Geometric Portraits

In this next project we were asigned to make a low poly image in photoshop. Smiling is something people do around the world. But in different countries it means different thing like in the united states smiling is more of showing respect for someone while in Switzerland they say they are one of the most happiest people yet don't really smile. Smiling doesn't have to deal with the happines of life it is what you are taught. But overall where ever you are everyone will have a facial expression on their faces even though it may not be a smile. 

First you need to take a picture and load it into photoshop. When in photoshop you make a new project and add any filters or adjustments to make your photo even better.Then basically the thing in common with all 3 is you take the lasso tool and make triangles and fill them in. Either with the eye dropper tool and Alt+delete or filter blur average then for all the other triangles command f. The very first one we did we made outlines and then filled them in. When we did the first one this was part of the outline steps. We had all the outlines say for our eyes we would select all the layers and merge them together and rename it eyes to help us keep organized; we did that for all of our features. After we finished the triangle in all of our features and liked it we would merge all the lines together. For the second one we went straight into the lasso tool and coloring it in. The very last one we used a combo of both and a new one for the breaking glass effect.

When we did it the easy way it was just sliding some buttons and creating it, EASY but it didn't come out exactly how I wanted it. When we did the first one we had a little more control on how big and small the triangle were and kinda how we wanted it to look. But with the second and third one we had way more control then the easy. We could hand pick the colors ourselves then the computer choosing it for us. We got to go in with the eye dropper and pick what colors we wanted and we got to make the background look super nice. I think one thing that the easy had that the others didn't was how fast it made it. Because it was made by a computer it was created in seconds while the other three took a while because you had to outline or pick the color you wanted. But I liked that we had a lot more freedom in the others than we had in the easy. I like the difference between the first two because in the poly-1 its kinda dark and not that bright. But in the poly-2 its really bright and looks a lot like her. 

Verbal Landscapes

We are on to our second project called retime nature. We go out and take time lapses and slow motion videos. We are sticking with our theme of poetry and making a 60 second video of nature. There are many ways that nature impacts my life. One way is that I love to hunt and hike, if there was no nature there would be no interesting places to hike and no place for animals to live so i wouldn't be able to hunt anywhere. I go to the beach at least one a week and that is like my safe place. I like to go there when I feel angry or sad because the water cools me down and makes me feel very calm. Certain places in nature has a certain impact on me like Anahola beach is where my Great-Grandma was scattered is where I like to be almost all the time I get to go to the beach.

Time lapses are videos that have are set to take a certain amount of frames every second. Slow-mos are videos that have been slowed down to make everything seem slower. There are different ways to actually create time lapses and slow mos. One way that you can create a time lapse is with your phone. If you have an Iphone there is a time lapse and slow mo feature is you scroll all the options to the left. The other way to create them is taking a normal video with either a camera or phone and uploading it onto your computer. You can use final cut pro's re time editing tool to speed up your clip or slow it down. If you try to create a slow mo with final cut pro it doesn't look as normal as it would on a phone but time lapses come out just fine.

The hardest part of this project was probably catching a really nice sunset because every night for the past few days has like a really pink sky but gray clouds were covering them up. Something else that was hard was creating my poem because I wanted it to be meaningful and make sense. My favorite part about this project was probably filming the sunrises because it make me think of how lucky I am to live in such a beautiful place and get to wake up everyday. Waking up early to shoot the sunrises didn't bother me because I get up at six and the sun actually comes up at around 6:20. I also liked that I got to use Final cut pro because I never got to use it before since we were always using Imovie. I also liked that we could work by our selves first because we get to practice using Final cut pro before working in a team.


Critique Reflection:
I agree with the critiques but the thing I could have done better in is the text layovers. I feel that I could have added colors and different fonts to make it pop and look different. I could have also re filmed some of the shots cause they were a little shaky. Other than that I thought that I did pretty good.

Poetic Design

HEY Guys, We started are new school year a few weeks ago and we had the option of creating a new blog or keeping our old one. I decided to keep this one because it has all of my 6 and 7 grade work, since I chose to do this I will now have all of my middle school work on here: Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth!!! Our first project as 8th grade G.T students is creating a poetic design. I think that poetry is a way for people to expresses how they think about the things revolving around them. I also think poetry is a literature that uses sounds and symbols that help create meaning of the poem. Poetry is a form of art that uses words instead of paint and crayons. I feel that Poetry is used as a way for people to express their feelings and their way of thinking.


Anahola beach where my Puna rests
I strive to do good on my tests
My life is like a painting
Always colorful never tainting
You only have one lifetime 
So do your best in the  meantime 



The rhythm of rhyme I used in my poetic statement is aa,bb,cc. It rhymes for two sentences then changes to another rhyme then repeats the pattern. I used rhyme because in poems it tends to rhyme a lot and because in order to write this paragraph I had to use it. Rhyme is the easiest one for me because I know a lot of rhyming words and there are a lot of websites that help you find rhyming words. When it comes to rhythm it is a bit harder because you actually have to come up with the rhythm your self.But it can also be easy if you use the rhyming words .When something has rhythm it flows into the next sentence and so forth.

