Scratch Game Design

Well user experience influenced me by making my games better and try to improve al the glitches. So So like the commenting session was very useful because I got enough information for me to know and what I can improve on. Like my chase game most of the comments were about "oh it would be better if your lions can move" and some were in more detail into like helping me and demonstrating on how to make the move. And on my plat former game I had also very useful comments like how my sprit couldn't move as well and it would glitch when you would complete the next level and move on. So yes I really hope my games will turn out in my expectation and the expectations on the focus wall.

Well my first game is my chase game and for me I created a story with it and it is Lions have escaped from the zoo so help Nano out run them. And you use you arrow keys on your keyboard to control Nano. Then my plat former game is you have to help Giga reach the stars and there are two levels that go with it. So you would have to reach the 6 pointed star as the first level then my second level is you have to reach the 8 pointed star to win the whole game. The features between both of my games are for my chases game I still need to do a lot more just to reach the simple requirements and I cant wait for you guys to see the improvements. And for my plat former game I used a gravity engine and that made the sprite jump and glide smoother so there's a lot of bugs to finish though I really think its my best game yet.

My best code would be my plat former game and thats because I actually got my controls to work better and I learned hoe to use more scripts to control most of what I wanted my sprites doing. And the point of my game is that giga has to touch the six pointed star first and then I have this next level that is even more difficult. Though I still have to fix little bug here and there. And continuing on the next level is you have to reach the eight pointed star. So I'm really proud of what I made of my game. Now with my most difficult challenge was my first game and so I didn't really to get to finish half of it and I had a lot of thing to fix. Like my controls of my arrows I had to fix that, and also I also would like how to figure out how to make my lions move. And I really would like and finish and work on it more instead of just leaving it like that. Though I really like making games in scratch. Well finally I posted my last game and its still a work in progress and I need to add in the level but Ill try to work on it during on break so it will be up and running.

Invention Commercial Label

P3T5_Invention from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

My teams main goals for this project was, we wanted everyone to understand the concept of the conflict checker. So we had come up with a plan to not make an app but to make an illusion to understand to what we were trying to say about our product. So we really had high expectations like while we were doing the editing and when we were done with everything we made about 3 people watch and see if it really made sense to their point of view. They all said yes. During the critiques even though I wasn't there I'm pretty sure that we got a good critique.

The best team moment was over the weekend while we were filming we hanged out at the park chatting and eating candy. I really wish that I got more time to spend with my group and that's because it was a Sunday and it was my birthday #finallyateen and happy birthday to my teammate Kyla Bautista. Though we still had bonding time on that day we filmed. It was really funny that it was a rainy day and when I finally got there it was very bright and sunny. We did so much filming on that day to but eventually our camera died.

During the post production the person who did the editing would be Kyla and Ashley. So I was really happy with the finished product. I had many ideas into what was going on into the editing but I think we were just following on to our original plan.

Composition Scavenger Hunt

P3T5_Composition_2015 from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Well what I think the most important composition technique would be rule of thirds subject. And that's because I watch a lot of TV on my free time and usually I watch many documentaries about ocean life and I see many marine biologists and I that see the rule of thirds and its always not like a dead straight bulls eye. So what I'm saying why is it important is when me and friends get together and we film something and it involves interviewing we put on the grid so we know how to get it eye leveled. I really like this composition technique and thats because it can be useful in many ways.

Contrast & Content 

I think the most difficult would be is leading lines and thats because the pictures that I see online are like for example a pier and it would be of the sunlight pointing toward the ending. And to be really honest I think it the hardest out of the composition techniques and you really need to find a good perspective on what your trying to do with it. so every picture has a meaning and I think if you do the meaning to a raise of sunshine leading to the sun or something else like that it would just be an absolute beautiful shot but if you can capture it right then no one is going to see the art of it.

Repetition of Shapes  

My teammates are Ashley Alfiler & Kyla Bautista. So my teammates all contributed and what I mean by that is we did some filming, and some saying the technique. So when we were doing our editing the video I did half of transitions and cut outs, Kyla added the rest of the transitions and the music, and Ashley she did the rearranging the clips and cutting the clip to where they are supposed to be. So we all technically shared an equal part on editing the video. So I actually like how it turned it was short & simple. So when we went over it, and when we had our critiques some of our shots didn't and did meet the requirements. And anyways we just did our best on the filming, anyways we had fun while doing it.

