The Experiment

I think the reason why Mr. Sanderl had us do the Photoshop experiment to see what we know so far and how we would so without his help and on our own when most people never actually used Photoshop in their life.  Another reason why I think we did this experiment was to get to know the app and play around with all the tools and brushes and paint electronically. Since I was in GT last year and most of the other 7th graders in our class was too we already kind of had an idea about Photoshop and how to use some of it but we ended up still learning new things about the app. There was so many new things for us to learn in the experiment.

Back to School

My favorite moment so far in 7th grade at Kapa'a Middle School is Art Class with Mrs. Sanderl. This is my favorite moment because its our teacher makes it really fun and we have more freedom I guess I can say in that class. Another one of my favorite moments here at school is playing and eating with my friends in the home ec room. These are my favorite moments because Art doesn't feel like school it seems like one of the things I would do for fun during summer. Hanging out with my friends are also fun because that's when My friend Sydney and I get to play spy and say hello to the new six graders HAHAHA.

One of my biggest challenges here in school is passing English with a A or B because we have these kind of hard vocab tests where we have to write, spell, and put the definition of the word. The last time I took my vocab test I got a C so I checked my work and found out my teacher corrected some of it wrong so she changed it to a B. Also during English I almost got a zero on my test because my English teacher miss placed my work into a her 6th period 8th grade class. I will try hard to pass by getting my work in on time and making sure my work will be placed correctly.

Some things I will do to be successful this year is try my hardest and complete all my work with the highest quality that I can do. I will also be nice to my teachers and try show no attitude. I know I will have a successful year if I do these things and more. Everyone have a great year :)

Metamorphosis Animation

P3T6 Metamorphosis from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Recently our Gt class just finished our Animation/Metamorphosis project where we had to come up with a story and tell it through animation and some voice-overs and music. I think this was one of our hardest projects to put together because it wasn't as organized as our other projects, we had more pictures to organize and lots of different scenes to make. It was almost like making movie except shorter and instead of recording we had to take hundreds of pictures. My team mates on this project were Talia, Maddie, and Kasiah.

My teams project was about a Greek goddess (Artemis) who gets attacked by the titans and turns into a helpless puppy, where she goes on all these crazy adventures and runs into many conflicts on the way trying to get to the Oracle of Delphi to turn her back into herself. The types of animations we used was Clay-mation, Styks, and Stop motion animations. Our focus statement was Titans transform Goddess and I thought that our critique results was pretty good, we got the 2nd most of votes (6) in our class.

Words of Wisdom

Our teams project was to get Words of Wisdom from someone that we know and older than and to make a Profile Story out of it. We did Mr. Relacion, a 7th grade Language Arts teacher at Kapa'a Middle School. We had some trouble completing the project we didn't quite finish the project on time and when we went to film some b-roll (visually show whats happening in an interview), a lot of it wasn't focused. We had to re film our voice-overs(the person narrating the story) and we had to film more b-roll. But in the end we (Keegan  and Kuumomi and I) had a great Words of Wisdom project. Mr. Relacion's Words of Wisdom are important because it teaches us not to rush through life.

Five Tips For…

My team mates and I chose "5 tips for dealing with brothers" because we all thought it was a pretty good idea and the best one out of all the things that we came up with because a lot of siblings (sister) kinda have this problem. We had a minor conflict with our main subject, everyone in our team are girls and we were doing it about dealing with brothers so one of us had to dress up like a boy and act as the brother of someone else. Although we had a problem I think our team had the most fun making our video. My team mates were Loren and Arianna.

I think that our 5 tips video is pretty good but what we could've done better was to make some of our shots have the setting more brighter so it would focus on the main person and also we had some camera movements. We could've try being more creative with out camera angles and composition too. I thought having a girl playing a brother was really cool so in a different way we were being creative in out own way.

Practice Profile Story

Before we did our real "Words of Wisdom" project we did a practice video so we knew what to do when we have to do the real thing. My teams practice story was about volleyball with Keegan and Kuumomi. I was the main subject on this practice story because I play on a volleyball team and our story was on volleyball. I think we could've filmed better b-roll because a lot of it was blurry and un focused. I think the overall story of it was pretty good.

Profile Project Progress

Recently now my team and I are working on a Words of Wisdom project where we interview someone older than us that can share some words of wisdom. We are interviewing Mr. Relacion a 7th grade English teacher at Kapaa Middle School. We filmed during school for the interview, b-roll, and voiceovers. We are doing this project because we wanted to show everyone what it takes to be an awesome teacher like Mr. Relacion.

We filmed b-roll for our project to visually show what Mr. Relacion does. B-roll is used to hide the narration or interview cuts and to visually show or explain what the person being interviewed is talking about. Also B-roll is a way of easily showing what their talking about so the audience can relate to the story better. Also for our project we had one person narrate the story so we had to film and record voiceovers. Voice overs introduce the person and tell part of the story in the beginning, middle, and end.

I think our team could of worked better by splitting up the work more evenly and also taking turns doing each job. Keegan Kessler Kuumomi Thompson are my partners for this project and over all I think we work pretty good together. Telling by the critique above I think we should work more on the visuals of the story the most and try make the audio, story, and quality a little better.

Our team can improve from good to great by filming more B-roll and making sure it in focus so its clear. Also we could film better voice overs because the voice overs I did weren't clear enough. In the end I believe our team will have a really great story to share and project.