Geometric Portraits

The latest project my G.T. class is working on is Low Poly Portraits . Facial Expressions of emotion are universal, not learned differently in each culture. Several studies have attempted to classify human emotions, and to see how your face can give away your emotional state. People are generally relatively skilled at telling another person's mood, simply by taking a glance at them.

Skeptical both of the original research methods used to prove the "universality" theory, which involved prompting subjects with emotion words and asking them to label expressions with them. A traditional northeast Namibian culture notable for its isolation from almost all Western cultural influence, the tram investigated whether recognition of facial expressions might instead be contextual, and whether subjects' ability to correctly label expressions might hinge entirely on cues from the experimenters.

I created the first project by first taking a symmetrical self portrait and putting it into Photoshop. Then putting a grid on my picture I used a red Line Tool to draw a in the middle of my face and to outline my hair, eyes, mouth, nose, and eyebrows, I then merge all the outlines in one layer and call it "Hair". Then adding large triangles into my hair, eyes, mouth, nose, and eyebrows. Now I'm going to start making bigger triangle on my skin, Then I merge all the outlines into one layer and call it "Outlines". After I finish my outlines on only one half of my skin I use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to outline each of the triangles one by one and hitting, Filter-Blur-Average to blur the triangles out. After I finish blurring every triangle I copy one side of my face and horizontally flip it to make another side of my face. Then I make the red outlines white by changing the color overlay to white.

Verbal Landscapes

YounA_Retime from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

The current project my G.T. class is working on is about nature. Nature impacts my life because without nature such as trees we wouldn't have oxygen to breathe. Nature also changes the way we look at things. We could see the world as a bad place but nature fills it with comfort and warmth. Nature also impacts our life because environments can change someones mood and relieve stress. Things like Aloe Vera are impacting because they heal sunburns and other things. Being exposed to nature helps reduces blood pressure, heart rate, and muscle tension. Personally, nature impacts my life because it changes my mood. When I'm in a bad or sad mood, nature helps me become more calm.

Time-lapses are created by taking videos of things moving such as clouds and speeds up the clip, so we can see 20 minutes of video in 1 minute. Time-lapse photography is a technique that records a scene or objects that has a slow state-of-change and turns it into a video that plays back. Time-lapses are fast paced videos of usually things that move slow so when it's played back the slow moving objects go faster. Slow-mos are created by taking a close-up action shots and slowing the speed of the video down so the viewer can see whats happening more better. Slow-mos are slow paced videos that have subjects that move fast so when it's played back it easier to see what's happening in slow motion.

The hardest part about this project to me is editing. This year since we are working in Final Cut Pro it's harder to use because last year we used iMovie to edit our videos, so Final Cut Pro is a new thing for me. Final Cut Pro seems easier and better to work with but I don't know the features FCPX has to offer. Also it's hard editing because I have to place my videos in a certain spot to match my poem and still keeping my video length to 45-50 seconds. Another hard part is taking the time-lapses and slow-mos, it's hard because we needed to take the videos at a certain time to get great lighting and if we take sunsets or sunrises. It was also hard taking the time-lapses, especially at the beach because I had to make sure people and animals didn't get in my shot.

The grade my classmates gave me the most was a 2. I think they gave me that grade because I didn't have all my clips and hat I had to use my clips from school. Also because most of my horizon lines weren't straight and I had shaky clips. A few of my classmates also gave me a 3 and 1. 

Poetic Personal Statement

Well I'm back!! Sadly summers over but I'm happy to be back in G.T. I think poetry can be personal because the writer can make a poem about how they're feeling or they can write about an experience. I think poetry gives the writer a chance to express themselves. Writers can also make it personal by writing thing that they see and their perspective of their everyday life. Poems can be used as a personal statement by putting "My" in front of every sentence. It can also relate to the readers personal experience.  Writers can make poems personal by also creating a poems that people want to do or have done. 

