Music Videos Rock!

I think that each of my team members in our music video including me are contributing the same amount as each other. This is a great way to learn about each other and see how funny each of my peers can be. Also how creative this music video can get with my teem. This music video and is a great way to find your inner funny ness! I love this assignment with my team/peers and I have a lot of fun with with my team. I think we all have different ways that we all contribute. An example is that Russel is the main person who tries to find his friend in the music video and when he finds us (the rest of the team) he makes us get back to being friends and I think that that is a great thing to do. And then there is Miles and he is the main singer in the video and he singe the beginning and helps us sing sometimes he is always happy and energetic! But in the music video Michael is the guitarist in the music video and he plays the cords and singe some of the song. Then there is me (Seth) I am the second singer next to Miles and I sing the second most amount of the song.

I think that my audience will enjoy when we find each other at the end of the music video. I feel like that will be there favorite part of the music video, because it makes people feel like they know that the people in the music video are back together and that makes them feel beater about them self knowing that the people are all back together and happy with each other.

The music video will show what we learned in the editing proses and also what we learned in the filming proses also. This is a great video to show our editing skills  and i think that it is a great last project. Over all this is a great way to also show everything that we learned this year with editing and also filming, so hope that you like this music video and the content that we put hard work in to!

Lyrical Livelihood

I don't have a favorite song and that makes me more open to learn more songs and listen to other peoples music. I like alternative songs and artist like G-eazy and other artist like that. I also like tecno music with good beats. Over all I like most artist. and there music unless it is devil related that discuss me but it is there choice on music. I also like sorptive like beach music just to cruz it makes me feel relaxed and safe.

My team picked out the song called "back in black" by ACDC because it is very loud and catchy witch makes any person want to listen to it and watch it. this song is also a good music video because it shows you that you can rock out with your friends and have fun with them to. I think this is a great music video because we can show out wiled side in it and it makes us want to let lose because it shows that you can have fun with only your voice and your friends! Also I think the resign my friends or also knows as my team  choose this song is because most of them like punk rock and love to rock out with there friends like i do and they like to have good times. I like this kind of song because they are letting out there inner rock and that makes me happy that they are having a good time. Also i like this song because it is very catchy and make you want to dance.

I think the visual story that the music video will show a bunch of friends that break up and sing the song all separately. Also most of the video we will be away from each other  singing the song "back in black" perfectly in sync and we will switch off and on each others face and do a close up of us lip sinking the song and then maybe have someones car pull up with us in back of it and singing the song. It will tell having fun with friends is great.

Our Animation Story

Our focus statement is ''friend solve conflict". I think shows our story because Maceo tells us his personal story about going to Florida for a competition. It also tells us how friend's can help you threw certain things like a competition. Another way it tells our story is that quitting is not the solution. So far this is a great film i think and it will become a even greater film soon.

Our audience will learn that having good or even great friends is very good because they will help you threw life and competitions like the one in our story that we are going to show you threw animation and filming. The way our audience will learn is threw experience. Also another way they will learn is threw watching the film and seeing the out come of working together and being successful in being a team with your teammates.

I think that the best moment as a team was when we all filmed and animated together. Also when we teamed up and worked together and accomplished things together as a team! I also think that it is a good experience that we could work together to accomplish more as a team. I think the worse thing that our team Me,Ehu,Maceo, and Brook is when we couldn't figure out what to film and that took up alto of our time to film, do work, and also wright down our story. Another thing that our team struggled in is when we were filming. For example when we were filming a scene and we were having trouble were and how to film the scene. But we worked together and figured it out as a team and our film look's great now! thank you team!

Animation Outtakes

Two interesting things about all of my teammates are. Eheu is talented, funny, caring, And a good person to be around. Brook is a good friend to be around, Also very nice and kind to other people. Then there is Maceo. I do not know Maceo very well but i know him enough to say he is a great person who is interested about other people and also inspires other people for what they think.

Stop motion animation is when your have someone or something that stays still and you take a picture of then and then that move forward again and then your take another picture. And at the end you have a video of that person sliding across the floor of moving really fast in a weird was. A GIF is a short film that has about 10 frames per second, so it plays 10 pictures every second and it goes on for 3 seconds to 20 seconds. So if you do the math 10 pictures times 3 seconds thats 30 pictures for only 3 seconds of showing thats a lot! Also a GIF can go on a loop so it plays for ever!

Are group is telling Maceos' story and the reason we are it because it is one of the most interesting stories and also it relates to life more than telling a story about one of the other people in the group. I thing the reason that the audience should care about this story is because the story is important to Maceo and it shows you a life struggle.

Typography Images

Typography is the art of arraigning type of processing words and printing from it. Typography photos can be used with Typography to make an amazing picture that will show the person and show inside of them what there caricature traits are in words in there body. This picture is made into a lasting image because it shows how the person in the photo stands out and what there caricatures traits are in the photo.

