time (>25 years)

fun, loving and caring

loves all kinds of animal

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1. tell me about this memory (story of it)

2. why did you choose to talk about this topic and not others?

3. what makes this memory so special/ significant to you?

4. after telling me about this experience, how do you feel now?

5. how has this memory of yours changed /impacted you?

6. would you like to relive this memory again? why or why not?

7. how often do you remember this memory?

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watching her students graduate feels rewarding as it gives her flashbacks on how much they have achieved in their early years

watch them wear their graduation cap

saw their excitement  knowing that they will have to leave their preschool life and start a  new phase in life in primary school

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she ensures that she makes her student's preschool years enjoyable by allowing them to explore and experiment their interests

provided the students with authentic learning environment

she allows her students to be in charge of their own class

has to be versatile – chef, dancer, singer, scientist, cleaner, artist

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children laughing, sharing their stories from home

thank you ms linda for teaching me!

best teacher ever!!!!

yes i can do it!

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" a journey of a thousand miles, begins with a single step"

lets do this activity together!

put in your best effort and never give up

always say i must try, i must do it and i will succeed.

failure helps us to learn better

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had to stay up late to do lesson plans and ways  to make a walking classroom/ make her lessons fun and interesting

learning how to cope with their individual learning methods and suit into their learning needs

has to plan lessons based on all learning styles – visual, audio and sensory

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all of her efforts of teaching her students paid off as her students can proceed to learn more at a higher level

got the chance to see the children grow and develop into different unique individuals

these students started their preschool life as young as 18months and watching them grow day by day, year by year, helping them with their self help skills and training them to build it and being independent

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inspiration for the box

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every year during the K2 graduation day, it reminds her of her journey in early childhood

she had no knowledge about children at first, but now she understands theories, strategies and methods to shape them to be themsleves

everyday feels like a learning journey together with her students

felt proud, accomplished, success and a sense of achievement after teaching the k2 students

they were enjoyable to teach and she is happy and excited to watch her students step into a new phase of life

feels like a creature mixed with octopus tentacles with chameleon eyes and a giraffe neck with a tortoise shell

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SAY

should we try fostering this kitten? we already have Heidi, she might not be friendly to the kitten

why didnt they inform me about the condition of this kitten? poor kitten

this kitten is so weak. it has diarrhoea and it doesn't have a mother to feed milk. its chance of survival is very slim

let's care for this kitten until it is able to survive on its own

we shouldn't give the kitten a name. we would get attached to it. also, we would have to return this kitty

its learning so fast! i'm so proud

HEAR

a dog shelter has found a 3 week old kitten all alone. its mother and siblings as died

it might not survive without anyone feeding it milk regularly

we are urgently looking for someone to take care of it. would you like to help? we would provide you with essential items to care for the kitten

we forgot to inform you that this kitten has diarrhoea. here are the medicine

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DO

bought items needed to care for this foster kitten

cleaned and shower the dirty kitten

fed the kitten with medicine and gave milk in a milk bottle every 4 hours

taught the kitty how to use the litter box

fixed a routine for yoshi to follow everyday

THINK/FEEL

reluctant to take care of it as she has to juggle between work and other responsibilities

try something new: to take care of a young kitten after much consideration

felt excited to care for this kitten

when she saw the kitten, she was shocked

she had great compassion for the poor kitten after knowing its condition

SEE

a photo of a clean, healthy and adorable kitten

the kitten looked nothing like the pictures she received

an underweight, injured and dirty kitten in person

Heidi, the first cat, was unhappy and started hissing at the kitten

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some information about the memory about fostering a kitten

happened in 2014

we already have a cat named Heidi which was 2 years old during this period of time

answers to the questions

2.  it involves the whole family's help to care for this kitten until it is well.
3. this memory is special as we saved a life. i feel as if we gave this kitten another chance to survive, be loved and grow into a healthy cat.
4. i want to take care of another baby kitten and shower it with the same love as i gave to yoshi

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watching her k2 students graduate gives my mother flashbacks on her time spent teaching them and watching them grow

teaching them was special as these students enter preschool at 18months and watching them grow and progress until they are k2 (6 years old)

focus on at least 2 struggles that she faced – staying up late to complete her work and having to create a lesson / activity that has auditory, sensory and visual elements so that her students with different learning needs can all learn together

more to add on

gave her an opportunity to give back to society

know strategies to cope with their behaviour, understand their needs, propose projects, write lesson plans – these are techniques that she can apply in her next year class

working alongside and communicating and sharing tips with parents, attending workshops to upgrade teaching skills and strategies

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background is a drawing of the activities my mother does

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scene 1: going to work
scene 2: in the classroom
scene 3: cleaning the house

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choosing topics was a little hard as my mother had so much memories that she would like to talk about but we had to settle with one topic which is watching her k2 students graduate in her preschool that she works in.
my initial topic was about fostering a kitten but i changed the topic as i think that it would be hard to convey the feelings as mostly there is a sense of pity in the whole story.

