Rain Time

 This unit in the class "Light, Sound, and Time" we are finishing up the class and the term with time. Time is relative, and from what we know, we have only existed for an extremely brief period in the time of the universe. If all time was assimilated into one calendar year, the time we have existed only lasts the last minutes of the last month of the calendar. Time has been hard to grasp but as we advanced as a whole we have found ways to track time. That leads me into this action project, my class was asked to either create or update some way to tell time. Once we did so, we had to explain and advertise this in the form of a video. I decided to go with the Phil Swift approach for the video but then realized I'm not good at being excited so I decided to take after a favorite influencer of mine, Michael Reeves, as you will see. Please enjoy. (Credit to my friend LM for editing because I don't know how)

So I was looking over the assignment given to me a few days ago to think of a way to tell time (new or updated) for this AP and I had no idea what to do. I just thought of the "tick" system in the game Minecraft and thought "that could be it." So I refined the idea as I thought of a name and potential users and came up with "Rain Time" a clock based on those "ticks." I had a hard time with this as I had to worry about an AP for a different class at the same time that was sabotaging me mentally (and kind of literally). I hope you enjoyed my take at an ad and again I want to thank LM for helping me with editing the video.   

(Volume is 40.6 sqin)

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