Personal Manifesto

I was originally born in Austin, Texas and lived there until I was seven and moved to Hawaii. I am 12, 5'8" and I am in the eighth grade. My favorite subjects are math and science. My ethnicity is a pure Indian and my parents were born in India. My favorite hobbies are playing games and fishing. My favorite fruit is watermelon since I was two.

DO NOT tell yourself you're going to do something the next day because you will never get it done. Do what you think is right because that is all that matters. Get a job in what you're good at and not what you would like to do. If something bothers you fix it and don't ignore it no matter what it is. Pushing yourself to the edge physically and mentally in everything you do is being the best you can be.

I think like most manifestos mine also does the job of giving the audience some tips to be successful at life. I gave advice on how to not procrastinate when you are trying to reach a goal because a lot of people try to reach a goal and procrastinate and forget all about it. I also think that people should get jobs on what they're good at and not what they want to be because just because you want to do something doesn't mean your good at it and could be successful from it. I believe that if people have problem they should fix it and not ignore it and I am mostly talking about bullying because ignoring it doesn't help. Some people don't know what their actual limit of the physical and mental body is, and going to that extent is actually being the best you can be.

Music Videos Rock

Everyone in our team all cooperated well in this project and we split the work up. I will do all the editing, Michael did all the filming, Lester did most of the production plan and Kaz will do the album art in photoshop. After all the filming is done Michael will help me edit the piece. Lester will then go and help Kaz to do the album art. This is one of the rare times where everyone in the teams I've been in, where everyone has all contributed.




                   
                                                                                                Kaz, Michael, Raghav 

                                                                                                                                                         

I think my audience will most likely enjoy the comedy and acting. Me and my teammates chose the song because it was upbeat and we could do something creative with and like we said funny. We made sure everyone was equally included in every scene. I think the audience would like The fact that we expressed ourselves in the group lip-sync. We made it so there was some giggles in the audience. I think the funniest part would be the bloopers which already proved to be successful in the rough cut.

We used intelligent effects in the right place and in a creative way.

We used the ken burns effect which is when you make an edit to a picture so it zooms in a specific way. We used text layovers for some parts and made it better.

Another thing we learned from the year that we used was expressing ourselves. 

This was the only video I ever expressed myself a lot.

Lyrical Livelihood

My favorite song lyrics make me feel sad but happy at the same time and I like those kind of songs the most. It was about these friends that were splitting up and going away and the song was called "See You Again". It was in a movie and the song had a lot of meaning to it. The song also related to me because that's what happened to me when I left Austin, Texas and left my friends. It also has a lot of meaning and I love songs liken that and it also has a mix of rap and slow music which also my favorite.

Our team chose the song "When Can I See You Again" From Owl City because it was an upbeat song and something that would be fun to make a music video out of. We thought it is what people think in there minds a lot after a fun time with there friends. We wanted to choose a song that was upbeat yet was relatable. This song was easily memorable and is easy to lip sync to. This song also was pretty relatable, especially for middle schoolers. The last reason we picked it is because we can make funny things out of it the song which would be entertaining.

The visual story will be about your average middle schooler now days having fun together on the field. Soon it gets late and the friends must now all go there separate ways and go home. The friends are consistent and try to plan another day to meet up and have some fun. One of the kids talk to there friends and plan on a calendar. They then get back together at the Basketball Court and have fun again.

Our Animation Story

Our focus statement is "Celeste Seeks Friendship" and it tells our story because the main character, Celeste, seeks friendship after the rejection of her old friends. You should care because many people  have been rejected for various reasons, but there are many ways to make friends. There are millions of people on the internet that can become your friend and they can even help you out with your life.
The best thing about internet friends is the fact of a long distance friendship. So there is practically no way they can lose contact.

The audience learns a lesson about friendship and how it really works and that your friend doesn't need to be right in front of you for them to be your friend. The audience also learns that internet friends can help you with things and can be better than the friends up close. This is presented when Loren in the story helps Celeste. They're both internet friends yet still Loren makes a big impact on Celeste's life by helping her out. This concept is what is mainly explained in our story.




