Movie Poster Promo

Hey guys! Here's another blog for you to read. In GT were currently working on creating a movie trailer. The team I am currently working with is Kasiah, Maddie, and Arianna. We have to make our own creative movie poster that goes with the movie trailer; the poster needs to have the main character, the plot, the setting, the opening date, etc. You need all this and more to make sure you are ready and have a couple ideas to create and choose the best one. This project is going to be a little struggle and my team is going to need to sing out the camera a lot, but I think we can do this.

Our movie trailer has a lot of characters, but there's is 3 main ones, Detective Thalia, Robber Amethyst, and Rebecca the victim. These three characters are extremely important to the movie trailer because The whole movie is based on them. The robber steals Rebecca's ring which is also has the code to her bank account engraved on it and if the culprit finds it her great fortune is destroyed. To find the culprit the detective and Rebecca need to work together to get her favorite Amethyst ring. The setting in this movie trailer is in Rebecca's mansion AKA Kasiah's house; the crime happens when Kasiah is dancing around painting her nails. Unfortunately Rebecca didn't know that would be the last time she could afford nail polish.

My movie poster isn't completely done I'm still adding the filter which looks really awesome right now. When I'm finished with my poster I bet it'll be AMAZING! I'll need these things to complete my poster and make sure it's better than perfect. Text-Title, Actors, Reviews, and the Production Company. Text Effects: Drop Shadow, Stroke, Bevel & Emboss. Image: Main Characters. Setting, and Plot Hints. Text Effects: Quick Selection, Filters, and the Color Balance need to be included.

A major tool we needed to use is the kerning. Kerning is the process of adjusting the lettering to create spacing between the text and just make the font the way you want it for a pleasing result. The kerning tool is a very important part of this project because we want our movie poster to be perfect and just the way we want it. Kerning is important because to have an amazing poster everything has to be on point; which includes the text. Mr. Sanderl showed us this really cool website where it gives you the chance to actually try and Kern for yourself WEBSITE. This Website really helped me with practicing the kerning tool; now I know how to adjust the text to the way I prefer it to be.

Proactive or Procrastination

Hey guys! so the students of GT have to write 3 paragraphs of if there a procrastinator or a proactive person.You have to be completely honest and explain why you think what you think. I don't listen sometimes,which is like twice a day, but I think that I am more on the side of being Proactive. I will be totally honest with you I think that I'm a proactive person. I always follow the rules, I know what I have to do. I usually only talk to collaborate with my team, teacher, or to help my piers in that class and if they're having trouble with something. Overall I think that I am a very proactive person.

My level of productivity is great. Most of the time I am usually working on something that could be improved because I finished my current project or something like that. I really try to get my work done by the due date that was assigned to that project. It bothers me if I turn something late because I know that once I am late on turning my work in I'm behind on that class. I'm almost never distracted most of the time. When I get an assignment I make sure to get things done and that it's my best work so that I am solid for when grades come up.

To make sure I'm always on task I try to prevent myself from getting distracted. It means a lot that I can finish my work on time and get some free time to do something fun or just take a break from working. Also, I must be sure to try and finish the assignment the day I was given it. I always try to go above and beyond, going above what is expected. I try to make as much time as I can fr my school work, but sometimes I can;t and that really hardens

My Visual Poem

Hey guys! It's me again recently Mr. Sanderl gave all GT students a project, My Visual Poem. My poem is about the rush I feel when I approach the field and play my favorite sport Soccer and how passionate I am about the exciting sport; just letting my spirit flow free while the air guides me to the goal. How I have worked so hard to accomplish my goal of being the best soccer player I can be.The visuals made an impact by really expressing the feelings of the story and showing the viewers what really happens when I go to soccer, when I get ready to practice and the game.

The special effects I added were pretty good. In my opinion I think that my special effects really brought interest because they were all so cool like the Kens burn effect, the dissolves, etc. All of them added this really awesome extra to the video. It captured the excitement I felt when dribbling the ball towards the goal and shoot the ball as hard as I can into the goal. The audience will probably love the effects I brought into the video and the rush when it dissolves and the Kens Burn effect and a whole bunch of other stuff.

There were some difficulties in making the film like some shots weren't focused enough or the camera was very stable. The hardest thing was putting all the clips together and having someone else shoot something of me that I wanted to shoot, but I couldn't. Another problem is that I had to get a lot of footage but I didn't get to use all of it because some clips were too long and it didn't make sense if I cut off a little bit of some clips and left some other stuff and it was just very frustrating.

The video overall I thought was Great!! I think that I did a really good job  filming and editing and just thinking of the ideas. My poem was on point it sounded great the way I expressed my feelings and how I made the shot feel the rush I have when dribbling down the field. I really liked the shot if me when tying my shoes and walking on/off the field. I really can't choose which shot I liked best because they're all so great, but they do have some problems with them.

