Scratch Game Design

Freedom Game

Platform Game

Chase Game


Hey guys!! so I just created my game and if you want to play it it's right above this passage and be sure to leave a comment telling me what you thought of my chase game, Enjoy! Lets talk about my user experience and how it influenced my game. So, I thought that as the gamer plays my game it would be nice to throw in some vibrant and unique characters as well as a odd background to go with the unusual sprites. I think the smoothness of how the dinosaur moves is pretty well and I added the arrows to move it because almost everyone knows where they're located and they are very easy to use. the cake tries to catch the dinosaur and moves very nicely. The four watermelons are placed in a straight plain line almost as if they were set up as a finish line. I've played a lot games with bright vibrant colors so I just thought they would be a great addition.

Anyway, in my first game that I created, (my chase game) our task was to make a game where something was chasing another thing. I wanted my game to pop out so I chose some sprites that I though would be pretty unique together! I had the donut as the chaser and the player was the dinosaur. The object of the game was to collect all 5 watermelons and avoid the donut until the timer got to 0. We were told to make a chase game with a scoreboard and I am pretty proud for accomplishing that on my first chase game. In my second game (my platform game) we had to design a game where we had to jump onto platform thingies until you get to the top or something similar to that where there was a goal when you got to the end or top. For this game our requirements was to have 2 levels, and design our own platform game with a countdown timer. I had this in my game! Both of my games had timers, donuts, and goal they had to reach. But only one of them has a scoreboard.

During this project I think that I've come face to face or should I say face to screen with some difficult bugs that occurred in my games especially since most of the time I was asking questions, but didn't really get an answer. Anyways, some bug fixes that appeared while I was coding was most of the time the sprite/ character wasn't moving the way it's supposed to move. For example, in my platform game if you just continuously press the up arrow the donut, my sprite, won't come down it'll just keep going up and up and up. According to Mr. Sanderl I need to add an and block to make sure that the sprite will come down when I press the up arrow. While on the other hand of my bugs I think my best code would have to be the smoothness of the way my characters move like when you press the up, down, left, or right arrow the sprite moves very smoothly and effectively, but yeah i think that's probably my best coding.

Invention Commercial

P1T9_Invention from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Hey guys!! It's me again and we're working on another project and this assignment has to do with inventions!! Our project for GT was to create a commercial that represents an invention that my team and I had thought of. Our invention idea was Track- Attack; here's a little rundown of what our invention does. The track- Attack is an app that hooks up and connects to little tracking devices that you attach to everything you'd usually lose. After you've hooked up the little devices to your object you set up all of the settings to your preferences and you're ready to use the TRACK-ATTACK!! When you lose your object just go to the Track-Attack app and it'll tell you exactly where your object is. My team consisted of two people Lani and Asha to whom I know very well. My team's main goals in this assignment was to finish off strong with the best effort we could possibly put into the commercial and to edit our hardest by working with each other and communicating our own ideas so that the commercial turns out better than it would've been with just one person's ideas. To accomplish these goals we worked together, put in our own ideas, edited continuously while listening to each others opinions, etc. Personally, I think we accomplished each and every one of our main goals because our commercial video turned out pretty good.

While this project was very successful there were also a lot of complications that we had with each other and each one of our ideas, but thankfully we communicated and didn't give up and solved most of the situations.We had a lot of spectacular moments working as a team. To be honest I think the best "team moment" was when we actually went out and filmed all of the b-roll shots and footage to import into our video because it was just really fun coming up with different ideas; for me acting was pretty cool just because it was interesting to come up with a scene and use my professional acting skills and create something amazing. The effort that my team andI put into this project really shows the determination we have when it comes to work. I just think that the filming part of the project was really fun and exciting just because I got to work with my teammates and especially because I got to climb into a dryer; actually that really hurt and was very difficult.


During the post-production editing we each had a job and tried our best to accomplish the job we were assigned. The jobs we were assigned were because we had the best profession at it. Lani's job for this production was to do most of the filming of me acting out the different shots we needed for the video. She also edited most parts of the film while it was in imovie and she supplied the setting for the video to take place in. We decided that Lani should do the most editing because she was more experienced with editing and the imovie tools. Asha did a very good job at recording my voice overs and also helping Lani out with editing the commercial she also helped come up with excellent ideas for our plan. My job was to of course act. I think I did pretty well at that. Then I recorded voice overs that would be placed over the Audio roll above the B-roll. Finally I helped Lani edit the entire commercial as well as Asha and that's basically the jobs we had.

