Research on the Quadriceps

This is the first part of the research I completed on the main muscle group of the quadriceps. This is information from a source labelled below. I highlighted the information that is relevant to my topic and the things I will need to make my video. This is information I will need to analyse the back handspring. Once I have all the information for the main muscle groups I will be able to put it all together and then write the analysis. This is the research I did with the relevant information highlighted:

Research on Biceps and Triceps

I started my research on the triceps and biceps muscle groups. This is the website I used. I highlighted all the different information that would be useful to me. This means that one I have all the research on biceps and triceps that I can take all the important information. I will have a collection of all the facts I will need to explain which muscles are used in the back handspring. This is the research I did:

More detailed version of Layout for Video

I typed up a more detailed version of the layout I am going to do for my video. It has a little more explanation and explains what I am going to do in smaller steps.

Neat version of Layout for Video

I typed up my rough draft of the layout I made and improved the parts that I didn't like or thought should be done differently.

Layout for Video

I made a rough first draft of the layout for my video. I made a sketch of the first idea that I had and wrote it up as a sort of template.

Decided not to order Flash after all

As I left on my summer holiday I would have no opportunity to order flash before one week before the start of the next school year. I thus decided that I would not order flash but make my animation on one of the school computers because they all have flash and I can use those. This will also save me money because flash is very expensive and I already had to pay for the adobe acrobat which turned out to be the wrong software.

The correct version of flash

Today I went to see the other computer teacher who is specialized in flash. He told me that I was correct and that adobe acrobat had nothing to do with flash. He told me that is was a program for making PDF files. He said that he would send me an email after school with the exact details of what I needed.

Adobe Acrobat instead of Flash

On slim I ordered the adobe acrobat and it arrived. It turned out that this was not what I needed to get flash on my computer. I had ordered what the computer teacher had told me to order but this was not correct. I am going to ask another tech tomorrow because I need flash to be able to work on my personal project during the summer holiday.

The Log Form

As I didn't know what the log form was that we had to sign at the end of every supervisor meeting I asked a friend to send it to me so that I could print it out and then just right down what we did in each meeting and take it too my supervisor to sign. I did that today and Mrs. Maaswinkel signed for the two meetings that we already had and I filled in the rest of the sheet. 

I still knew what we had discussed in the last meeting because I had written that in my blog in another post, with a reflection of the meeting. I just looked back, read what we had done and then wrote this in the log form so that it was fully filled in.

Meeting with Mrs. Maaswinkel

I had a meeting with Mrs. Maaswinkel today and talked about my personal project and the progress I had made since the last lesson. We started of by checking the personal project guide for the things that I had to have done by the second meeting. This was the list of things that I had to have done by the second meeting.

• Specifications for my product
• Areas/questions for research and possible sources
• Evidence that I had started my research, including research into my focus AOI
• Evaluation and complete bibliography details of the sources used for research
• Reflection on my research
• Evidence that I have started to work on an initial design/outline for the product
• Any questions I have for the supervisor
• The log form to be signed at the end of every meeting

We went through this checklist and ticked of the things that I had done, most of which was on my blog.

• Specifications for my product - I had these from my personal project proposal which I had a copy of on my blog.
• Areas/questions for research and possible sources - I have had a lot of work to do so I had not had time to start my research yet. I had done a lot of work on my journal and getting my project approved for the ATL skill. I have also done a lot of work on getting the right software for making my animation, which was why I hadn't yet found time to start my research.
• Evidence that I had started my research, including research into my focus AOI - Same as above as I hadn't started my research.
• Evaluation and complete bibliography details of the sources used for research - Same as above.
• Reflection on my research - Same as above
• Evidence that I have started to work on an initial design/outline for the product - I had already done some brainstorming of this on the blog and come to some conclusions about; what flip I would focus on (Flick flack/back handspring), how many flips I would analyze (one), what kind of video I would make (an animation to explain the flip and extra videos of the actual flip being done) and what software I would use to make my video (Flash). I have also started to draw the outlines of the animation frames I am going to be drawing.
• Any questions I have for the supervisor - I didn't know what the log form was that we had to sign and Mrs. Maaswinkel told me that this was sent by email but I didn't recall getting that email and I think that I either didn't receive it or that I missed in in my inbox and accidentally put it in the trash.
• The log form to be signed at the end of every meeting - As I said above I didn't know that we had a log form so I didn't have that with me. I said that I would try and find it in my inbox and otherwise get a copy from someone else. She said that I could come back tomorrow and that she would then sign the form.

Mrs. Maaswinkel said that I should try and start my research as soon as possible and that the next time we met, which would be after that holidays that I should have all my research done and be back on schedule.


In the meeting we also talked a little about how I was planning to make my product. I said that I was going to take the frames that I had made from my video and then use tracing paper to take the outline of the person in each stage of the flip. I would make it into a sort of stick man but then with the circles at every joint, like the way you draw people as a draft.

Mrs. Maaswinkel asked why I didn't just put the pictures straight into the video and I said that as the background is very colored that flash wouldn't be able to recognize where the person was. I also would rather work with a sort of stick figure because it is easier to do in flash and easier to show the movements clearly.