Lyrical Livelyhood

My favorite song lyrics make me feel good about myself . My favorite song lyrics are actually from my music video song. Those lyrics says the kid in the song "landed on his hip and bust' his lip". So the person in the video first fell when he was trying to skate-board. Although he fell, he still got up. That sometimes helps me like if I get hurt or if I fall doing something. Its encouraging because he just gets up. Those lyrics from the song"kick,push" are my favorite song lyrics.

The song for our music video my team and I picked is the song"kick,push" By Lupe Fiasco. Honestly, we had a song,but we never knew it had a bad word. So we were scrambling for a new song. We searched for a lot of songs. At the end, I was just like "guys, lets just do the song Kick,Push , I don't think it has any bad words". So we searched the lyrics, and it never had any bad words. So that's how we got that song.

Well, a lot of the filming is gonna be off school campus because the whole song is about skateboarding, and the school doesn't allow skateboards on school campus. So most of the lip-syncing is gonna be at school. We have some filming done already, but most of it is gonna be used as bloopers. So the filming that we are gonna do is some of the story, and almost all the lip-syncing.

Our animation story

P3T2 Logan Challenges Schedule from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.


Well,our focus statement is "Logan challenges schedule". Some kids might've felt the feeling of moving schools or moving schedules. I changed schedules before, and it was some hard stuff. On the first day of school, I was late to a lot of classes. So in our story, I move to another school. In the story , I get my schedule, I didn't really understand it. There is a Voice-over when I say " this schedule is like a monster". Then it shows an animation of a monster chasing a guy.

I think my audience will like my video. I made some cool animations. Like the animation you can see in the picture. That animation was of a monster chasing a man. Maybe also the voice overs, some people might've felt how I felt in the video. One V.O says "ugh, this is gonna be the worst day ever." Some people might have felt that way, not just in school.

I think the best moments as a team was when we finished. My team and I messed up a-lot. We were the only team that got 1 out of four for our production plan In all the GT classes. We only had like two seconds for our two second teaser. So we were glad we finished. I think the worst moments as a team was the whole project. Like I just said a few sentences ago, my team and I were struggling a-lot.

Animation Outtakes

For our animation project My teammates are Diego Hernandez, Nahele Keale, and Neliza Diaz-Lanuzzi.....






Stop-motion animation is when you take many pictures and then you can put them all together. Like clay-mation,you can make stop-motion with clay. You record each frame, but as you record each frame, you change the clay.  So in the end the clay really looks like its moving around. A .GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format. GIFs always go on and on and never stop.

My team is telling my story. It is my story because one time, I was new to the school, and the schedule never really made sense. Before at my old school, you only just stayed in one class. But now I have to move around at each class. So it was a big step for me. So that's why the story relates to me.

Typography Images

Typography Portraiture is arranging words so that they are aligned with a portrait.As you can see on the picture of Leonardo da-vinci. The words are aligned with Leonardo's face. I think they can make a lasting impact if you really put the effort into it. Like on my innovator portrait, at first, I thought it wasn't going to be very good. Although I thought that,it never stopped me. I think I improved as I went on to my teacher portrait.

There was many challenges for me during this project. I think it might've been my own fault. I think That because I think I was being proactive. So anyway, There was many obstacles for me In the Typography Project. One obstacle for me was in the teacher Typography when you had to get the shadows and Mid-tones or Mid-tones and highlights. My teacher never had that much highlights and too many Mid-tones.

So I created three Typography images. One was Innovator,One was Teacher,And one was Just Me. I Think the best typography image was the innovator. That One was more easy because You never had to make a new brush preset. You only had to copy and paste text. The Teacher project wasn't the easiest, but it was fairly easy. The next project was a typography image of yourself. The portraits were placed from low to high difficulty. Innovator was easy, teacher was intermediate, and Yourself was Hard.

Double exposed portraits

Portrait Photography is a picture like a profile, but you can only see half of the face, and its not of the whole body, its from the mid shoulder up. Usually in other types of photography, the photographer take a picture of the whole body. Portrait photography is closely related to profile view and silhouetting because they are all of either a face or a whole person. Silhouetting means the image of somebody or something shown as a solid shape of one color( mostly dark colors), the edges matching the outline of the image. So, now hearing all the definitions,do you now notice that they are all alike?

