.MOV Film Festival

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post! If you can't tell from the title but I am going to be entering the .MOV Film Festival. In the .MOV Film Festival, I could either make a sitcom, animation, or movie trailer. I have teamed with Alaka'i and Meah to make a movie trailer. If you didn't last year's movie trailer, don't because it's terrible. I'm hoping that this year will be better. Before I tell you about what our movie trailer is about, I'm gonna tell you some keywords and you can guess what the movie trailer is gonna be about after. Our first keyword is "Encouragement." We chose encouragement because we encourage people to be themselves. Our next keyword is "Try." We chose "Try" because you always have to try everything. Another keyword we chose was "Embarrassed." We chose "Embarrassed" because in our movie people are kinda embarrassed about who they really are. And our last keyword is "Shy." We chose "shy" because people are shy and scared about who they really are.

We are making our movie trailer about Ala. Ala plays basketball and thinks that he's not good at basketball and Meah is the sister that discourages Ala to play basketball. I then come in and find Ala making these sick shots and encourages him to play. He then plays real basketball and he wins his basketball game. We chose this story because we think that shy people shouldn't be embarrassed about their talent. And embarrassment shouldn't hold you back from big success. And It's always important to TRY! TRY! TRY! And we also need people around the world to encourage people on showing their talent. It may not even have to be people encouraging you to do something. It doesn't need to be a person or a Advertisement on the newspaper. As long as you are encouraged to be yourself. We also want to show if you try as hard as you can then you will lead to big success. And if you lead to big success you'll have a good life just from one decision you made from just thinking "Yeah. I'll try that." or "Yes. Definitely I'll try that!" And that is the overall message we are hoping to overcome in this project.

Of course, in every project, we all have some problems. I'm gonna tell you what problems we faced and how we solved them. So to start off, one of our biggest problems was making the baskets in. We probably spent 10 minutes on this one shot. I told Ala we should just edit in a splash (basketball term for swish). Instead Ala was stubborn and did it till he made it. Another problem we had was finding the perfect music. All movie trailers have Music that make's viewers excited and make them want to watch the actual movie. We then thought of this song that is related to basketball and it has an awesome instrumental. It is "Wings" by Macklemore. Check out the instrumental here! Another problem was having enough shots of Ala making his shots. So we then tried finding some shots in our footage and we found enough and we put it in our film and BOOM! we did it. Thank you all for reading this weeks blogpost and I'll see you in the next one!

Tiny Spherical Worlds

Hello and welcome back to another blog post! Last week, we started this new project called Spherical and Polar Panoramas (Panos). Before I start talking about the polar and spherical panos, I'll tell you what a composite image and why it is important. A composite image is Created from combining several different pictures to go beyond the limitations of a camera. A composite image is important for a panorama because a just one picture wouldn't get all of what you want. that's why a pano is a composite image.


A Polar Pano is a panoramic landscape with defined horizon lines digitally manipulated to create a circular planet-like image. A Spherical Pano looks like a landscape is wrapped around the frame. they're different on how they look. The polar panos look like tiny worlds and the spherical pano looks like landscape warped around in a circle. And that's the difference between a Polar Panorama and a Spherical Panorama.

My finished Tiny Worlds looks convincing because in my final spherical I made myself look big. And while I was editing I noticed that I was facing the sunlight. So added a shadow to make it look like I am really there and I look big. But in my polar panorama it doesn't look like I'm really there. It doesn't look like it because I didn't put a shadow to make it look like I'm really there. Because a real person would have a shadow. But I tried to make myself pop out of my world and tried to make it look convincing as possible. So that was this week's blog and I'll see you in the next one.