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art style for this project:
simple/ cartoon as i want to give the childish vibe to it. not only that, i wanted my drawing to look childlike to fit with the preschool/ children kind of theme. with this simple art style, it helps to make my model stand out even more.

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flow of the stop motion video (1st plan)

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flow of the stop motion video (1st plan)

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1. at 8am, she gets ready to leave for work

2. she teaches her k2 students in her classroom

3. she comes back home from work at 7.15pm

4. she starts to sweep/ clean the house

5. flashback to her memories of her k2 students when they were still small up until now as she taught these children for years

6. fast forward to the day these children have their graduation ceremony

7. photos of them will be shown and last photo of her will be there and she walks in, waving at the camera as she is the main character of this story

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decided not to choose this as i feel like the day and date would be too distracting and it isnt the main focus of the title

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filled with things that are in ms linda's classroom and home in a repeated pattern

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https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1OMbeqrJOSA8QDNZyD97yI3JBCLlgOhQ4

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- used photoshop to remove the background and added shadow to the side of the model

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creating the model was challenging as i had to go through multiple tries to come up with the model that i am satisfied with and that it represents my mother well. after many times of remodelling it, i think  that it was worth trying each and every idea i had as in the end i combined my idea of my mother having many arms like an octopus to her human figure so that people can tell that that is my mother that can multitask. i decided to make a model of my mother instead of just drawing it out as i wanted her to stand out from the rest and show that she is the main character of this story.

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1. vid starts with an intro image (whiteboard with ms linda)

2. ms linda gets ready to go to work

3. she teaches her k2 students in her classroom

4. she comes back home from work

5. she starts to clean her house and cooks for herself

6. has a flashback of her k2 students when they were in playgroup and nursery in the past years when she taught them as well

7. coming back to the current time, she tells her students about their graduation ceremony and gives them their graduation gown and hats in advance

8. now at the graduation party where ms linda gives their certificate to the k2 students

9. photos of them will be shows and the final photo of ms linda will be shown to show that she is the main character of the story

10. video ends of with the credits

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1. vid starts with an intro image (whiteboard with ms linda)

2. ms linda gets ready to go to work

3. she teaches her k2 students in her classroom

4. she comes back home from work

5. she starts to clean her house and cooks for herself

6. she carries a stack of books that she has to mark and one of the book falls and it opened to a page of her k2 student's drawing about ms linda teaching him

7. had a flashback of those moments she had with them in the classroom (playgroup to nursery)

8. coming back to the current time, she tells her students about their graduation ceremony and gives them their graduation gown and hats in advance

9. now at the graduation party where ms linda gives their certificate to the k2 students

10. photos of them will be shows and the final photo of ms linda will be shown to show that she is the main character of the story

11. video ends off with the credits

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life as a preschool teacher and  a mother

the topic 'fostering a kitten' was my initial chosen topic. i did an empathy map for this but then i decided to change my topic in the end

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for this second testing, i had my first video done up and i showed that to my friends. i think that with my video i showed my classmates, they had a better understanding of my story thus the response i got was better than before. there was an overall increase comparing the first testing with the second testing. this gave me motivation to improve on my work to push the rating from a 3.5 to at least a 4.

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' seeing the unseen ' is about viewing something that others has not experienced or witness, but only yourself. this project gives me the idea of putting yourself in someone's shoes to understand what the struggles, challenges and daily things they do in their lives that we might not have seen/experienced. as my story is based on my mother, this project will be in a view where i am my own mother and i am documenting and illustrating her memories that she  experienced that others may have not.

my interpretation of this is that this is a memory that is so precious that is kept safely in a box. when we open this box, we are telling the story of this memory. for my mother, the memories of teaching her students from nursery til kindergarten and graduate is something precious as she has been with them for a long time teaching and learning along with them.
as this project is memories in a box, i decided to do my project/work in a box to give a literal and figurative meaning to it.

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200180E EMILLIA : Audience/ Viewer testing

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reflection for storyboard/ video making 

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reflection for storyboard/ video making 

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my initial idea was to make a 4 panel drawing and paste it in the background of the box and zoom it into each panel with the model in the middle. i figured that this way, the video would be too short and the story might not be clear.  i changed my approach to create the video for this and i took the inspiration of stop motion videos. by doing stop motion, i realised that i could portray the story clearer and show step by step movements of the character so that the audience would be clear with the storyline.

as this is the first time i am creating a stop motion video, this was definitely challenging for me. in my video i made, 1 second has about 2-3 frames of 0.4 seconds each. as my video is about 1min 46seconds, it has about 230+ frames. i had to retake some frames over and over again as sometimes the props/ images in the box were falling or not positioned properly. the props/images in the video are hand drawn and cut out so they are pretty small to fit in the box and in the model's hands. sometimes these images would get lost or get blown away from the fan and i had to redraw instead of finding it so that i can save time.

