Motivational Poster

The expectations of our motivational poster are four images. Three of them are symbolic images that represent you in some way, and the other one is a picture of your face. We also need our manifesto in our poster and our personal quotes. Our text should also be kerned to make it so that there are no spaced without text. We also need a Triadic Color Scheme which is one color with two other harmonious colors on the color wheel, to make the image more visually pleasing. Last but not least we need Blending options and Adjustment layers. We basically need to adjust some of the setting to our text, make an outer glow, bevel and emboss, drop shadow etc.

I did my whole poster just using photoshop. Don't get me wrong though photoshop isn't easy, but it has a lot of power if you use it right. What I did was, take all of my photos ( the three symbols and my portrait) and put them underneath my manifesto and quotes. Then I kerned my text, and picked my triadic color scheme. I used some layer adjustments and color balances in order to turn my pictures a different color to match my color scheme. I then, changed the opacity of my text so you could see the images with my text.



My biggest challenge in this project was definitely kerning the text to make it fit the page. At first I didn't know that your text had to cover the page, I thought that you had to leave room for your images to fit in. I forgot that we could turn down tho opacity to make the text see through, but hey, this is only the beginning of the year so don't blame me. I think I could improve by listening to the teacher a bit better. Also, by asking the teacher what to do, when I need help with the project. I don't think I did so bad though, I got a 3/4, which means I only missed one thing.

Personal Manifesto

Hey guys, long time no see. Five interesting facts about myself, is that I love to run around a lot. I also play a game called Magic The Gathering, which is a very cool card game. I am part of our schools morning news team and I like to read. My favorite color is blue and I like to eat food. I am also a twin. I am really not an interesting person as you can see. I don't know why teachers always tell you to write about something interesting, there is almost nothing interesting in a teenagers life.


Our new project is a manifesto which is when someone declares what they are going to do or believe in, in a certain time period. My manifesto is "You can do it. Live life to the fullest and don't let it go. Go to work and make it work. Cease the opportunity, and make the best of the moment. Do what you can and forget what you can't. Don't get down on the things that get you down. Get up on the things that get you up. Have dreams. Make them happen. Do good on tests. Try hard. Be a role model. Turn school into summer. Turn around and try a new way. You may like it. You may not. A bad truth is a lie. Take chances, do it well, make it great, do it again." So, it doesn't matter how old or young you are, anyone can make a manifesto! It could take you years and years or 5 minutes.

My manifesto applies to my readers because everyone needs to step up and take a chance in life. Everyone needs a moment where they can shine, and not get overshadowed by someone else, that's why people need to step up in life. That is what I wanted my manifesto to be about. Taking a chance, and if it doesn't go your way then oh well, try again next time. As well as when it does go your way, then you know that you can do it and attempt it another time. So, the next time opportunity comes your way what are you going to do? "Cease the moment" or back down and cower away. (Oh no, sorry I just realized I used the wrong seize. Instead of seize I put cease, gosh dang it homophones.)

Music Videos Rock

P5T1 Centuries from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

The next project we are working on are music videos. On my team are Preston, Kynan and Tim. We were all assigned jobs by our director/ leader Preston. I got the job as the camera man since I was the most experienced with the camera. Tim got the job of Tripod Man which means he set up the tripod. Kynan is the main character in our story and he carries all the equipment there and back. Our story is about Kynan being bullied, and being the guy that nobody wants to hang around with. He goes up to a group of kids, Preston, Tim and I, and we say he can't hang out with us. Then we accept him and allow him in our group.

I think the audience will enjoy the resolution in our story the most. The resolution in our story us accepting him in our group. I think that the audience will enjoy this the most because it has the most symbols about being friends and being appreciated. After all the Kynan goes through he finally gets into our group. Wait no, this just in, I have now been "promoted" to the kid being bullied because Kynan wasn't there one of the days we needed to film, so we changed our story to make me the bullied one. Anyway I am now getting bullied and I get accepted into Preston and Tim's group.

Our music video shows what we have learned this year because we've showed interesting angles and we did Photoshop. Kynan and Tim did the Photoshop picture while Preston and I were doing the editing. We had put a lot of time editing and cut all of the scenes into smaller segments, because our teacher had told us that we could have 5-2 second scenes. The Photoshop editing was not very hard, but someone had deleted all of our pictures except for the one we needed, but we needed two different pictures. So, we improvised by taking a screenshot of one of our video clips and used that.We would have done an animation but nobody wanted to and we had to little time.

Here are the results.

Lyrical Livelihood

Personally my favorite song is demons by Imagine Dragons. These lyrics make me feel connected to everyone because in truth everyone has a dark side. Everyone has that little devil on their shoulder, and evil side to them. It just makes us all together. Some people can fight their inner demon more than others, and at some point those people have difficulty fighting their demon. The demon never goes away and he is always there, and that song shows it. It shows that someone is having trouble with their monster inside them and is attempting to fight it.

The song my team chose to work on is the song Centuries. My teammates are Kynan, Preston and Tim. We picked it because it was a very catchy tune and it was the only one we could agree on. At first I wanted to do a tiny tim song, which two of my other teammates have heard of. Except one of my teammates didn't want to do it, but the other one who had not heard of it was okay with it. Our teacher said that all teammates had to agree on a song so we couldn't do that. So, we ended up doing Centuries, which everyone had heard of and was good with. All I am trying to say is that no one could decide on a song so we just all went with what preston had suggested on.