Poetic Statement:

Fulfilling my dreams by any means 
Playing on the field after every injury
Just hoping that it's healed, out of my misery 
Playing with my heart and not my head 
Being more heart spread 
Day by day I'll get better 
No matter what they say 
Just hoping I get the letter
I got into a college with soccer scholarship
Maybe my family will flip

I used rhyme and rhythm by using words that had the same ending that matched my topic. I used rhythm by going in order of what I want to happened  in my future. I used rhythm and rhyme to make my poem flow nicer. I used short and long sentences in my poem so it's easier to read and so that it makes my poem more entertaining. I used rhythm and rhyme because I wanted my poem to be fun and easy so that my viewers can enjoy reading my poem. My poem is about roping so it was hard to find rhyming words that matched my theme, I then found words that went smoothly with my picture.

Music Video Finale

P2T5 Sorry from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

The latest project my G.T class is working on is a music video!! Sadly it's the last project of the year, so you won't be seeing me for a while. This project means it's going be be FUN. The song my team and I chose was Sorry by Justin Bieber. We had to make sure our video was school appropriate so instead of a love song we chose a body boarding song. We chose a body boarding song because in the music video one of my teammates breaks a body board and one of the song lyrics is "I'm missing more the just your body" and as you can see that's not so school appropriate. So it's about Cody missing his BODY board. The twist is that he actually broke Malia's body board so he's apologizing to Malia, while missing the body board. It relates to our song because Cody is apologizing to Malia for breaking her board, Malia doesn't want to forgive him but ends up forgiving him in the end. Before she forgives him Cody stops at nothing to come up with an apology. 

To attract our viewers we used fast-edit montages. My favorite fast edit montage in the music video was when Malia was on the body boarding. First we had lip sync and the background was Malia on the board when the lip sync stopped it was Malia on the board coming towards the camera. After it goes to cody on the sand. It's my favorite fast-edit montage because it looks great and it's only took us about 2 minutes to edit it. I think it really ties together our video of Malia having a good time and Cody having a bad time. We also tried matching the beat of the song to the visual representation of Malia. The beat dropped so it was a pumped up beat and Malia was on her board catching waves so I think it matched the scene pretty well.

This music video showcases are best work because of the iMovie and photoshop techniques that we've learned over the school year. It showcases are photoshop techniques because we are making a photoshop cover photo that shows what we've learned wile using photoshop. The first project we did this school year was a personal manifesto. We plan on cutting out a picture of cody with a broken board and putting the song title "Sorry" in the back and use kerning. Kerning represents that personal manifesto because we had to kern our words and letter so that it could perfectly place the manifesto. 

                                   Sorry By Justin Bieber 

Ooh, ooh

Ooh, ooh

You gotta go and get angry at all of my honesty

You know I try but I don't do too well with apologies

I hope I don't run out of time, could someone call a referee?

'Cause I just need one more shot at forgiveness

I know you know that I made those mistakes maybe once or twice

By once or twice I mean maybe a couple a hundred times

So let me, oh let me redeem, oh redeem, oh myself tonight'

Cause I just need one more shot at second chances

Yeah, is it too late now to say sorry?

'Cause I'm missing more than just your body

Oh, is it too late now to say sorry?

Yeah I know that I let you down

Is it too late to say I'm sorry now?

I'll take every single piece of the blame if you want me to

But you know that there is no innocent one in this game for two

I'll go, I'll go and then you go, you go out and spill the truth

Can we both say the words and forget this?

Yeah, is it too late now to say sorry?

'Cause I'm missing more than your body

Animated Life Lessons

P2T7 Blossom Learns Soccer from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

The latest project my G.T. class is working on is an animation. My teammates are Blossom Novoa and Jaesha Mata. Blossom's personal traits are thinking outside of the box, also very
adventurous and very creative. When I first met Blossom I was really shy but she was really open and wasn't afraid to be herself. After a couple of days I opened up to Blossom and I'm more out-going in front of her. Blossom is really nice and funny, she can also be really courageous and silly but can be shy and awkward. We plan on exaggerating her traits by making her character play a really awkward and shy girl that could use some friends. My other teammate is Jaesha. Jaesha is kind and silly. Jaesha is the type of person that doesn't care about what other people think of her, she is also really fun to be around. Jaesha is friendly and very optimistic. We plan on making exaggerating her traits by making her character be a very friendly person who gets kicked in the face by Blossom with  a soccer ball but is still friendly and kind to Blossom.