So, double exposures are made in Photoshop. They are made like this:

• First,you take your photos. Those photos should be One Profile photo, and either 1 or 2 symbolism pictures like what you do or your hobbies.
• When you have those pictures, you go into Photoshop, and press file, scripts, and load file into stack.
• In Photoshop, you open those Photos. Then You can either Crop first or Dodge.
• The dodge tool looks like A teardrop. The dodge tool makes a space lighter,or sometimes more white.
• For the cropping, You want your nose to have the same amount of space with the back of your head. So when you crop, The best is to make It 8.5 inches by 11 inches and 300 resolution.
• Then, when you dodge all the negative space, you want to turn all the layers into screen blend mode. You do that by double clicking each layer, press blend mode, and then screen.
• Then to make the color of the image different, you go to Layer at the top, new adjustment layer. Then you can explore with different layer effects like Gradient map, screen, and a variety of others.

 So below, it shows my two finished images. On my First image you can only see like the pink flower. I tried to make it so that you can see both flowers, but you can only see the pink flower. On my other example, it shows a plant,and you can kind've see my guitar. My guitar stands for how I love music. The plants show how much I love the outside and being outside. So my layer affects that I used were curves and brightness and contrast.

    

HDR Photography

HDR Photography is High dynamic range Photography. HDR Photography is used to add More Dynamic Range,which is the ratio of the light in the photo and the dark in the photo. I Like HDR photography because if you blend all the photos that you take,It will like really cool. What I dislike is that you cant move the camera,not even a centimeter. If You move the camera,in photoshop,it will create ghosts.

To make A HDR image,first you have to set up your camera where you want it. You have to make sure the camera is in a place that it wont move. Next you want to take 7 photos at different exposure compensations  -3,-2,-1,0,+1,+2,+3.Make sure they do not move a bit .Then You go into Photoshop,go up to file,automate,Merge to HDR.It will show you a browse button,which you will press to browse in finder to find your pictures. Then when you pick the pictures,you will blend all of them. Then you can pick options on the side,then save it. That's how you make a HDR image.

I think On a 1-4 scale for my superimpose,I think I get A Two. I think that because you can see a lot of parts that you notice it has been cut out. For example,on his shoulders,there's little cut outs that you can see. The thing I like about my superimpose image is that the text matches with the image.For example, I faded the experiment portrait so that it actually looks like he is dreaming about something . I think that the text should be larger. I had to make the experiment that large because if I didn't,his head would be cut in half. So yah, Im think I get A 2.

Movie Trailer Critique

My Movie Trailer was named "Dumb and Dumber Tree". My teammates were Zephen Kaneakua and Steven Villuneuva. Our Trailer plan document was about organized,but it just had a few parts that could have been fixed. I did much of the work for the filming,and for the editing,but my teammates worked a lot on the Trailer plan. The filming was fairly easy because we had the advantage of filming in school, but we never had a chance to film outside of school, which was unfortunate.

The project requirements were to have a finished trailer plan, and a finished movie poster. The trailer itself has to be A 1:30 minimum, and 2:30 maximum, Five scenes, Dialogue, Voice acting Script,  Foley, It had to be appropriate for first graders, text layovers, have your movie poster somewhere in the movie trailer. My team and I almost met all the requirements. Our trailer met the requirement for time, but if it was only 9 seconds shorter, my team and I wouldn't have met the time requirement. My trailer had a poster, met all the text requirements, had all the text layovers, but we almost never met the time requirements. For my team and I, The first grade audience requirement was a piece a cake because Our trailer was supposed to be funny.


I think that the Critique spot on. For the final critique, we never got any votes, and I know why. My trailer was turned in late. My team never really contributed to the trailer. So I get it that we never had any votes. We had some funny parts that other students could have liked, but other than that,My trailer was not good enough. We tried our best,but I guess We never tried hard enough.

Movie Poster Promo

My trailer name is "Dumb and dumber Tree". The main characters that You will see on the movie poster are Lloyd Christmas and harry Dunne, Who are acted by Zephen Kaneakua and Steven Villenueva. They are struggling with pushups, which is supposed to be funny, but I dont really think it is.They are in front of Kapa'a Middle school.

We named our movie Trailer "Dumb and Dumber Tree" because Its dumb and Dumber,Shouldn't it be funny? There is much other text other than the title on the Movie Poster like The actors,Critiques and critics,then later I will be adding Words down the middle that will say,"Will They Win?"Kerning is adjusting the room or space of figure to make the word or sentence Proportional. Also Sometimes to make the words in a sentence look more appealing to the person who is reading it.It is Very fun to use.

