Monday, March 21, 2016

.MOV Film Festival

Hey guys!! Its me again, Talia, and you know what that means it's another blog post and this one is about guess what.............Our Movie Trailer!!! Yes! we're doing movie trailers once again I know we did it last year, but our class really wanted to do it again and I'm excited to do it again as well. If you would like to see my fantastic acting and my teammates from last years movie trailer than just Click HERE. I hope you enjoy this blog post and I'd like to thank all of you people who take the time to view my blogs THANK YOU!! Enjoy!!

Our movie trailer is about a famous superstar named, Kimchee Kartrashian, and I am pretty sure you guys know where my team and I got this very special name from, but anyways it's about how Kimchee, a superstar, gets kidnapped by who she has know clue is and it's up to her goofy bodyguard, Kurly, to save her. In our movie trailer we had to first come up with a plan and in this plan it involved keywords, a purpose for the idea, plot, and people or characters it also had to have a script with multiple scenes. For our keywords in the plan we chose to use Adventurous, Funny, lighthearted, and Amusing pretty much because that's what we wanted the movie to be and have the characters do. Adventurous was one of our words because in the movie trailer Kurly has to go on a crazy adventure to find Kimchee and that connects with our audience because I'm pretty sure we've all lost something and had to find it. This is funny because come on Kurly going on an adventure is just hilarious everybody loves a funny person. Our trailer is also lighthearted and amusing because Kurly is very lighthearted and carefree. Finally, it's amusing because there are so many great moment sin this trailer and they can bring up some very fun and happy times.

Our reason for creating the idea of this trailer is to pretty much to just let everyone know that it doesn't matter who you are to know that you can do something and accomplishing it. In this trailer it shows that even a goofy body guard like Kurly can go on a super adventure to try and find someone important to her and she doesn't care if she's goofy or a little odd, but she still goes out of her way and tries to find Kimchee. We just wanted to let you guys know that what doesn't matter is who you are, but what does matter is your determination and effort to do something that counts.

During the entire process of creating this trailer we did unfortunately face a couple of disagreements with each other. I think that one of our biggest problems were scheduling and the quality of some shots that were taken in the shooting process of this trailer. Our scheduling was pretty bad. For example two of us would have sports, other events, or some type of after school thing to attend to so there would be only one person available to shoot and two people would be doing something else; and one person can't be doing all of the work EVERYBODY has to be contributing to the project. Our other problem was the fact that one of our members had a shot that was debatable on whether we should use or not. This shot would have been a very valuable shot that could've have made the scene very extreme which is what we were going for, but our team member didn't want to use it because she thought it looked kind of weird, but we thought it added a lot of interest in the scene; and after trying to talk her into letting us use the clip she still didn't want to use it and we respected her decision and tried to make it work and I think it worked out pretty well. We took a tough situation and turned it into something great.

(I don't have my behind the scenes because I couldn't get them from the server folder and I don't have the video up either because it's not in vimeo, but I will upload them soon!)

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Tiny Spherical Worlds

Hey guys!! it's me again TALIA!! I'm back from my 3 day weekend and 3rd Mid Quarter just passed and I am PUMPED!!! I am very excited for our new project which you're probably wondering what it is and i'm about to tell you ready? 1..............2...............3..............it's PANORAMAS!!! If you're unsure of what a panorama is i'll tell you right now. A Panorama is an image created by taking multiple pictures and overlapping each picture from the previous photo taken to create a wide viewed image of an observers surrounding area.

Composite images, different pictures taken to create a more advanced image that's beyond the works of a camera. Composite images are in my opinion very interesting they take multiple images to give you a great depth of feeling for the image so that you can look at it and just be wowed . The point of composite images is to give you a better understanding of the situation and setting so you can comprehend better what is happening it gives the viewer a way nicer image with multiple layers of astonishment. One picture is great, but can be a little boring, but multiple pictures are better because they add more depth and make the visuals stand out more. When I take one picture I try to make it look really interesting by getting different angles and finding different object that will make the shot stand out, but I think that with composite images I can just take a couple pictures of something and it will make the shot look a whole lot better.
         
In this project we're working with both spherical and polar panoramas. Polar panoramas are
when you take a panoramic photo and use the polar coordinates filter in photoshop after you turn the image 180 degrees to create a circular image that gives the appearance of a panorama wrapped around a planet. A spherical Panorama is when you take a panoramic image and instead of turning the image 180 degrees you go straight into the filter, polar coordinates, and you get the appearance of the sky being turned into like a sphere or circular shape. the difference between them is that both of their finished products are the opposite of each other. In the polar pano the land is turned into a circle shape while in the spherical pano the sky is turned into the circular shape.

The tiny worlds that we have been working on are suppose to be convincing, but also pop out. In order for that to happen what I had to do is use my editing skills and make my portraits stand out by making them big, bold, and bright. Making it big wasn't really a challenge for me I increased the size of my portrait because it was really small when I imported it into my finished images and increasing the size just made it look like I was actually on top of the world. I made it bold by adding the shadow just like how everybody else did as well, but I also edited my portrait in Adobe to make my body and face really pop. Finally, I made it bright by making the saturation in all of my images really bright.

Panoramas