Music Video Finale

P3T3 Thriller from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Hello my lovely friends, and welcome to another post about ME!! My fabulous team and I, (that would be Alexis Chatfield, Christina Kaiwi and Kaile McKeown check out their blogs here!) are making an awesome video to Thriller by Michael Jackson, but wait! Why is this post so important? It is the last post for the year!!!! (crying) However don't worry I will still be in GT next year! YAY!!!!

Our storyline is about a girl and she goes walking alone in the woods. She sees a bunch of creatures in the bushes and she is very scared. Then the creatures come to her and she sees that they are ZOMBIES! She tries to scream, but they cover her mouth and turn her into a zombie. Then a bunch of other zombies come and they all dance the Thriller dance. The four zombies (Alexis, Kaile, Christina, and ME!) all turn more people into zombies, and look for more. Our storyline matches the song because the song is about creepy thing lurking around being scary and scaring innocent humans. That is basically what our storyline is about.

My favorite fast edit montage sequence is during the part where the song says, "you try to scream, but terror takes the sound before you make it" during that we put Kaile standing next to a tree, the my hand covers her mouth. it then repeats in different filter. It looks really cool and scary and I enjoyed making it look good and picking out the fun visual effects. In fact I had a ton of fun making the whole video. I had a ton of fun working on the plan, and doing the makeup (We all did some makeup but I was in charge of it because I have a TON of costume makeup.) I also had a lot of fun filming and putting the whole FABULOUS thing together. we had so much fun exploring the visual effects, transitions, and much more of iMovies secrets. This so far was my favorite project of the whole year.

This music video showcases my best work because I really tried my absolute best, and I was working on the editing with Alexis and we both are pretty good at editing. We really tried hard to make each second of the video perfect and flawless (like us) (; and to really make it shine with different visual effects. Then of course there is Kaile's and Christina's FABULOUS work on the photoshop documents (great job you guys!) Making the look spectacular! YAY! I really think that this project shows our best work out of the entire school year. I am extremely proud of my whole team and myself, and I believe that if we just keep trying harder and learning more we could do even better projects in the future.

Michael Jackson – Thriller Lyrics

It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking
In the dark
Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops
Your heart
You try to scream, but terror takes the sound before
You make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between
The eyes
You're paralyzed

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one's gonna save you from the beast about to
Strike
You know it's thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer
Thriller tonight

You hear the door slam and realize there's nowhere
Left to run
You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see
The sun
You close your eyes and hope that this is just
Imagination
But all the while you hear the creature creepin' up
Behind
You're out of time

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
There ain't no second chance against the thing with
Forty eyes
You know it's thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer
Thriller tonight

Night creatures call
And the dead start to walk in their masquerade
There's no escapin' the jaws of the alien this time
(They're open wide)
This is the end of your life

Animated Life Lessons

P3T4 Klutz Practices Ballet from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Hello Friends and followers! this post is all about my new project and my fantastic team of Nicholas and Jhoanna Jhoanna Marie Domingo and Nicholas Koo. Check out their blogs here!

My teams traits are that Jhoanna is clumsy and Nicholas is overly helpful. I am extremely stubborn. Their traits are shown by having Jhoanna be the very clumsy ballet student, while Nicholas helps her too much and does not improve his own work. I am the stubborn ballet teacher who thinks Jhoanna can't succeed in the project because she is clumsy.

     The humor in our story is how Jhoanna is always falling, and failing while she's dancing. The life lesson is to always believe in yourself, and never let yourself think you can't do it. This applies to everyone because everyone should believe in themselves. This is a meaningful, powerful message that everyone should listen to, and follow. Another message was to never give up on your dreams and always support our friends.

Since my team has never worked together before, this project was very difficult. I admit I did argue A LOT with my teammate Nicholas. First, when we were drawing our storyboard, he did not like the way I drew his nose. I said that it was a perfectly fine nose and that he was mad for no reason. He said it was to big. Another time was when we were working on some of our first frames and he did not like the position I put him in. I yelled that we needed to get it done. One of our biggest fights was somehow about a cat and whose cat they drew was better, and which one we were going to use. In the end we decided to use mine (since it was so fabulous!) and we stopped fighting (for now!) (;


Goodbye everyone who loves reading about me (because I'm so awesome!) and see you next time! And if you're interested, check out my fantastic teams blogs. Farewell, and goodbye! (:

Character Developement

Hello my loyal readers! I have just started a brand new project. So sit back, relax, and read about it!

