Spring Break 2016

Hey guys so it's that time of year again...I'm going on a ski trip again to Colorado for spring break!!! Normally I would go to Keystone, but I will we going to Steam Boat, Colorado with my family. Last year I said I would post stuff on my blog from my spring break but I didn't really get to that, I made one post from least year that you can read about under the tab Lani's Reality but didn't have anymore. So this year if anyone wants to see what I'm doing this spring break they can add me on snap chat @lanisurfs and if I accept follow requests, you can probably see on my Instagram @laannnii. Anywhere I made an edit from my ski trip last year and you can watch it below! Hope y'all like it.

.MOV Film Festival

(Because our video isn't on vimeo yet)

What up blog readers! We finished our Spherical Pano's project last week and we are starting our new project! For this new project we are trying to make some kind of story either a sitcom, movie trailer, or something like that and the best three from our class will be entered for the Island School student .MOV film festival! Our story is about a super star (Kimchee Kartrashian) going shopping with her very goofy and idiotic bodyguard Kurly. Kurly gets distracted with shopping and loses track of time and later finds out Kimchee has been kidnapped. He comes to conclusion that Kimchee has been kidnapped and now it's all up to Kurly to find her. This is gonna be a comedic film because we want the movie trailer to focus more on the goofy adventure Kurly goes on to try and find Kimchee. Our keywords are Adventurous, Funny, Creative, Lighthearted, Amusing and we are also coming up with more as we along with our plan. Our keywords connect wth our audience by...

In our movie trailer Kurly rescues Kim, our overall message we want the audience to get from it in the end is to show how anyone can accomplish anything if they just set their mind to it and believe that they can succeed. This is because in our trailer Kurly may be a little cuckoo, clumsy, blonde, etc... but he is determined to find Kimchee and sets his mind to it. We also learned from our message that no matter how crazy the situation you can come up with some sort of solution or a way to at least make the situation better.

During our whole project we encountered many problems mostly when we were filming. But for me I think the biggest problem for us was when we had a shot of Asha saying "she's been kidnapped" but when we were editing Asha thought she looked weird and din't want anyone to see it. We didn't have any back up videos and it was already Monday when we were supposed to be done with our filming. For a couple days we didn't know what to do because we didn't want to use a medium shot of her doing it because the whole movie led up to that one shot and having her right in front of the camera gave more of a dramatic effect. But we couldn't use that one. In the end we tried to re-film even though it was late but we ended up not using the re-take because it wasn't good so instead we deleted the close up and used a medium. It works, but I feel it could've been much better with the close. At least we came up with some kind of solution instead of giving up and cutting the whole scene.

We took these photos during the paparazzi scene.

Tiny Spherical Worlds

These are my Polar Pano's from 6th grade, take a look at how my Polar worlds turned out now!
REDEMPTION.

Whats up Lani's Amazing Blog readers! So we just finished our 3rd quarter mid-quarter and I just came back from my 3 day weekend so now we are starting a new project! But before I get into that, I noticed my grades for mid quarter and got a 10/12 and barely made the cut for a A! The reason why is because I forgot to post some photo challenges, (I posted 13/16) so oops, I'll do better from now on that I know the consequences hehe. Anyway, let get into the new/old project we are getting it to!

Sooo, lets talk composite images. If you don't know already, composite images is a picture made from a combination of multiple images to go beyond the limitations of a camera. I feel the point of composite images instead of just one regular photo is to show a wider view of just a regular photo showing more of a 180 view. Also in my opinion they look much more interesting than a regular images, the visuals seem to stand out more and I feel like there is more meaning. Lastly, it gives you a better understanding of the situation and setting in the photos. When making tiny worlds we don't have the freedom to tilt our images, but it's still much more interesting than regular image. Going back to our last project, when taking our photomontages we could take our photos with tilt and we had mmore freedom combining it how we like so it makes a big difference in what the point is for composite images, summarizing it basically makes it way more interesting.


For this project we are making and working with both Spherical and Polar panoramas and worlds. Polar panoramas and Spherical panoramas are almost the same the only difference is when you edit them together in photoshop and either leave out a small step or do it. Polar and Spherical worlds both start out my taking photos all around you with equal amounts of sky in the top half and land in the other half. Then you edit them and load them into a stack in photoshop and most of the time get a pretty good rough edged pano. You then CROP, turn in into a square and if you want to make a Polar world, rotate it 180 degrees if making a Spherical, skip that step. The difference is a polar world has the bottom half of the land formed into a circular world with the sky surrounding it. A sphere world has the sky on the inside formed into a circular world with the land surrounding.

My finished tiny worlds that were all taken at Kealia beach are convincing because the way I warped and skewed the cut out of myself seems really convincing because I am out of this world in the polar and the proportions for my spherical seem right. and I feel like I did a good job placing the shadow doing it in the last 5 minutes. Also when I blurred the middle lined it turned out so much better than the ones I did in 6th grade. I definitely feel like a improved. It's almost unnoticeable ish but I can agree I could still make it better. Lastly, I think I placed myself okay but my shadow on my second one is on the ocean but there wasn't a spot on my image that would make more sense so I did what I could. Thanks that's it! But look at the project below...

These are my Polar World 1, and Polar World 2 with a cut out of myself! 

Below are my Sphere World 1, and Sphere World 2 with a cut out of myself! 

CHECK OUT MY PANO'S BELOW! 

(for you non GT students its how the photo looked before it was formed into a tiny world)

Pretty awesome aight?