Composition Scavenger Hunt

Hey guys!! It's me again and guess what.... we have a new project! COMPOSITION TECHNIQUES! Well I'll continue to write and hopefully you will continue to read. To me I think that all of the composition techniques are very important in their own way, but if I had to choose just one it would probably be Rule of Thirds.  First of all, if you don't know what Rule of thirds is than here ya go because i'm going to explain it for you. Rule of Thirds is basically a grid on your camera and there are three lines intersecting with each other from a horizontal and vertical way. What you do in those lines is, for rule of thirds (subject), you place the subject's eyes in one of the intersecting line. For rule of thirds (scenery) you fill one third of the grid with either sky or land and so the other 2 thirds are filled with the opposing scenery. Basically that's what rule of thirds is and now here's why I think  that this composition technique is the most important one out of all of them. I think that this composition technique would be more useful than any other composition technique because you can use it in multiple ways and for different imagery. For example, Rule of Thirds is usually used when shooting an interview, you place the subject in the rule of thirds. You can also use Rule of Thirds for scenery which really adds interest in the video or image.

During this project there were a lot of difficulties within the composition techniques and I think the most difficult one is high angle. I just think that if you were to shoot something that involved the composition technique, high angle, you'd have to go through the struggle of finding something to stand on or place the camera on so that you're above the subject, but not to high that it's not even high angle anymore, but it's actually a birds eye camera angle. Trying to find a spot to place the camera and the difficulties of operating the camera as it's in that weird position is just too much to handle when you can just ease the struggle and find a different composition technique to use in your video. You can use this technique more in when you're trying to go above and beyond and you're just trying to find that one spectacular shot, but eve though it's a little struggle if you use it correctly it could enhance your video by a lot. In my opinion I just think that high angle would be the most difficult to use, but you could use it more to enhance you video.

My teammates are probably the most incredible teammates you could ever have. We play around a lot with each other, but we also work really well as a team just because we all have different personalities that combine together really well; my teammates are Luscious Lani and Amazing Asha. If I had to describe Lani in three words they would probably be krazy, I used k instead of c because she's that krazy, i'd also use the words adventurous and goofy.  I chose these words because Lani represents all of them she is definitely krazy because she can just go and do something extraordinary like if we're playing D.A.R.E and I give her a really stupid one she'll actually go for it. She's determined because if she has her mind set to something and wants it done than she'll go the extra mile to accomplish her task, but also putting her 100% effort into it. Finally, she's goofy because she cracks me up and I die laughing when i;m with her and that's everyday so I basically laugh everyday. Asha is hilarious, a good friend, and very daring. She can do a lot of stuff if she  is ready to do it and she just makes me laugh. What Lani did in this project is she was the subject in some of the shots and she read some of what the composition techniques were and she also put the clips together in imovie. Asha was the subject in some parts f the video, she read some meanings of the composition techniques, and she adjusted the time and audio levels in imovie. Finally, I was the camera operator and I recorded the subject, I was in like one shot of the video, and I added the text layovers on the composition techniques in imovie.

Cracking the Code

Hey guys!! It's me again and I have a brand new project in GT that the entire class will be working on. I'm pretty sure that most of you have had some experience or at least know a little bit about the project and if you don't than stay tuned because i'll be explaining my thoughts and my opinions on wait for it........Coding!! Yes I know, coding, it's pretty important, but not a lot of people have interest in it because they think it's boring or unnecessary to have. Well I think that if we didn't have coding we wouldn't have most of the technology we have right now. For example, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Without coding these websites and many more wouldn't be able to be seen. I think that people should be learning code because first of all it would be a great experience because you'd have an idea of what it takes to create and come up with electronics. Coding can help you better understand the process of what and how your electronics read the coding put into its system.  I am actually very excited to learn the ways of coding and I hope that you stick around to see the finished project.

I've actually used coding before , but it wasn't an entire project to work on it was just a little activity that my teacher made the class do because she thought it would be a good experience. My first experience using code was in 6th grade in my English class surprisingly, but i'm not totally sure of why we were working with code. Anyways I was in 6th grade when I first came face to face or should I say face to screen with coding. We used the same coding website where it created coding activities and you had to figure out how to solve the problem or situation. Over the two years i've done that they've created many new activities like frozen and angry birds. Back then we used halloween types of characters because of course it was in the time of halloween. As I used that website I sort've got the understanding of how coding works, but of course those were just the minor steps in coding and not the advanced stuff because the characters and actions were already set up for us we just had to put them in order which isn't that hard not that I look at it. Well, yeah that was the first time I used coding. I hope this time while i'm using coding I'll become more advanced than I was two years ago and I can achieve higher levels of work.

