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.

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.