Some of my not exactly perfect traits are that I am very, VERY forgetful. For example, say you tell me something at the beginning of the day. Later in the day, you then you remind me. I will stare at you like you are crazy then say, "What?"

Another one of my imperfections is that I am very stubborn. I always want to be right, even if I know I am wrong. I also tend to get angry fast and easily.

I plan to exaggerate the fact that I am extremely stubborn as the stubborn ballet teacher in my teams project, Klutz Practices Ballet. I assign the ballet students a project to make their own dance and if it is not completely perfect, I make them start all over and redo the whole thing, remake the entire dance. Jhoanna, one of my partners, plays the role of the clumsy ballet student who just can't get the moves right. Nicolas, my other partner, plays the role of a overly helpful person who helps Jhoanna so much, he barely has time to do his own project.

To create my .GIF character, I first had my picture taken in front of the green screen. Then, I used the trusty quick selection tool to cut out my body. After that I used the puppet tool and move my body, then put in a background. I like my .GIF because I am proud that I made it.

.MOV Film Festival

P3T7 Blondes Think Big from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Embed Final Cut, Visual Plan & 3 Behind Scenes

Hello Everyone! Today I have a whole NEW project to talk about! I will be telling you about our new video project. My team is Alexis and Danielle and they are AWESOME! Here are some links to their blogs if your interested...Danielle Gunn and Alexis Chatfield.

Our keywords connect to our audience because they describe our story. If our keywords were stuff like monkey and ice cream they wouldn't work, because they would not DESCRIBE our story. This is important because they can't be random crazy things because then that would not make sense at all. Your audience needs a sense of your story from looking at your keywords. Your keywords need to go with the theme of your story, and work with your story. My keywords will connect to the audience, because they show that our sitcom is very funny, interesting, and fun. They are sort of like a description of our story because they relate to it.

Our overall message for our story is basically don't judge a book by its cover. In our story a nosy news reporter judges blondes for being blonde. This erupts into a crazy daydream in Alexis's mind with blondes doing crazy, laugh out loud actions involving bananas, balloons and more. Eventually the news reporter learns her lesson when Alexis tells her to let blondes be themselves and not judge them for the color of their hair. The news reporter learned a very important lesson that day. Don't judge a book by it's cover!

The biggest challenge overall was schedules. We are all very, very busy. Almost every day I go to swim practice, and Alexis goes to gymnastics pretty much every day. Danielle is also very busy a lot to. We all had to figure out one day where everyone was completely free so Alexis's mom could pick us up after school. We finally settled on Tuesday where we all could film in various places. Another big challenge was location. We had to spend a lot of time deciding where to film the shots and what should go where and so on. We also had to gather all of our props like, bananas, balloons, and a tree. 

Anyways, that's all for today. Don't cry, I know you will miss me terribly, but I'll be back with a new story for you. Until next time, bye everyone!  

Tiny Spherical Worlds

Hi everybody! I'm back, and I have a whole new project to talk about. Today I will be telling you about Polar and Spherical panoramas.

Composite images are interesting and its nice to have different creative varieties of pictures. There is nothing wrong with taking one photo of something instead of a bunch of different ones and putting them together, but it is nice to have an option. Imagine if there was only one way to take a photo. That would get pretty boring wouldn't it? Also they are interesting to look at and fun to make. Maybe you prefer regular photos, but a lot of people enjoy making composite images. There are many different interesting varieties of photos, and that, itself is very interesting.

One difference between polar and spherical panoramas is that one is like a tiny world, and the other is like a crystal ball that you are looking into. Another difference is that when you are creating a spherical in Photoshop, there is one step that you don't do, unlike when you create a polar which you have to do the step. (The step is rotating the image, if you were wondering.) One more is spherical is more like you are looking at a tiny world, while polar is more like you are in your own tiny world.