If I could create a game it would have to consist of watermelons, trampolines, and of course an Australian Shepherd. Basically in this game you get to pick either a female or male character and you can design the character any way you'd want to; there would be hair styles, makeup, facial hair styles, and of course clothing. Once you're done customizing your character you'd be ready to PLAY!! The main object of the game is that you get a pair of Australian shepherd puppies and you take care of them until you reach the set goal which is at 15,000 points. Once you've hit that score you move on to the next level and in this game there are 5 levels. Anyway after you've hit that level you go on to the next level which include trampolines and WATERMELONS!! You keep leveling up and when you hit level 5 which is the hardest level of all. This is what I would love for my game design to be of

My Humorous Monologue

Hey guys! It's Talia again and here's a continuation of our current project in GT, a Comedic Monologue. In my last two post I wrote a couple things about the project that we're working on in GT. Here's some thought that I had and what I personally though of this project. Well anyways I hope you enjoy this blog post and continue to follow me through out my last year as a middle schooler. From this project I have learned how to write an excellent narrative and come up with most fascinating shots of B-roll, and I now know how to engage with my viewer a little better. To find out how to write out a good narrative my teacher, Mr. Sanderl, had the entire GT class research and look up jokes, phrases, how to videos, etc. And he just had us do a lot of researching and observing on how those people wrote their narratives and jokes. As we came up with the requirements yesterday I realized that I should probably reshoot some things because they could've been a little more interesting and have a little more effort put into them. For instance, one shot of mine was very boring and it didn't really view as interesting, so I checked out a camera and reshot that specific clip and some other clips as well.

PAD! It's very important when shooting video especially when the video has a voice in it. First of all I think I'll tell you what pad actually is before I start explaining some details about it. Pad is when you record video more likely with voice and you record about five seconds of dead silence before the actual voice or action starts to happen, so that when you're in your video editor program you'll have some space in that clip to make adjustments and cut out some unnecessary things. Pad can make your audio sound amazing or it can make it sound kind of bad it just depends on how you edit the pad in to making it pretty good. In my humorous monologue I attempted to use pad and succeeded at most of them so that my audio sounded excellent. When I used pad it made my audio for my monologue flow together since they were all the same audio levels.

During this project I had a lot of strengths, but I also had some weaknesses. Some strengths I had were that I had great imagery and very nice clips of a beautiful background which was the beach. I really liked how my clips turned out and I thought that they made the story look real instead of having the setting in my room with a fake background. A weakness I had was that I didn't have a mic pack, but I mean neither did anyone else except those who really needed it. My audio was ok, but I could've improved on it. Something I can improve on is my composition techniques I didn't really shoot a lot of interesting angles or have much composition techniques which would have made my video way better.

Comedy Writing

Hey guys!! It's Talia and here's another blog for you guys:)) Well our current project for GT is a pretty fun one and it has to deal with humor and comedy. I think that you guys will be very excited for this project because obviously it's going to make you laugh and your going to be amused by my amazing humor; well enough about me now about the actual project. Sense of humor is a very important character trait because it symbolizes what your like and your personality. Just the way you tell the joke and the type of joke can say so much about you like if it's simple it can mean many things like your simple and you aren't to complex to deal with and many other things. With out a sense of humor you'd just take everything seriously and wouldn't laugh at anything; that is a major problem because to have a successful, happy, and healthy life you need to smile or laugh or else you'll just be gloomy and down every day. If you ain't got no sense of humor than you ain't got no life. Sorry I just had to put that because come on it can crack you up.

This project consist of us writing a humorous narrative that's pretty much the base of the entire project because in order to film we need to have something to film off of which would be the humorous narrative. Here are some tips that you can use to create an excellent narrative that is quite funny to your audience. The first thing to do when writing a narrative is finding something to write about, so the first tip is going to be about how you can find what to write about. The first tip is that you should probably write about something that your audience can relate to like if there middle schoolers or any type of people with homework than you can do that. Another tip is that you should probably make your words very descriptive and detailed because you want your listener to actually visualize what you're saying so that they have an idea and react to your joke or funny saying. Tip 3 is that you can always switch up your wording to make it funnier or whatever. Here's tip 4 make your joke clear and understandable don't have one part that talks about  a fish and another part talks about a dog unless those two objects have a relationship with each other in the monologue or joke. Number 5 is Just have fun with writing your narrative because either way if someone doesn't like the narrative you can always say that at least one person liked it even though that one person might be you.

