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.

Operation Freedom Game

Akasha's Turtles 🐢

Scratch Game Design

The recent project my G.T. class was working on was a chase game in scratch. At first coding was hard for me, then it got easier. Making a scratch game was even harder, but I managed to make a pretty good game. I looked at Mr. Sanderl's scratch game, his codes helped me a bit. User experience influenced my game because I haven't done this type of thing before.Each game is different, there are different lines of code.

User experience influenced my game because it helped me know what game kinds of backgrounds or characters people want to see. It helped me program my game. Another way it helped was by seeing if my game was good enough for an audience. User experience influences my game because I don't want people thinking that my game is not good enough and incomplete. I want them to think that my game is good and I want them to have to good time when they play my game.
At first none of my games functioned well. So I decided to look up some lines of code. For my chase game I only had one backdrop and my platformer game I had a few backdrops. It was harder to code my platformer game but it was a long time o make my chase game. For my chase game my sprite was being chased on flat a backdrop and my platformer was jumping on or over platforms which made it look more 3D.
Each game is different, there are different lines of code. My best line of code was in my chase game. I chose this code because without this code my sprite wouldn't be able to move smoothly. It was hard to find what was x and y, but I managed to find the two. The bug fix that was hard to fix was that my timer wouldn't stop. I put "stop all" but it still didn't stop my timer from going overtime. I looked at Mr. Sanderl's chase game and looked at how he stopped his game. I tried what he did but it still didn't work, so thats what I'm still working on.

Invention Commercial

P2T7_Invention from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

The latest project my G.T. class was working on was an invention then a commercial. My team has different after-school schedules. So we didn't have time to film. The only day we could film was on Tuesday, and on Wednesday we didn't have school so we couldn't get the film on the computer. Also we didn't have a camera so filmed on a phone. At first we were going to put it on a drive but we had some issues. So basically our goal was to just get film onto the computer.

We didn't really have a team moment. The only day we could film Raja was signed out of school and couldn't film. There was maybe one moment where we had a fun filming day. Me and Miranda had a moment when we stopped filming and played soccer. We stopped filming and played soccer because we wanted to get to know each other more, and we wanted to know what we thought about the video and how we would get it on my G.T. computer.

As I said, we didn't get to put our film on a computer, we so didn't come into class during recess or lunch. I asked miranda if she could put the film on a drive, she said "Okay". The next day I asked her if she got the film on a drive and she said "No", apparently there were a few problems with getting them on. So we had no film. Then Monday came, Mr. Sanderl said he edited our video by using what we had. The only film we had was the voice-over, which we decided not to use. So we didn't do much editing. I guess I was supposed to do transitions and titles. Raja was supposed to do blade and place the film. Miranda's job was supposed to film, import and music. We decided to do these jobs because it was something we were all good at and we needed a fair amount of things to do.

Composition Scavenger Hunt

P2T7_Composition_2015 from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

The project my G.T. class was working on was a composition scavenger hunt. We had to make a video showing different composition techniques and why they're important. The composition technique I think is the most important is "Rule of Thirds". I think rule of thirds is important because it makes photos look more interesting and dynamic. Rule of thirds is a technique is a grid that divides the screen into thirds vertically and horizontally. It fills one third with either sky or land to create balance.

I think macro is the hardest technique. Macro is a technique when the camera is placed as close to the subject as possible. It gives the audience a sense of the subjects world. To me its difficult because focusing the camera on what's really important is hard. We didn't get to do macro but from other videos it looked like focusing the camera was hard. We could use macro more because


Now my teammates. My teammates were very cooperative. First is Miranda, Miranda helped with filming and editing. Her job was to blade and cut the video. For filming she had to pad and get the right angles. Next is Raja, her job was doing the titles and transitions. Mr. Sanderl wasn't my teammate but he helped us with filming and editing tricks.