My tiny worlds will be convincing because, I will work very hard not to have anything on top but sky. This is important because if you have a tree on top then it could ruin your outer space effect. I will also make sure that I take them at a vertical angle so it is better quality, and works, and functions better.. I will also work hard on editing and using the clone stamp. Also, I will make sure that the horizon line is in the exact middle so my world is not to big or to small, but just right! if your horizon line is on top, your panorama will be too big, and if it at the bottom, it will be to small. I will also make sure my portrait is done right so it looks good, and is good quality.

Well, thats all for now. See you next time!

Hockney Style Joiners

Shooting Film: "joiners"

Hi everyone! This time I will be talking about David Hockney. If you don't know who David Hockney is, I will tell you. David Hockney is a famous photographer, painter, and more. A few facts about him are. He was born on July 9 1937, he is 78, and was born in Bridlington, United Kingdom. Hockney does a type of photography called photomontages. Now I will tell you how his photomontages are different from mine. 

     

                        Here is a link to Alexis's blog

                My photomontage of Alexis Chatfield

 

 One reason why his photomontages are different from mine is we take pictures of different things. He usually does people and I like to do people, but also nature, and more. The photo aboveis a self portrait of himself. That is an example of a photomontage. One other difference is since he is so experienced, his are better quality. I just started doing photomontages, so mine are not as good, but I am working on it!


My final photomontage of Star Wars movies one, two, and three.

                                                                                               

One example of how images can send of positive or negative messages, is with lighting and shadow. For example, people can feel certain ways, depending on the shadows, if the picture is dark, or if the picture is filled with light. You can experience strong moods from just looking at a picture. Another example is the subject. If your subject is a positive thing, you could instantly feel positive or happy. However, if the subject is a negative thing, you could feel negative. One more thing is you. Certain people feel certain moods for different things. I you happen to love a certain thing, then looking at a picture of it will make you feel positive. Also, if you happen to dislike something than you would get negative messages from it.

With my final photomontage, I wanted you to get a sense of me. I wanted you to know that my subject was meaningful to me. My subject was the Star Wars movies. This subject is meaningful to me because my dad grew up loving Star Wars and he passed down that love to me. Star Wars is now a part of my life. I love it, and I always will, no matter what. They are my favorite movies, and in my opinion, they are awesome.

Well, thats all for now. See you next time! Bye!

Here are some links to websites I found. Enjoy!

David Hockney Kids Get Arty

David Hockney Wikipedia
David Hockney Biography

2016 Aspirations

Hi everyone! Happy new year! I hope you had a great winter break, a awesome Christmas
, and an fantastic, firework filled New Year! Here are some of my goals for the new year.

One of my goals for the new year is to be more organized. If you know me, you know that I am not very organized! Another goal of mine is to be the best person I can be. I want to be more helpful and positive all the time so people around me will be the same. One other goal is to keep getting strait A's and work as hard as I can to get them. I also want to make a lot of new friends for the new year! I want to have new friends so I can meet new people, and that can help me and other people be more happy. I also want be even more happy than I already am, so more people around me will be happy too! New Year, New Me!

The most important goal to me is to be more organized. As I said I am not organized. But, I want to change. A lot of times I forget things, or lose things, but if I am more organized, I can stop that. I can get things done faster and more efficiently. My things will be neater, and I will try to be a lot less forgetful. Since I will get things done neatly and faster, I will be more happy, one of my other goals. My supplies for school, and other things will be neat and each have its own place,so I can find everything easier, faster, and better. I can get more things done in time, and I won't take as much time to do, or find things if everything is where its supposed to be. I will do my homework earlier, and better, when I know where things are.

To fulfill my goals, I will try very hard. I will work as hard and as best as I can to make sure I complete my goals. I will make sure I am doing thing right and to my best ability. I will strive for success and do what ever I can to complete my goals. To be more organized I will make my things neat, try to be less forgetful, and write things that I need to do down on a piece of paper. To be more happy all the time, I will be positive and optimistic, and make other people happy too. To keep getting strait A's I will study even more than I already do, and work even harder. And to make more friends I will approach people I don't know and be friendly.

