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Movie Trailer Critique

The next project that my class has completed was a movie trailer. In my movie trailer group there was Timothy Blum, Kalani Young and Cephas Woodward. We all pretty much worked together, we had fun, goofed around and got our work done. Kalani and Cephas were good for most of the time, but they needed to be told what to do and how to do it. And sometimes they would just play around instead of doing their work. I am a procrastinator but I care about my grade in this program, it is really fun and I do not want to get kicked out. When it got to the editing part we lost a bit of unison. What I mean by that is only tim and I started editing because Kalani would not show up, and Cephas would show up but not know what to do and leave. So it was up to me and tim to do all the editing. What I contributed to the script was part of the synopsis and the voice acting script, and some of the scenes. Our plan for our document was stressful though because it needed a lot of focus, which sadly was something we lacked.

The requirements for this project was to have one minute and thirty seconds minimum and two minutes and thirty seconds maximum of footage and your movie poster at the end. Also we needed to have in our movie trailer text layovers, five scenes, dialog and foley. What a foley is, is it's a sound that is used in some movies. For example in animated movies the foley makers are hard at work making all the foley's needed for it to be a successful movie, like if someone in the movie was falling maybe the foley makers are whistling and then drop a shoe to indicate that they fell. The movie poster at the end that we showed was tim's poster because we thought it was the best poster out of all of ours.

I agree with the results that my team got. We got all threes and some fours, which personally I thought the results would be lower but who am I to complain. We tried to fake the audience out by putting in some text layovers at the end, but in the end we didn't need them except we kept them in anyway. When it came down to the last day when we were almost done editing we realized, we only had four out of five scenes. Then we rushed to get by the last scene and it didn't completely make sense at first but if you followed the story you could kind of follow along. It wasn't the best movie trailer but we had a good time.

Movie Poster Promo

Our gifted and talented teacher now has us doing a movie poster for a fake movie trailer. The main characters in my movie trailer are Jerry and Billy who are just trying to babysit, the parent and the baby who is kidnapped! This story is about a baby getting kidnapped and Jerry and Billy trying to find the baby before the parent comes home. The setting is the home of the adult and the baby. Jerry and Billy Are just trying to find the baby that is kidnapped and get him home. There is just one thing, they have no clue where the baby is. When they are trying to find the baby however it shows where the baby is the whole time. They just need a little extra help (and brains) to find the "kidnapped" baby.

The text in my movie poster are critiques for the movie. For example walt disney created this movie trailer and they got critiques from times magazine. It said "This is the best film, it kept me on the edge of my seat and wanting to learn more on the whereabouts of the baby".  Kerning is a technique for a great movie poster. What kerning is, is it's the spacing of the letters, this is very important because you don't want to see a movie poster with unevenly spaced letters. Now that just looks unprofessional. Kerning is a very important skill to have handy with you because it is more appealing, for example what looks better this, or t  hi   s.  Use this kerning program to sharpen your kerning skills: Kerning Game.

The layer effects I used on my movie poster made a huge impact. The layer effects that were required were: Drop Shadow, Stroke, Bevel & Emboss. I have completed all of the requirements for this task so far. The effects made the words pop out off the page and made the words look like rock. The filters I used was on the actual picture as you see in the picture above. The filter I used was a distortion that made the picture look rough. Others used the filter to make it look like they were traveling through time and space. What filters do is they retouch your photos and made them look finished. Now here is my finished movie poster:

Proactive or Procrastination?

Don't Be a procrastinator and hold on to your idea

Personally I think I am a procrastinator. Some people may say that I am a good worker and stay on task, which is true. Sometimes. When I like the work I am doing then I do the work, I stay on task and I do it well. However if it is something that I don't like to do such as social studies or history I talk to my friends I goof off and I don't get things done. I also always do something that really bothers me. I always say I am using my time wisely but I am not. I say that I will do some today and some later. I still get things done but not as efficiently, if I was going to get things done early then I would get things in on time instead. I don't really want to be a procrastinator and I want to change, I guess why I do this is because I want more free time each day.

Don't Be a procrastinator and whatever you do
DON'T GET SUCKED INTO THE COUCH

The level of my productivity relates to my free time by getting things done. What I mean by that statement is that when I get things done I have a bunch of free time. When I don't though, I have not as much free time. What I do in my free time is I just go on the computer, play games and sometimes watch youtube. I don't do very much in my free time because I don't have very much to do in my free time. I don't surf, I do have a boogie board but I don't go on it very much. I don't play any sports or are on a sports team, I do have some sports equipment but I have no one to play with, their usually doing work. My mom also has me do a certain schedule that makes me work almost everyday academically. The schedule is: on monday I do khan academy( (math), on tuesdays I explore the microscope we borrowed from the school, on wednesdays I have to do teenbiz3000 and it has to be a 100% or I will have to do it again, thursdays I do a thing called i-ready which our school just started doing,fridays my mom makes me research greek and roman engineering, last of all on saturdays I do more I-Ready. So, when I do my work, including my moms schedule, I have a lot of free time although when I don't do my work I do not have a lot of free time.

