.MOV Film Festival

P3T2 Kailes Explores Talent from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.
It's Hailee. This weeks project is filming. My group and I chose to film a movie trailer called "Kaile Explores Talent". It's about a shy girl named, Kaile wanting to sign up for the talent show. Although Tierra tries to discourage her. I play Kaile's best and supportive friend that convinces Kaile to join. The keywords to our movie trailer are courage, talent, risk, support, jealousy, friendship, unique, and brave. I think these keywords connect with our audience because these keywords are feelings and actions that most people do and say. For example, most people do feel jealous.

The main message to our movie trailer is that people should take risks in life even though they might be scared to. Also, you shouldn't let someone discourage you to do things such as, signing up for the talent show. In the end, Tierra apologizes to Kaile saying that she is sorry for discouraging her and for being very rude and unkind to her. Kaile then forgives Tierra. All three girls then become friends.

The biggest challenge we all faced was our filming time. We were pretty much all busy due to after school activities and even some weekend activities. We could not find some free time to film. From sports to tap dance, we were all busy. The only time we could film was mostly at school. In the end, we all filmed at a pavilion in Lydgate.Overall, I thought we all did a wonderful job on this project. I hope you enjoyed this post and stay tuned for my next one. Bye!

Tiny Spherical Worlds

Hey guys its Hailee with another blog post! This weeks project is polar and spherical panoramas. In order to create a polar or spherical panorama, you will need to take multiple photos around you to capture the scene to create a perfect planet or crystal ball effect in Photoshop. Also, if you only use one photo, your finished project will end up looking weird and boring. When you use multiple photos to put them together to re-create the scene, it will look like a small world/crystal ball.

The difference between Polar spherical panoramas is that polar panoramas look like small little planets while, spherical panoramas look like a crystal ball or snow globe. I personally like the Polar panorama better than the Spherical panorama because I like how it looks like a small world. Polar panoramas also remind me of the Universal studios logo. Another reason why both panoramas are different is because the process is different in a little but, important way. When you make a Polar panorama, you have to flip the picture upside down. When you make a Spherical panorama, you leave the photo right side up. 

I think what makes my tiny worlds look so convincing and realistic is that I used a tool in Photoshop called the "Clone stamp". The Clone stamp helps make my tiny world  look realistic by fixing imperfections such as lines, trees, etc. Also, before we make a panorama, we have to edit the photos in a program called Bridge. In Bridge, their is a feature called Camera Raw. In Camera Raw, it allows you to make your photos really pop with color. I hope you liked this weeks blog post. Bye! 

Hockney Style Joiners

Hey guys it's Hailee. This weeks project was photomontages. I think David Hockney's photomontages are different from mine because, he would take his pictures on poloroids, while I take pictures on my iPhone 6 and Mr. Sanderl's camera. After a while, David Hockney switched to oil paints, then to acrylic paints.

Images can send a lot of emotions to people when they first see an image. Just like the quote, "A picture is worth a thousand words" you can feel either positive or negative emotions. For an example, whenever i see a photo with a lot of  light blue or purple, I find it very calming. If i see a picture with dark clouds or an image with gloomy colors such as gray, I feel a little sad or depressed.

For my final photomontage, I took a picture of my dog, Persephone. The reason why I picked her to be my main subject for our final photomontage is because we had to take 25 photos of something meaningful to you. Persephone is meaningful to me because she is my first pet. When people see my photomontage of Persephone, I want them to feel happy because, when I first got her, I was happy. Also, if you look closely at that photo, you can see that Persephone is smiling. I hope you guys liked this blog post. Bye!

         

2016 Aspirations

Hey guys it's Hailee and Happy New year! I have a feeling 2016 is going to be way better than 2015. To make sure 2016 will be a better year, I have made goals.  My top 5 goals for 2016 is to improve my drawing skills, to take nice artsy photos, to spend less money, to explore the world, and to be a better younger sister. So far, I have been doing great to meet my goals.

All of my goals are really important to me. But, if I had to choose the most important goal to me it would be improving my drawing skills. I personally think I can draw pretty good. I just want to get even better at drawing. The reason why this goal is really important to me because, ever since I was little, I  always loved drawing. So, I want to keep on drawing so I can improve.

