.MOV Film Festival

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Hooray!! We are filming to be entered in the 2nd Annual .MOV Film Festival. Keywords? Our keywords are horror, spoof, and comedy. I think these words connect with our audience because whenever people make a horror movie cliche people always think "oh,its a horror movie remake, horror, spoof, and comedy." Right....right.


Our overall message is letting people know its okay to have a sense of humor at a hard time. Our message is this because a lot of people are always uptight and don't really have a bright side to whenever things happen bad. There is always a positive side to a negative



Our biggest challenge is filming a middle school girl driving,why? bc we are not legally able to drive until 15 1/2. Also some other challenges we faced were being able to film other than one day because we all had other things planned, some expected some unexpected.

Tiny Spherical Worlds

Spherical 

Is one picture enough for you? For me one picture is not enough, when I take pictures even if it's of one specific thing I still take multiple. The reason one picture isn't enough is because what if the picture is blurry or something else. When breaking up a panorama you need to composite your images, what I mean by this is when you want a panorama but can't get one you make multiple shots while slightly moving the camera  

Is there a difference between polar and spherical panos? Yes there is a big difference, for a polar pano it's taking a panoramic landscape including defined horizon lines manipulated to create a circular planet like image and a spherical pano is taking a circular shape with content that is formed on the surface or inside. Also when creating these two amazing images there is only one step different and that is when creating your spherical you don't rotate the image you distort it.

What makes my tiny worlds convincing is my shadows and the fact that it doesn't look as if I'm a cut out. Also the way that I made my images look like my own little world and my own future seeing globe. Also I tried my very best for this project and I made it as convincing as possible with hiding the lines. Hiding where the panorama started and where is ended was difficult, but I used the stamp tool to hide that and did the best I could.

Hockney Style Joiners

David Hockney's photomontages are different from mines because first thing first David Hockney is a professional and I am just a beginner, though with a lot of practice I can become like David Hockney. Also since David Hockney has done with for many years he knows what he is doing.

We see images everywhere we go, no matter if its on social media or in a magazine or a simple photo taken by yourself. But what message do you get from those photos? Are they positive messages or negative? I'll give you an example of a positive message, lets say you saw an image of flowers blossoming, the message you could get from that is "there is always a new beginning" or anything that you can imply. An example of a negative message is seeing a photo of your friends or someone very close to you starting to feel like they don't belong,a message someone might get from that image is thinking that they just want attention or they have nothing better to do then make people feel bad.

Photomontages have messages and people get different messages from different pictures. For my photomontage there will be a lot of different messages that people will get, the reason I say that is because my photomontage is my makeup. For guys I intend the message to be makeup is part of a girls life no matter what, even if it's just mascara. The message I intend girls to have is

2016 Aspirations

It's 2016 New Year, new me wait no never mind its just a new year. But everyone has their goals that they want to achieve. So my 5 goals that I would like to achieve are number 1 spending more time with friends not just in school but outside school as well, my reason is because I always have to be with my family and I never have time with friends, my family is very protective so they don't really let me go anywhere unless it's something for school or an adult is with me. My second goal is to prepare myself for high school and not get anymore C's, I mostly just want to get A's, my reason is because my whole future depends on my grades and to reach my future goals my grades need to be A's. My third goal is to stop being late to school or meeting or anything important, which is mostly everything. I want to stop being late because when I get older being late is not a good thing, especially if it's important. My fourth goal is to cook more for my family, not just rice or something you can bake, but mostly like cooking a full dinner or lunch, so basically frying, making soups, etc. Finally my fifth goal is to grow my nails long and to not have them chip or break, I want to grow my nails long because I really can't handle having my nails short and also long nails are really nice when you paint them and get french tips without using fake nails.

My one main goal, well I actually have two not one but two main goals. Those two main goals is preparing myself for high school and not getting any C's but mostly A's and very few B's. My other goal is spending more time with my friends. These two main goals are both my number 1 goal because I rarely spend time with friends outside of school and lately my grades have been slipping. Also high school is just around the corner and that's when everything counts, if I have one C just one my dream college is down the drain. But I can't always focus on my studies,I also need a little freedom here and there. Hopefully I can achieve these two main goals in the coming year.