Happy New Year everyone!!!! Thats all for now. Bye!

Scratch Game Design

 I wanted my game to be easy to play and also fun. I also wanted people to think the characters and background were fun too. I wanted the players to like the game. I also wanted it to be funny. The game is easy to play, colorful, and fun. The background is balloons, and you are the unicorn chasing the bouncy ball, and the goal is to touch the ball one hundred times. Then you win! To control the unicorn, you use the arrow keys to move and try to chase the ball which automatically moves by itself. To see how I made my game go to Scratch and see inside. I hope you enjoy playing my game!

I wanted people who saw my game to think it was cool and colorful. I wanted them to like the game and enjoy playing it. I wanted them to like the theme and think it is funny and cool.

Some things about my game is the background. It is fun and colorful. The scene is a party and there is a rainbow of colors. There are a bunch of balloons and it is really fun to look at. Just like the background, my characters are colorful and fun as well. I wanted my game to look like a fun, happy rainbow. Looks like I succeeded! I also wanted my game not just to be fun to look at, but also fun to play. In the game you are the amazing unicorn chasing the orange bouncy ball.  Once you get to one hundred points you WIN! I hope you think my game is colorful too!

On my plat former game, one of the best features is my starfish. I wanted my game's theme to be really cool and have a great color scheme. I used pink on turquoise and pink on black. It ended up looking really nice. However my characters did not end up moving smoothly. My game did not end up functioning very well, but i'm still working on it!

I think my best code that I did on this project was when I was working on the unicorn. Some parts of it were very complex and hard to do but I did it and I think it works very good. I had to get the unicorn to move smoothly around the stage. The orange ball was easier. It just had to move randomly around the stage. The concept was to chase the ball and touch it 20 times.

Invention Commercial

My teams main goal was to make the commercial funny, while also showing the products features. We had to show what the product did, but we had to show it in a creative way. We had to come up with an idea to make it entertaining to watch. We had to spark everyone's interest and keep it. I personally wanted our commercial to be very well made and good. We also had to stay within the time frame given to us. Overall I think we reached our goal. I hope you think so too.

My favorite team moment when we were making our commercial was when we were filming. We were at the beach, and we had a lot of fun. We were dressed up in those silly costumes, and laughing, and we had a lot of fun. We had on the silliest things. A hat made out of a cup, a dinosaur costume, a bunch of other crazy costumes. Alexis even had a caveman costume! That was my favorite part of making the whole commercial. We had a lot of fun making our commercial, and we hope you have just as much fun watching it.

While we were editing we all did a lot of different jobs. I did the music and some voice overs, Alexis did transitions and voice overs Teresa did some voice overs. We all mainly arranged the B-Roll. We worked very hard on our project. All of us did some sound effects. Sometimes we filmed at school but a Alexis and I filmed outside of school at the beach. Teresa could not make it but we still succeeded and did our very best. In the end I think we did very well. So enjoy our commercial for...the Enviro-Protector!

I am very proud of the results for our commercial. I think we did really good. And a lot of the class seems to think so too! A lot of people thought of commercial was funny and creative, and that it was good quality and that it showed how it works, and what is does very well. Some people even voted ours best overall commercial. I am proud of myself and my team, and I hope my team feels the same.

Composition Scavenger Hunt

P3T7_Composition_2015 from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.
I think the most important composition technique is both of the rule of thirds, subject and scenery. I think these are important because, photographers use it a lot. Also it is important because it makes the subject stand out because they are only in part of the picture. The viewer looks at the subject. That is why I think the Rule of Thirds technique is the most important.

 
The most difficult composition technique to me is forced foreground. A lot of times it is hard on certain cameras to get just that one object clear. It takes a lot of work and carefulness. One single wrong move and the only thing clear could be the background. You have to position the camera exactly right, and you have to get the exact angle. I can improve on this by being careful and cautious. I can also work hard on it.

My teammates are Alexis and Teresa. For our composition project, we all filmed, and spoke. When we were editing I did music, Teresa did titles, and Alexis worked on transitions. we all put the shots in order, and worked hard. To speak for my whole group, I think we did really good on our project. We worked together and in the end, we created something awesome.  

