This week I finalized my project by finally editing all my videos and uploading them to my website. I used the app CapCut, as I have on a previous video, to edit the rest of the videos I had, which were 4 in total. I used the clips I had from previously working on my project and just combined them and edited out unwanted footage. I didn't do anything too fancy and just made them basic to simply show the progress I made through my project. This process did not take me long, but making sure to extract unwanted footage took the longest. But with the convenience of the split feature on CapCut, it helped speed up this process a lot. I also worked on making my presentation since we are presenting early next week. The first thing I did was pick the website and the template I wanted to use for the visual presentation aspect. I went from website to website, finding what would be the most convenient, user-friendly, and had the best template selection. This took me a couple of days to experiment with each website until I finally chose Google Slides. The selling point was being able to find the perfect template on slidesgo.com. This template has a mountain background with trees to show how the project mostly consisted of the outdoors and trees. After picking the website, I went to work on the presentation. I implemented a timeline that goes through all 12 weeks with bullets to jog my memory when presenting and icons to show the audience what I did that week. I wish I had got to learn more skills and get more experience with them this week but was unfortunately unable to. I do think I still learned enough throughout the process of this project to show that I have been successful in learning how to run a tree business.
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This week my main mission was to cut a poplar tree, and I went out and did that, well, sort of. After getting to the tree, my dad and I started cutting the notch in the tree. My dad started by cutting the bottom of the notch, and then I continued it until it was done. He then started the top of the notch, in which you go down at an angle, and I continued that as well until it was finished. Then I proceeded to knock the notch out with a sledgehammer. My dad then started the back cut, the final cut, until we stopped to put wedges in so it would help guide the tree. I then took over by cutting the back cut for what felt like forever. When I was making the final cut, it felt like an adrenaline rush because at any moment the tree could fall. I kept looking up and down to see if the tree was starting to fall, but nothing happened. At one point, my dad decided he needed to take over because it was becoming sketchy. He said it was sketchy because I had cut it so much, but it had not yet fallen. So, he took over, and after about 30 seconds of cutting, the tree finally fell. It was a double tree, in which it had one big fork near the base, and when it hit the ground, it split in two. Heading into the final week, I feel that I am about to cross the finish line, but there are still a couple of tasks I need to finish up. First, I need to clean up the tree I cut down this week to finalize the learning and applying skills phase. Next, I need to finish editing videos to incorporate them into my final presentation, which is also another task I need to do. I need to focus on this next week and put as much time as I can into finishing everything up to be ready for my final presentation.
We are finally closing in on the final weeks of this project, and I have had my most unproductive week yet. With the bad weather and how busy my schedule I was unable to get anything done. At first, I planned on getting more experienced with the chainsaw, so I could show how I have progressed throughout this project, but I was unable to arrange a time with my dad to do so. This is because of family get-togethers for Mother's day along with the drowsy weather. With not being able to practice with the chainsaw, I am going to have to skip that part and go straight into preparing my final presentation, along with cutting down a large tree and cleaning it up. Cutting down the tree and cleaning it up will show how I have been able to apply the skills I have learned with the help of my dad. If cutting the tree down works out, it will start with me notching and dropping the tree, cutting the tree down, and then I will work on cleaning it up with the skid-steer. This process will most likely take the entire next two weeks just in time for me to arrange the final presentation to show the class. And for my final presentation, I will use the videos I have accumulated over the process of this project to show how I have learned skills, applied them, and talk about how I could use them in the future. Finally, I want to try to make this week somewhat productive by trying to put together a couple of videos and uploading them after I finish writing this blog. I have some lined up that just need basic editing with a minor explanation of what is happening. Not editing the videos has been a problem of mine because I slack off too much, and I need to work on getting out of that habit. I hope that these next couple of weeks go to plan and I can wrap up this project.
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Evan GaleHello, my name is Evan Gale. I enjoy spending my free time playing video games and being around family. Archives |