Music Video Finale

P3T8 Work From Home from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Hey everyone it's Hailee! This week's project is music videos. For this project, I'm working with my friend, Tierra and her sister, Talia. We are doing the song, Work from home by, Fifth Harmony. The lyrics relate to our storyline because, it's about these two girls missing their friend because she always works at Starbucks. At the end, their friend ends up spending more time with them. 

My favorite fast-edit montage sequence is in the beginning when I lip sync my part then, it switches to Tierra. I like this fast-edit montage because, when it switches to Tierra, it shows some of my hair. This makes the shot look like I'm looking at Tierra while Tierra lip synchs her part.

This music video showcases most of our learning with filming and editing. This music video will include close, medium and wide shots. I really like this project and I think its a good way to end the school year. Their will also be some green screen effects. Hope you guys enjoyed my last blog post. Bye everyone!

Animated Life Lessons

P3T9 Family Avoids Starvation from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

    Hey guys it's Hailee with another blog post. This week's project is another animation. For this project, we are all working with people who we wouldn't normally work with. I'm working with Ashton and Alaka'i. In our animation, we are using are own character traits. Since I'm really silly and hate to do chores, I play a girl who causes her family to starve, since she is slacking off, not doing her work. In real life, Ashton likes helping people so, he plays the main role of the brother who wants to help his family. Alaka'i is a nice person so, he plays the nice person.

  The whole purpose of this animation is that we should all work hard in life so we can later on meet success. I think this life message might relate to some of you guys because I think that we all want to be successful later on in life. We all want food, a home, clothing, and all of those wonderful things. I also think at this age, we all need a reminder that we need to work hard to get what we want and need. 

   During this project,  our level of productivity was very, very low since we hardly knew each other. This caused a lot of problems with communication. Usually, if I was working with my friends on this project such as Tierra, it wouldn't be a problem since we're really good friends and that we're used to talking to each other. When I  was working with Ashton and Alaka'i, it was awkward because I was the only girl in that group and I hardly knew them. I personally think the best moment of the production was the end. This is my opinion because I have a love/hate relationship with Photoshop and this project was super STRESSFUL! But, I'm happy I got the chance to work with new people<3 I hope you enjoyed this blog post. Bye :)

 

Character Development

Hey guys! So, this weeks project is animation with puppets. We are creating these puppets in Photoshop with a tool called Puppet warp. Puppet warp is used to add points on their object to control the object, like a puppet, creating animation. Some humorous or relatable imperfections I have is that sometimes I can be shy, mean, clumsy, weird and I'm really bad at math. Also, I can be really immature and it can annoy people. Although, my humor and weirdness can entertain most people.

   

     I'm planning to include some of my character traits in my animation. Some character traits I'll include are my sense of humor and my weirdness. I love dancing so, I'll maybe put a few dabs in there. I'm planning to make this animation as real as possible. I also added a background of a beach that I took a picture of. You might recognize this photo from one of my polar panorama projects.

     First, mr. Sanderl took 3 pictures of each of us. He took pictures of the front, back and side of ourselves in front of the green screen. We then, uploaded the photos to our finder to then, open them up in Photoshop. After opening the photos in Photoshop, I used the quick selection tool to cut myself out from the green screen. I used refine edge and feather to clean the edges. I also used the eraser to clean the spaces between my fingers and other places where the quick selection tool couldn't select. Then, I created my GIF animation by creating a loop of frames. I had a difficult time with this part so I asked for help from mr. Sanderl. After that, I went to my finder folder and dragged and drop a photo to use for my background. I love my GIF character because I honestly dab a lot. I hope you guys liked this blog post. Bye :)

.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!