Lyrical Livelihood

I have a lot of song that are my favorite, but out of all my #1 favorite is Count Me In by Dove Cameron. This song really stand out because it reminds me of all the best friends that I have and how I can always count on them no matter what. Count Me In is also my #1 song because when I'm sad, I can just listen to that song and sing along, then I become really cheerful. Some of the lyrics are "If I'm the sun then your the moon, if your the words then I'm the tune, yeah". Just those first two sentence really speak to me.

The music video song my team and I chose is See You Again by Wiz Khalifa. We chose this song because we love the Furious series and Paul Walker was a big part in the movies. We also chose this song in tribute to Paul Walker and though he may be gone, he lives on forever in our hearts. We also chose this song because we all had similar feelings about the song.

The visual story that our music video will show is that though you could be gone, you can live forever. Our visuals will also relate to the lyrics of course. An example would be if the lyric is "That I'll be standing right here talking to you", then it will show two people standing or sitting and talking to each other. Then the medium is one person comforting the sad person, then the close up is their lips moving.

Our Animation Story

P3T3 Farmers Support Community from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Our story is about farmers supporting their community. It's about farmers and the process they do to farm. Also its how regular people can make a difference just by farming and supporting their community. We chose to do my story because it shows that a farmer like myself and the challenges they face. My group also chose to do my story because they wanted to see the process of farming.

The lesson my audience will learn is that hard work has a great reward. Also it shows the audience where some of their food is coming from. The audience will also learn that sometimes taking on the challenge of doing something such as chores or anything similar that allows you to earn money isn't that bad. They should also learn that don't just stay in the box, step out of the box and experience new things.

1 of our best moments is that we got enough images to create and meet the animation requirements. 1 of our worst moments is that we got stressed out a lot because we were never able to meet up and we didn't want to leave all the responsibilities to one person. My team and I tried the best we could to plan and meet up when needed. But when worst came to worst some of us just did the best we could, which was to take the pictures and get it done.

Animation Outtakes

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Our new project is an animation project,where we create an animation about one of our teammats life or life experience. My teammate are Michael Gremse, Cara Griffin  and Zephan Kaneakua. Michael moved to Hawaii from Florida, Cara is a soccer player, and Zephen plays football and other sports.

Stop-motion animation is an animation technique that makes an object or person appear to move on its own. So when played continuously it creates the illusion of movement. A GIF (aka Graphic Interchange Format) is a continuously played image. As shown to the right, the image doesn't stop. Unlike stop-motion it will stop.

The story we are telling is my story. The focus statement is farmers supporting the community. We should care because without people farming on this island all of our food would come from the mainland. Also people should care about this because the produce that we provide is all organic, no pesticides are used. We also chose to do a story about farmers supporting the community because we wanted to show how to take care of plants and the whole process each and every farmer goes through.

Typography Images

Typography is a style and appearance on a printed matter. You can use typography in images that you want to have words over it. You can take an image of a person and you can overlay the words that describes them.


My biggest challenge in this project was understanding how to make the words look good on the portrait like the examples that we have on the focus wall. I overcame that issue by asking my classmates for help and going to the website that gave us the instructions. I also listening to my teacher Mr.Sanderl .

The first typography image was about Marie Curie, I would have to say that it was the toughest of them all, the reason being is that I didn't really understand how to make the words look the way it is in the image. I was able to make it that way due to some help from my classmates such as Meagan, and Tessa. The second image is my science and social studies teacher Mr.Newbill. This image was also challenging because we had to make a stamp and we also had to make the words readable. I got some help from another classmates and they are Dylan, and Loren. My final image was an image about myself, I would have to say that doing when I was making my own typography picture it was quit easy. But in the end I got a little help from Kyler. Out of the 3 images I would have to say that doing myself of the typography image was my favorite.

Double Exposed Portraits

Portrait Photography is a photo of a person or group of people that display their expression,personality,and or mood. With portrait photography it's the persons whole face, unlike profile which is the side view of the face.Also with having a silhouette the image is completely featureless, but even if it is completely plain you can still tell its a person because of the outline. 