Cracking the Code

I think everyone should learn how to code. I think this because, many jobs have coding qualifications needed. Coding is also good to know because there might be many times in life when you will need code. Only about one out of ten schools offer coding classes. I think that number should be much higher.

My first experience with code was actually very recently. I was fun and an exiting new challenge. At first it started out hard, but as I keep working on it, it became much easier and more fun. Before I did it in my GT class I had never done it before. It was fun, interesting, challenging, and I will defiantly want to do it again!

If I could design any program or game I would probably decide to design a program that you can do a bunch of things on. You could play fun educational games on it. You could also chat with all your friends. When you need to know what something means, you could look it up on the program. The possibility's would be endless!

My Humorous Monologue

Hi everyone! This time I will be talking about my humorous monologue. One thing I learned from doing this project was how to write a humorous narrative. We learned how to make it humorous so that it appealed to others. We could make it personal or just random. Another thing was how to film and plan our monologues so, we could use them. After that we learned how to use iMovie to create our finished video.

Padding is when you start to record on the camera but you leave a small bit of time before you actually start speaking. This is important because, the camera can delay. If you don't do this some of your footage might get cut off. You would not want that would you? Padding your clips is very important and if you don't do it your clips might be cut off.

My weakness for this project was getting everything to be perfect. It was very hard to make everything work. I had to get the B-Roll clips all in order and they had to go with the story. There was also a certain timeline I had to keep on, and that was hard as well. My greatest strength for this project was writing it. I mean my cats are amazingly funny right? Haha. Really though writing the plan was my strength for this. It just came to me.

Comedy Writing

I think a good sense of humor is important because everyone needs to just loosen up and have a little fun. I mean, no one has to be serious all the time right? When you laugh, most of the time you are happy and when you are happy everyone around you is happy. It is awesome to be happy! Remember, be positive and have a good sense of humor! After all, you know what they say, laughter is the best medicine!

To write a humorous narrative, first, you would have to think of something you think is funny to you. It can be a personal thing about you, or a funny fictional story, or anything you want. Next you should think of how to word it. Think of how your wording could go with the story. Then, you would write it out. Another tip would be to be humorous. Finally, you should be as creative as you want with your narrative.

My comedic monologue is about my cats, and how they are so "amazing". They really just sleep all the time. It is funny because, in case you have not noticed, they aren't really that talented.  Or amazing. They barely even move at all. That is why it is funny. I was being sarcastic. They are just really lazy.

Motivation Poster

   The requirements of this post are two text layers, one with my manifesto, and another with my personal quotes. I also have to have  four image layers, my three symbolic images that symbolize me, and one portrait of me. One of my design requirements is kerning. Both text layers need to fill the whole page. Some more design requirements are triadic color scheme, visual balance, blending option, and adjustment layers.

     For my motivational poster I first had to upload my three symbolic images to photoshop. Then I had to copy and paste my personal manifesto,  and personal quotes. After that, I had to organize my images so that they fit the box. When that was over, I kerned the text so that it fit the box as well. Finally, I colored the text and my image layers. That is how I did it.

     In conclusion, my biggest challenge was time. I had a hard time with finishing it all in time for the deadline. How I improved was, I worked on my motivational poster as much as I could. I worked my very hardest to do the best I could. Always work hard to improve, because if you work hard, you can always get better!

Personal Manifesto

Hello, my name is Katy Hoesel and five interesting facts about me are... I love cats because they are awesome, and adorable. I love to act, dance, and sing. I think reading is amazing. Purple is my favorite color. I have very good vision and can see small things from far away.

You are a star, shine like it. Celebrate life. Be like the ocean, go with the flow. Rise above the highest mountains. Sparkle and shine. You can do it! Always do the best you can. We all have bad days, so focus on the good.  Always smile. Don't let your fears control you. Encourage others. Always be happy. Live life to the fullest.

My personal manifesto is encouraging and inspirational. It encourages you to do the best you can and be the best you can. It shows you that you can be truly amazing by just being you. It inspires you to push past your fears and shine. It motivates you to rise to your highest, push yourself to do your best,and of course...be yourself and no one else!