Personal Manifesto

Hey guys it's Kyla and I'm back from summer!

Here are 5 interesting facts about my current self. Nothing really has changed from me, I'm still weird like always, still stubborn, fun to be around with, makes a lot of friends, and I love being around with kids. This starting of the school year I had made a lot of friends that are mostly six graders. I'm pretty sure they know that I'm weird but don't worry they are too. I'm not that stubborn in my opinion, although my friends probably thinks I'm still stubborn like always. Kids makes me happy, their so cute and playful like me.

Give Chances to People! Follow your Heart. Take Risks! Set Goals for Yourself! Live Life the Fullest Way Possible. Nothing is Impossible. If you want it, Work for It. Extend your Dreams. See the World. Discover. Be Grateful with what you have. Find Love within your Loved Ones. Learn to Love Others. Love Yourself and Others. Adventure throughout your Life. Learn to Forgive, Forgive and Learn. Make Friends so you’re not Alone in Life.

My manifesto applies to my readers because overall what I'm trying to say is that live while your still a kid. Do all the things you've never tried so your childhood was worth it. Your not going to be a child forever so cherish it before you turn into an adult and do work all the time. The most important is setting goals for yourself, only a portion of people can explore the world. I suggest to make a list and work on it till' you get to the point where you are proud that you achieved your goals you set.

Music Videos Rock!

My teammates are Raiden, Jhoanna, Ashley, and I. We didn't have that much things done but we still stay productive. For our music video my teammates contributed by helping out. Ashley helps us film, Jhoanna tells us some advices on what to do, me and Raiden does our parts in the music video which is about half of our plan. Raiden is a hardworking teammate, he makes sure that we get things done and tells us what we do so we can stop doing it. Jhoanna is like a person who cheers for us when she isn't doing anything but when it comes to her part she will work. Ashley likes filming so she is somewhat our filmer and does a great job at it. Were eventually going to do Ashley and Jhoanna's parts when we can, for now we are doing me and Raidens' part first because we have a lot to do and we should to the hard things so everything else is easy work.

My opinion on which part our audience will enjoy is the story. The reason why is because its about love and you know people will find one, one day. It can probably relate from your past or your upcoming future. That's basically the part that I think you guys will enjoy, there are some other parts to see but I don't know if your going to enjoy it. Either or I think this music video is going to be enjoyable for all the people out there. I find it interesting that most of the teams has to do something about love. Love is such a strong word to start off with, so we will probably encounter some problems.

For this music video it will show what we learned this whole entire school year by our editing. How we use transitions, effects, etc. because that makes everything more interesting. Also how we can use simple effects to make such a great impact on to the film. For example slow-motion can make things all dramatic and adds emotion. To make this music video awesome we have to work together and put together our brains to make it work. Even though we learned a lot of things, I forgot some of them. That's why we have teammates! To make us remember things. This project I think tests our skills, if we listen closely do Mr. Sanderl's demos, and to have fun. There is some ups and downs doing this project but we will work it out.

Lyrical Livelihood

In this new project my teammates are Raiden, Ashley and Jhoanna. We had the choice to picked a song to lip-sync and we decided to pick Sugar by Maroon 5. My favorite lyrics in Sugar is the chorus. In most of the songs I listen to my favorite parts are mostly the chorus. I am in-charge of part of the chorus which I will lip-sync. The lyrics of this song makes me feel hyper thinking about sugar.

Our music video is Sugar by Maroon 5, we picked this song because we agreed to it. How this song is organized, by the beat and all makes it a remarkable song. We know the song and it's lyrics so we don't need to spend our time to memorize it. Also, this song has a very catchy chorus that we can easily dance too, but we don't know if we are going to dance. It does have some high pitched points but we can deal with it.

Our visual story for this music video is about Raiden "chasing" me which relates to love. If you listen closely to the lyrics it talks about how he needs loving. Although he is singing to people who is getting married it still relates to love. We are re-creating that by having Raiden as the man who chases a girl (me) because he wants her back. We are going to add some flashbacks to make it look like they had loved each other.

Our Animation Story

P5T8 Sophia Faces Fears from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.


Each team had to pick a focus statement to show for their animation. Our focus statement for this animation is "Sophia Faces Fear." This tells Sophia's story because it shows her facing her fears and it shows the fears she faces in our animation. It's pretty hard to tell that she's facing her fears but I hope you understand it. Sophia was played as herself, Alaka'i as Harry Potter, Micah as the professor and me as the friend.

