Animated Life Lessons

P3T6 James Gains Confidence from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

In our GT class we have been working on an animation project in groups of three. My teammates are James and Tyler. James is pretty shy and quiet so in our animation we exaggerate those traits of his. Tyler is a good teammate but he does admit that he can be a little discouraging and a little mean sometimes. So, in our animation we exaggerate those traits. He is a bit of a bully in our animation but remember, we are exaggerating his traits, so he's really not that mean. Lastly, there's me. So I can be supportive sometimes, and kind, sometimes crazy to friends.Therefore, in our animation, I am the friendly one that is very supportive. It sounds a little like I'm building up my ego and bragging but I promise I'm not. That's just how I am in the animation. I'm not saying I'm the kindest person on earth, because I promise you I'm not.

Our animation is about James entering a track race at school. Me, being his supportive friend, encourages James to enter. Soon enough, he agrees but then Tyler comes along and says "Haha James, you'll never win that race!" This makes James have second thoughts about entering. Now, our story isn't that humorous. However, we did try to add a little humor by having me scream at James in the background. It originally wasn't intended as humor but now it is because its the closest thing we have to "funny" in our animation. The message we are trying to share with the audience is, you shouldn't listen to negativity. Negativity can easily bring you down and we don't want that to happen. In our animation, James listens to the negativity which does't lead to good things but eventually he realizes that words are words and he shouldn't let them bring him down.

For this project, we had to work with people we have never worked with before. I loved working with my team. I made new friends and I thought working with them was a lot a fun. James and I sit next to each other in class but we have never talked until this project came along. Now, a lot of my seventh grade friends complained to me about their team because they were just not getting along. From hearing that I felt so lucky and felt like I got an amazing team, which I did. James and Tyler never really fought about anything and I never fought with them either. I think we got along pretty well. Our team didn't really do well with productivity. When the animation was originally due we only had 4 scenes done and we were freaking out. Luckily we got an extension though. I think from a scale from 1 to 10 our productively level was about seven. Even if we weren't friends in the beginning, eventually we became friends and laughed a lot.

I think our biggest challenge was finishing the scenes. This was actually a bigger challenge for me than them, I think. The reason I say that, was because we were so close to finishing the last scene on my computer but I was sick that day. I was in class but I felt like I was gonna throw up unfortunately. I didn't want to talk, I didn't want to move, I didn't want to work. So, I got out of the way and made James do the work. I was worried because I couldn't help or do anything. In the end, he did well but he did not finish. Anyway, as I said before, I loved working on this project. One of my favorite team moments was when we were going to practice the script. I had the stopwatch up on my computer and the script up on another computer. I had the first line so I pressed start and started reading, I actually tried to read it with expression. I read about two lines until Tyler and James stopped me. Turns out I was reading for no reason because I didn't actually press the start button. It was a little embarrassing but funny at the same time.

Character Development

If I were to describe myself in one word, it would either be weird or awkward. I'm not exactly a normal everyday person. I tend to loose my balance a lot. Im not that clumsy, but at the same time I am. Whenever I see a friend, or my brother, I like to stare at them in a weird way. Sometimes I do weird things like lip sync. Another really weird thing about me is that I cross my legs while standing. I'm not sure why but it's just a weird habit. Before I go to sleep I always listen to music. I always smile, or at least I try to. When I'm excited or happy because I accomplish something I always say "Yes!" Another weird thing I do is say "Merrrrrr." Although, that's only around my  close friends.

I think I'm going to make me clumsier than I am in real life. I also might make myself a little weirder. I could do that by making my character do weird things such as standing in a weird spot or maybe standing in a weird way. I could make myself pat someones head. I guess and that would be considered weird in a lot of circumstances. If I try to make myself clumsy I could of course, trip at some points.

When we started this project, the first thing we did was take pictures in front of a green screen. The pictures were of ourselves of course. We got three pictures. One taken from behind us, one taken from in front of us, and one taken on the right side of us. Next, we opened up our images in Photoshop. We only used the front picture for the first project so that's the only one we opened up. Then, we had to cut out our person, our self. That way we couldn't see any of the green screen in the background. After that step, we had to crop our image to width 640, height 720, and resolution 300. Now we are finally at the animated part, or the warping part. We opened up the animation window and started to animate yourself to make it appear as though we are moving. Then we click Edit, Puppet Warp, and warp your body to make it look like its moving. I chose the odd motion I'm doing for my GIF because it reminds me of a really silly dance Shaday and I made up. I enjoyed this project, seeing everyone else's odd movement was very interesting.

