MOV Film Festival

P3T4 Cooking Creates Oppertunity from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.
P3T4 Cooking Creates Oppertunity from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Hey guys and welcome back to my blog and today we are starting off with how do your keywords connect with your audience? And you guys must be thinking like what am I talking about and ill tell you. So we have this new project that Mr. Sandral gave us and it is MOV Film Festival. it is this project where you can choose to do either a movie trailer, animation, or a sitcom. And what me and my team choose was a movie trailer. So our keywords are Talent, Faith, Risk, and Sacrifice. Well those words connect to I bet so much of you in you life because many of you guys I bet have to sacrifice things in life. Also taking that risk.

Our overall message is about an ordinary boy with an amazing talent and its cooking, though him and his mother are poor and so they don't really have that much money to send him to school. And you must be thinking what's the message, well the message to our story is you wether your rich or poor you still can overcome any obstacle and what I mean by that is our main characters name is Andrew and one of the obstacles would have been that he wanted an education but he couldn't because they were poor. So like my home where my parents came from which is the Philippines they had a really hard life there. Like everyday my parents had to help my grandparents pluck rice in the fields just to earn enough money to eat 1 bowl of rice. My mom she had an education and she graduated college as a teacher. And that she had to do hard work for. And what i'm trying to really say is "To show people that working hard will get you far in life." That's where it got my mom now she wants me and my brother to have everything that we need to have a good life and unlike what she had, now she's still working her hardest to keep it up and also my grandparents. This is a big thank you.

Finally describe the biggest team challenge you faced ? And the answer to that question is well working in a team with two boys was really hard but I gotten used to the fact we coordinated good with each other. But continuing on the biggest team challenge was when we couldn't meet through out the time being. Though we figured out a solution. So during the weekend that we had to film what we did was I ended up filing what I can and I think I did pretty good. Another challenge that we faced is that we couldn't edit as much because other student had to finish their project too. Though we got through it all. And the finished product wasn't what I expected but I think it will get us a good grade just hoping. And see you guys on me next post.  

Tiny Spherical Worlds

Hey guys welcome back and what I will be talking about today is "what's the point of composite images, and isn't it one picture. Well it's not like if you read my last blog you can tell the project that I did was made up of a bunch of different pictures of that little boy. Well it't almost like composite images but just not quite the technical term. Like so say if your taking a panorama and your thinking in your head how your phone did that. Well I have some sort of what its doing to create the panorama when you pan you go from left to right, so what your camera is actually doing is taking pictures as you move from left to right. So thats why it turns out the way it turns. And so when your panning and you get the final result it's actually more than one it like what in the sentence I just explained. So here is some examples of composite images. These images are form my project that I just 
recently did. 

The difference between polar & spherical panos polar means the straight line joining the two points at which tangents from a fixed point touch a conic section. And for spherical its like a globe and its like the shape of the earth. So in our project what we did was for a polar what we did was, we did all the same instructions in photoshop and the only thing we did differently is we flipped the polar one upside down then what we did for the spherical was we just left it the way it was and when we went to change it we went to filter then put the effect on Polar Coordinates. And you still might be wondering whats the difference well one is.

Finally what makes your finished tiny worlds convincing? Well what makes my tiny worlds convincing is that I took these pictures all at home so I really didn't have that much to work with but it all turned out well and even better that I expected. Though I really think that I got better pictures in a different location I think I had more to work with. So continuing on what makes my tiny worlds convincing is the way how it looks and in terms on perspective for my Polar2 I thought I did a good job on. Also for my Sphere2 I want it to turn out as the expectations.

Hockney Style Joiners

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Hey guys and welcome back. Well I'm starting off with, how David Hockney's photo montages are different from mine. Well he does more advanced photography and that's because he is a professional photographer and if you want to check out his work and I would have to say it amazing to look at. Well continuing on and for me I'm just starting to get a hang of learning how to do photomontages. also he does it more abstractly than we as GT students do, we have to take it in a precise way for now so we get the hang of it. And he takes more of landscape looking aft and for me I think its easy if you take a photomontage of a person.
And everyone has a unique way of doing photomontages.

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Now I will be explaining how images can send positive or negative messages. Like for the phrasing a picture equals 1000 words. I really think its true and that's because and image can have a meaning of many things. Like just one picture it can easily offend someone, maybe it's because of their race or the way they look or act. And I think everyone has gone through a point in life when they want to change everything about them self's because of what they saw on a social media page that look cool to them. Also continuing on like commercials

Well my final photomontage is this little boy and his name is Arion. And well you might be wondering why I took my final 25 photos of him thats because he reminds me when I was little. And also I baby sit and he's one of the kids that babysit, so he just loving and caring. This also reminds me and my child hood. My parents also love kids and they especially love him.

2016 Aspirations

Well my 1st goal would be able to achieve without procrastinating through out the whole year and I already broke that rule but as of this month I'm starting it, and this whole month and that's because I have many huge projects in school that are a big part of my grades. And last year I did a lot of procrastination and even though I got good grades I still want to improve the way how I am around my work environment. My 2nd goal of this year would be not to be stressing out and have a positive attitude and I'm doing really well on this on because I'm always happy but on cretin days I just have days where I'm all like really pissed off of all the little things so yes I really would want to improve that. My 3rd goal is to be a better sister to my little brothers. And that's because for some reason my brother when I think of them I think that they look up to me as a responsible young leader. I really want to fulfill it. my 4th goal is to be more energetic and instead of being a couch potato and all I do is watch TV after school even though I have extra activities I like to dance hula & other things. And my last goal of the year is to be a straight A student for my last quarter grade.

The most important of my 5 goals it would be not to be a procrastinator and that's because really stressed out on my last days of last year during school just trying to finish up the most important thing that will make up my grade. And its a new year and I want to change no how I do my work like for my leaning environment.  And I would really like to achieve it so I could also achieve my 5th goal and that is getting all straight A on my report card and I would really love it. And there is another of my goals that I would also like to achieve and that's being a good sister because I really want to be a role model and a good one. Also not to show my parent but myself that I can be an overachiever.

Well the steps that I will take would be to sleep earlier and that's because I sleep really late and that's because I'm trying to finish work from my classes. So as students we are all of us 7th graders in KMS we are doing the science fair. So and that is one of my accomplishments that I want to achieve and that is to get and A on a project.

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.