Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Music Videos Rock!


For this project, my team members are Logan Noble, Tyler Pagela, and Nathan Gardner. Each of have different rolls in contributing for this project, except the lip sync part we all have to take a part of that. I've been contributing to this project by doing the filming and providing our "music-playing-device". Logan has been staring in most of the shots so far, he's also helped film a little bit. Nathan has been the second person to do their lip sync, and he also helped film a small portion of this project. 


In our music video, I think the audience would enjoy our bloopers the most. I didn't really like the song we picked for our music video because I didn't know the song. The audience would enjoy the bloopers the best because they're just really funny. The bloopers consist of Logan and Nathan. In one clip, logan is sitting down and just dancing! In another clip, Nathan just stands up and runs away (laughing emoji), it was supposes to be a part of the story for our video but we didn't end up using that scene so we used the fail clip as a blooper.

Our music video shows what we learned this year because through out the year, we were taught to use many different creative angles, and for our music video we used many different wide, meduim, and close shots. We also used the transitions and text screens. It also shows what we learned in photoshop (the title screen). For our title screen, in photoshop, we kerned our title, and added a bevel and emboss on it, as well as a drop shadow and gradient overlay with patterns.


Friday, May 1, 2015

Our Animation Story





Our focus statement tells our story because that's what the story is about. Our focus statement is "Cyberbullying Effects Tu" which was actually a true story. Cyberbullying is a big problem now because teens have more freedom and they have a large vocabulary of hateful words they probably were told before. Since cyberbullying is such a large problem we decided to let people know about it by telling a story that happened to one of our teammates.

Since our focus statement was "Cyberbullying Effects Tu" so the lesson was how the action of cyberbullying can lead to sometimes serious depression. We decided on the cyberbullying topic because many teens are being called names, and told mean things by anonymous internet users. Most parents and adults can't see what these people are doing online so we thought this would be a good topic. Were showing this to people through an animation, actually many different forms of animation. We used the programs, stykz and photoshop to animate. Next, we did a stop motion, and a whiteboard, then we put it all together using iMovie.

I think the worst part of the animation was deciding who does what. For example, Tyler and I were fighting over who does the storyboard, or who animates in stykz or who animates in photoshop. The best part was helping filming. I really enjoy using the cameras because I don't have a camera like the ones we have in school and it's a really great opportunity to use the canons. My second favorite part was just working with my team. Dylan is a really strong animator, Tessa is great at editing, Tu is an amazing actor and Tyler is good at writing the storyboard.



Friday, April 10, 2015

Typography Images



Typography is a picture of a face thats facing forwards (basically a portrait image), and the persons face covered in a bunch of words. Typography creates a long lasting impact because if you can read the words used it can tell a lot about the person in the portrait. The typography also looks really interesting. Typography images can create a long lasting effect on people because the words that cover the person tells a lot about them or about their past.

For me this project was really hard. I struggled with almost everything. The easiest part was taking my images. This project was really complicated for me. For our teacher typography, I really struggled. I couldn't get my mid tones, shadows and highlights even. I couldn't even get my highlights, mid tones, and shadows. I didn't complete my teacher project on time, but I did get my Innovator project in time. I was able to complete my project because I asked my friends for help. I think the part I had the most trouble was getting enough highlights. I barely had any on my teacher portrait. I needed to adjust my image quite a few times but after I adjusted it enough I finally got it right.

My first example of typography is of Marie Curie. The typography I did of Marie was really simple. The only thing I had trouble on this typography was. My second example is my teacher portrait. This one I had trouble on. As I said in my first paragraph I couldn't get my highlights and mid-tones even. I found out why my mid-tones were uneven and I solved that problem. But my teacher portrait isn't finished yet. My third typography of me wasn't as hard as my teacher typography. The only large problem I had for my ME portrait was changing the colors of my shadows.

Monday, March 2, 2015

Double Exposed Portraits

Portrait photography is when you take a picture of someones face or have them take a picture of your face. Portrait photography is kind of like profile picture because there bth a picture of your face or someone else. its just that a profile picture is the side of your face. It kinda relates to a silhouette too because a silhouette is an image of a person or an object and is filled with one solid color which is usually black. So to make a silhouette you need to start by taking a portrait first.

To make a double exposure in photoshop you need to go file>Scripts>Load Files into Stack, after you can resize your pictures, then you use the dodge tool to make your background white or you can add some textures. Next you crop your images 8 inches by 11 inches . When you have all of your pictures resized and cropped you can place the pictures where you want them to be. Next your going to turn on your blend modes. You click on the layer>Blend Mode> Screen (you can choose any blend mode , it doesn't have to be screen mode). Once your done with that you might have edges and your going to want to make it look like the images blend together, your going to take your eraser tool and give it a soft opacity to make it look like the images blend together.