The steps I will take to ensure success is to get myself organized and prepared for everything. So I don't get any C's I will study whenever I must study and put my best effort in all my work, even if I don't have the effort too, I will. To spend more time with friends I must get all work done, including school work, house work, and farm work. After all if you want something you must work for it. 

Scratch Game Design

User experience influenced my game because I wanted the player to be interested in the game and that they would experience what a mouse experiences when it's getting chased by a cat,because though it wants to get away its limited to its space. I've done coding before and it seems really fun and all but sometimes it can be challenging. When I see other people's game i'm very impressed especially since it's code, because it comes naturally to them.

Each game so far has been similar because it's either running from something, or it's chasing something. With my scratch game the player is the mouse and the player needs to get away from the cat. So every time the cat gets the mouse it says "dang"and loses 1 point,but if the mouse stays away from the cat long enough the mouse earns a point and every so often the background changes because in reality the cat chases the mouse where ever it goes even if the mouse goes to the park. To me this game is as simple as I can keep it. With my second game it's known as a platform game I kept it as simple as I could and it is simple but there is some glitches. My platform game is basically your ordinary monkey goes after banana. So with my platform game the monkey has to get the banana twice, but unfortunately the monkey can only get the banana once due to glitches and other stuff.

My best code for me would be the code that I wrote for my chase game. To some people my code may seem simple and easy,but for me this is my best by far and hopefully when I get more familiar with code I will have more challenging codes. My most difficult bugs were the ones in my platform game, though I haven't quit overcame this certain bug fix. So I guess another bug fix would be how my chase game and so the difficult bug fix that I overcame for my chase game is that the cat would be going directly at the move and it didn't quit "chase" the mouse,so with the help of the internet and Mr.Sanderl, I overcame that bug fix and my game works smoothly.

best code

Invention Commercial

P1T3_Invention from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

My teams main goal was to create a real life app that anyone can download on the app store. The apps main purpose is to have all your clothing on the app and then you can choose a style you like or put whatever emotion your feeling, then the app chooses a perfect outfit.

The best "team moment" during production was when we wore different clothing such as the 80's,modern, and trending. Another best "team moment" was when we got to film going into the closet and throwing the clothes and making a mess. These two were the best "team moments" because we were focused during those times and we had a lot of fun,unlike the other times we were just taking breaks and on our phones.

Editing was done by both me and Jasmine, at first I was editing and then I showed Jasmine and she made changes that was needed and that is what you see in the commercial. The commercial was filmed and edited within a short amount of time because me and Jasmine weren't able to meet up a lot due to personal reasons. We filmed the day before the commercial was due and edited on the day the commercial was due. When editing we had to make sure that what was being said was being seen. For example if the commercial is saying 80's but it's showing modern it doesn't make sense. So hopefully you like our commercial.

Composition Scavenger Hunt

P1T3_Composition_2015 from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

The composition that I think is the most important is rule of thirds (subject). My reason is because when people take pictures they often always have theirselves either centered or just a little to the left or right, but they never have theirselves in the rule of thirds area.  Also rule of thirds is important even if its not with a subject, but with landscape. So with rule of thirds (scenery) people often tend to just take a picture without thinking what their focus point is. I would know because I often did that with rule of thirds scenery, I just thought it was a nice picture and took it, with out thinking where is my focus point.

So the most difficult for our class was leading lines and flat angle. But for me I think the most difficult is rule of thirds subject and scenery because I can never seem to image the lines on the screen for rule of thirds. How can I use rule of thirds more?  Lets see I can use rule of thirds whenever I take amazing pictures of myself and friends and also when I take pictures of the ocean or any beautiful landscape.

My teammates for this mini project was Jasmine Laplante and Nahele Keale. For the scavenger hunt I did leading lines, parts of a whole,repetition of shapes, and rule of thirds scenery. Jasmine did rule of thirds,contrast in content. Nahele did framing, unusual angles, extreme close-up. All together we did grouping shots.