aside that, i did not have a proper phone stand to take a nice shot of each frame, so i had to position it in an awkward position but as long as the whole box can be seen, i took pictures of it. then, i had to edit and readjust the angles of the frames one by one (picture below). it was tedious for me as i had to edit so many frames but i had no other choice.

as i do not have any experience in video editing, i had to use what is readily available and easy to use for me so that i can learn how to edit the video fast and conveniently. i searched up 'easy video editors' on my laptop but i did not find any that was easy to edit. i had no other choice but to use the applications available on my phone. it was easy to edit even though sometimes the app lags but i managed to make a stop motion video with audio and i am proud of what i have made. creating this requires a lot of patience as i have to move something in each frame one by one for it to be a stop motion video. sometimes the items would fall and repositioning them at the same spot as before would be very hard but i tried to put it as it was. if i had more experience and resources i would definitely use those skills in this project.

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i am actually pleased with my video progress. even though it is just a short part of the video done, i think that it was okay. as the video is like a quick glance of the storyline that i am trying to tell, some of the parts were still unclear and that it felt like parts of the story was skipped/ rushed. to prevent that, i will be adding additional frames to fill up the spaces.

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i managed to add more scenes into my video such as the kitchen scene, telling the students about their graduation, adding the title and credits scene. i also redid the flashback story part to make it seem like she is having a lesson with them, similar to the first classroom scene but with a younger age group. the transition from the kitchen scene to the flashback scene did not look natural/ the flashback was too sudden/ out of nowhere, so i will make some changes to that. additionally, the music of the whole video makes it seem boring and bland as the music repeats during the whole video.

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i rerecorded the kitchen scene and the flashback scene to make it more smoother. for the flashback scene, i added decorations to the classroom so that it doesn't look too plain like hoe it looks like in the second video. i added a scene where ms linda accidentally drops one of her student's workbook and when she picks it up and opens it, it bring her to the flashback when she used to teach them back then too.

i changed the music in several parts of the video the music in my video as the new music here plays an important role as it helps the audience to distinguish the difference in time frame. the first tune in the video plays at the start of the video and ends off with the same tune to show that it is happening in the present time. the second tune plays when ms linda comes home from work. the music heres goes a little soft and less upbeat to give a low energy yet relaxing tune to give the feeling of tiredness as she came home from work and has to do her duties as a mother. when she has her flashback, another tune of music comes in to show that that is in the past. this upbeat music matches the same energy as the first "present time" music as both of those are in the classroom.

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i used materials such as clay, pipe cleaners, christmas ball ornament and fabric to make this model as these are the materials that ms linda has and uses in her classroom with her students. by creating this, it makes it seem as if i am her student creating this kind of artwork. the many arms would represent that she can multitask and do many things at once.

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i plan on showing my pboard from my padlet and my video directly from my google drive so that i do not need to keep resharing my screen. i will give a brief description of my whole story on my pboard and explain the hero image as it is also the main character of my story. i practiced one round of what to say and i am scared that if i say too much the audience will lose interest so i would just keep it short and simple. the after that, play the video.

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after my presentation, i asked trinity about what she thinks of my work. she said that she likes how unique ms linda is as she has 2 pairs of arms to do many things at once. she mentioned that the story flow is clear and she understands what i am trying to show. i noticed that some of my classmates gave the hand clapping signal to me so i felt quite happy that some of them liked my work.

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this project lasts for 18 weeks and i definitely learnt how to develop and push myself to improve on my work further. i wanted to do something simple and something that i am used to but i decided to challenge myself and try and make a stop motion video. i honestly thought that i wouldn't be able to make a quality stop motion video but then i was able to make one in the end. time management is especially important for the video making. shooting one stop motion scene can take about 1 hr as i had to carefully change the positions of the objects in the video without accidentally hitting other things and if i do, i will have to go back to the previous image and try and roughly put it back where it was. sometimes my arm would accidentally hit the camera and i had to readjust. after all the photo taking , i still had to edit the pictures one by one so that was very tedious and it look a long time as well. not only that, i had to crop the images to fit the same screen size and ensure that each panel lines up almost the same and none of the panels have anything weird or wrong. patience is a key feeling i have during this process too. sometimes other factors can affect my progress such as missing items or lagging of my phone.

aside all those, i think that this project is really really interesting and fun to make. experimenting with materials, ideas and drafts and eventually coming up with a video is an achievement for me as i have never done something like this before. not only this video can be used for my project, but i can show this to others to show that this is my mother and how she juggles her time as a teacher and a mother. when i showed my mother this video, she was very happy and she likes the model i made of her. she said that she would show this to her students and other teachers in her school haha.

seeing my classmates work also exposes me to what kind of work/media/ideas i could have done, explore and try if i didn't make my video made with a clay model. all in all, i learnt so much from this project.