The Expirement

In class we did a photoshop expirement. This expirement was about exploring photoshop. We could do anything we want in photoshop to blog about. It was fun but difficult to figure out what I do.

The oh so right thing about this experiment is we had no rules. This meant we could make anything we wanted. I really liked this idea but I never was let to do something like this so it was hard figuring out what to do. Finally I decided to do the symbol of Hulk. I would of put something cooler if I didn't do at the last minute. There was nothing oh so wrong about this.

Back To School

My favorite moment so far is the that our math teacher is awesome. Mr. Hewitt is our math teacher, he is a good teacher because he teaches in a fun way. But it's too bad that hes going away to canada to live with someone else. Another thing is that i'm making lots of new friends. some of them are sixth graders and some of them are seventh and some of them are eighth.

My biggest challenge right now is the fact that most of my classes are super boring. P1, P2, P5, P6, and P7 are all boring. I have a good feeling that the classes are going to become better. My teachers are telling me that since some classes have 40 kids each. I didn't like that idea I am hoping I would be one of those kids who didn't change classes. I was just getting used to all my teacher and now
I, might have to change classes.

 In order to succeed this year I will pay attention and be more interested in my classes. Last year the classes that were boring, were the classes I had were the times I talked the most, so this year i am going to care about the classes no matter how boring it is. Mr. Nunn our sixth grade AVID and Language Arts teacher says that seventh grade is the time when the student's grades drop dramaticly. It means that if you had straight A's there was a chance in seventh grade you could get one A and rest all B's or C's. 

Metamorphosis Animation

Our class had to do a animation project where we combine all types of animations to tell a story on metamorphosis. My teams main idea was a wizard that had to go to a wedding but on the way there he had to go through a forest where meets challenges. The wizard's challenges were dangerous creature like a dragon and a lion. 85% of the animation was made in stykz, the other 15% was stopmotion, claymation, and flip book animation. We spent tons of precious time on stykz but it payed of because the stykz scenes looked amazing.

If I were to explain the story scene by scene here's how it would go. The first scene was wizard which was going to his wedding but he got picked up by two fingers by the head and got put in this portal        (flip book animation) which took him to the stykz world. after he gets up and runs out of the screen. Then he sees a lion which he turns into a clay ball. After he walks into the next screen a dragon appears which he defeats also. Finally he goes to the wedding after magically putting himself in a wedding outfit.

Our team would of done amazing if only we put the music in the background. This made our video critique have low scores. 

5 Tips On How To Improve a Kickflip

In Quarter 2 I did a project that was about giving 5 tips on how to do something or improve something. We were supposed to take a video of those 5 tips and edit them in Final Cut Pro. The winning team would be on Hiki No. My team mates were Tim and Oriia. Our original idea was to do 5 tips on how to get extra allowance. But then we were behind so we didn't have time to do that and did Oriia's idea which was 5 tips on how to do a kick-flip on a skateboard. We didn't do so great because the video was more of a "How To," video than a "5 Tips," video. We could have planned out the video more.

Words of Wisdom

In 3rd quarter we did a project called "Words of Wisdom,". It was about choosing to interview someone who was older and had some good advice to share. My teammates were Maceo, Justice, and Oriia. One problem we had was to split the work evenly and two people worked (including me) the hardest while the other one was helping out for a little bit, but the other person was totally lacking to do any work. The words of wisdom for this project was to take care of your community and most importantly family. For this we interviewed Maceo's grandma.

Practice Profile Story

Our practice story was made so we had practice before we did the real thing and it really helped. Instead of just doing our project this helped me know the process of making the interview. Our interview was about Oriia Niitsu. He was going to talk about his experiences with Claymation. Our video went under the time limit.

Profile Project Progress

Our interview was about Mrs. Fernandes, Maceo's Grandma. The interview was about how Mrs. Fernandes loved Kauai and how she cared for her community. The setting of the interview was at Mrs. Fernandes' house. The interview was taken by her TV. The b-roll was taken all around her house mostly of her Christmas decorations that were there all year long. We wanted to show how Mrs. Fernandes cares for her community and how she thinks everyone in the community should care for each other like family.

B-roll is footage usually used in interviews. They use it to show what the interviewee does. But b-roll has a lot of other uses. It’s sometimes used as bandages for cuts in an interview, to grab the viewers attention, to visually describe what the interviewee does, etc. A voiceover helps explain the story of an interview, it also does a crucial part in grabbing the viewers attention in the first scene of the interview. Most of the time voice overs are used to narrate a story.

For our team to do better we need to split the work evenly and everyone needs to be helpful more than criticizing and distracting. 3 people in our group were working fine but one barely helped and always fooled around. We could of made him work on the storyboard. No one came for the filming of the b-roll and voice over except me and my teammates. We didn't finish on time but we turned it in anyways.

Ways we can improve our rough cut is by getting more b-roll. In the interview we also have a lot of cuts we need to fix that by putting b-roll in the middle of the cuts. We also need the video itself longer. We could put in a interview of someone else who is going to talk about our interviewee. We also have an out of focus interview but we can't fix that or re-shoot it because if we do then we wouldn't have time to finish it.