Cracking the Code

I think everyone should learn how to code and that's is because coding could help you in life. For example say you are applying for a job and it involves computerizing. And your boss wants you to customize a website for the his/her company. Like for me as a GT student, for me I'm this year I have many new projects to do and so in my science class we are using this program and its called "scratch". And it like this animation program. But not going to far into depth with all the info so Me and my partner are doing Hawaiian social classes.

Continuing on, so my first experience with programming was actually when I first made my blog. And so a couple posts after when I first learned how to post a video and you can look or scroll down and watch it's called "Gluten'' its the pros or cons of the way it can effect people. And so describing my first contact with programming when I first got to my blog, when I went to my post I went to my html which is like another part of your blog that saves what you are doing. And so I copied and pasted my link to the video. And so that was the first time that I did programming. So now I really got used to what I'm doing with all the videos that I have done through the past year. So check out the link on my side bar to kmshonu.blogspot.com. Then you can click on the vimeo channel.

If I could design a program I would design a program that would delete all the things that involve bullying, videos that contain explicit content like fights, foul comments ( like bad words ), and many other things that would involve things like that. And that is just part of my program and the rest of it would have games and lessons on bulling and many other things that will teach you in life. And I got this idea from Pier mediation and it this group that talks about bullying and what it can do to you. And from time to time I watch videos on youtube about a power of a bystander. So I really want to help people and what their going through. So the purpose of my program is to keep our society living better and what I learned from Pier mediation was that many people die and that is just because of thoughts of dying. And that is just because of bullying. So if I were to create a program like what I just said 

My Humorous Monologue

CastroJ_Comedy from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.
What I have learned from this project was I learned this time not to be a procrastinator and that's because I was very late on turning in my b-roll so I was really relieved that Mr.Sanderal gave us more time to film. I learned how to do more things in iMovie. And If I had a second chance on this project I would really try to improve my skills on filming something else instead of my brothers. And I had a second topic I would write a joke on my brother playing football.

The thing for me with padding was I had a little cough and cold here and there so I was sick on the day that we had to do the monologue. So the way I edited it in my iMovie project is I cut all the little things that needed to be left out like we needed to pad because of the lumix cameras it needed a little boost then we could start filming. Even though I was still sick I got everything done and there was this one day that I had the chance to change my monologue and that is because I didn't like the way my voice sounded at all. So I had the chance. Padding my clips were really hard and that is because of I had a lot of shaky footage and

Finally the most trouble that I had on this project is filming my brothers. They didn't really want to cooperate with me so I kind I had a nervous break down just because I thought I was going to fail. Another weakness of mine is not getting my done on time which for me is I call it procrastination. My strengths are I finished and exported my video on time and I was happy with what I did. I made the class laugh and I got a lot of votes for 2 and 3 so my way of thinking I really wanted to change my whole entire project to something else that was funny and more in my comfort zone. But I didn't give up. So if I had a project like this again I would change my work habits like not to be a procrastinator. Next time I'll check out a camera out everyday and try to get the best quality of work done.  

Comedy Writing

It's an important character because you need the ability to make people laugh and any ways what's the point between a statement and a joke. For a joke your just saying a sentence that has many things about a topic and a joke is your saying thing that are true and you are making it funny by either using hand gestures or props. For me I either tell jokes about my brother or something else and the most likely I tell a lot of jokes about my brother. And another you should know about me is I answer to my nickname which is Julie and I don't like it when people say my full name Julianne. I really like people with senses of humor because it's just makes my day when I'm a feeling down.

Here is five tips about writing a humorous narrative. Tip number 1 when you are humorous narrative you have to put a lot of planing into it. So when you are telling your jokes all your hard work will payoff. Tip 2 this is only if you are a comedian. And most comedians that I watch have props with them and hand gestures and I think if you try to think out side the box and you improvise you can make a more out of it. Tip 3 most times when writhing a humors narrative you always can add sequences like pictures or scenes that your doing. Like me when I was really young I used to draw pictures that had to be in chronological order so the only thing that I remember that is I did this story that talked about my " My new puppy ".  Tip 4 you don't really need that much detail and that is because of your writing a joke you only need so many things to say about. So you only need simple things and that is what I learned. Tip 5 have fun while you writing you narrative.

