Geometric Portraits

Facial expressions are universal because they help explain your emotions. For example if I were to make a sad face it would show people that I am sad.  Facial expressions are universal because almost everybody in the world can show some type of emotion. A facial expression is a type of emotion being shown on a living organism's face. Facial expressions are very helpful when you are trying to tell someone if your happy or you are mad.

To make our easy poly we went to a website and uploaded an image of our face then we pressed a button and it automatically made a ok low poly design. We then edited the options on the website to edit what our image looked like.  We created our poly-1 by taking a symmetrical photo of ourselves on a low resolution camera. Then we loaded it into photo shop and made a outline using only triangles that are connected to our grid. After we made our outline we selected the polygonal lasso tool and we slowly selected triangles around our face then we worked on the parts of more detail and put a average blur over each triangle that we made. Then after we blurred all of our triangles we made a selected the outside of our outline and made 2 copy's of that selected layer. Then we turned our white background layer on and put the 2 copy's on it. After that we laid one side of the face on the left and flipped the other onto the right side to make it look like our face. That is how we made our poly-1 To make our poly-2 we took a photo of someone else and we imported it to photoshop then we selected our polygonal lasso tool and we just started making triangles that were connected to the grid on the person and used our eye dropper tool to select colors that are similar to the area we selected. we then selected around the person using the polygonal lasso tool and we then inversed the selection and we made our background look low poly.

My poly-1 image is different from my poly-2 because in my poly-1
I used an outline and we

Verbal Landscapes

I interact with nature everyday when I come home from school and sometimes when I walk to the bus stop. I interact with nature by walking in the dirt by running around in the grass. I also interact with nature by climbing trees and going to the beach. I also hang out in the sun outside when I go to the beach. Nature impacts my life by letting me adventure into random places I have never seen before. Nature also impacts my life by letting me enjoy playing in the water and having fun with all my friends.

A time lapse is created by editing the speed of your video and how fast it is. A slo-mo is made by slowing down the speed of your video. A slo-mo is made by slowing the video down enough to see faster things the eye cant really see by making the video a lot slower. A time lapse is made to show the time passing by quickly. A time lapse is made by taking a normal video and editing it to be faster. A slo-mo is made by taking a normal video and slowing the video down to have a slower more detailed video.

The hardest part of this project was creating a poem that is about nature. It was hard because I was confused at first on how to create a poem and the different types. It was also hard because I didn't know how to add words that rhymed in my poem. My favorite part about this project was editing because I got learn how to use Final Cut Pro X and I got to arrange and add titles. It was also my favorite part because I got to change the speed of each of my clips.



In our critique we over viewed every ones video and my video was voted exemplary twice, accomplished 6 times, developing 18 times and beginning once. I voted developing for my video because it wasn't 50-60 seconds long and my timelapses were a bit too shaky. To get a 4 out of 4 I could have re voiced my poem and retook my timelapses. Also I could have added more timelapses and slo-mo's I could have also added more keyframes on my audio and more titles on my video.  I think I deserve a 2 out of 4 because my total video was only 46 seconds and I wasn't finished fully.

Poetic Personal Statement

I think poetry is a sentence that's has a rhythm and expresses emotions or feelings. I think poetry is a way people put out feelings and ideas. I think poetry is used to give out a happy, sad, scared, or mad emotion that other people can listen to or read. I think poetry is used to show other people emotion or ideas that can have a rhythm. I also think poetry is a sentence that uses rhythm to make it come alive.

The beach keeps me alive

the the world makes me thrive,

I am curious to learn to turn,

in a good direction,

sometimes Adventurous is dangerous but its fun

I used rhythm by making a good beat to my poem. I used rhythm because it makes the writing improved and to make a poem you should have at least a little rhythm in them. I used rhythm by rhyming alive with thrive and learn with turn. I used rhythm by having the rhymes close to each other but not to close. Rhythm is important because it make a sentence a poem and it makes your sentence come alive.

Music Video Finale

P3T10 Your Man from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.


I: Explain the storyline & how it relates to your lyrics.
B: Describe your favorite fast-edit montage sequence.
C: How does this music vid showcase your best work?

• Embedded VIMEO & 3 unique Behind The Scenes
• Cite Musician & 2 minutes of the Song Lyrics used

Our song is a love song so are storyline would be about loving something and thats what my team is doing we all are loving our things.  The storyline matches the lyrics because it talks about loving somebody but instead my team are loving items that we have.  The storyline is Brody has a phone Steven has a watermelon and I have bike.  Our song's story line is us loving our items and making it look so we cannot live without them.  Our lyrics match our storyline because the lyrics are about loving something and we are loving our things.

I don't have a favorite fast-edit montage because i don't really remember making one.  My team was just creating a music video without a fast-edit montage because I didn't really know what to do.  Im not sure if I have a fast edit montage.  I saw a lot of good fast edit montages in movies. In our music video we really didn't have one.