My biggest challenge in this project is the steps to put the words in the image. This was really hard for me but I over came it be asking my friends and looking on the focus wall to find out what to do for the steps to put the words in the image. I also tried to find out what the black layers are and how to put them on the layer screen. But I still feel I still have some of my biggest challenges up to come in this typography photo experiment. For that I will also find a great way to over come the challenge that is thrown at me.

The three examples I have below are all typography photos that I worked hard on. Also I learned something from making theses photos in photoshop. Then how this teacher typography photos are made in photoshop also. All the things i am learning in photoshop with my peers! The difference in my photoshop photos are the typography one the teacher one and my self. Overall i like the ME portrait more!

ME typography

     

Teacher typography

Innovator typoghaphy

Double Exposed Portraits

portrait photography is when you take a picture of the persons whole face and showing all there features from there shoulders and up. portrait photography doesn't really relate to profile photography that much but if I had to pick some things that make them similar it would be that is shows there face and there expressions but profile photography only shows the bridge of the persons nose. silhouetting is when you take a picture of someone with a lot of light behind them and it only shows the persons outline and there all black with light around theme.

To make a double exposure picture in photoshop you have to open photoshop go to file scrips load files into stack. I think the resign you would want two make a double exposure photo is because it look really good and an amazing photo when your finished.

The symbolism in my two photos I would say is some of the color and how we used double exposer in the pictures. The quality of my work could of improved by me taking a little bit better photo quality. I think that the pictures in my multi exposure are better quality than the pictures in my double exposure. Witch makes my final look beater than my draft photo in quality. Over all I am very happy about theses pictures!

Double Exposure (draft)

Multi Exposure (final)

Move your photos into your photoshop with the browse tool. 

set up to get your photos in to photoshop.

HDR Photography

HDR photography is a way to make your photos look more like real life and also to show more shadows in the picture that you take. You should use HDR Photography when you want to show more contrast and depth in the picture. I personally LOVE HDR photography to me it is more fun then single shot photography and over all it looks a lot beater over all. And so far what I learned about HDR is amazing and i cant wait to learn more soon.

To use HDR step by step you take a bunch of pictures from really low exposure to really hight exposure and then go into your photoshop press edit > because A different > merge to HDR pro. HDR and automatic HDR is very different because auto HDR you just take a picture and it automatically has one picture and HDR you have to take seven or more pictures at different exposure and at the end it comes out to be one really good picture.

For these pictures below i had to take my computer out go to a place were there is a good view of landscape. Then find a person that can stay still for at least ten seconds and after I take the pictures I put them in Photoshop and merge to HDR. Then i take the pictures and put them in my blogger as you see here. I also love how you can use HDR superimpose

Movie Trailer Critique

This project was about a girl named Alex, character is very brave and determined when she puts her mind into something. In this project we had to record a video and edit the clips in final cut pro, and also in photo shop we had to make a poster for the trailer. This would not of been done with just one person. But thanks to Maya, Aedan, and Kaylynn. Our trailer plan is very helpful for helping us plan when and were we should record the film. I contributed to this movie trailer with writing the story and helping it become what it is today.

The requirement for this trailer were that we had to be done by a Cretan date and also we had to put Cretan transitions in the trailer and also the trailer had to be between one minute and thirty seconds and two minute and thirty seconds. Me and my crew completed all of the requirements for the trailer and i feel like we did really good in them. I felt like we did a good job on the trailer because it turned out good and i enjoyed it very much.

I feel like the class did a great job of deciding what our grade would be and how well we edited the trailer. I am also happy for what grade we got for the trailer. I feel like we could of did a little bit better than what we did , but i also feel we learned a lot from what we did with this trailer.

Our score we got for our trailer

this was our plan on what we were planing on filming, and the characters plots.

Movie Poster Promo

The main character in this movie poster you see is a boy named Alex. Alex is a boy that over comes his fears of big waves. Alex is in the ocean bogie boarding and getting a barrel. The beach that Alex is at is called lumihai a local beach in Kauai Hawaii.

The title to my movie is called "get over it". The title is trying to say get over your fears and face them. Also in my movie poster I said "a boy who over come his fear of big waves!" with i'm also trying to say to face your fears and over come them. In the movie poster I also said "in theaters soon!" when i say this i'm trying to intrigue people to come watch the movie. kerning is when you adjust the spacing between characters in a more professional use. When i use kerning I usually use it to make the words pop out more at the person that is reading the words.

The layer effects I put on my poster make the poster its self pop out more so people can look at it more. Over all i think it is a great poster.

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Proactive or Procrastination?

Between a proactive person and a Procrastination person I think I am a proactive person. The reason I think that I am a proactive person is because I like to create or control a situation by causing something to happen rather than responding to it after it has happened. Also I think that it is better to be proactive because you get more done faster.