My joke is about my brothers. I really did not think that I could pull through to get a good grade. And that is because of I didn't get that much done within the time was. Although I was able to pull through. And when it was all over when we exported it there was a huge relief off my shoulders. So when we did the critique I was so surprised that most people wouldn't laugh but a lot of my friends and the other student did. Even though I had the roughest time filming my brother I was happy of the come out.



   

Motivational Poster

Okay so all his expectations are a lot so what you need in your main start is you need the most is 2 text layers are which are filled with your manifesto and the other layer would be filled with your personal quotes. And the other thing is you need 3 symbolic images that represent you need 1 image of you or a portrait of you. Then its time to put the bigger things that will make your document look 10x better. So kerning that is one of the main thing and that its the spacing between each letter that has to be equal to get that point you need for you grade. Then your triadic color scheme its about color so you chose 1  color that dominate then you chose two other colors that are balance equally from the color wheel. Visual balance is, so say your doing a project in photo shop and your adding the finishing touches then  you spot something wrong you don't like the way it looks. So it what I'm trying to say is it needs look appealing to the eye. And the last requirement is your blending option it just this little tweak to make your work better.

Okay for the past two weeks that we had this project we had to collect three pictures and that is what represents me and a profile pic so that makes 4 in total so you need three pictures that represent you and your profile picture. After we needed to gather you personal quotes and a manifesto in your google documents. So after you have gathered that all together then you go photo shop then you make a new document that is named (last name, first letter of you name_ subject). Then after you have don that means you have to make 2 new layers that are labeled Manifesto and Quotes. Then you go back in your google documents and you copy and paste you manifesto in you manifesto layer and your quotes in you quotes layer.

Then when your all done copy and pasting you have this big fat paragraph so what you do is called kerning to make in a big box of text to cover your whole page. After you can drag and drop the pictures that you collected in to the document and the pictures will make its own layer so you would have about 6 layers 2 for manifesto and your quotes and for the four pictures you have. Then when you are done putting in all your layers together then you can finally add in your effects. So what  did was for the effect on my pictures I added was curves, color, and a couple other effects. Then for my text layers I added a bevel and emboss, outer glow, stroke and, a drop shadow. Finally I scene I was in a rush I turned it in right on time but i wasn't happy with my finished product.

Finally the hardest thing about the project,  honestly I would say that the whole thing was challenging because the truth is I am a procrastinator and I like being one. And thats because I work harder when I'm under pressure. Although everything turned out the way I wanted it to in the end. But when we were only half way into this project all the little sixth graders around me, well I think they did good just for their first project. And that is because I got confused in one of the demos on placing the pictures in the document. Next if I was able to have another chance to redo it I would have changed my color scheme instead of a bright pink color. And I could have tooken better pictures that symbolizes me. Also if I had more time I could've worked on my keening and changing my font instead of having similar fonts that are bold. In my opinion I think that you can even tell that which letter are bold that I wanted to stand out and the ones that I wanted to be just a normal skinny font.  

Personal Manifesto

  

 Hey guys I'm Julie 5 interesting fact about me are I like to dance hula and Tahitian because I like the many different styles of dance also if I were to chose any other nationality I would want to be Hawaiian. My second fact about me is even i don't play any sports I really like to help my brothers with there sport for example help them how to throw the ball better or other things. My third fact is I really like to act childish and that is because i'm really happy an active. Fourth fact about me is I have black straight hair, dark brown eyes and Im tall.My last fact is I really like turtles because my schools animal is the turtle or how we say in Kauai the "Honu".                                              

Use your time wisely. Have fun. Smile. Take the risk. Make every thing count. Don't give up even though how hard it is. Have strength in what you take part in. Be thankful. Hula & Tahitian. Speak up. Respect others. Pride. BE positive. Take a look back at the past. Family.