Jaesha and I

Blossom and I

Our animation is humorous because Jaesha gets kicked in the face and Blossom has a funny way of playing soccer. I think it will make our audience laugh because people like laughing at fail videos so that's kind of how we wanted to play out. Our life lesson or message relates my audience because it's an animation about not giving up and a lot of people give up at some points so I think our story relates to our audience because we want people to know that giving up is okay but we don't always have to give up. It's also about how not to give up and to believe in yourself and that you can do anything as long as you put your mind on it. Our animation is a life lesson because you can't always do things and accomplish them but you can try as long as you have faith in yourself. We chose to make our animation about not giving up because we can all relate. We all have had a moment in our life when we've wanted to give up.

Story Board

The level of productivity was a challenge in making this animation. Most of us didn't know how to animate and we were behind schedule. My teammates were frustrated that we couldn't get this done on time so they started getting mad at the person who did the less work. Communicating was also a big challenge, we've never talked altogether before so that was a big challenge because we were shy. The biggest challenge we faced was animating. Like I said most of us didn't know how to animate, puppet warp was hard because we didn't know what we were planning on doing for the scene. The best moment we had during this production was the laughs. We had a lot of laughs, recording was a really funny moment. We had to do screaming noises, loud cheers and

Story Board

Story Board

Critique Results

Story Board

Character Development

The latest project my G.T class is working is puppet warp and an animation. So now is my annual intro paragraph. I'm going to describe myself... YIPEE!!! So first, I'm a really energetic out-going person, but maybe a little too energetic. A funny imperfection I have is my laugh. A lot of people have cute nice laughs, but my laughs are over the top and LOUD. Either way I love my laugh. A lot of imperfections people think they have is their looks. Other things that describe me is caring, funny, cool, and etc... I'm the type of person that a lot of people like to hang out with and like to go to with problems because I'm always there to help them. I'm also a shy person who tends to laugh when I talk or I can be a really energetic person around my friends.

The character traits I plan to exaggerate while animating myself is an energetic person and happy person. I plan to do so by positioning my arms in a certain way but I was smiling in the picture so that's how I plan to make myself energetic and happy. I want a shy point of view to express the real me... A shy person. I think of myself of a shy person because when I'm around new people or people I don't really know I tend to smile and laugh when I talk or not talk at all. When I'm playing sports and when I'm around my friends I'm a really energetic person. I plan to tilt most of my body parts in a certain way to make myself look shy but my smile tends to show my happy and energetic side. I want to be able to make myself look shy, energetic and happy. I plan to do this by body positioning and facial expressions.

To finish my .Gif project I first had to take pictures with three different body movements, then I had to cut out my body in Photoshop. After I had cut out my body I had to make myself smaller on the screen and crop the picture to make it smaller. After cropping I had to make sure my height was 720 px my width was 640 px and my resolution was 300 px/in. Then I had to make my frames, after making my frames I can now get into puppet warp. I place my pins on any part of my body that can move then I can start moving my body parts to do weird motions. I then make sure its looping so my .Gif goes on and on. After I then can apply my background, my background is a picture of the beach that I took. I really like my .Gif because my looping is pretty good and my puppet warp isn't too crazy and isn't too small.

Tiny Spherical Worlds

Hey... The latest project my G.T class is working on is Polar and Spherical Panos. It's pretty hard to do, so I'm trying my best to make my panos look good. First I'm going to be talking about composite images. Composite images are important because it takes a bunch of photos and makes it into one. They're also important because it's a way to make to tell the viewer a story through other over lapping photos.

