Geometric Portraits

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In my GT class we are making a Geometric Portrait. To make a Geometric portrait, first you have to take a picture that is close up and make sure it is from your shoulders and up. Then you put that picture in Photo shop and put a grid on. After you will lock your photo and use the line tool to make polygons all over your image. Then you will fill in your triangles with color by pressing command f for short. After filling all of your polygons with color you merge all of your layers together.Then make a copy of half of your face, flip it over to make the other half of your face. This helps you by providing you with less work rather than doing your whole face. Finally you can make a white background and press the eye to turn the white layer on and off.

After finishing up our poly portraits number one and two, there were a lot of differences. The picture taking of the Poly one had a  camera that didn't take the highest quality pictures. During the picture taking of the Poly two we used higher Quality camera so the result was a little more realistic. When doing the Poly one we had to take a picture of ourselves, while with Poly 2 the picture was of someone else. Also, during the process of making the Poly one portrait you first had to outline triangles and then color them in but during the Poly two Portrait we combined those steps by using a different method. Lastly, in Poly one we had to look at the camera and in poly two we looked away from the camera giving a different feeling. 

Verbal Landscapes

GageS_Retime from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.
I love nature it is a big part of my life. Surfing is one of the ways that nature impacts my life because I love the way the cold water touches my skin and the feeling of catching your first wave. Another thing that gives an impact on my life is hiking because I love to  push myself and concur the trail or get to the top of that mountain. Hiking also clears my mind from any negative thoughts. Nature is a big part of me and it helps me because it gives me all of its grass to walk on, ocean to swim in, mountains to hike on and food to eat. Everything that nature has in store for me impacts my life.

To make a Time-lapse video clip you start by taking a regular video for about five minutes. You have to take the video for a long time because it will be shortened.  Right after taking the video you can upload it to Final Cut Pro. Then, you speed up the clip so that it is only about a minute long. Although, you can speed up your clip as much as you want. 

To make a slow-mo video clip you first take a video for about ten seconds. You only have to take a video for about ten seconds because you are going to stretch out the clip. Next, you will transfer that clip to Final Cut Pro so it can be extend. You can slow the whole clip or part of the clip as ,much as you like.
During this project writing the poem was the most difficult to me. It took up a lot of my time to perfect the rhythm and rhyme in my poem. Though it might of been hard my poem turned out to have a meaningful message that represents me. The easiest part of this project was editing the video clips. This task was very simple because I have done this many times in the past using a similar app. I've had a lot of practice making and editing a lot of other videos. This project helped me gain a lot of knowledge and helped me learn a lot of new methods to accomplish the same thing.

During class yesterday the whole class watched my Retime Nature video. My results for my project were, 1 vote for exemplary, 21 votes for accomplished and 5 votes for Developing. I agree with my class votes because my video included all of the required elements and a few more extra clips. I could improved by reading my poem with more expressive intonation to make my video a little more exciteing. I also could improve by making my music a lot louder. This was a very fun and interesting project and it helped me improve my writing and talking skills.

Poetic Personal Statement

I think poetry is a form of writing that you can express your feelings about yourself. It can also be used to tell a story that you can relate to. Also, you can learn a lesson from that persons story and save yourself from having a big problem because you have already learned that lesson from reading somebody elses poetry.You can also learn how to write better and learn something about somebody else because you are reading and learning about someone.It is also used for doing all these things and sharing all of your problems or accomplishments in a poem.

The sound of the waves is always so soothing

I start my day off by surfing,It keeps my mind moving.

I want my life to be a vacation,

So, I can live and travel throughout the nations.

Although very tiny I am very strong,

And find my way through it when things go wrong.

By facing my fears with blood,sweat, and tears,

My greatness will continue to grow through the years.

I used rhyme in my poetic statement because I think the look and feeling that you get after reading this poetic statement can really give a brief description of who I am and what my dreams/goals are.I used rhyme by adding a word with the same word ending as the previous sentence. This poetic statement also has a rhythm because it has the same cadence throughout every sentence.Also, using rhythm can make your poetic statement flow and sound very nice and fluent.