Okay in my manifesto it mostly explains things about me and for the words hula and Tahitian what that means to me is it my hobby or more like my passion. And thats because of its has many types of different cultures of dance like New Zealand the Mouri Culture, Tahiti the Tahitian Culture, And Hawaiian the Hula Culture. "Use your time wisely " that's a quote I had in my head for a long time because ever since I got into middle school I had a lots of work. So I've learned to take my time wisely.  

Music Videos Rock!

How did each member of your team contribute?

Kasiah on the right and Maddie on the left 

What part will your audience enjoy the most & why?
How does your MV show what you learned this year?
Embed Vimeo & Two great behind scenes pic

My two lovely teammates are Maddie and Kasiah. Maddie & Kasiah they both contribute a big amount like for me i'm the youngest in their group so they just put me in charge of the props and all that and helping set up the camera and just technically listen to what they say and all . So Maddie contributes by during all the heavy lifting also including Kasiah. 

Well I think everyone will be very amused and thats because the whole point is we all are friends and so in the whole movie plan what we did was ke and maddie are the peole who are the ones who bully Kasiah and so we tease her but anyways she still keeps on doing her own thing and she shakes all the bad things out of her head and in the plans that we planed was she was the one being bullied but that would have been just really mean. And so wefilmedher just dancing around the halls and its really funny cause she doesnt know that shes that bad of a dancing.
 

Me on the right and Kasiah on the left 

Lyrical Livelihood

Well I have more than one favorite song so its just really had to pick one but all the songs on my playlist that I listen to are either love songs and the other categories are either someone playing contemporary piano, and todays hits. So well all the songs on my playlist they make me feel happy most of the sometimes sad and mostly loved but its just a weird feeling that get when I hear a certain song. But if I would have to chose my favorite song it would be "All I need" by Saiosai. Its a song about love & I listen to 24/7. And if I were to chose my favorite hit from today it would be Sam Smith "Lay me Down".

My teammates and I are choosing "Shake It off" and my teammates chose that song because they might be shy around some people but I worked with both off them and they both are make the biggest and take it over and beyond. Like for Kasiah I worked with her in the beginning of the year and even though our project wasn't chosen to be in the "Hiki No" episode she did the best that she could do to make it better than it was before. And for Maddie she was the one trying so hard to get that 4 she and our group needed and she did we all worked together from recess to lunch to any spare time in school. And so I can tell why they chose the song because their best friends forever and you can never separate them. So what i'm trying to say is they're very fun and spontaneous so they song that we chose is also is like that in a way.

So our song is Taylor Swift " Shake is off " and so our way were doing it is very different from the original version of Taylor Swift. So the way it relates to many people is everybody has something to hide and I think me and my teammates have been bullied at a point in time and I know in my mind that they're very confident in it so they just shake it off.
Okay so our story plan explains that One of us is getting bullied and so that would be Kasaiah and me and Maddie are playing the role as the bullies. So one of the shots were shooting is where me and Maddie start off is were the dancers who have been dancing for a long time  and then Kasiah all of a sudden jumps in and were in this big gigantic dance battle.

Animation Outtakes

My teammates are Maddie Hosel, Denae Sacramid, and Jayse Matsuyama. Two interesting facts about Maddie is she's a hard working leader and she try's to have fun but when the time gets rough going through grading processes there are some tears here and there but she's really up beat and happy. Two interesting facts about Denae is she's really quiet but me and her make a pact in the group, she's really smart, she loves to talk. And two interesting facts about Jayse  he has a lot of focus into the project and he's a really hard worker, he likes to make fun jokes and he likes to have fun. And I really got to know all my teammates by doing this project and it was really fun.

Stop motion animation  is a type of technique that animators use in their movies to make it more interesting like the movie " Para-Normin" its this move with the greatest stop motion that I've ever seen. And for a gif its like a add but and technically you see it on many websites its like this moving picture but actually its little frames and its moving all at once in a repeating. Like the bouncing ball up above in the right top corner of my the the blog.