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P3T6 Jhoanna Discovers Personalities from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

A film festival is coming up soon so everyone in our class is making a film in attempt of being in it. We're working with teams of 2-4. I am working with Ashley, Kyla, and Jhoanna. We have to the choice to make a movie trailer, a sitcom, or an animation. We ended up with a drama soap opera. Not sure how but somehow we got there. Our soap opera is about Jhoanna being a new kid in the neighborhood and trying to make new friends. She has three little personality traits living in her mind who are going to be played by me, Ashley, and Kyla. Im playing her over dramatic side. Ashley's playing her clumsy side, and Kyla is playing her weird crazy wild fun side. Our keywords are personality, friends, yourself, and together. The reason we chose these words is because our purpose of the film is to show people that you should always be yourself and never act like your someone your not. Thats where yourself and personality comes in at least.

As I said before, our message we are trying to tell people is to be yourself and never act like your someone else. You should be proud of who you are and if people don't like you, then oh well because there are thousands of other people out there in the world.  Kyla, Ashley, and I play the personality traits of Jhoanna. Im over-dramatic, Ashley is clumsy, and Kyla is weird. The story can get pretty confusing, but if you know that the three of us are in Jhoanna's mind, it makes a little bit of sense. The reason we went with this was
 because our idea was to originally be a new student at school who is weird and has odd personality traits. Then we made a few changes and we got to where we are now. We decided to add in something about being yourself since it is about personality. That's when we added in making friends and trying to fit in. We think this would probably relate to our audience if they have ever been a new kid or if they have ever had a friend who's been a new kid.

The biggest problem we faced was trying to work with other people who are not in our group. The first day we filmed, we worked with 3 boys trying to get them to act in our film. In all honestly we all got so annoyed with them but in the end they pulled through and helped us. I was at Sophia's house with Shaday, Kyla, Jhoanna, and Ashley. Yes, Shaday and Sophia are not in our group but they still helped. We need some people to play as a group in our film, so, what we did was call over Sophia's brother, and two of his friends. It took us forever to get them to act for us. We originally wanted a girl to act in their little group but Shaday, the one girl, didn't want to play with a group of  boys. The 3 boys played together but then one of them just randomly left in the middle of filming so we ended up with only two boys. But after we got the people settled, the filming turned out pretty okay. They cooperating and even kind of told us how to film things. But, those things were just really small things that we forgot of course. So, overall our main problem was working with other people who weren't in our group. The second group we filmed with did a better job than the first. We got Raiden, Shaday, and Harry. Harry is not a GT student but he's a close friend of Kyla's that we asked to help us. They cooperated pretty well and I think we did good. Of course we did have those moments when they didn't cooperate but that happened a very few amount of times.

Double Exposed Portrait

Portrait photography is pictures of a person or a group of people to show their expression or feeling. But, in a portrait, it shows both sides of the face. In profile pictures, it only shows the right or left side of the face. The picture only shows the persons right or left eye and only one half of their face. Profiles are basically an outline of one side of their face. A silhouette is an image of a person, animal, object, or a scene. Silhouettes represents the shape and its single color. The color is usually black, but the edges matching the outline of the subject.

To create a double exposure in photoshop, there are a few steps. File>Scripts>Load Files in to Stack>Browse>Choose three images>Start. When you pick three photos, one needs to be a profile picture of a person and the other two has to be textures. For mine, I used a book page and tree leaves. Double exposure makes two images combine to symbolize a side of your face.


I used the book page because I like to read. I chose a book that I read last year called "Gathering Blue". When I read this book it reminds me of last year, which was a fun year. I used the tree leaves because I like nature. I love gardening and I have always loved gardening since I was little. I think my quality could improve because it looks a bit weird. My chin looks a bit weird because i used the dodge tool there when I didn't mean too.

HDR Photography

HDR photography is like drawing with light. HDR photography is used for taking pictures and you can take 3 or more pictures with different exposure levels. The thing i like about HDR photography is that we can create our own picture. Our own edited picture that we make our selfs. The thing I dislike about it is how long it takes to change the exposure. When you take pictures for an HDR picture, you try not to move the camera too much, or try not to move the subject. Although, when you take to long to change the exposure, you might move the camera a bit.

To create a HDR picture, it takes quiet a few steps. You'll need 7 pictures with different exposure levels. When you have that, you'll need to use Photoshop. Then go to File>Automate>Merge To HDR Pro>Browse, then choose your 7 photos to use. Then play with the effects 'till you get what you want. This is just a guess but, I think HDR is different then automatic HDR functions because you get to take the pictures your self.

When we started with our HDR pictures, my first thought was, it has to be surrealistic and it has to meet the expectations. So when I started with my experiment I tried to make it look surrealistic. Although I could see a lot of ghosts in the picture, I tried to work with it. I played with the settings and I got what I got. I worked hard on this project.

Movie Poster Promo

In this project me and my team are making a movie trailer. Our team is me,  Shaday, Sophia, and Lani.  In our movie trailer, a guinea pig named George is on an amazing adventure and runs into several problems. George is a wild guinea pig who gets captured. Our poster includes Shaday's guinea pig, George, who is the main character.