I think My Use of the affects effects the person Who is Looking.Like one layer effect is Bevel and Emboss.With that layer affect,you can make just plain white words turn into really awesome words!Also One Effect on my poster is Stroke,what you probably know what it means.I think If You see My poster,you'll see the effects of the effects .

My Visual Poem

 The title of my Visual Poem is "fitness". I have did this topic because I enjoy fitness,and also because my dad owns a gym.In the beginning,it just shows many people working out.I think that the people working out really makes the people feel that they are at the gym watching the people work out,or maybe even feel like you are working out.Also shows people frolicking,so it gives you a good feeling.

On a few of the pictures,I added the Ken Burns effect,which is basically like the visual zooming in or zooming out. I didn't have time to color effects because I wanted to turn the visual poem in on time.I would've made some color effects on the picture of my dad surfing.I also put in music in the background,like 80s jazz music.I put in some pictures of just like random things like blobs and concrete so that those pictures can cover the spots I never filmed.

I'm am satisfied,and not satisfied.Im not satisfied because those random pictures didn't have to be in there.I just put those substitute pictures in there because I never got some filming.I got the filming that I needed. I am satisfied because the filming that I was able to get,It turned out pretty good.Like The filming in the very beginning.It showed a bunch of people lunging.I think I did Pretty good on the Visual Poem,but I could have done way better.

Finished News Story

Our story was about YesI skate shop. We interviewed Cameron Lovelace,who is the owner of YesI skate shop. We also interviewed kids who are sponsored including Kyle(Don't know last name),and Kaloe Aguiar. All of my teammates contributed to it. Those teammates are Orria Niitsu,Nathan Gardner,and Tyler Pagela. Also Our teacher,Mr Sanderl because he taught us all the things we needed to have a good HikiNo video.

The final turned out not bad,but could have a few more improvements. One improvement could be the b-roll,like to place the b-roll in the right place. Also we could've got a few interviews because the interview with Cameron Lovelace was like 3/4 of the video. So it could've been shorter. So I am
happy and also not happy with our results.

I agree with our critique results because our story had many flaws.We got many 3s.Some audio was out of tune.A lot of the B-roll never matched with the A-Roll.So the Critique pretty much matched with what the video had.We could've done better,but we did not.

Real world report

49ers: Is there an offensive identity crisis?

My story is about the San Francisco 49ers.It tells that some members think that there is an identity crisis.Jim Harbough(head coach of 49ers)stated"In terms of identity, we're about moving the football, picking up first downs, scoring points, scoring touchdowns". I think that jim harbaugh is right. When you come to a roadbl0ck,you have to smash through it. This year the 49ers had a lot players that did a lot f bad stuff, including  Colin Kapearnick, the quarterback of the team.

I think that the members of the 49ers are right. I personally heard that some other teams had an identity crisis,so I believe that. Like I said in the first paragraph , Some players on the 49ers did some very bad things. Its not just the 49ers though. Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings hurt his son on purpose. So the 49ers aren't the only team with players who did bad things.                                                                                                                                                                                                            You don't have to care about this news story. You can just maybe think about the news story. Think like what will happen if the best players of some of the teams do very bad stuff. If they do bad things,they might get kicked off of the teams,and the whole team can suffer. So you don't have to care about the news story,maybe you can just think about it.

HikiNo Behind the scenes

My project is on Cameron Lovelace,the owner of Yes I skate shop. My team mates are Orria,Tyler and Nathan.We are getting a lot of progress in final cut pro.We are working a lot to try to finish our project. We are going to try our best to make this the best profile story.

When the camera is not rolling,you have to be ready for what is coming. Sometimes you might not not even know that the camera isn't rolling. You always have to be ready for what's ahead. Also if on Final Cut Pro,your work might not save and all the progress will be lost. You have to expect the unexpected when the camera isn't rolling.

One thing I can do to help this team is to learn how to do the Final Cut Pro. I am new to a bunch of this computer stuff,so when my partners are doing the work,I don't really know what's coming. My partners have been doing a lot of the work. I did the transcriptions for the first interview. I also did a lot in the section story pitch in the writing tools. I haven't done like all the work, but I tried my best to do a lot.

The experiment

On photoshop, we did an experiment. I am sorry I wasn't able to provide a image of my photoshop experiment. I am doing this on my iPad, and my photoshop is on my computer in the lab,but my project shoes my name and it getting cut in half. I never did photoshop,so it was my first experience on photoshop. I liked the photoshop experiment. What I didn't like was that I kept accidentally deleting my image. I gotta stop doing that! So that's what I liked about my photoshop experiment.Also my dislikes.