My comedic monologue is about my entire family and how one day just a couple weeks ago we went to the beach right next to this really fancy and nice restaurant. Anyways we jumped in and cooled off from a pretty intense day. My dad and mom along with me decided to get out and just cool off. My dad had just gotten a new hammock like a week before and this was going to be the first time we were using it. Anyways my dad and I decided to sit on his brand new hammock I asked him to pass me my gatorade, but he disagreed with me and told me to get up and grab it myself. We argued for a couple of minutes, but I then realized that I was being stubborn too and just got up and grabbed it myself, but before I could walk over to get my gatorade I hear a huge CRASH! I turned my head and see my dad on the ground with his hammock on top of him. I think that my narrative was funny because just the fact that my dad had a hammock on his head cracked me up. I think thatr since he fell over on something, but also not getting hurt was pretty funny because it usually is pretty funny when people fall down and other things.

Music Videos Rock!

P5T6 Single Ladies from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Hey guys!! It's me again and I hope that all of you guys have or had an amazing day:)) Are current project for GT that we are working on are MUSIC VIDEOS!! Hope you enjoy reading this weeks blog post and stay tuned for next weeks blog post. My team contributed really well. Lani and Asha were excellent when it came to the music video they both helped out a lot. For example, Lani had the MPD (Music Playback Device). Asha helped me with the production plan she came up with some pretty interesting things and she also helped with shooting asome shots when we were recording the clips. She even helped out when she was in the shot. Lani helped put a lot too, she did most of the editing and she got some incredible shots when we shot video. Without Lani and Asha, I probably wouldn't have been able to shoot a music video better yet edit it all by myself. I would suck and it would be terrible. I mean, I would have put a lot of effort in and tried at least, but it still wouldn't have been as a good as all of us working together.

 I think the audience will enjoy the beginning of the music video because it's the best part of the video, it's where we're all synced to the music and it has the best shots which are wide, medium, and close. All of the shots we used for the beginning are extremely interesting and we were kind of brave to do some shots like the close up on our mouths for the lip-sync. Most of our shots in the entire music video are pretty synced and all match together, but some parts are unfocused a little which kind of makes our music video a little bad at times. Even though some of our shots are unfocused it's not the whole video that is blurry, so it doesn't really affect the entire music video. I think the audience will also like the parts of the music video where Asha is remembering how it used to be with her old "guy friend" because it just matches with the story we're trying to get out there.

Our Music Video shows what we learned this year because we as a team decided to add a band poster at the end of the video and we did some other incredible things with the video:)) Some things we used were composition techniques; we used some really Kool unusual angles (I used a K instead of C because it's prettier:!!).We also used a lot of special effects which are really Kool because they make us look a lot more weird and pretty fantabulous... If you know what I mean:))All of the special effects that we used were super helpful they created a version of us that was surreal and creative which really made our shots interesting!! That's the end of this blog post and guess what, pretty soon it's going to be the end of school and I won't be a seventh grader anymore:))!! I'm so so so happy well I hope to keep up with you guys during the summer because this is my last school blog post!! BYE!!

Motivational Poster

Hey guys!! Today i'll be writing about what i'm currently working on in GT which is, a Motivational Poster as you can see, it is the title for this blog. Well anyways I hope you enjoy this post and the rest of my story will be below!!ENJOY!!

If you're wondering what the requirements are for this motivational poster is you're in luck because i'll be explaining what they are right now! For this poster there will be a total of 4 images in the motivational poster one portrait of yourself and 3 symbolic images of what represents you I chose a small little plant because in the world Im just a small part of it, but i’ll go a long way and grow as I get older; I’ll achieve many of my goals and become what i’ve always wanted to be just like a plant i'll get stronger in the future and like the plant's many leaves I as well have many talents. My second image is my soccer cleats because they're so dependable for me and i'm dependable when it comes to someone needing my help. They're bright and have sharp cleats like I have a sharp mind. My final symbolic image is the sun. I think that the sun represents me because I need people in my life. The people who I care most about are like the ocean I reflect on them and they shine right back onto me and I need them because without them I'd have no purpose in life. In the motivational poster you also need a total of 2 text layers, one is going to be a your personal quotes and the other o-manifesto. Those are the layer requirements now for the design requirements. All of your text should be Kerned to fill up the entire page with absolutely no blank space All text should be KERNED to fit across the entire page with no holes or blank spaces. We need a triadic color scheme which consist of 1 dominant color and 2 accent colors. There should also be your Text layer blending options which are drop shadow, stroke, outer glow, and bevel & emboss. Finally there should be adjustment layers over the images.