Our movie trailer title is Snoopy George. We chose this title because our movie trailer is about a guinea pig named George that goes on an adventure because he is tired of his old life. We have included the names of our teammates, Lani Alo, Sophia Gregory, Shaday Thomas, and me, Denae Sacramed. We also have included the name of our main character, George. Another thing it has are reviews.

The drop shadows on the text make the title more noticeable because without it its kind of hard to see. The layer effects help make everything pop out and easier to see. The effects and layers made the poster more interesting than just letters and a picture. The effects on the text make the words pop out. The effects I used on the text were drop shadow, stroke, and bevel and emboss.

My Visual Poem

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 My visual poem is about dogs. I chose dogs because dogs are loyal and each are special. Each one is different weather its on the outside or inside. They may look the same but their behavior is different. Dogs are an animal that are different than any other. Each animal is different and I chose dogs because of the loyalty they show to their owners. A bond between an owner and is special.

When editing, I used the kens burns effect to zoom in on a picture. This effect affected it by showing how a dog is listening to its owner. The other effects i used didn't affect my visual poem as much as I wanted it to do. I didn't use that many effects because I didn't have enough time too get it all done but at least I finished. Im happy I finished on time. It could be better but thats okay.

I think my visual poem could have turned out better. I could have used more effects and I could have gotten more b-roll. I don't have a video in it either so I think I could have gotten a video. I tried to get video but that didn't work out very well. But thats okay. I finished and at least I tried. I think the the results I got are fine.

Finished News Story

We are finally done with our news story! It was a lot of fun going out with my friends and interviewing people. Our video is about health and obesity.The people who contributed was Jhoanna Domingo, Kyla Baustista, and Maddie Hoesel. Maddie contributed the most. She was a big help in all of this. Without her, we would probably not have a story at all. She was our leader, a very good leader in fact. We learned about final cut pro and how to use the cameras thanks to her. If we didn't have her we would be so lost in editing and filming and every thing. When she left it was hard to do every thing but thanks to Mr. Sanderl we finished. The people who we interviewed are, Missy Hoesel, Maddie's mom, Heidi Tokuda, and Josh Nations.

I think our finished product turned out okay. It wasn't the best but I'm happy with it. The audio wasn't the greatest but we tried. Also the editing, there were a few jump cuts that were not that noticeable. I guess over all it was our best work. We tried our hardest to get it done and I guess I'm happy with it.

To conclude our project, we got a 3 out of 4 and i agree with that. I think the audio was the only thing that I think we could have done better. But from those mistakes that we made, we can learn from. It got harder and harder to do. But when Maddie left it was really hard. In the beginning, we werent pro's with Final Cut Pro, we didnt even know how to use it. Yet with help from Mr.Sanderl and Maddie, learned how to use it and we tried our best.


T6: Health & Obesity Rate in Hawaii by Maddie, Kyla, Jhoanna, Denae

1	1	4%
2	7	26%
3	12	44%
4	7	26%

Real World Report

The article that I have read is about a beagle named Sherlock. This article is called Airport beagle returns passengers' forgotten items (but only in this ... . People have claimed that this dog has been returning forgotten items on a plane to its rightful owner. Before Sherlock arrived, people were complaining about lost items. Now they have set up a lost and found group to find their belongings. Sherlock was hired for the job to help people find their lost items.

I think Sherlock is a very helpful dog and he is happy to help. He sounds like a kind dog and I'm sure he is. He is very helpful to all the people who lose their belongings in the airport. I'm sure he is a cheerful dog who will do anything to help the passengers find their things. The article says that they have been finding around 80 percent of the lost items.

I think people should care about this because others could lose important things on planes so its good to have a lost and found team. The lost and found team are really helpful to people who need their lost belongings back. With their dog, Sherlock, it must be much easier for them. Sherlock seems like a big help. He is a helpful dog that is well trained and prepared to find many more items.

Hiki No Behind The Scenes

For our G.T. class, we are doing  a project for Hiki No, a t.v program produced by students like us. Me and my group's topic is about health and obesity. We have filmed a few times together but we still need more footage. We have some b-roll but not all of it yet. So far all of are interviewees have been giving us a lot of information and we appreciate.

When we are not filming we are always researching about our topic. We have have found many facts about health and obesity. We have also been thinking of questions to ask our interviewees. One more thing we have been working on is what we are going to say. We have just barely started but I guarantee we will finish very soon.

To help my team I will try to correct any questions or anything we write down to make it sound better. I will also try to make it to as many interview as I can. I will try my best to help out my team with anything they need. I know that we will all try to help each other as much as we can. We will do our best on this project.

The Experiment

The experiment.  The photo shop experiment was very hard yet very fun.  In the experiment, we did not know how to use photo shop at all, but we had to figure it out.  I didn't know how to start so half the time I was trying to figure it out.  I never did so I ended up asking my partner which I have should have done earlier.  But, I got to make something.  Once I got to start it, I couldn't do any thing for some reason. Luckily , someone came to help and I was able to do a little bit of work.  I still don't know what all of the icons do, but I'll figure it out some how.