Music Video Finnal

P2T5 Sorry from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

The storyline/ meaning of my 
story is going to be Cody borrowing Malia's body board and then while Cody is riding Malia's board in the water and then he gets crashed under the water and then he breaks the board and ends up singing to Malia and Malia just kept on ignoring him until Cody gets on his knees at the end and me and Akasha bribe Malia to listen to Cody. Finally Malia listens to Cody and she forgives him and then we all group hug.It also relates with my lyrics a lot to because it is telling a story will going back and forth to the storyline and the lyrics.

My favorite fast montage editing
sequence was when we started to edit our video because we had every film in order in which they were arranged in our plan so it was really easy and quick to edit this montage sequence. So, this process went faster than it was planed to take on this task. But, we also had the image that comes up first that really shows what we have learned in this class room through out the year.

I think this music video will showcase our best work because we have learned a lot of ways to take shots though out the year that will be show cased in our film. We also will showcase our new and improved editing skills because we have learned and improved our editing skills multiple times. So, in the end our final cut video will showcase what we have learned all year and they will all be shown and used during this video and it will also be the best work we have ever produced in this whole year.

Animated Life Lessons

P2T1 Adventure Builds Friendship from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.


In my group my team mates are Mike,Shanden, and me of course. But in our animation Shanden's character traits were creative, funny and Dare devil. But, I think that not all of those character traits really  as much as we wanted them to such as funny and creative because in the story I don't think you would see him as a funny and creative person. Next, there was Mike who was funny,adventures, acceptable to other ideas and finally understanding but I think most of Mikes character traits where more successfully expressed than Shanden's traits were. Lastly there where my traits which  was Funny and talkative,but in our story I don't think that I really exaggerated my personal traits, but in the end it all worked out and our visuals came out really good.


We will use most of our personal traits in the story and then we will show how we feel and our sense of humor in our story and our visuals. So, in the end our stories message is going to be that you have to respect nature and wildlife because they are living beings to and you have to treat them how you would want to be treated. But, in the end our personal treats were exaggerated to our highest abilities. But, lastly our over all message was really powerful and I think that our audience can for sure have a relation ship with our over all message,when they watch our amazing video.

I have never worked with my team before and on my team there is Mike and Shanden. But, first lets talk about Shanden. Shanden did all his scenes,But he never came in at recess at lunch to help us think of ideas and finish his scenes so we barley got it turned in in on time. Next there was Mike who helped a lot and came in every recess and finished all of his scenes and even helped me do all mine correctly and save them correctly. Our first challenge we faced was finishing the script because only Mike new what the whole story was going to be about, so we had a big challenge trying to help finishing the script, as a team.Then, our best moment during production was when it was the last day to work and we started working on IMOVIE in the last 10 minutes and then we finally turned it in and we all took a deep breath in and out for a sign of relefe.




 

Character Development

I think I am a cooperative and trustworthy person that everyone can trust. I am also a responsible person that can do any job to my highest abilities.But, most of the time if you have known me for a while now that I am a big joker and just want to get my work done really fast I just rush(RARELY). And most of the times you would think of me as a very funny person. But, that is something that I shouldn't do so I should catch my self when I am doing that. But most of the time I think that I am really responsible and I do each and every piece of my work to the best of my abilities.But, if you have never met me before you would probably would think that I was most of these things.

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hen I am animating myself my character traits are going to be loud and proud in what I have to say. Another character trait I have is always being a funny person, and making everyone around me laugh. Also, another imperfection that I would think of myself as is a person that sometimes I will get a little bit of task in the middle of something really important. I can animate myself by putting all my character traits into my animated person and I can do this by looking at the FocusWall and turning all of this in on time.


First in creating my GIF person I have to first of all cut out my person,and then after I have to crop my person so then The image is not really big and it won't slow my computer down. Then I would puppet warp and place pines on my body. Also, after I am finished with that I have to Frame and adjust my layers. After, I have to adjust my timing of my character and make sure it doesn't go to fast or to slow. Lastly When I am finished with all those steps then I can put a background and turn this project in.

.Mov Film Festival

P2T1 Coral Becomes Gymnast from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.


I think my keywords connect with my audience because it says a lot about my story ,and what the meaning and purpose of my story is . So, I think my keywords will connect with my audience, by telling my audience an important message about my film, or story, for example some of my keywords are ( determination, passion,active, love, belief,commitment, and fears ect) And my purpose to my film or story is, that you have to  keep on  trying to reach success even if you fail, So  It think that my keywords will connect with my audience and it will tell them a lot about the purpose and reasoning of my film.