What I would change about my work habits is trying harder. When ver something is really hard I usually just try it a couple times more increasingly trying less and less and then I just give up. I don't like the way I do that but it is just the way I am. I was a born procrastinator and I don't like it. If I could change anything about my work habits I would probably say I want to try a little harder before I give up. I am working on doing that now by taking around 5 minute breaks then trying it my best all over again until either it gets too late or I get to the point where I say "I need someone else's help because I am going no where with this." All in all what I am trying to say is don't be a procrastinator, be proactive and always try your hardest at the most difficult of times. Don't be like me and give up.

My Visual Poem

My visual poem was about imagination. How this made an impact was by saying how everyone has imagination even when you sleep. When you sleep you can imagine pretty much anything and you can even lose your imagination. Thats how I end the video by saying that you lost it. Then I say you can still get it back though. My visuals made an impact because without the visuals it would just be plain video and it would be boring. With the effects though, you could make it look like you were flying or make it tinted.

How my special effects make the meaning of it by coloring it and making it sad or happy. Also I panned some things with the ken burns effect. What the ken burns effect does is it gives you a start and an end point where you can change the start and end point to make it smaller or bigger and you can make it pan zoom in and out. My visuals tried to make my poem a little bit deeper with meaning, and tried to give it a little help with understanding. It made my overall meaning even better than if I were to have it without any effects.

I think rating my poem I would give it a 8/10. I rated it this way because I think it is the best I could have done but there will always be room for improvement. Even if I think it is the best thing imaginable someone else could come and say oh this is wrong and so is this. Also I can think of some things that I could have improved on, and that is the exposure on some of the shots. Some of the shots are a bit too bright.  Also some of the shots are a bit tilted. Which in some shots it just sets the mood but in some other shots it looks amateur. This is my poem plan I used to help myself to complete this:

Finished News Story

 

My story was about a weather pattern in Hawaii that is currently in progress. What my story was about is how El Nino is affecting people and just plain out what is El Nino. One of the main contributors was Preston Hayden who did the video editing, which to me is the most important job of all. All together the intended result was to finish it and do it well which in my opinion we excelled at that. From our rough cut we have improved a lot and that was really my goal on this. Our rough cut had camera movement, a bunch of slanted horizons and not very well light interview shots, but I guess thats why we call it a rough cut. So we can go above and beyond in our final cut.

The final cut turned out better than I thought it would. The reason that is, is because we sometimes, well a lot of times we goofed off and didn't get to work, but preston said ok we need to work and we actually got things done. Not to make preston sound like a buzz kill he also had fun except he got things done first, and then play. I am very happy with my video because of all the work we put into it. I honestly feel though if we had more time we could have done better, but in the time period we did amazing.

My critique results were good. It wasn't how I expected with 6 votes for a two but other than that I was proud of my work. We got 6 votes for two 14 votes for a three and 7 votes for a four. I also was not expecting a vote to go on Hiki No. If you want to see other videos go on other peoples blogs to see their video they posted. The other stories (as you can see to the above) was water safety, which won, Xbox versus Playstation, Ms. lardizibal the music teacher, A gluten free diet, Sports authority, Health and obesity rate, Mrs. Sanderl artist and teacher and our news story on El Nino.

Real World Report

Our new G.T portfolio project is doing a real world news story and describing it. What I did my story on was a Chinese professor spoke out against the police and got arrested for life and his life savings account of 800,000 yuan ($162,000). He was accused for separatism of the Hans Chinese and the ethnic Uighur's. Separatism is when someone tries to separate two or more large groups of people be their race, skin color, gender or ethnicity. If he was trying to separate the groups then he would be an important figure in trying to separate the Han Chinese and the ethnic Uighur's.

My opinion on this issue is simple. I feel he should have gone to jail for his life but I feel he shouldn't have had his account frozen. I feel this way because he has a family to take care of and without that money his family won't be able to live on. So, I think it is okay to take away his life, but not his families. What they did to him in jail was treat him harshly because he didn't admit to his crime and because they new he was a great figure for separating the two Chinese groups and they didn't want anyone following his footsteps.

I think this is important information to know because people need to know it is their right to speak up. I know you hear this campaign all the time stop bullying speak up or its ok to speak up. I am not trying to sound like that because personally i think those campaigns come up as an add way too often. What I am trying to say is you don't have to speak up, but if you want to make a difference you can. I understand why he did it, but if it were up to me I would just be a bystander.