My level productivity is a little less than my amount of free time. When I have free time I try to find something proactive to do. I also feel like I could be better on my free time and try to do even more proactive things than what i'm already doing.

If I could change things about my work habits, one of the things I would change is I would try to get rid of things that distract me when i'm doing work. The way I would do it is try to work in a quiet place with no distractions.

My Visual Poem

KosteleckyS VisualPoem from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

My poem is about time flying bye, and how it is easy to lose track of time. I thought that my poem was ok but when i added the visual I was like wow its a lot better that I thought it would be. I thought that best thing about my poem visual was all the time lapse's and some of the pictures.

My special effects make the meaning of my poem stronger by putting more movement in a good way. Like I put transitions in to attract peoples attention. I could make my visual poem video better by putting more translations changes.

Im satisfied with my results and I think that I could put in more lines into my video and also put more translations. I would also make it longer by creating more lines and putting more translates in were there isn't as much as I wanted.

Finished News Story

P1T6 Hurricane Iniki from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Our story was about hurricane iniki and how it devastated kauai an island in the chain of islands of Hawaii. Also we learned about the before and after affects of how iniki devastated kauai, you will just have to watch the video your self. The people that made this video are Leleaka Anakalea, Seth Kostelecky, Lilio Masi, and Russell Fu. Theses people have worked hard and long days into this video, thats why I turned out so great.

The final of the video is very successful I think. I also think the this video has a lot of great B-roll and great voice over. And yes i'm very happy this the final of this video and i think next time when I make a video it will turn out better! And if I work will the same people again I feel that since we worked together already we will all be more experienced that we were before.

Yes I do agree with my criteria results it was a good report.

Real World Report

credits to CNN © 2014 Cable News Network.

This article is about how Obama puts an airstrike on I.S.I.S. and how 40 different nations offered to help america on the air strike on I.S.I.S. This article is also about how America and the 40 different nations are going to take every thing that I.S.I.S. has and wipe I.S.I.S out from under there feet.

I think that America and the 40 different nations should kill all of I.S.I.S. and wipe them out. I also think that I.S.I.S. should be destroyed for what they did. I also think that we should get I.S.I.S. out of there safe haven and make them suffer because we will not tolerate what I.S.I.S. is doing to the American people.

We should care about this because it is a very bad thing what I.S.I.S. did to america. And we should not let them have that power to be able to to such things to our land and people. This is also important because we should have the authority to be able to keep our country same from I.S.I.S. and its target.

Lessons Learned

The most interesting part of my project is how we work together like some time we understand each other and some times we don't understand each other. Also one of the most interesting things it that most the things that we do we work together and help each each other in the work that we are working on.

The biggest roadblock out team handled so far is probably the interviews that we transcribed. The interviews were really hard to to with the rule of thirds and it is also hard to hide the microphone out of the cameras way. Are team also handled a lot of difficult editing struggles on finale cut pro because we are just learning how to use final cut pro.

The most valuable part of the filmmaking proses is to make sure that the camera is rolling and the lens cap isn't on when you are rolling. Also when you are taking a interview make sure that the camera can't see the microphone if you are using one. Also if you are in a windy area make sure the microphone doesn't pick up the windy sound. You also have to have the rule of thirds and make sure that the interview isn't  looking directly at the camera.  

HikiNo Behind the Scenes

This is Russel Fu and I working on a HikiNo News project. Our project that we are working on for HikiNo news is that we are interviewing people that have ben threw a hurricane. We are also interviewing people that know a lot about hurricanes and how the hurricanes are made. This project that we are doing is turning out well.

When we are not rolling the camera we are going threw what the next question will be and how the interviewee will answer them. We also try to move the microphone out of the way so the camera wont see the microphone on the interviewee. I also love to help all my peers in the interviews so they don't mess up in the interview and we will have bettor footage for our project.

One thing that I can do to help my team is that I can help them organize our camera supplies.I can also read the interviewee the questions so that they can think about there answers that they are going to give us. If my peers are disagreeing i can give them a new idea of what to do.
   

 

The Experiment

We did this photoshop experiment in class for Mr. Sanderl. I made this rainbow rose in G.T. just to explore photoshop and learn from our mistakes and if we learn from our mistakes we wont make thoes mistakes again. Because we can learn more from out mistakes then we will learn form other things.

This was good for us because we learned from it and it helped us in out experience of photoshop. This was also wrong because usually Mr. Sanderl teaches us and shows us what to do with stuff we are just learning.

Back To School

My favorite moment so far is making new friend at KMS. So far this year I really enjoyed spending my recesses laughing and talking story with all my peers. I really hope the rest of the year is going to be fun as the first two weeks also I want to make more friends this year. 

My biggest challenge so far was doing my photoshop project in G.T. This year ill be successful because I will try my hardest in school and in G.T. and i will become better with computers and things like that in G.T.