The visual story our music video will tell is about someone who is bullied and beaten up, and who nobody likes. He then walks up to a group of the cool kids and says hey can I be in your group? At first they reject him but then one of the members say that they should allow him in their group. This story tells us that even if you think you are a reject, and nobody likes you, you still have to try to make friends and eventually you will succeed. This relates to our audience because everyone had that moment when they had no friends at all. This is just to say that you need to try. The performer of this music video is Fall Out Boy.

Our Animation Story

Our focus statement tells our story because it is about how Kynan is afraid of everything, especially death, and meets up with death in his dream and the nay way to stop the out of control plane is to beat death in a game of chess. This story is completely made up and is not true, but has a deeper meaning to it than just playing chess to save lives. That meaning is to stand up for yourself and others around you, that are either stranger or family. My group chose this because everyone has that moment that will either make or break them and sometimes you have to do the right thing even though it would be much easier to just let go. The moral of this paragraph is, to never give up, and don't let it go. (haha Frozen references)

Our audience will learn about how it is never good to give up. As in my last paragraph I said that even if you are scared then you still can do it, it just takes a little more effort, and a bit more encouragement. Our audience will learn this by seeing our story and saying "even though Kynan was scared of... Everything, he still pulled through in the end and saved the plane. I think it is important for everyone to know this lesson because I think now people are starting to get dependent on machinery and technology. Even though we think were all strong and mighty and the superior  species, some of us would not last a day without technology. Within a month all of us who use technology would go mad. Our story teaches us about how we can pull through if we can do it mentally.

My best moment as a team would probably be just hanging out having fun, and shooting stop motion.  Overall it was just a fun experience to have a tiny bit of stress to work my butt of and try to come out with the best quality my team and I could produce. The worst moment would probably be geared toward the end of our project because we were all doing our own separate thing and we didn't communicate a s well as we did before. Sometimes we would start scenes someone else had already be working on, and sometimes somebody would come in at lunch, leave and then the other people come in right after they left. Now that I look at that scenario it is actually really funny, but when it happened it was so annoying. Anyway wish us luck on our project. Peace out.
Oh wait stay, never mind, look at my amazing animation video at the top of the page. Ok, now peace out.

Animation Outtakes

We are starting our animation process again this year! Except this time I actually know what I am doing. Now I love animations, especially creating them, they just look really cool. My teammates for this project are Kynan Ledee, Mason Doo and Kamalei Berg. Now here are some interesting facts about my teammates. Did you know Kynans favorite food is Pizza? Also he likes TACOS! Did you know, for some strange reason, Mason and Kamalei are mistaken for each other? As well as sometimes Kamalei likes to Bogey board. Mason (or Kamalei I DON'T KNOW) is in boy scouts and likes to read specific books.

Stop-Motion is when you look like your moving but really it is just a strand of pictures hung together. For example if you take a picture of someone taking a step, then another picture of them moving slightly, then another picture, then another, then another until you have a man moving without video! A GIF is a video just playing in a loop. Usually GIF's are about one to five minutes long and just keeps on playing over and over again. That's what a loop is, a video just playing over and over.

We are telling Kynan's story for our animation. Well kind of Kynan's story. We warped it so that it is more interesting, but it is based off of Kynan getting on an airplane for the first time. He falls into a deep sleep when his plane is out of control and falling fast! Except in his dream he meets up with death or Kamalei and gets challenged to a duel in chess. All of this is just to say that even if things get hard you still need to keep trying. Even if you are afraid of everything like Kynan, not really but, still do it!

ANIMATIONS ARE AWESOME

Typography Images

Typography is a way of arranging text. That means in Typography Portraits you arrange words inside of a portrait. If you don't know what a portrait is you can look on my last blog post the Double Exposed Portraits. Typography Portraits are basically words inside of a picture, no meaning right? No the words inside of the image describes them, it tells everyone who looks at it look this is who they are. It can be used with images to make a lasting impact in, like I said, a typography portrait. How a typography portrait makes a lasting impact is you look at the image, but the image is made of words! So you pay attention to the image made of words, and it tells you what the person is, what they do, what they like and so forth.

My biggest challenge during this project was cropping and trying to get the text to fit. The first time I did this I was new and I was still learning. Now I have had experience and know what I am doing. The text was a big issue for me because I had to remove some spaces from the text and it was when I was almost done. So, I had to restart the whole process and remove the space. Also when I cropped the images I couldn't get the whole face inside the crop. It turned out looking like sides of his face got cut off . This problem sadly I did not fix, the crop box couldn't be fixed.

Right now I am writing about my three images, although I currently only have two at the moment. My first image is of Nikola Tesla the first person to come up with the idea of powering things with electricity. Yes that was not Thomas Edison that was, in fact, Nikola Tesla. I chose that image because I think that he is under appreciated. The second image is of my social studies teacher. This process was under the intermediate category so it was  much harder to do and understand. The third image I am going to do is of myself (this is going under expert so it will be very difficult, wish me luck!). I had to rush on the last one so it will look hurried. The last one doesn't even look like me. :(