Our Animation Story

If you don't already know that I'm doing a project, I already told you in my "Animation Outtakes" blog post. I also told you that we were doing "Asha Moves Away" and why we are doing it. Our title/focus statement is "Asha Moves Away". The focus statement tells "Lani's story" because Asha is Lani's friend. Asha, in the film, moves away. If it is hard to tell if we are telling Asha's story our Lani's story, I don't blame you. Lani was such good friends with her friend (her real life friend) that they shared a bond.

The audience will learn that when you love something, you must set it free and that you need to make new friends even when your best friend has left. The audience will learn this lesson because our team thought it would be easy for the audience to understand this topic (but not entirely). They are probably going to figure it out the lesson by knowing that Lani and Asha are going to be really good friends. Asha needs to move away and Asha gets on the plane and goes to California. After that when Lani goes home, she gets a message from her conscience (played by me) and the conscience is basically telling one of the lessons. When I said you weren't going to get the lessons entirely, well this is what I mean. I guess we forgot to put in the extra lesson (or at least I think, you need to watch it for yourself).

The best moments were when Lani was trying to fake cry. It was hilarious watching and listening to Lani fake cry. She tried it twice. The first time was hilarious and the next one was pretty successful, but still kinda funny. When we were trying to make the fake tears, the water drops were going everywhere. When my team was watching what we had so far, and we saw Lani's face and heard her cry! The worst moments were when we were trying to focus the camera on the white board and half of all the pictures were blurry. So we had to redo the pictures. When we were trying to retake the pictures, something bad happened! When we were taking the pictures, Mr. Sandrel got a call from the SBAC people. Lani had to go and finish her SBAC test. SHE HAD TO BE IN THE SCENE!!! We just need her finger/hand so we used Meleana's finger/hand. Everything went okay after that.

Animation Outtakes

 

So this part of the year is quarter 4 for school and as usual, we have another project for G.T. I think that this project is going to be somewhat fun because this project is all about animation. Before I can tell you about this project, I need to tell you all about my teammates. My first teammate is Lani Alo. Lani loves to surf. Lani is also really funny... Most of the time. Asha McGinnis is Lani's friend. Asha likes to swim. She is also really happy all the time. Meleana Keawe likes to go to the beach. Mele also has a really good personality that everybody likes. They are all the people on my team for my project.

Stop-Motion is when you take a series of pictures of a subject and every time you take a picture, you have to move the subject. when you are done taking pictures, you put them into imovie and put the pictures in order the way you want it. A .GIF is a repetitive stop-motion that goes over and over and over again. The bouncing ball up there is a .GIF. To make one, you go to Photoshop, put your windows into animation. Then draw what you want to do, then make your subject. Once you make the subject, click on the little button on the bottom that looks like the new layers buttons. Then move your subject and click the button again. Just keep on doing that and when you think your done, your done.

Our team is doing our story called "Asha Moves Away". This story is about a girl named Asha moves to Kauai and becomes BFF with Lani. They become such great friends after they meet. Then Lani gets the news that Asha is moving away. We are telling Lani's story because she had a best friend that moved away. This story is something we must care about because this is a very sad topic. our movie is supposed to teach that "If you love something, you must set it free." and "You have to learn to make new friends, even if the greater one has left. That's why we all decided to do our story on "Asha Moves Away".

Typography Images

Typography is the style of printed matter. Typography makes images an impact on photos by knowing who you really are because whatever the words on there represents you. For example, you are smart, responsible, and athletic. You put all those words on top of your picture and people will assume that you are those words. That's what you need to achieve when you are making your own typography photo. Once you've got your words you can start in Photoshop.

Probably my biggest challenge during this project was catching up to all my work because I'm part of a ukulele and choir program and they have this competition that's right before aping break. The bad part is also a good part in some way, but the competition is also in California. So at the beginning of 4th quarter, I asked my teacher "Can you tell me what to do?" and I asked other people what I was supposed to do next. I don't know if the final draft of me is okay because it's your choice if it looks like me and stuff. In my opinion, I don't like mine.

The first example of typography is of Steve Jobs. I chose Steve because my teacher said that we need to do an easy typography on an innovator. I also chose Steve because he made the future come true and made the iPhone. I would be dead if I didn't have phone! The second example is of my advisory teacher, Ms. Fujimoto, and I used her to make the intermediate typography.

Double Exposed Portraits

Portrait photography, which is also called portraiture, is a photograph of a person or group of people that shows expression, emotion, personality, and mood of the subject. You could show the photograph is usually the person's face, although the entire body and the background or context may be included. Portrait photography is related to profile and silhouetting because in the processing in making a portraiture, you need to take a picture of a profile picture then go to and in photoshop, you would need to silhouette the outside.

To make a double exposure, you'll need to take one sidewards profile picture of yourself, then two other pictures that symbolize who you are. Then you import the photos and all that stuff, then open photoshop, go to files, scripts, then load files into stack. Then click browse and find the files you want to use. Then after you press ok, you can mess around with the controls and make something very creative! You would want to make one because double or multi exposure can make other people know who and what kind of person you are.