In my exposed portrait, my symbols were a sunset and a picture of underwater. I chose the picture of a sunset because I enjoy watching sunsets and taking pictures of them, and I chose a picture of an underwater scene because I like using my Gopro at the beach, also I love the water its beautiful and like totally awesome. I think I could've used one picture that was an item or like an animal or something because in my final it looks like I have a pink body, and a blue head with a little bit of texture to it. To me it's pretty bad, I had a third image but we were only allowed to use two so I was stuck with a pink body and a blue head. My third symbol was going to be a wave crashing and it was taken horizontally so it was a strip of wave between the sunrise and my underwater symbols. Then I realized I was only allowed to have two symbols so I just have a blue head and a pink body with some trees by my neck.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Movie Trailer Crituqe





This project was kinda hard for me because I didn't communicate well with my teammates ( Ethan Garrison, Nathan Gardner, and Shanden Matsushima), so I ended up not being in the movie. Filming our movie was a bit difficult to because ours was an animation. We ended up using the green screen a lot. For our trailer plan we each worked on it, but I think Nathan worked on the trailer plan the most. I helped by getting the shots, setting up cameras and tripods, writing scripts, filming, and editing.


The project had requirements that were pretty easy to follow, but our team still failed to follow them all. The requirements were to have the entire trailer 1 minute and 30 seconds minimum  to 2 minutes maximum, a total of 5 scenes,  voice acting script, dialogue, foley,  had to be appropriate for all audiences, it needed to include dialogue and foley, and at the end our movie trailer poster. Our team got most of the requirements except for foley, and it wasn't to appropriate for all audiences. 

Our class critique results were pretty bad. The creativity and requirements were really low, but the audience critique wasn't too bad. I agree with the critique results because our trailer was pretty bad. I've learned that I should help my team more. I also learned that I should communicate better with my team.

HDR Photography

HDR photography is multiple pictures taken at different exposure levels and are layered to make the exposure of the picture balanced. HDR means High Dynamic Range. I like HDR photography because it makes the pictures a bit nicer. Also, you can see some of the darker areas and if the sun is in the shot it doesn't washout the photo. Using the HDR setting on my phone helps me with my sunset or sunrise shots because I can see some of the mountain and the sun doesn't look like a huge flash and the colors look a bit more natural.

If you want to take an HDR photo, here's how. First you need to take your pictures, when you take the pictures you need to take them at different exposure levels (-3,-2,-1,0,+1,+2,+3). Once you get all of your pictures you need to open photoshop. File>Automate>Merge to HDR pro. Your going to wanna check the "Attempt to align" box. After your photos load, sometimes you can see these things called "Ghosts". Ghosts happen because your subject or something in your picture moved. You can click the "Attempt to remove ghosts" box. You can edit your photo to make it look surreal or true to life. Believe it or not, there is a difference between HDR on an Iphone and HDR that you take yourself. The difference between the two is that HDR on an Iphone has only three exposure levels. But when you take the pictures yourself it has seven or more exposure levels.

The thought process of my experiment was that I wanted to have a nice background but a nice portrait at the same time. So I tried my best to place her in one of the rule of thirds points. I put the word "dream" because I wasn't too sure on what word would work with her face. I made her bigger because it wasn't in the rule of thirds mark. The thought process of my landscape was that I wanted my coconut tree in it so I put the camera so I could see the tree and the part of the town too.







Monday, January 26, 2015

Movie Poster Promo


The main characters in the movie poster are Nathan, who plays Baymax, Ethen who plays Hiro, Shanden who plays Wasabi, and Leilia (me) who plays GoGo. Nathan will be doing a pose of him bent down trying to pick up a soccer ball because in the movie baymax attempts to pick up a soccer ball but fails to pick it up and just keeps kicking it forwards. Ethen who plays hiro will be just smiling and watching baymax tryna pick up the ball. Shanden who plays wasabi will be posing in a stance like hes about to slice someone. Leilia (me) who plays GoGo will be posing like I'm about to throw one of my disks.

My title is Big Hero 6. My poster has the actors names and who they play. For example: Leilia Panui as GoGo Tamago. I kerned my title and added layer effects. Kerning is adjusting the spacing between the letters and the distance between words. We use kerning because it  makes words more interesting to the eye, it makes words cooler.

The impact the layer effects and filters have a good impact. When my title was just words without layer effects and filters it was really boring. Once, I put layer effects and filters on my text it looked much better. It really poped out of the page, I added a drop shaddow and a color overlay. I also kerned my title.