Polar and Spherical Panos have a bunch of similarities but there are some differences. When making a spherical pano you have to turn it upside down but when making a polar pano you don't have to turn it. Polar Panos process photos into unique pieces of art. It takes a panoramic (or landscape) photo and uses the Polar Coordinates filter of Photoshop to create a circular image that seems to wrap the panorama around a planet. Spherical Panos

What makes my finished tiny worlds convincing? Well, first I have a shadow that makes it look like my actual shadow and in my opinion the panos look like a tiny planet. It also convincing because I used actual sites that people might've seen before so when I make it into a polar or spherical pano it looks convincing. The way I edited it also makes it look real, I edited my photos in adobe bridge so I had to over-exaggerate about the colors and scenery.
 

                                                                                                   

Hockney Style Joiners

Well I'm back from a three day weekend, it seemed like a long weekend but it was actually pretty short. Anyways, the latest project my G.T. class is working on is photomontages. Now, I'm gonna tell you why David Hockney's photomontages are different from mine. First my photomontages are beginner pictures. I'm kind of getting a hang of this photomontage thing... From the looks of his photos it seems like he spends a lot of time on his work and it looks well thought out. I feel like his photos have more meaning, and theres something special about the photos. We all have different ideas about what we our photomontages to look like, so I think thats why I our photomontages are different.

Lots of different photos have different meanings, they can be positive or negative. First I'll start with positive, positive means good or no doubts. So on Instagram I see a lot of positive pictures, like #prayforparis of other things for like friends of communities. Even though theres a lot of positive pictures there is also negative photos. When I go on Instagram some people say things about other people that they won't have the guts to say to there face. People also say bad things about other people that might not be true, or they might post bad pictures.

Well my picture is a soccer ball, so I want people to see my picture meaningful because I love soccer. Our photomontage is supposed to be a picture of something meaningful or special to you. Soccer is special to me because I've been playing it since 2009, over the years I've become a more passionate player. The message I want to send is a positive message saying I really love soccer and I wouldn't know what to do without it. soccer is my go-to, whenever I get bored or I don't want to do anything else I go outside and play soccer. Hopefully people can see how much I love soccer, and maybe they can try it out someday.

2016 Aspirations

Well here we are again, back at school. After a long break I get to start a new semester and quarter. First I will start with five goals I want to achieve in 2016. My first goal is to become a better soccer player and score more goals. I always so close to scoring goal. Second I want to be able to rope just as good as my cousin. My cousin always wins rodeos. Third I want to be able to take nice and creative photos. I want my Instagram to look more artsy. Fourth I want to have good editing skills. I also want to make nice videos for my Instagram. Lastly I want to get A's in the classes I get B's in. I want to become a straight A student, I'm always like one or two B's away from an A. Hopefully I will succeed in getting these goals done.

The goal I want to achieve the most is editing. I want to be able to have good editing skills. Achieving this goal is important to me because my cousins and aunty have a business called a clan called chaos. They fly drones over Kauai and make edits, they also make commercials for local businesses. I want to become like them and be good at what they do. Maybe someday I can work with them or start my own company. I want to be able to make edits as good as them and hopefully become famous for edits.I also want to learn how to make good edits because it seems like everyones doing it, it's also a good way to show the videos I take with my GoPro.

I really want to achieve this goal. To make sure I succeed I'm going to make steps or ways I can learn. The first way I can learn is by watching my aunty and cousins edit a video. They do mostly nature. I want to be able to edit under water beach edits. None of them don't really swim but my brother is really good at edits too!! He says it takes practice, so I'm gonna edit a bunch of videos until I know what I want it to look like or until I get better. He also said he learned from the internet. First I have to choose an app to use. My brother personally uses the GoPro app but my cousins use iMovie or Final Cut Pro. I want to use iMovie because I have more experience with it. Hopefully my plans for being more better at editing videos is useful and works.