Our lesson for this animation is that you can face your fears if you believe in yourself. Sophia wanted to get out of the book so she had to face her three biggest fears to get out. It takes courage to face your fears, Sophia is scared but she still decides to take the challenge. By the end she receives a trophy for all that she's done.

Our best moments were in the beginning and the end because we didn't have much stress at those points and we felt relieved when it was the end because we accomplished a lot. Our worst moments were in the middle of the making of our animation. We had to deal with a lot of things, we argued but we got it together. Also sometimes we can't decide to do which and which scene is which. Half of the time we argued about those things.

Animation Outtakes

For this new animation project Alaka'i, Ashley, Sophia, and Micah are my teammates. We are expected to do a real life animation mixed with Photoshop, Stykz, or Whiteboard. Two interesting facts about Ashley Alfiler is that she cheers for Eagles and she wants to be a coach when she grows up. Sophia Gregory plays the piano and also plays volleyball. Alakai Gonsalves is in Boys Scouts and likes to play sports.

Stop-motion animation is a type of animation that requires photos. To make one, you need a bunch of pictures that describes what the person is doing. For example I am walking, each step I take somebody will take a picture, when you put all those together it will look like I am walking normally but in pictures. GIF is an acronym for Graphics Interchange Format. This kind of format allows people view it in the Internet. Although, you have to draw out your scene.

Our story is about "Sophia Faces Fear", she dreams about her being in the Harry Potter book/movie. Her dream takes her on until she faces her biggest fear and a challenging challenge. Her challenge was to go through a raft while an alligator is chasing her and fighting a snake. We are going to manipulate the movie, we are not going take a picture of the actual movie. You should care because our story is all about facing your fear and how your dreams can take you places unexpectedly. We really had a hard time to think of this idea, even though it's not a type of story that makes sense, I hope we still get a good grade

 

Typography Images

Typography is the style of a printed matter made with facts about the person you're doing the typography about. It can be used to make an impact because the words contains facts about the person and we will remember because its part of the image. We can look back to the image and we will visually see words that relate to the person. That's how typography images can make a huge impact in the future.

During this project the hardest challenge for me was placing the portrait on the mask. I couldn't see the images so that was hard but I got the hang of it. I labeled them so I know which is which, then I started doing whats suppose to be done. I overcome this issue by listening to Mr. Sanderl's direction and watching a video. It was pretty easy because Mr. Sanderl and some guy help me, one we watched a video how to make a typography image and that helped me a lot. I had some struggles on making our teacher portrait but by the end, I actually helped a lot of people to get done. So I know that I clearly know how to make a typography image.

My four visual examples as shown is my typography portrait of my teacher of my choice, how I started from scratch then to an amazing image. One of them was our practice typography portrait and then we stepped forward to a more higher expectations. We made our final image look like its a real-life photo. I am very proud of my final and practice because you can tell how we really took a step forward to a higher, advanced, tutorial image.  What makes my practice different from my final is because we colored the words and you only see words and not the face, the words outline it. My favorite one is my final because I learned how to challenge myself to finish it correctly and to make it perfect. Now I know how to make a typography portrait like a professional person.

Double Exposed Portraits

Portrait Photography is a picture of a person or two and the picture expresses the person's feelings, mood, and personality. The main focus is the person's face, the body and background may be concluded with the image. Portrait Photography could relate to a profile view and silhouette because they do something with the person's face. Profile is an outline of the person's image and silhouette is an image of a person or an animal that is black and outlined black which make the whole image black. We will use the outline of our face and blend in pictures within our faces to make it look amazing.

Double exposures are created in Photoshop by following these steps. Step 1-9, this will help you learn how to make a double exposure image in Photoshop. To get your images in Photoshop you have to go to: File>Script>Load Files Into Stacks>Browse>Take your three images>Start. If you are a person that likes photos that are blended into each other then you'll want a double exposure image. It combines 2 images that symbolizes you and the side of your face, and from there your going to blend them together to make a double exposure image.

My symbols are parts of nature, this represents me because I love nature. I have a flower and a t-leaf flower. It's very unique and there's a lot of things to explore, and that's what symbolizes me. My quality could improve if I would've took a picture of the sunset or something like that about the sky. Although, there's only a few things I can take a picture of around my house, so it's limited. Also, I would've improved if my portrait picture shows more of my face and not that much of my hair, because my hair takes up three fourths of he space on my face. That's it for now, and keep in touch because we have more blogs to post.