 The first thing I did when creating the motivational poster is I wrote down some personal quotes that I live by and hope to accomplish by the end of the year. Then, I opened PhotoShop and added the personal quotes in there and personalized them to fit the entire page and I just played around with the fonts, text size, and the width of the spacing. Next, I added my manifesto in there and did the same thing that I did with my personal quotes. Then, I took 3 symbolic images and added them to the PhotoShop document that I was working on. Speaking of images I also had Kyler my photographer take a portrait picture that I approved on and added that to PhotoShop. Finally, I worked hard and just edited the layers to make it appealing to my eye; I did that by adjusting the text the images and some other things that I thought looked excellent I followed all of the requirements and made sure that my piece of work looked like the best work I could do. I am actually very proud of my work

 This project was a struggle at some points, but I managed to get though those difficulties and finish with a strong meaningful piece of work. The probably most struggle I had was when I had t choose the colors for my triadic color scheme and probably when I had to arrange the text and images to fit perfectly with each other. It was pretty difficult because some images were bigger than others and I also had to find what fonts I wanted to put over my actual text, that was a struggle too, but I think the most struggle I had was KERNING!!! I just could not figure out how to kern the text so that it would fit perfectly in the photoShop document, but I just kept playing with the adjustment tools so that it would actually fit and guess what it worked and the text fit perfectly. I also wouldn't have done it with out Mr. Sanderl's tutorials on how to Kern, butI also used prior knowledge from last year .

Personal Manifesto

Hey guys!! it's Talia and I'm back at school from summer break... and guess what....I'm....in....8th Grade!! I'm so excited to be back at school haha just kidding not really, but it is great to see my friends and all of the new people attending KMS and I don't know why, but i'm so excited for the new assignments that we'll be working on in GT.

Our current one is known as our personal manifestos. I know I haven't posted anything in a while, but that's why i've decided to hit you guys up with a little something about myself just to remind you guys of the amazing person you followed on blogger, but here are 5 interesting things about me.Speaking of cool things we're doing a pretty sick project right now it's called a manifesto. A manifesto is a creative proclamation that shares your personal beliefs or ideas.  In our classes we are using quotes that we like to tell ourselves; here are 5 things that i'm very interested in. 1.I love to play soccer I have a strong passion it's as if I were the soccer ball when I play 2. I LOVE seedless watermelon and not any watermelon it has to be seedless:)) 3. I like to take a lot of artsy pictures and landscape photos like beaches or mountains, etc 4. I like to hike the sleeping giant which is a mountain in the back of our house. 5 Finally I just like to hangout with my family and friends.

My  manifesto consists of what I would like to do with my life and how I want to control it. Here is my manifesto ENJOY! I hope to live by what my Manifesto says because I truly believe that I can accomplish my goals. my goals really make an impact on my life and what happens to it because it's my decision on if I want to follow my goals or deny them; if I follow them my life will continue to go on the right path, but if I don't I'll fall behind. Here is my manifesto ENJOY! I really want to Stay Healthy, Be active, Learn A lot, Be Respectful, Have a Passion for what I truly believe in, associate with people who respect me and reflect goodness on others also, stay tuned to my inner self, be the person I've always wanted to be, inspire others to be who they really are, Be proud of my achievements, Take control of my life and decide who gets to be in it, Be in control, and live life to the fullest.

My manifesto applies to my readers because I think that they should follow some of the things that I believe in. I mean if you don't want to take control of your life then that's fine with me, but i think you should at least try to put some effort into it so that you feel comfortable. I think you need to express who you think your are and just be honest with yourself. Most of the things I believe in are what I think my life should be in control of. You can believe in anything as long as you're okay with it and you will truly have a strong reason why you believe in the things you believe in. Okay guys!! Well that was all i had to share with you I hope you guys have an amazing summer for those of you that are still on summer; I wish those of you a great rest of the year if you're off of summer and you're suffering like me, but I just want to say thanks for always tuning in to when I publish my new blog posts almost every week I appreciate your interest in my school and sometimes my personal life.

Lyrical Livelihood

Hey guys!! It's Talia again and I'm so excited about our new 4th quarter GT project. Our new Gt project for 4th quarter is MUSIC VIDEOS!! I can't wait to start filming and lip syncing to our favorite songs!! Keep reading to see what I think about this new project, but you can probably already tell that I am extremely excited.