Double exposure is created in photoshop by taking 3 photos profile, and 2 symbolic images that represent you,then opening photoshop and clicking file>script>load files into stack.You then outline the shape of the portrait, so around the face is where you should outline first, once you finish outlining the face, make the rest of the background completely white. Then crop your image to be 8.5" x 11" or any size you would like. Then take the 2 images that you took and change it to screen mode. You then can explore and change it to what you like. Such as clicking Layer>New  adjustment Layer>Curves or Exposure.

The 2 photos I took is my book that I am currently reading called Cress and the other photo is a flower that I drew. I chose these 2 photos because I love to read books especially one that seems interesting and the flower because I love to be creative and draw whatever comes to my mind or I draw something that inspires me. I think I could improve my image by moving the picture of the book a little so that you could see the full title of the book

HDR Photography

HDR Photography is taking several pictures from darkest to lightest -3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3 without making the slightest movement. After you have the pictures you combined all the photos into one picture, making the colors vibrant and looking like a painting.I like HDR photography because it makes the photos look more pretty and non realistic.But what I don't like about HDR photography is that you can't make any movement and it has to go from darkest to lightest,and if u don't have photoshop on your computer you have to get it,and if you don't have a computer then you have to get one.

Your first step would be to take pictures from low exposure to high exposure. The second step is to make sure that there is no camera movement, or else it wont turn out nice. Third is see if the photos are good and once they are you open up an the app that you will use, for me and my class we use photoshop. Your fourth step is once photoshop is open go to file<automate<merge to HDR pro and click on browse and choose the seven photos that you will use, then click the box at the bottom that says auto align, then press ok. Fifth is to make the changes that you want to make to your photo to make it unique and to your liking. Automatic HDR functions and is different because on your cellular device you can adjust the setting and and you get the picture you want. For example on apple devices, if you take a picture on your phone, then the camera will automatically be set to take an HDR photo.

When I was taking the series of photos, I wanted to make people amaze of the view and images that I've created. For my first photo which was a portrait I wanted to have a great background and have it surreal. For my experiment since I took it on the roof I wanted people to see how great the view was.

Movie Trailer Critique

P3T5 The Lady In White from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

We had a team project about making a movie trailer, it could be any movie or we could make our own as long as it doesn't have violence and blood. There was four people in my group, me, Lucy, Neliza, and Taylor .  My group and I made an original movie based on a legend.  It was a legend my grandparents always told me, so I thought why not make a movie or movie trailer about it. I contributed by helping to plan the days that the team could meet, playing as the main character, and being the voice actor. Neliza contributed by editing the video and helping film the movie,Neliza also contributed by playing a role in the movie. Lucy contributed by showing up to the meeting place, helping film, and playing a role in the movie. Taylor contributed by showing up, playing a role, and filming.  Also my family contributed by bringing me to the place that we had to meet, the family members that contributed was my mom Cathleen Ibanez, my grandmother Visitacion Ibanez, and my aunty Joanna Ibanez.

Some of the requirements for this movie trailer was timing, it had to be between 1 minute and 30 second and 2 minutes 30 seconds, voice acting script, dialogue, foley, 5 scenes, poster image,audience, and text layovers. My team and I got 7 out of 8 completed requirements. The requirements we completed was foley, voice acting script, 5 scenes,dialogue, poster image, audience, and text layovers.We did not complete the requirement of having the movie trailer time between 1 minute and 30 seconds and 2 minutes and 30 seconds, instead our movie trailer was 1 minute and 3 seconds. We did not complete that requirement because we didn't quit get enough b-roll.

I agree with the results of audience because the movie trailer would be great for 3rd graders just as long as they aren't really scared. I definitely agree with the results of creativity because this movie poster is based on stories that I've heard multiple times from my grandparents. The only other movie that I've heard of with a name similar to ours was the "Lady in Black", except our movie trailer isn't as scary. I also agree that our movie trailer was above and beyond creativity due to how realistic we made the trailer seem. For the last class critique which was the requirements,I agree with the results because me and my team met all but 1 requirement for the movie trailer.