Verbal Landscapes

Hello people of the world, Kyla is back with another blog post. YAY! I'm going to be talking about different ways nature impacts my life. Nature is what keeps us alive, it provides us food, water, shelter and air. Which basically means that nature impacts my life A WHOLE LOT. Without it I wouldn't be living, nature can live without us humans but we can't live without nature! Nature is a very beautiful thing that we kinda are destroying, people should start seeing what we're doing to it. We're slowly destroying it over the years and soon we won't have a place to live in. My life is revolved around nature, nature is where I live so my life is affected a lot. Nature is very important since it helps me live. Wow, that barely made sense but bare with me :)

For our new project, we're going to create 3 time lapses and 2 slow mo videos, that's the minimum, you can go over and beyond and make 5 timelapses or 4 slow motions. We're going too create these videos either in our phones where it has an option on the camera to make the video into slow mo or make it into time lapse. Although, if some of us don't have a phone that has those options, we can sign out a camera and take videos, take it back to school and start editing it in Final Cut. Final Cut lets you fasten the video to make it into a time lapse or slow it down, there's an option called retime. Using a computer or a phone won't be a difference since they're both going to make the same aftermath. A cool thing about final cut is that you can put your slow motion at a pace that you'd like it to be. It goes for making it fast too, if you want it REALLY fast because the clouds were moving really slowly, then you can make it REALLY fast. You can customize how slow or fast you want it to be basically.

The hardest part of taking my clips were getting the sunset and sunrise at a good place. My mom is lazy too and doesn't wanna drive so that's a down part. Also getting the angle you want at the right time and not wasting too much time that the sunrise or sunset passes by, that happened like twice for me which was frustrating. Although, I got my sunset and sunrise during the weekend so that's a good thing for me. I am very happy about that because they turned out good. The only bad part was when the camera couldn't detect how bright the sun was so it just made a huge white line and i couldn't do anything about it. My favorite part was watching the sunset and the sunrise, it's a beautiful thing that not everyone can see. How the colors pop out the sky, it's AMAZING! Just witnessing how nature works and admiring it and letting it do it's thing, it's relaxing.

I'm so happy with the results, I never thought I'd get the most votes but I did! :)

Critique Reflection: I agree with the results, the only thing I could've done is take out "Please Our Eyes" because that was just bad. Although, my whole entire video turned out okay I guess :) I like it but now I'm just regretting putting "Please Our Eyes" everything else was good, it's just that part that bothered me. When we were watching mine, I was tossing and putting my head down because I thought everyone would think it was bad but I guess not AND IM HAPPY ABOUT THAT :)

Poetic Personal Statement

HELLO PEOPLE THAT'S READING THIS BLOG POST! Kyla's back with a new blog post for ya'll. Little update, I am finally an 8th Grader with a new blog post. I'm here to tell you guys what I think poetry is and what it's used for. For me, I think poetry is a way to express feelings in a way that is said minimally. Poetry can be made up with rhymes and rhythms although not ALL poetry has those components. If people can't express their feelings to other people, they can write it down anonymously or if he/she wants everyone to know that it's by them. Poetry can be a hobby or that's the way they express their feelings. Poetry can be used for a lot of things but mainly to express their feelings, I know I've said "express their feelings" a lot :) but it does express their feelings. It's another language that is mysterious that when people reads them, either they get it or they have to think about what it's trying to say to the audience and the person that is reading the poetry.

Poetic Statement:
Strive for the best,
and you'll reach success
Weird, crazy, loving and pride,
Strong but soft on the inside
Come along my crazy life,
You'll definitely have a fun ride
Friends and family is what I value,
I'll take good care of you.

For my poetic poem, I used rhythm and rhyme because it was required for the poetic statement to rhyme and make sense so it's not all over the place. It was really hard, like not even kidding. It was hella hard to make a poem because of the rhyming but luckily the internet got our backs and we used rhyme zone to help us find rhyming words with a specific word. I guess my poetic statement is pretty good but could be improved upon. I had a lot of struggle on making my poetic statement because I didn't really get what I was suppose to do due to the lack of understanding. Even taking the pictures and making our photo list, I was confused and still am confused. Although I'm getting the hang of it now, I know what to do and what I'm not suppose to. It's really hard to think of poems and make it relate to who you are because sometimes, you just don't even know who you are or you do but can't put it into words.