Our animation story is about over coming writers block. The main character is me and so I'll explain it more on the next blog post. But today in real life when any one including many great authors also have a hard time writing so my and my group wanted to tell is in a nonfiction way so people can understand you can go through many things in your head. Finally after that whole while of thinking you have a whole bunch of ideas and you just start writing this amazing story. You should care about our animation its because you can learn how you can get through a tough time while writing and also it's with a big twist that will amaze you.

Our Animation Story

P5T2 Julie Overcomes Writers Block from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Our focus statement is "Julie Overcomes Writers Block". And it tells my story by, I have a lot of trouble in writing and it happens to many people. So our story is more like a non-fiction way of understanding it, so there's the main character which is me so in the beginning the teacher assigns a imagination essay and its due tomorrow and so Julie she was sitting in her chair thinking, then what we do is close up animation in her head or in her brain. And so herself inside is battling these paper soldiers with pencils as swords protecting the wall and so after awhile fighting the soldiers it has this big impact in real life she has a headache and so that effects the wall and so the wall blows up or collapses and the ideas flow out and she has this 2 page essay that is amazingly written.

The lesson that I think that people will learn from this is when people watch it ,it's more of a real life situation and so people will say "Oh wow I can do this". So I think our video will give them more confidence to free write and all that. And we'll so everyone has or may or may not have gone through it but for me I used to have a whole bunch of trouble writing my stories for my English class and so the whole story relates to me and everyone els in the world that has a problem in writing.

Finally my worst moment in our group was the two scenes teaser on that day we had our group leader she shed some tears but she was starting to grow more and more off of the 2/4 we got from but we boosted our grade to a 4/4 and our team leader was really happy. And the best moment was when we had the grading process and that's when one of my partners raised their hand and so when we got through that moment it was a sign of relief and we got a 4/4.I had so much fun working on the animation project and I got to learn more on the strengths and the weaknesses of my partners. Like Maddie she can focus and concentrate better when she's under pressure and for Jayse since he was the only boy in the group he tried his best to do all he can and he did, and Denae she especial she was a really hard worker and she communicated with us if she needed help.

Typography Images

Typography is a type of picture like my last blog post it was "Double Exposure" and now its way different from that so like you take a portrait and it doesn't have to be you could take the picture at any angle or the way you want it to be. But it still needs to be a clear picture of someone. And in photo shop it has many weird tweaks and all that. So you need a giant block of text and all that so then you have to do even more tweaks. So continuing on it can make an impact on many things like so  for example like i'm going on a trip in April. And so that can be turned into a  Typography Portrait like I have to take many pictures and also like have to write a big block of text and so it has to be describing about what you did on the trip.

The most crucial thing is the whole thing and thats because the way the tutorials are supposed to fit into a 6th graders head is really difficult and I really am trying to catch up to the rest of the expectations that my teacher wants me to.So ill try my hardest to try and get my teacher portrait up and so I can get a grade for that. so during the next tutorial it was really easy and that's because our teacher he taught us step by step. So I caught on really fast and one of my favorite parts of the tutorial was doing the layer by layer and filling it in by word and my words really explain me.

And so finally I am really happy with my finished product I really love the way it looks and the other 2 the are really different if you compare them and thats because you have to do many different way on doing typography like the fist tutorial was really easy but for me I just caught on really slowly. So including the teacher typography I made a lot of mistakes and so I just had to redo all of it but I think the third tutorial was the easiest one for me to understand I caught along really easy and the steps are so simple so I really like the way it turned out and if I had a second chance what I would have done better is I wanted to try and redo the teacher typography that I would have done way better.

Double Exposed Portraits

 Okay so a portrait picture is like so you know how people look to the sides and that technically a pose in the modeling world and so that is called a portrait or like a better definition would be a person(s) would be taking a picture of people(s) showing expression. And silhouetting its like almost taking a picture and but its more like a black out lining of someone and its filled in with black. And yes it is really similar to portrait photography your just doing a bigger and wider view of the person.(And to your right it my final practice double) 
First you have take more than 1 picture of a textural figure like tree bark and that what I added to my stuff and the other picture that I took was a perspective of looking up a tree. And you also need a portrait which mentioned in my first paragraph.Then when you have to photos you enjoy you go to photo shop then you go to file "put photos in a bunch". Then so for your profile you would have to use the burn tool (which its to your left). Then when you done blocking all the stuff that you don't want and its completely white you crop it.(8.5 by 11, 300 pixels).