The first photo shown is a profile photo of me and if you can see the two things that symbolizes me is a basketball going into the hoop and a mountain. The basketball represents that I play sports such as basketball. The mountain represents that I am strong. I put a mountain because mountains cannot be moved right? Mountains are STRONG enough to stay in one place. My photo could of been better if I added a little bit more space in my head for the basketball and hoop. 

The second photo looks like there're a bunch of leaves and trees. Well they are. Mr. Sanderl said that we didn't really need to have a symbolic thing about us. Although, I could of make the yellow parts on my head, I could of erase the yellow part. The top is only yellow because I was in front of a green screen and when I used the dodge tool to make the background white, it made the background yellow. Well that's all. Goodbye.

HDR Photography

HDR photography is a type of picture that you have to take 7 photo of the same thing in different exposure that shows the horizon line, sky, and ground, also known as wide shot. HDR is used for making a boring old photo into a cool looking photo with a lot of details. I like and dislike HDR. Why? Because HDR is cool to make and the final picture is just awesome! I also don't like HDR. It takes to long and what if you move your camera? You'll have to do it all over again. And that's why I like and dislike HDR photography. HDR photography makes any boring photo into a creative, cool, very detailed photo.

There is 6 easy steps to make HDR photo. Step 1: Control the exposure to go to the lowest exposure and take at the most 7 pictures with different exposure. Step 2: Importing photos & organizing Once your done with the photos, Go to adobe photoshop. Step 3: Once your done with the photos, Go to adobe photoshop. Step 4: Automate < Merge to HDR Pro < Ok. Step 5: Make the photo as creative as you can with the tools to your right. Step 6: REPEAT!!! Just follow those easy steps to get a beautiful picture like these. This is not different from automatic HDR.

The first photo I was trying to make the horizon line straight with no cars but if you can see it there is a car behind the bushes because there is a highway right behind the bushes. I was thinking about adding that yellow whatchamacallit (I'm not sure if it's a pole). I tried adding rule of thirds horizontal and it turned out pretty good and I wanted to add foreground and like I just said, it turned out pretty good. The second photo turned out better then I actually thought because the rule of thirds wasn't correct because my little brother was placed right in the middle of the shot and in the left corner of the photo was bad because that is the most brightest spot on the photo and everybody's eyes goes right there. But I thought that I tried to do something different because someone else would place someone right there not doing anything. But I made my brother hold the baseball bat as if he was in a baseball stance. And with the scar on his face maybe that would relate a little more to what he's doing because what if he like got into a accident (in honesty, he did) doing a sport (baseball) he loves (he actually doesn't like baseball). Well that's it for now.

See ya later!

Movie Trailer Critique

Our latest project in G.T. was our Movie Trailer. We all had our own jobs. Me and everybody else all were actors. Mason I can say was probably the director because he put his heart into this. I also put my heart into this... It's just that when Mason tells me to go to Mr. Sandrel's class, I keep on forgetting. I still contibuted really good. The trailer plan I could say was hard. I didn't know what the keywords meant. We all had different ideas on the synopsis and voice acting script but we actually finished it.

The requirements were to have at least a minute and 30 seconds to 2 minutes and 30 seconds and we had to much B-roll and we had to pick which B-roll we were going to pick and we just barely got 2:23. We got 5 scenes or at least 5 scenes in the 2:30 we had. We got the voice acting done with Mason doing it. We got more than enough foley... It's just that all of them were useless. Our movie poster that they chose was mine because they thought that mine was pretty cool so we met all the requirements.

I thought the class critique was pretty good because it wasn't so good and it wasn't so bad but still. Everyone thought it was funny which what we were barely trying to go for but it was pretty cool too. I agree with how we got a 4 because like I said earlier it wasn't so good and it wasn't so bad so actually I totally agree with the score that me, Mason, Micah, and Jason.

Movie Poster Promo

In my G.T. class we have yet another project (wow shocker) and we have to make a movie trailer. It's called the "Men in Black IV" and yes, it is the quadruple of the original "Men in Black". The main characters that will be seen on the poster are Me, Mason Doo, Micah Miller, and Jason Hoy. The poster will be taken place in two places. One will be at Mr. Sanderl's lab and one will be at kapahi park. Jason and I will be looking over yonder and Mason and Micah will be looking like they will punch each other but they're actually just posing.

We put MIB4 instead of men in black 4 because we thought that it was to long to put so we put it in abbreviations and actually it looked better than Men in Black 4. We chose my poster because it actually looked better then my team's one. I added a bevel and emboss to the text and added a stroke. I also added the drop shadow effect but for some reason it didn't look like there was any drop shadow but I think it was because the drop shadow was black and also was the background. I also added some reviews but I didn't in the final one.

The effects I used made an impact on the text by making overall the poster better because the text itself is cool then add a little white stroke around the text then added some bevel and emboss to make the text more bold and stuff. The picture of Mason and Micah looks a little weird because first of all Jason's arm is in the picture and I forgot to erase the arm. Second, Mason's shirt looked like it got painted on. Well it did. The title is called "Men in Black" and Mason's shirt was white and I thought "why would an agent's shirt be white if the title is called 'Men in Black'. The guy is in white and it is called men in BLACK". So that is why it is painted. And that's how the effects make an impact.