Finished News Story

My team and I filmed a story about a middle school teacher who doesn't only teach, she's an artist as well. We decided to go with this story because we see her inspire so much students and staff; she treats her students equally and with great respects, she makes sure that all students are happy and not afraid to do what they believe. The people that contributed in our story are Gabriela Bryan, Michael Amoyo, and the wonderful Mrs. Sanderl. They all were a very big help they were very good listeners and did exactly what the team and I asked them to do. The interviews went really well we had to interview them a little over one time, but at the end it was successful.
The final Cut turned out Spectacular it was way better than I expected I thought it was gonna turn out pretty good but it turned out really great actually better than great it turned out amazing. After I saw the story that my team and I created I couldn't believe it I could not believe that 2 seventh graders and 2 sixth graders had created such an excellent piece of video.I think that we did this because we all worked together and communicated very well. I am very happy with the finished Cut.
I agree with the results my piers put for the story my team and I created the story wasn't perfect but it was pretty decent. I think that the critiques were very helpful for our story about Mrs. Sanderl. All of the critiques let the team know some improvements we could've made.

Real World Report

The story I decided to choose from Google World News was "At Least 32 die in Stampede During Indian Religous Festival". In Patna, India 32 people are dead and some are severly hurt. The deaths were caused by a wild stampede that was caused by a rumor that proclaimed there was an electrical wire that fell on some people during the festival. The festival was a celebration of marking the pride of good over evil.

I think that this article was really interesting it indicated a lot of details that were appealing to me. This piece brought my attention because I think that people should be more careful and that they don't need to over exaggerate; it informed me with these really nice fine points in the styory abut how 32 people were killed by this huge stampede that was just because of an electrical wire. I think it was really unfortunate for the other people because they didn't have enough running ability to out run the faster people.

We should care about this because 32 people are dead because of one little tragedy. Maybe, we could learn from this mistake and calm down if something bad happens to someone or something. I also think we should care about this because the people in India seem to over exaggerate things and I think we can help them learn how to keep calm and stay relaxed. i believe that if we can teach them how to stay under control thery wil thank us and we'll be proud that we made a change in something. Finally, we should just care about how people around the world are dying and how we should show our peace and care about the people around us and not only ourselves, that is why we should care.

Lessons Learned

In my opinion the most interesting part of the project would have to be all of the editing and seeing how you can improve. When you see your progress and all the improvement that you have made and when you see that it turns out really good and it's perfect because you put all your hard work into the profile or news story, you have this incredible feeling that you know you did your best. I think that when you get ideas from everyone else on your team it helps not only you learn more, but it actually helps the whole team learn more things even if you don't realize it. To make sure you have the best work you keep brainstorming with ideas that just pop up and use them while your teammates help pitch in with their ideas too.

I think the biggest roadblock my team, Lani, Meleana, Ashley, and I dealt with is working together a lot of us had some disagreements, but thankfully we all finally got on the same page and helped each other. I also think that the understatement could've been improved so that the teams that weren't familiar could have been introduced to the project more. Another problem is the time limit we had, I think that it should've been a little more time, but I understand that the crew from Hiki No wanted the videos in by a certain time.

I believe the most valuable part about film making is working together with your team and cooperating to make the best work you can make. I think that working together is the most valuable thing in film making because you learn valuable things from other people not only from yourself. You get these totally new ideas and you get this perfect project that can't possibly get any better but, then you see that it can get better and that it's not perfect you keep adding and adding so that it looks amazing and when you import it into the Mr. Sanderls' folder you get that feeling that you did the best you could do.

Hiki No Behind The Scenes

It's me again, so this week for GT, all of the students will be working  on a really important project that will....wait for it.....BE AIRED ON LIVE TELEVISION. I know it's kind of exciting that some of our work will be showed live on TV from the statewide news cast of Hawaii called Hiki No. It's a great chance for us, the GT students of Kapaa Middle school, to show what we can do and really prove that "KMS is the BEST".

For a couple of weeks we have been choosing our partners and getting together as a group and deciding if we want to do a profile story or a news story. If we choose to do a profile we will have to get together as a group and choose who we are doing it on and schedule an appointment with that person, so that we know when they are available and when they are not. If we decide to go the other way and do a news story we'll have to see what we are going to report it about. My team and I have already discussed that we are going to do a profile story and it's going to be about our art teacher, Mrs. Sanderl.

After deciding who the team was for this project we got to work; the team is Ashley, Meleana, Lani, and me. We figured that a artist tat is also a teacher at a middle school would be a great story, but we also found out that a lot of people look up to her and that she inspires many people in school and out of school even us the GT students of Kapaa Middle School.