My favorite song is "Someone like you" by Adele. This is one of many songs that Adele has created and sang, there's just something about this song that stands out to me than all of the others. I really like the lyrics for this song because it's about how Adele found true love long ago, but it ended and she's been trying to get over it, but she can't and to make it worst he gets married and now she has a whole bunch of mixed emotions. She tries to remind him of her and hopefully he'll see that he loves her too. I just really like how she went through all that trouble and how she still wants him to like her, but nothing changes and I just LOVE how she still remembers what he said to her a long time ago and that she tries showing him that she still cares.

My team and I picked the song " Single Ladies" by Beyonce. We chose this song because we all thought that it was a cool and up beat song sang by one our favorite singers. The song is also relatable because sadly my team and I, Lani and Asha, are single. We thought this song really had some meaning behind it and it's just a really good song. The song "Single Ladies" is about how a girl, Beyonce, is left alone and she meets a guy and a whole bunch of stuff happens and she's not single anymore, but in the beginning she'll feels lonely and tries dancing it off and forgetting about it. I think that we chose a really good song because it's so upbeat, fun, fast, and just really new for my team and I. With this song my team and I could create a really fun and interesting dance to go with it our groovy moves would make this song 10x better than just us singing.

Our visual story is saying that there's a girl and she has recently been in a relationship, but it ended so now she's single and another is crushing on her and her ex is getting kind of jealous so she sings about how he should of "Put a ring on it" when he had the chance:)) to create this video we'll try to have a boy and we'll be crushing on him, but he rejects us so, we start dancing and singing that we're single. After that we lip-sync to the music in our video and we'll have another guy crushing on us and the other boy will get jealous. We keep lip- syncing and dancing.

Beyonce Knowles

Production Plan

Our Animation Story

Hey guys!! it's me again the writer of this blog that you are of course reading right now, haha:)) Well hope you enjoy reading this blog post and make sure you tune into my next post enjoy!!

Our current project right now is to create an Animation based on a real life story that happened to one of our teammates. I explained what our story is about in my previous blog post so you can check that out after you're done with this one or you can take quick look and come back doesn't really matter to me:)) Our focus statement is "Raiden discovers Origami." Our focus statement basically tells the story of how Raiden found his true talent and the struggles he had along the way to actually discover it.

Our audience will learn that you can't just give up on something you have to look deep down because some talents come out of nowhere and you have to look for them. they will learn how to not give up from this animation by just watching and listening on how Raiden didn't give up and how he had to look for his talent and be dedicated to it so he could get better. The audience can listen to how he responded with other people who actually had talent and how he didn't have any talent, but he tried and tried and tried in finding something special and with heart and dedication he stumbled upon his new talent. We want to get across that you might think you don't have any talent or that you're just really boring, but the truth is you have to actually find your talent and your uniqueness because everyone is different in a lot of ways, but it's up to you to discover it.

Our best moments as a team were actually splitting up the jobs and all teammates collaborating together. Then after finishing the scenes, the sound track, and other things related to the animation we all got together and imported them into iMovie. The hardest moments as a team were at first figuring out great ideas for our focus statement and actually agreeing on one because we all had different ideas. Some of us didn't want the ideas others had like Raiden would come up with one idea and I didn't agree or i came up with one and Linden didn't agree. As time went on our team Raiden, Linden, Quinn, and me.

Well that's all for now hope all of you Talianators tune into my next blog post!! big spoiler alert, but our next project has something to do with music!!:)))) See you guys next time bye i love all of you:*!! <3<3<3<3

Animation Outtakes

Hey, it's Talia again and our current project for GT is to create an animation story about one of our teammates; our story is about Raiden. My other teammates are Linden Johns and Quinn Consylman. One interesting fact about Quinn Consylman is that he never goes outside unless he has to go to school. Another interesting fact about Quinn is that he hasn't cut his hair since last year. One interesting fact about Raiden Kurisu is that he is 100% Japanese, but can speak good English. Another thing about Raiden is that he is extremely good at making origami figures. One interesting dfact about Linden is that he learned to read and do math from a cook book. Another interesting fact is that when he was in first grade the first day was so easy that the next day he was moved up to 2nd grade. One interesting fact about me is that I have been playing soccer for about 8 years straight. Another interesting fact is that I believe I am related to George Washington.

In this project we are required to use animation techniques so, I'm here to explain just a couple of those animation techniques. One animation technique is called stop-motion. Stop- motion is basically just trying to make a object or person appear that it's moving in its own. Another animation technique is GIF. Gif is short for Graphics Interchange Format, which is just multiple frames playing over and over again. There are a couple more animation techniques that are pretty cool and really interesting that we could also use in our story like Styks, Photo Shop animation, claymation, etc.