This music video showcases my best work by

(Lyrics)

Your Man

By : Josh Turner

Baby lock the door and turn the lights down low
Put some music on that's soft and slow
Baby we ain't got no place to go
I hope you understand

I've been thinking 'bout this all day long
Never felt a feeling quite this strong
I can't believe how much it turns me on
Just to be your man

There's no hurry
Don't you worry we can take our time
Come a little closer
Let's go over what I had in mind

Baby lock the door and turn the lights down low
Put some music on that's soft and slow
Baby we ain't got no place to go
I hope you understand

I've been thinking 'bout this all day long

Never felt a feeling quite this strong

I can't believe how much it turns me on
Just to be your man

Animated Life Lessons

My teams personal and character traits are Hailee is a silly very immature girl that doesn't like doing her chores. Alaka'i is a nice person that can convince Hailee to do many things.  Ashton (Me) is a hardworking boy that will do almost anything to save the farm.  Our story exaggerates  who we are by making Hailee never want to do her chores but Alaka'i tries to convince her while I try to find a second job.

We use humor in our story by having to ask Hailee to do all her chores but then she finds a magical pumpkin  and Alaka'i sells it for $10,000 and we then get to save the farm. The message our story sends to the viewers is that if you work hard enough  it will eventually pay off.  It relates to our viewers by saying if you work hard and get it accomplished you will get something back in return.

My teams level of productivity was ok because we all did equal amount of work

Character Development

Hey I'm back with another blog post and in class we are currently making an animation and we are explaining who we are and I am a weird person.  Some people also call me funny And I am also a friendly person.  Some humorous and relatable imperfections I have are when i'm nervous my face will turn red.  One more relatable or humorous imperfection I have is when

The character traits that I want to exaggerate in me animating myself are me being weird and funny I plan on trying to do a little dance and move around weirdly.  I also want to make myself standing on the mountains and on trees.  I am also going to look like I am trying to fly. One more way I can exaggerate my character traits are bending my arms to form a little dance.  I also could walk across the screen.

.MOV Film Festival

P3T4 Cooking Creates Oppertunity from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.
The keywords in our movie trailer are Talent, Faith, Risk, Sacrifice, and Comfortable. The keywords connect to our audience by saying that you should take the risk and have faith in what you are doing. The keywords Connect with the audience because they are representing hope.

Our Message is to show that if you work hard and find your talent you can get far in life. Our message also explains that you just need to work hard and you can go along way in life. It tells you to succeed in life you need to find your talent and work hard. In our story we try to tell the viewer that you can do anything if you try.

Our teams biggest challenge was trying to meet up to do the filming. It was hard because our schedule was filled for the weekend so we had to meet up on Monday after school to start filming the rest of our movie.

Tiny Spherical Worlds

The point of composite images is to have multiple photos put into 1 to make it look really nice by putting them together.  If you put together the images it makes one that is different from the other regular photos by themselves.  When you have a composite image it Makes a nice image.

 The difference between a polar and spherical pano is when you are doing a polar it becomes a tiny world around you or the subject and  a spherical pano is like you are a ant and are looking outside of the world also in a polar world it is like you are a giant and in a spherical panorama you are in this cool world bubble.

My tiny world is convincing because it we edited the pictures used to make it more realistic. I also used the stamp tool to get rid of the line that went down the middle of my tiny world.  I also made the edges look like outer space to make it look natural. I also made myself huge and go into outer space I look like a giant.

Hockney Style Joiners

David Hockney's pictures are different from ours because he had many years to do and practice photomontages. He also has many different skills like a Painter and lots of abstract art.  David hockney also went to the collage of art.

Some images can send either good or negative messages to the viewer some negative images are put downs or bad things about people. Other good messages can have inspiration or motivation also maybe even some messages that say good things about you. There are many different ways to show this in a image like having something written or painted.

In my final image the message I want my audience to see is that It is very dark and I love the it when it is dark outside and in the morning. I also want my audience to know that it is dark and I am walking away from my house.  The reason I want my audience to know that it is dark because I love it when it is really dark outside.

2016 Aspirations

Hello 5 different thing I want to do in 2016.  I want to go to the beach more.  I want to get better grades by doing more homework.  I want to get way more organized with my school work.  I also want to get outside more with my friends and I want to play a sport.  Those are some of the things I want to accomplish in 2016.

My most important goal is to get way better grades in school. It is important to me because if i do get better grades i could actually get lots of A's on my report card and be a lot smarter and maybe one day invent something new and extremely useful. Also, If I get better grades i can get a good job.

These are steps that I will take to get better grades.  First, I will do more homework. Second, i will go to sleep earlier so I am ready for school. Third, I will always pay attention in class. Next, I will try to study more for tests. Last, I will do more work in class and try to finish it with my best work. I will also do all the projects they give me.