My message I would like to share with my audience, is to not to be afraid to try something new because something good might come out of it.We are going to send that message in our film by having a girl that is not active and never wants to try something new.And then finally in the and she is going to relies that trying new things isn't always bad and in her case it brought something good out of here. So, now she has a purpose and a real goal to accomplish in her life. So, if you are ever get an opportunity to try something new, just take it, and think of things that you can accomplish with that learning experience.

In my film, my biggest challenge was taking videos of me teaching Coral how to do the moves on the bars because I kept on messing up and failing and falling of the bar. So, Raja had to keep on re-taking that video over andover again, and that was one of the biggest challenges. Also another challenge for me was taking the video of me doing tricks on the beam because I kept on falling of the beam, and so Coral had to keep on re-taking that video over and over again. In the end there there wasn't really that much challenges that stopped me or concerned

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Tiny Spherical Worlds

I think you should take more than one photo when you are taking a composite shot because if you take more than one photo then it will look better, and serve a great purpose when seeing the whole landscape rather than just seeing  one part of the landscape. Also if you take more than one photo then you will also get the whole see the whole scene which looks better than just one picture, which is just one part of that scene. So if ever taking a photo take try to give a little bit more effort and take more than one photo. Then to make it even better overlap your photos more than 10 percent, so that the whole process of editing and cropping the photo is way easier.

Polar and spherical panoramas are different because polar panos are like a few pictures bunched into one and then smeared together to create a miniature world.But, a spherical panoramic is just a sphere shape picture  that is made from taking 25 to 30 photos and then bunching them all together to make panoramic shot that makes, or covers a whole landscape. Another reason spherical and polar panoramas are different is because spherical photos are harder to make. For example, you have to do a few more steps and do a whole different process and a little bit more to make you spherical panoramic into a miniature world.

I  think that my finished results should come out really good by being creative and if I do my work with a potential, then it will make others think that I work hard and that my finished result are creative and is made with great potential.But they also might think  that my tiny world is convincing everyone that looks at it to work hard and learn new things so that you can get a really good result such as this one. Finally an other thing that convinces the people that looks at my spherical,and polar panoramas is to think that I did a great job and I work really hard.

Hockney Style Joiners

I think my photomontages are diffrent than David Hockney's is because David Hockney's photomontages are of diffrent style settings then my photomontages. They are also diffrent because he takes a lot more photos than me, and he uses a diffrent app to edit his photos. Another reason is that he goes through a hole other process of making his work creative and diffrent than anybody else's.


Images can send all kind of messages that can be negative or positive. For example if I took a picture of some cracked dirt and one little flower sprout, that would be an example of hope, which is positive. But, if I took a picture of two ships crashing and bad weather then that would be an example of fear, which is a negative topic. So, all images have a positive or negative topic.

In all my images I try to get the message of positivity. In my photomontage ,I also try to get the message of creativity because in my photomontage I picked a creative subject, that betrays a lot of my personality.Another message I try to give out to is the message of happiness  because whenever I create a photomontage I want everyone that looks at my image to think happy thoughts.  So, in all my photos i try to show all of my personality.

2016 ASPIRATIONS

During 2016 as a six grader, I have five goals which are, to be vegan for a whole week. My second goal is to come to school at 7:30 every day. My third goal is to get straight As for the rest of the year. My forth goal is to become really good at surfing. Finally my last goal is to make new friends every where I may go. 


My most important goal is to be a vegan for a week because I really want to become a whole year round vegan one day, and I think it will git me of to a good start if I do it for a whole week. Also there are many health benefits from being a vegan.Including, you get in better shape and you will increase your chance of living longer longer and you will also would be in a better mood at feel great because your not eating innocent animals.

To ensure success I will make a conscious effort to achieve these goals by. Having one vegan meal every day so it can be easier for me when I am brave enough to be a vegan for a whole week straight.Also, I can be nice everyone that I meet so that I can make new friends wherever I may go, and I can surf everyday after school so I can get a little bit better every single day. Those are the things I am going to do to re-achieve success.