Then when your completely done with cropping you go to the settings or change the effect of you pic then you just go on blend mode then you change it to screen and you can turn down the opacity to match or the way you want it to look.Then if you want it to look more cool and more techie you you haTheve to go to the very top of your tab and and if you look very closely at the recent picture to your right and you look at the very top you can see that there are many word and so you would have to chose layer and so there are adjustment that you would see then you would want to click on new adjustment layer then you could customize it any way you want so like for my finished product in the multi double exposure I added a photo filter and a curve it and I really like the way how it turned out.

And finally my favorite part explaining what's in my final multi exposed okay so on the last time that we could've check out cameras was very stress full but I got a camera right on time and so I took many textural pictures and my main two that I picked was I took a picture of my hula implements and that would be of the ipu the hallow odd gourd, puili bamboo sticks, and the uli uils the feather and I chose to take a picture of that it's because hula has been apart of my life for 4 years and I love doing it. Then my second picture was of a 

Pom tree and I chose to take a picture of that because in hula you have to be graceful like a Pom tree swaying in the wind and so that's why I took a picture of it. If I had to do it another time but 10 times better I would've token better quality like the place where I took the picture and for my profile I would've been taken better if my hair was down now it because it would have looked way better. And I could have done so much better with the effects on the whole thing but I didn't want times the whole thing up and it's because while I was exploring the effect on photo shop it didn't turn out the way I wanted it to and so I just left it the way I wanted it to.

HDR Photography

HDR photography means (high definition range) and its taking more than one picture and you have to try and not to move the camera, and so theres a button on a camera or you just have to look on the settings and you have to change the exposure compensation and you take more than one of the same thing. And so when your ready merge the pictures together you would use photo shop. I really like the lesson on the HDR and all the rest of the lessons to it was very cool that Mr. Sanderal that he takes the time and effort to tell us when we were doing the critiques it was nice. If I were able to use an HDR pic I would definitely use it and try to remember step by step.

Well yes it is very different its because well I think you have to take more than one picture and merge and the way it turns out I just love the way it looks it gives me the goose bumps. And when I did mine it turned the way my expectations hoped so like for instance the HDR on the right it took me about 30 minutes to and hour just trying to figure out what i should take a picture of and so yes its kind of cheesy but did the best I could.
And finally explaining why I took these pics but mostly I really love to superimpose and the reason why was I chose to do the superimpose like that is because I imagined it would turn out to be ugly but it technically I loved it and the rest of my picture the main point had to be surreal. And for me its very.

Movie Trailer Critique

P5T1 Gone and Forgotten from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Well my group and I we all had fun on the Movie Trailer project .So our movie trailer title was called "Gone and Forgotten". And it was about this girl who's name is Courtney Evermore and she was fading out of existence and the only people who remembered her was her little sister Taylor Evermore and her best friend Lily. Well to contribute to making the movie trailer is Jhoanna Domigo ,Ashley Alfiler and Eden Tjarks . I was the lead playing Courtney Evermore, Ashley was the little sister Taylor Evermore, and as Eden Tjarks Courtney's best friend. And one of my favorite thing with my group, was in one scene had we had the best idea ever to shoot up in the tree when Lily and Taylor were talking about Courtney and in trying to find her.

What I would want to say we didn't have all technical requirements its because of all the time we had we were procrastinating we only had so much but so little. Its because we had like 1/3 of the film that fit with our movie trailer and so while I was doing my thing the team was filming and so we made it and I was relived but we didn't have 1 minute and 30 seconds through 2 mins. But I think me and my team did really well. We had so much trouble to go through and the thing was my team and I couldn't meet up like all four group members we only usually at the time only had three team members.

And finally we had a class critique so our group and were the first group that was critiqued. Even though I saw many good movie trailer films and they were like better than awesome it was like 110% better. Even though we had 0 votes it was a fun experience to try once and a while. But I think me and my team did good but I still think we could have done way much better. And if our had a second chance I would improve by using the time me and our team had more wisely instead of waiting to long and doing at the last minute.