We are telling Raiden's story. His story is about how he discovered his talent which is creating Origami figures and how he struggled at having a special talent. He always wanted  a special talent, until the day he thought of making a crane and apparently made it with no help at all. He started practicing and practicing on his origami figures and struggled a lot, but he found this cool website, YouTube. YouTube really helped him get better at his passion and here we are making an animation story that talks about Raiden and how he found Origami. You should care because we are talking about how hard it was for Raiden to find his talent when all the other kids in his school had already found it and how Raiden felt lonely because he was the only one that didn't have this special, amazing, and incredible talent. We exp-lain the struggle and dedication he had to find his talent. If I were you I would totally care about this story because it has meaning. That meaning is about Raidne and his discovery of his special talent, Origami.

That's the end of this blog guys haha:)) Hope you guys stay  tuned to my next blog post and i'm opretty sure that it will have the final animation story See you guys later:)) Peace Out Talianators

Typography Images

Hey guys!! so our current project in GT is Typography Portraits you guys are probably wondering what in the world is typography and what is a portrait. Well that's why I'm here; to tell you guys. Typography is a type of art where you go step by step moving around words or type in a printed matter. Portraiture is the art of creating a portrait, a portrait is a picture of a person or group of people faces; other parts of the body may be included, but the face is the main object. When you put typography and Portraiture you get Typography Portraits. Typography Portraits are taking type or words and placing them in the positive space of a portrait picture. Typography portraits can be used to make a lasting impact by having a picture of the main person and having inspiring words and that's all I know about that.

My biggest challenge in this Typography Portrait Project was that in the beginning of the project my text wasn't showing up, so I had to fix this problem with out Mr. Sanderl. The first ting I did was go to the text editor thing on the right side of Photo Shop. I just started messing around with the editor and found out that my text were really close together so it looked like little dots. I also realized that the text was really small and the height was bunched up, so I increased the size of the text and made the height a taller so the text would be visible and clear. You guys are probably going to think I get really excited about really small things after I say this, but that's okay. After I accomplished fixing the text I kind of sort of started cheering my brain off saying, "TALIA YOU DID IT!!, TALIA YOU DID IT!!, TALIA YOU DID IT!!", but I mean I couldn't help it I was so proud of myself for doing all of that without Mr. Sanderl's help. That's how I had a problem and then solved it.

I have 3 examples to share with you and they're down below at the end of this blog post just scroll down and they're there. The first example of my 3 is the Innovator portrait. The Innovator portrait was a portrait picture of a well known innovator I chose Shai Agassi. With the innovator portrait we did it a little different than the two other of my examples. With the Innovator portrait I first I loaded it in to Photo Shop. Then, I filled a new layer with black and started pasting the text I copied from Wikipedia into a text box. Next, Masked the text layer and copied the original image and pasted it into the mask. After that I was done!! My next example is the teacher Portrait. With the Teacher portrait we basically did the same thing, but instead of a black background I used a white background. My teacher was my AMAZING mom, Mrs. Washington; the Library Clerk. My final example is the Portrait of my favorite thing ME!! The process of this example is a little different from the other examples; instead the portait of me we used turned the cut out Black and White. These are the steps.

Hope you guys enjoyed this blog post and make sure to scroll down for my earlier post

Double Exposed Portraits

Hey guys! so our current project in GT is to create a Double Exposed Portrait. Portrait photography is photography of one person or multiple people showing emotion, personality, and mood of the subject. When taking portraiture the face is the main focus of the photograph, but other parts of the body may be added if necessary. The portrait photography is related to Silhouette because the profile image strongly depends on the main parts of the face (chin, nose, and forehead) these features make the image clear and understandable. When taking a portrait photograph you include the chin, forehead, and nose because those parts are part of the face which is how portraiture and profile view are related. It's related to profile view because both have a side view, outline, or represent some type of object.



This is an explanation on how double exposed portraits are created. First, take 3 amazing photos; 1 being the profile and 2 photos of anything you like or symbolizes you. For example you could capture shots of trees because you really like trees or you could take a picture of flowers, your favorite sport, beach, etc. Then, after taking those incredible photos you need to import them and open them in photoshop by first clicking on File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack. After all of your layers are there, there's a dodge tool icon on the left pallet the tool looks like a balloon with a straight stick coming out of it. When you click on that tool the brush icon should now be your mouse and you need to adjust it where it's either hard or soft big or small, but you really want to get around the edges so I would suggest using a small brush. After your done dodging your image you need to size and then crop your image. Once you've done that turn all of your layers to screen mode and after you've done that all images should be opaque.

