Hockney Style Joiners

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post! So for the past two weeks, my class have been doing this project on photomontage. David Hockney is known very well for his photomontages. Me and David Hockney's work are totally different. Not only how it looks but also how we make it. 1 of the ways how our work is different is that I use a DSLR camera and i think he used like a polaroid camera. Another one is how we made it. He probably used the pictures from the polaroid camera glued them together. Me, I took the SD card out of the camera and imported the photos onto the schools computer. After that, I put it into photoshop and put them together. After I could just print it. And finally, his photomontages are more powerful then my photomontages. He could probably make a photo montage about world pollution more powerful than I ever could. And those were the differences of my photomontage and Hockney's photomontage.

Now I'm gonna be talking about how images can send a positive or negative message. Of course positive images send positive messages and negative images send negative messages, but I'm gonna be digging deeper than that. Images with any type of sexual content or nudity would be a negative image. It would send a negative message by making everybody grossed out. Not everyone in the world would like those type of images. An image of like service or something like that would send a positive message. If people saw that picture they would feel all happy. If the image was a puppy, it would definitely send a positive message. But if that puppy was being harassed by the owner, then it would send a negative message. And that's how images can send positive and negative messages.

The message I intend for my audience to see in my final is time. I chose my watch because it shows what time it is. My watch symbolizes me because I don't have enough time to do anything. Time is an important thing that everybody doesn't have enough of. So that's why I chose my watch because time is a problem that everybody has.

2016 Aspirations

Hello and welcome back to this week's blog post! I know that everyone had a wonderful time during winter break and now we are in 2016! I got some goals that i want to try to achieve in 2016. Here's 5 goals. Goal #1: Do better in school. So far I've been doing good in school but i just think that I can do better. Goal #2: Beat my brother in one-on-one basketball. I just want to say an interesting fact about my family. My family is really competitive. So whenever my brother beats me in one-on-one basketball, I get all salty and don't want to play with him anymore. And I know I'm a sore loser and it's true. I'll admit it. Goal #3: Watch all Fast and Furious movies. So far I tried watching all of the fast and furious movies before the 8th movie comes out. The only movie I have to watch is the 3rd movie (Tokyo Drift). I'm have to at least watch it anytime before April 14, 2017. Goal #4: Win the presidents cup. The Presidents Cup is a tournament on O'ahu. This is actually my first tournament since forever. The tournament I went to on O'ahu was when I was 8 I think. Finally, goal #5: Win the HYSA springs championships. HYSA is actually a soccer season on Kauai. But for the past years I have so close to winning but just not. The last 2 years just destroyed my soul. 2014, Kapa'a FC. We lost in the semifinals. 2015, Futsal Kauai. We won every game except for the game against North Shore FC. They crushed us. But I'm really feeling it this year. And this are some goals I want to attain in 2016.

I think the most important goal from those five are "Winning the HYSA springs championships". Like I said before, I was so close to winning the past 2 years. But they seriously destroyed my soul last year because everytime we played North Shore FC, we spanked them. But in our championship game against them, we got spanked. My soul was crushed. And soccer is just really important to me because it's just an emotional sport that I am really passionate about. And like I said earlier, I'm a really competitive and when I lose, sometimes I'm a poor sport. Like in serious games, I am like a super poor sport if we lose. If it's like a regular game then I would be ok. And also the beginning of the school year, part of the North Shore FC came to KMS this year so when they saw me they made fun of me how we lost and they won. In the beginning of the school year I was kinda pissed but now almost all the north shore people that came from Kiluea Elementary School are like my homies. We're really good friends now. But in all seriousness, winning the HYSA Spring Championships is my most important goal I want to attain is winning.

The steps I will take to obtain success is practice, practice, practice. I'll be more healthier. I'll be more healthier by getting in shape, eating healthier, and maybe even play more sports to fit myself for soccer because soccer is all about running and during my basketball practices, I'm seriously gonna die from running from the free throw line, back to the baseline, run to the half court, back to the baseline, and you get the point. After I'll start playing more with my older brother. Probably shoot some hoops with him or race. Maybe even beat him in 1 vs 1 basketball against him. Maybe even beat him (which will probably never happen (but that's why I'm working on it this year!)). Maybe even in school. I could participate in sporting games there. People play football on the field. That will help me with my running and agility skills. There's basketball at the court. Maybe that can help me with my math like "Oh, shoot it at a 45 degree angle" or something. Girls play softball on the field. That can help me with my sportsmanship by not wanting to be a poor sport and leave and get all mad. And even once in a while someone brings a soccer ball so we can just kick, play keep away, or maybe even a little game. So that's it for this week's post. I'll see you in the next blog post! 

Invention Commercial

P3T3_Invention from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post! For the past 2 weeks, we've bee working on a project about commercials. We actually thought it was gonna be easy but it really wasn't. Our main goal for our project was to actually make the car and make sure it was water proof. Our biggest problem was when we tried to shoot the car flying so Ala threw it up in the air and the car missed the blanket and fell on the hard cement. The whole top part fell off and so that's why there's that redneck on it. Well that was our main goal for this project.

