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 Trailer Critique

Our movie trailer is about a guinea pig named George. This guinea pig goes on an amazing adventure. My teammates in this project are Lani, Sophia, and Shaday. We are team 3. George is Shaday's guinea pig so without her, our trailer would turn out totally different from what we have now. In the beginning, we were thinking about making the movie like "UP". We were going to make it look like George goes into a balloon basket and fly away on an adventure. But we didn't include that. I tried to help as much as I could. Shaday did do most of the editing, and we always met up at her house. I think Shaday contributed the most. I tried to go to her house and help out as much as I could. I think I didn't go only once or twice. But I helped with filming as much as I could.

The requirements for this project are, the trailer has to be at least one minute and thirty seconds long and the longest it could be was two minutes and thirty seconds. Another requirement was that you need the movie trailer poster somewhere in the trailer. We also needed 5 scenes, a voice actor and dialogue.  The other requirements were you need transitions, Foley, and text layovers. We added music as well, I think everyone did. Our team completed all the requirements. We had the poster, it was a minute and thirty seconds, and it had transitions, text layovers, a voice actor etc.

Our movie trailer got four out of four. Ten people voted our trailer as the best. We got the most votes. I think we did good. I agree with the results. I think we got a good grade and we deserved it because we tried our best to complete this project. From this project, I have learned, that guinea pigs are hard to work with and I have also learned some new words. For example, Foley. In the results, for the requirements we got two people who thought we could use improvement. I think we could have used improvement too but overall, I'm happy with our grade.

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.

Proactive or Procrastination?

I am try my best to be proactive but most of the time, I will procrastinate. Sometimes when I have no idea what to do I procrastinate but most of the times I will ask for help or try to solve it alone. I am proactive some times because I try to finish my work and I try to make it my best work. I will try not to procrastinate although I do. I have been proactive on most of my big school projects but some, I have procrastinated. The current school project that we are working on, I will try my best to be proactive and not procrastinate.

I always try to be proactive and I am most of the time. When I am productive, which is most of the time, I have a lot of free time which makes me bored, it kind of makes me wish there was more work to do, but, Im happy that there isn't a lot at the same time. It always pays off when you are proactive. Sometimes I am a procrastinator so I dont have a lot of free time. Although when I am proactive, I am really bored.

What I would change about my habits, I guess I would change the fact that I always end up doing most of the work at the last minute. Only on some of my projects have I waited 'till the last minute to finish up. But theres only a little amount of work to do, when its last minute. I honestly think I am a procrastinator but i have always tried my best to be proactive. I have and will always try my best on all my work.

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.