The two symbols I used are soccer and a sunset. i used these symbols because I thought that these really symbolized what I do with my free time and what I love to do. I took a picture of me with a soccer ball and my cleats because soccer is only like my number one favorite sport ever!! i love soccer and when Mr. Sanderl said that we had to rake pictures of what we love to do Soccer is the first thing that came to head. I used a sunset that I took from my church because I thought that the way the trees blocked some of the sky kind of told how i'm shy when I first meet you and then when you get the inner me, you really know me, and you got your way through my barrier it's very bright and vibrant because i have a very enthusiastic personality and i'm just very colorful, but you can only find out if you get through to me. I just really liked these topics that i took pictures of.

I hope you enjoyed reading and looking at this weeks post I hope you read and view all of my other post and have an Amazing day!! See ya Later:))

HDR Photography

Our current project for GT is to take seven pictures of a landscape of our choice. HDR aka High Dynamic Range is a process that creates a clear scene to the eye by taking multiple contrast images. High Dynamic Range is used when your in the worst situation possible, you have the perfect shot and your at the golden hour of the day, but your camera sucks, and the balance of your colors are really uneven and the image looks extremely weird. I really like that instead of seeing really blurry and unbalanced photos the photos you've processed with HDR come out to be crystal clear and when you use HDR your photos turn out really detailed and amazing.

To create a final HDR image you need to follow these steps.
-Take 7 amazing photos from dark to light
-Import them to your device(make sure you have Photoshop)
-Go to Photoshop and click File>Automate>Merge to HDR Pro
-A pop up will come and you need to go to your folder and pick out the 7 photos
-Click ok, and Photoshop will do the rest
This is totally different from automatic HDR; when using auto HDR the device does all of the processing by itself you don't really have to do anything because the device is doing it for you. When you create an HDR image manually it feels like your actually learning something because you're going through the process of making the image, and not the device that uses auto HDR.

For my first photo, the HDR landscape, I knew I had a beautiful scene behind me, the sleeping giant, so I decided that since I have such a wonderful scene why not use this scenery to make an outstanding image. I really wanted a line that leads to somewhere (leading Lines) so, I thought of using my road as a line and I could get on the ground so that it would look like it was leading to my neighbors house. I also realized that by getting on the ground I would create sort of and unusual angle. I took my shots and thought they were really good so I kept them. For my other HDR image the HDR Experiment, I thought of getting my mom. I thought put my mom on the side of a vase with beautiful bright flowers to brighten up the portrait. I placed her in the rule of thirds, but I made the mistake of not giving her enough look room. I only realized that during Mr. Sanderls' class when he was critiquing my HDR Experiment.

Movie Trailer Critique

Hey guys! So, our recent project for GT was to create a movie trailer critique. In this movie trailer you and your team had to put your minds together and think of a creative and appropriate trailer for 1st graders. After you had your idea you needed to check out a camera and start FILMING! My team Kasiah, Maddie, and Arianna decided to make our trailer a mystery movie Kasiah played Rebecca the victim, Maddie was the narrator, Arianna was Amethyst the robber/assistance, and I was Thalia the Detective. We checked out a camera and started shooting parts to our trailer; the first thing we did was take some pictures for the movie poster. Then, we shot the first scene which was about how Amethyst the robber stole Rebecca's ring. Finally we continued shooting as much scenes as we could in the amount of time we had before our parents came to pick us up.

All of the GT students had to then accomplish the requirements for this project. The requirements for this project were; it had to be 1 minute and 30 seconds to at most 2 minutes and 30 seconds, it had to have 5 scenes, include a Voice Actor, Dialogue, Foley, Text Layovers, and a Movie Poster. My team and I met all of the requirements; we had 1 minute and 30 seconds of footage, we had about 6-7 scenes, Maddie was our Voice Actor, We got Kasiah to stomp her feet for the foley and we also hit a stuffed animal against a wall for a thump sound.Our text layovers consisted of the basic "Coming Soon" and "In theaters near you. Finally my team and I all had to make a creative poster to go with our movie trailer, so we all created one, but we went with Kasiah's poster because as a team we thought her poster had a little more flare than the rest of ours.

Finally, after the entire class shared their movie trailer with us we had to critique them. The class critique I thought was pretty reasonable. The class resulted the project as the second best movie trailer with a total of 7 votes for the overall best of the movie trailers. I thought that the results were really good, Snoopy George was a great movie trailer, and ours could've been better, but I am actually really proud of my team, and our movie trailer. I totally agree with the results they gave us we accomplished all of our requirements, but we could've gone above and beyond! I learned that if you work otgether with your team you can accomplish A LOT of things