I think our best moments have been when we all watched our final product because it looked amazing and we all loved it. I also liked the fact when everyone was helping each other out and were really supportive even if someone was messing up. I also was amazed when I found that the first time ever in a team that I was in everyone was participating. We didn't have bad moments in our team but there was only one time which was only for me. This was when I had to redo my stykz animation because i messed it up.

Animation Outtakes

My teammates are Lester, Celeste and Loren and they are all very interesting people. Lester was born in Messina, Italy and he loves to play tennis. Loren has a twin brother called Hershel, and they both used to live in Brooklyn, New York. Celeste is a part of a band and likes to dye her hair regularly. These are all my teammates and they are truly awesome.

Stop motion animation is an art of taking a series of pictures to make inanimate objects come to life. With stop motion you can make your character do creative things such spin instead of walking and thing like people teleporting. The main point of stop motion is to make people do things they normally would've had trouble doing and make it become easier. GIF's are animations or video that are on a infinite loop. GIF's are mostly used when something on camera is caught and is funny or cool they will keep looping it to make it so you don't have to keep replaying it yourself.

Our story is about this girl named Celeste who gets rejected by her friends and she gets upset. So she 

goes on the internet and finds this girl about the same age as her. They soon become friends and Celeste tells Loren her problems. Loren then gives Celeste advice in her problems. Finally Celeste talks to her friends to fix things. You should care because we all have internet friends and that is no different then a friend at your school or in your neighborhood.

Typography Images

Typography images are images that have a equal balance of black and white which can be used to put you words. The words you use is supposed to have information of the person in the image or words that describe them. It makes a lasting impact because the words are portrayed artistically on the person's face and it looks like a Silhouette but with words on the dark places. The image also informs you about the person and the words are placed in way that that stands out but the amazing part is that you can also see exactly who the person in the Portrait is. The greatest impact is made when the person has facial hair and  you can put word on that and it will make it even more artistic!

I think the hardest part was keeping up with Mr. Sanderl's tutorial at the end because it was rushed and I had to carefully read the tutorial. The bell rang so we had to finish it at lunch but I finally figured out how to do it and it was clear after that. the end is really critical which i'm guessing was the hardest part for me. Everything else was decent, not to challenging and not to easy. The thing that kind of scares me though is the fact that the type of portrait I was doing was a Beginner Tutorial.

The first image of typography was about our innovator who inspires in everyday life or someone who made a huge change in the world. I chose Thomas Edison who inspires me everyday for not giving up, doing the best you can do and try as much as you can. My teacher I chose was Mr. McHugh which is a math teacher at our school and came out great it was also a intermediate tutorial. Our third protrait was out own pictures. We had to make sure we had equal amounts of Shadows, Highlights and Mid-tones. The thhird was a advanced tutorial but to be honest I think the Second tutorial was the hardest.

                                                        Beginner Typography                                                          

                            

                                                             Intermediate Typography                                                                                    

Advanced Tutorial

Double Exposed Portraits

Portrait photography is basically taking pictures of people's faces and it can only be a human. In a portrait you have to see both sides of the person's face or else its a profile, Portraits also can be better if they are HDR. The main similarity of a portrait compared with profiles and silhouetting is that they are all pictures of a human faces. The differences are the fact that the pictures have different main elements like silhouetting is basically showing the outline of someones face and profiles are basically the sides of someones face. All three of these types of images are all very interesting to look at.

I think one of the things that are similar are that both have to deal with the face and doing something creative with it. I think that the different thing is that the portraits always have to be the full face of the person or else its not considered a portrait. Both silhouetting and profiles are mostly sides of people's faces. This is because the both are more meant to express creativity of the outline or something else of the face other than whats already on the face. In my opinion my favorite version is probably the profile since it is the most creative and you have a lot of options to change it.

First you got to have a vertical picture of yourself or someone and you got to make sure the background is mostly all one color. Then you take a picture of two things that symbolize you this can be taken any way you want it to. After you go into photoshop you go to File > Scripts > Load Files Into Stack. Then let photoshop do its thing and after choose the dodge tool and stroke around the profile. After your done crop it to 8.5 in by 11 in and 300 pixels then you double click the layer with you profile and and go to Blend Mode > Screen this will make your profile transparent and then you can arrange the other pictures. The other last thing you need to do is Layer > New Adjustment Layer > whatever effect you want.