Movie Poster Promo

The main character in our movie poster is a girl named Alex. Her friend Jean is not in the poster but is in the trailer itself. She is standing by the water looking out at the waves. With a board in hand, she starts heading into the water.

The movie title is called, "Getting over it". We named our movie trailer that because of how Alex gets through her problems and overcomes her fears of the ocean. The poster also shows the list of all the actors names and different reviews by different companies and businesses.  The rating is also on the movie poster, which is "G". Kerning is about adjusting the letters size and spacing, so that it makes the letters look like there popping off the page. Using kerning will add a nice look to the letters which in my opinion will improve the overall movie poster.

The overall impact that all of the layer effects and filters that I added created a nice touch to it. If I hadn't added those different effects I think that it would look really plain and bland. The effects make it look really unique and different. I think my final movie poster image is alright.

Final Movie Poster

Proactive or Protacrastation?

When it comes to projects with like a two week long due date, I would procrastinate till the week before the due date. But when the due date is two days from now I would usually just get it down really fast and complete the assignment. But sometimes it's completely different. I don't know if I'm a procrastinator or a proactive person. I think I am right in the middle between the two.

The level of my productivity does relate to my amount of free time. If I get the project down in a day and not wait till the last moment I will have more free time on the weekends or after school to do the things that I would like to do. I try hard to get most of all of my school work done in school so I won't have any homework later on that evening.

I think I would change my work habits in a way so that I want to complete my assignments as soon as possible and stop procrastinating. I think that this will help by allowing me much more free time and not having to worry about the deadline or trying to finish the assignment on time. This will allow me to do more things that I want to do. For the, Movie trailer project I will try not to be a procrastinator and be more of a proactive person and all the projects in the future.

Visual Literacy

In my period 7 class we got assigned a new project, Book folding! We had to fold each page of the book to form a word that we chose. The word was usually between two and four letters long. The word that I chose was time! I procrastinated for like a week, but then got it done in a couple of days. This type of book folding was developed by a man named Isaac Salazar. Isaac is an book artist. He makes use of books that would be burned our thrown away, and creates them into amazing pieces of art. What is visual literacy? Visual literacy is the ability to interpret and understand the meaning of art in the form of an image. This project is an example of visual literacy because it is literally visual art.

The book that I did was a World Book. It had around nine hundred pages. My word, time, related to the font that I chose which was Dancing script, which is a type of script, because time is wavy and up and down, just like the script.  . It was fun but also very challenging to fold a book into a word that was in script. This project was very inspiring. I chose this word because of all the time that I put into it. The amount of pages that I folded to make my word was around 600-630 pages.

I really liked how the final product turned out. I think that I would go back and refold some pages to make it a little more neat. If I did this project again I think that I would have chosen the letters "DW" as my next book. I would have chose these two letters because of a love for a certain series. This project was very fun and challenging.

My Visual Poem

This time my project for G.T. was to create a visual poem. A visual poem is a way of writing poetry but using imagery that relates to what is going on with your poem to show the reader/watcher of your visual poem what is kind of going on. My poem was about "Moments". Moments when you read a book, what kind of emotions that you feel when reading. What do you feel when you finish a book? Sad? Angry? Relief? Many emotions that you can feel.

The special effects that I added I think helped with the mood a lot. Like the music and filters that I added into my poem. Also the music helped a lot because it kind of related to what I was talking about. If I did not add effects and music I think that it would be very dull and boring.
I am satisfied with the results. This was the first time that I have ever done something like this, so it was very fun to experience something new. I think that I could have added more effects. I also could have gotten more b-roll and clips. I am glad that we got this assignment, it was really fun. Also I could have gotten my voice over done better and clearer. 

Finished News Story

Our story was about "The effects of technology". Our team consisted of myself, Hannah, Sophia, Brandi, and Miles. There were also many others that we interviewed including, teachers, parents and students.  In my own opinion I think that the final after we edited and fixed all of our errors, it came out really good. Yes, I am happy with it. I think that all the people in our team contributed to the story well. Our team got 21% "likes".  We didn't get the best overall story, The Drake Fire Knife Tradition story has that honor. I agree with the results, yes. I think they are pretty accurate. 

Real World Report

 The news story that I had decided to do was the one on the people are that got stranded off the coast of a greek island. There were about 345 people including 52 children aboard the ship that had crashed.  They all had to seek medical attention in Cyrus a city in Greek.  Cypriot authorities are trying how to deal and solve this problem.  Vasiliou a reporter, told other reporters on the east Mediterranean main Limassol port.   The authorities still have to figure out what to do with the survivors.
 Thousands of migrants running away from war or fights in the Middle East and northern African towns and cities, in attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea in rickety old boats in search of safe places in Europe, and many have died trying to accomplish this. The people that were all aboard a small ship that issued a distress call early Thursday because of rough seas and strong winds maybe 50 nautical miles off Cyprus. The Cypriot Defense Ministry said the boat had “most likely” set sail from Syria filled with “civilian refugees.” Vasiliou said his company received the request from Cypriot Search and Rescue authorities to help out in the rescue of the refugees.

But then an unexpected turn of events costed his company “several hundred thousand” euros after the cancellation of a trip, 300, mainly Russian tourists to Haifa, Israel aboard the cruise ship that was scheduled to depart thursday.

This is a very important topic to be dealing with, in my opinion.  We should not be felling threatened to run away and then not having trust in our boats.  We must make sure that we can trust the transportation that we use to get to place to place.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/official-boat-with-migrants-spotted-off-cyprus/2014/09/25/56ac6374-448c-11e4-8042-aaff1640082e_story.html

Lessons Learned

The most interesting part of this assignment was going out and interviewing different people, and learning all the different types of computer and camera functions. We are finishing up with our b-roll sequences. We have also finished transcribing our three interviews that we've done.

We did have a lot of roadblocks, such as getting all of our interviews transcribed on time, getting all the necessary B-roll sequences, I think the most biggest roadblock our team handled was getting to place to place with five people including myself on our team, for interviews with people that are in like, Lihue or, Hanalei, because we all live in different parts on the island, and it's hard for us all to be at a certain place, at a certain time.

I think the most valuable part of the filmmaking process is that we are all able to learn new things and as much as we can about different kinds of styles such as, interviews, different types of techniques, and how to use different types of cameras.

Hiki No Behind The Scenes

 "Social media and how technology affects the modern adolescent mind and life style" is the topic of our Hiki no project. It's going well, we have all the papers and we are finishing up our interview data. We now just have to do some editing and transcribing in Final cut pro and we will be mostly caught up.  

We have interviewed two people so far and are interviewing another tomorrow. When the camera isn't rolling we are working on transcribing and working on our video. I can help my team by finding out when the people we are going to interview when they are available to be interviewed by our team, also help by making new interview questions for the people that we are going to interview.

The Experiment

So today in my G.T class we did some "experimenting" on photoshop.  For me it was my first time on photoshop, it took some time to get used to.  Mr.sanderl decided to let us try to create something without him teaching us how to use photoshop.  It proved to be very challenging for me.  But i did manage (with lots of help) to create a final image using photoshop.

Back to School

So I started this blog this year, for G.T.  Being an eighth grader at Kapaa middle school, is fun but also challenging.  Favorite moment and my biggest challenge this school year are both the same event.  This event is when we started doing the Kms news cast in the mornings.  It was both thrilling but also frightening both at the same time.  To be successful this school year I am going to be getting into more social activities such us Kpac, since I would like to improve on my social skills.