In order to reach my goal, I came up with some with some steps to help me reach my goal. First, to start the new year, I bought a new sketch book to help inspire me to create new sketches. I also bought a bag to keep all my art supplies in it to so all of my supplies will be organized and easy to find. I also have been watching tutorials on Youtube. So these are my goals for 2016. I hope you liked this blog post and see you in my next post!

Scratch Game Design

Hey guys Happy Thanksgiving! This week of G.T, we have made Chase games and Platform games.  My chase  game is about A gorilla named Bobo chasing after a  monkey named Banana and my platform game is about a unicorn trying to catch all the birthday cakes. When I started making the game I had to choose my sprites or a computer graphics that adds complexity in the design of the game. I chose a gorilla and a monkey because I thought the monkey would be a great character to control, and the gorilla kinda reminded me of Donkey Kong so, I decided the gorilla would be the villain. I chose a unicorn and a cake because I thought it would be a fun combo.

I think I did a great job on the platformer game but, I need to work on my chase game. Since this was my first time making a video game, I had some difficulties making this game but, I think it could of have become a little better by watching more tutorials and using my time more wisely. Although, I think I could have done better by making them run more smoothly and also instead of Banana rotating while he moves, he could walk form side to side. I also had a hard time figuring out how to set up the timer and score board.

What I like about this project is that everybody's project was the same game but in a way, they were different. For an example, not everybody made a game about a gorilla chasing a monkey or evil bats chasing a sprite named Nano. In fact, my friend Tierra made a game where instead of having the game programmed to chase you, you would be the one to chase while you would get points. One of my favorite chase games are made by a friend of mine named, Kaile. Her game is about a My little pony being chased by a majestic unicorn (which are one of my favorite animals). During Kaile's game, you can even earn points by collecting tacos! Please make sure to check out their blogs to try out their awesome games!

Invention Commercial

Last Monday at G.T, we were watching the commercial videos my classmates have made. In our team, our main goals is to explain how our invention works without confusing our audience, and to also entertain them with some jokes we added in our script. For an example, our homeroom teacher mrs. Fujimoto agreed to be Tierra's grandma even though she is not, which made the whole class burst into laughter. Even mr. Sanderl when we were about to upload it!




I think the best team moment during the production, was when we were filming the part when I threw the flower at Christina. I think it was the best team moment because we really bonded and had fun. Plus, we all laughed when we watched myself (in point of view) throwing a flower at Christina, while she tries to dodge it. Another great team moment during the production, was when we filmed Tierra standing next to our homeroom teacher, mrs. Fujimoto. This scene was also was very funny and was fun to film with my team.




During post-production editing, we took turns on different jobs like, events, visuals,and audio. I mostly did the events, Tierra did visuals, and Christina did audio. Overall, I think this is one of my best projects and I think it was a great idea to be partners with Tierra and Christina.I hope you liked this blog post. Also, I hope you guys will have a great Thanksgiving. Bye!

Composition Scavenger Hunt

P3T1_Composition_2015 from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.


Hi guys it's Hailee with another dorky post! Last week, I did a Composition Scavenger Hunt with my friends Christina and Tierra.

Their is 20 different kinds of composition techniques but, we all only got 10 composition techniques to film depending on what our team number was. In this project we had to make a video on some filming techniques using objects from school. I think the most important composition technique is contrast in content. This is my opinion because it draws the viewers eye to the subject by color, shape, or objects. In my opinion, I think it's a great way of capturing a pop of color in everyday life.
To be honest, I think the most difficult composition technique is forced foreground. Even though I did not film this technique, I saw the videos my classmates made and then I noticed some of them had a hard time filming the object they were holding. Instead of the camera focusing on the object they were holding, the camera was focusing on the person holding that object. Forced foreground is one of the composition techniques I have learned. You can use this technique more by placing the camera as close as you can to the object.

For this project, we would alternate who would film, who would read, and who would be the actor. I was mostly the actor even though I filmed a lot and explained how to use that composition technique. Tierra would mostly film and speak and Christina would sometimes speak. I personally think we could of done better by using pad because some of our clips were cut off. Some shots we can approve on is Rule of Thirds scenery, Leading lines, and Framing.Even though we need to improve some of these techniques, I think this was a great project and was very fun to do. I hope you liked this blog post and make sure you check out Tierra and Christina's blog. Bye!