Our best team moment was that last scene when we tryed to get us saying "The Allterainian Auto is Au-some!" while getting us perfectly in the shot. We were all tired but I don't know what was Mele's problem was. I have know idea why she made that face during the shot. But it's good for us because it actually cracks me up! Another team moment for me was when me and ala dropped the car. And that was my best team moments.

During post-production editing we all have to do a certain things. Like Ala. He Put all the shots together and in order. Me and Mele added the fun stuff like the words and the music. We all decied on a fun jingle for the music. Ala also put the voice over next to the shots. So that is all and thank you for reading this weeks blog post.

Scratch Game Design

Title: Scratch Game Design Label: GT Portfolio
I: Explain how user experience influenced your game
B: Compare & contrast the features of each game
C: Describe your best code & most difficult bug fixes
Embed all Scratch games & SS your best code


Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post! for the pass couple of weeks my class has been dong coding and we are now making our own video games on a website called Scratch. We have made two scratch games already - A platformer game and a chase game. My first ever scratch game I made was the chase game. the user's experience made me influenced my game by using scary sprites to chase the cat. I also just chose the default cat as my sprite-1 because it was my first game ever in scratch.

Composition Scavenger Hunt

Hello everybody and thank you for reading this weeks blog! Today I will be talking about composition techniques. The on technique I think is the most important is Rule of thirds (subject). I chose rule of thirds (subject) because I think if we never have rule of thirds (subject) then how will we interview somebody the proper way. You can't just put somebody smack dab in the middle and it won't have any power and emotion. It's also the easiest technique of all. And that's the most important technique to me.

I think the most difficult technique is leading lines because you have to make environmental lines leading to a subject. To me, finding environmental lines pointing to a subject is super hard. The only leading lines example to me is a school hallway at Kapa'a High School. I think we could use this more when But to me is really hard to find so that's why leading lines are hard to me and how I could use it.

My team is very helpful! So right now, I'm gonna tell you what we all did. Ala and Mele took the videos and I was like the actor and kind of the ideas. But Ala and Mele was mostly the ideas. I was mostly the actor. Ala was also the person to tell us what to do and editing. Mele also edited. So thank you for reading this week's blog and see you next time.

Cracking the Code

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post called Cracking the Code! Now we are doing another project about but that's all I really know about it. I think that everybody and I mean EVERYBODY should be able to code because it is as easy as making hot pockets. Also because coding is fun. You could code something to do something. It's basically like commanding a dog to move or sit or stay but more like a computer. People can finally upgrade to thing e next generation and finally learn to code. Coding may look hard but that's also good. Coding can help you move anything on your device. That's why everyone should know how to code.

My first experience with code was actually in 3rd grade when I was in lego robotics and Me and my friends learned how make the robot move and do certain types of things.  For example, we built like a crane to roll a ball and hit bowling pins. I've been doing that from 3-5 grade but didn't code until a week or two ago. And i'm in 7th grade right now! So it's been a long time since i've coded. And that was the first time I've coded.

If I could design any program or game I would wanna design Instagram because I like going on Insta and I think it's a fun to share things to other people. I'd like to make something that I like and make it better. I could probably code it so people can't hack into other people's accounts. I'd also try to code it so it would stop people from bullying online. Thank you for reading this week's blog. See you next time!

My Humorous Monologue

Hello everybody and thank you again for reading this week's blog! Today I will continue talking about my comedic monologue. Right now I will tell you what I learned from this project. Some of the stuff I learned were new and old information. I also forgot some of my old information so if I mention something that I already know then this is why. I learned how to use the cameras properly and import the videos to the computer. I learned that on the cards that go into the camera, they're these little switches to lock or unlock a card. This is something I definitely learned. I also learned how to make a funny joke. I learned how to grade our project. Those were the things I learned in this project.

Something I definitely learned and did not include because I'm going to talk about it right now is padding. If you don't know what padding is, I'll tell you what it is in my own words. Padding is when you start the video and let it play to the minimum of 3 seconds and say action. When you're done with the video wait a minimum of 3 seconds and say cut. That is basically padding. I think padding is crucial because you could start a video and the camera wouldn't be ready to record and then your video will be missing a couple of parts in the beginning of your video. Also at the end because it could cut off some of the parts at the end. And that was what padding is and why it is crucial.

So I found out that my comedic monologue was the best of the whole class! But I'm not going to talk about that. Right now I'll be talking about weaknesses, strengths, and what I could've done to improve. I think the weaknesses I had in this project was trying to get the bingo shots. I had to get bingo shots ASAP. I didn't know when or where to get bingo props. So I just thought as this to be the best possible way to do this. My strengths were probably the joke writing because like I said earlier, I'm growing up watching Seinfeld and I just got great feed back from the series. Probably I could've improve by getting something easier than a bingo game. But I think I chose it because I was trying to think of the boringest (I know that's not a word.) thing in the world. So that was why I chose a bingo game. But now that I think about it, I think I could've use something like channel surfing or something. I don't know. Well that was my post for this week and I'll try to keep you updated during this fall break. So that's all. See you next time and have a great fall break!

My Monologue