Music Video Finale

HEY!!!! Summer is super close and ususally our last project is my favorite of all time.......... MUSIC VIDEOS. This year my teammates are Ashley Alfiler, and Julie Castro. We all have songs that we like to listen too but I guess when it come time to pick a song all the songs you listen to vanish from your mind so we went with the first idea that was given. The song that Ashley picked was sit still look pretty by Daya. Our storyline matches perfectly with our lyrics because we have a girl crying because a boy dabbed on her in the beginning and then walk away. Then in the end she walk up to him then dabbed on him. 

Fast editing montage sequencing is an editing technique that cuts the video to make it more interesting. In our music video we used this technique a bunch of times to make our video more interesting. My favorite fast montage sequence is where Julie, Ashley, and Me and standing in the middle of the field and at first i am in normal clothes and then when it comes back down I have nice clothes. Another one of my favorite shots is where there is a wide of Ashley crying and me and Julie come to cheer her up. Then we have a close of us patting her back and talking to her. Then we have another wide of all of us walking away while having fun! I think that when you use this it makes things more interesting and funner to watch. When editing you have to make it precise especially in music videos because you want the lip-sync to match the words or else it will look off and weird. In our music video we had to make sure that the lip-sync and the fast editing montage sequence matched and looked really nice.  

 This music video showcases my best work because we had to plan, use iMovie, Photoshop, and even filming techniques. Since we couldn't use our " music play back device" or a.k.a or phones we needed to film out of school so we had to plan where we were gonna go and film and how we were gonna get there and what we were gonna do. We learned how to use iMovie last year but this year we actually get the chance to figure it out and find out how to use it fully. In photoshop we have a hate/love relationship because sometimes it makes the most beautiful things and then sometimes it totally shuts down and we can't work on it. In iMovie it was hard because last year almost every time I tried to help edit they would say go do something else so i didn't really get that full knowledge I got just enough to know how to break things and add transitions

SIT STILL LOOK PRETTY 
by: DAYA 

Could dress up

To get love

But guess what?

I'm never gonna be that girl

Who's living in a Barbie world

Could wake up

In make up,

And play dumb

Pretending that I need a boy

Who's gonna treat me like a toy

I know the other girlies wanna wear expensive things

Like diamond rings

But I don't wanna be the puppet that you're playing on a string

This queen don't need a king

Oh, I don't know what you've been told

But this gal right here's gonna rule the world

Yeah, that is where I'm gonna be because I wanna be

No, I don't wanna sit still, look pretty

You get off on your 9 to 5

Dream of picket fences and trophy wives

But no, I'm never gonna be 'cause I don't wanna be

No, I don't wanna sit still look pretty

Mr. Right could be nice for one night

But then he wanna take control

And I would rather fly solo

That Snow White

She did right

In her life

Had 7 men to do the chores

'Cause that's not what a lady's for

The only thing a boy's gonna give a girl for free's captivity

And I might love me some vanilla but I'm not that sugar sweet

Call me HBIC

Oh, I don't know what you've been told

But this gal right here's gonna rule the world

Yeah, that is where I'm gonna be, because I wanna be

No, I don't wanna sit still, look pretty

You get off on your 9 to 5

Dream of picket fences and trophy wives

But no, I'm never gonna be, 'cause I don't wanna be

No, I don't wanna sit still look pretty

Sure I'm a pretty girl up in a pretty world

But they say pretty hurts

And I don't wanna sit still

Animated Life Lessons

My Team mates were William and Andrew. They were really chill and like to laugh and crack jokes. Andrew is one of those people who like to crack really funny jokes. William is one of those sparkle plentys who like to get his work done on time and neat. Then there's me, i'm like both of them combined. If the projects important I do it like many days before, If it doesn't seem important to me than I do it the night before. I also like to help people fix their problems and find fun things to do. In our story it exaggertaes these features by having me go help them find things they like to do. Then they practice a lot.
In our story we use humor in andrew's part when he is trying to practice telling jokes. In the script I laugh but my laugh is a sarcastic laugh. Our life lesson is that you should do something with your life and not just sit on the couch doing nothing. I think that this relates to the audience because they all have something that they are passionate for and could not be doing it but after watching maybe they would want to do what they like to do. Take andrew in the movie at first he was doing a silly chicken dance then when i met him they got motivated to do that.

Considering that we never worked together ever before our productivity levels were pretty high. Unlike if I worked with some friends I stayed pretty in the lines and didn't talk as much as I would of with my friends. The best moment during production was probably when we were all working really hard to get the scenes done. I think one of the biggest challenges were probably trying to get all the animation b- roll to fit the audio. Other than that we worked really good and were really great as a team, I think so anyway.

Character Development

Hi guys is Meleana! In this first paragraph my teacher Mr. Sanderl asked us to share what kind of people we are and some imperfections. Im the kind of person that cares about her family and friends, and always worries about her grades. Im also the kind of person that likes to get her work done but also is a really big procrastinator.  Some funny imperfections that I have is that when people eat with their mouth open I get irrated by that. I also get irrated with the noise your mouth makes when you chew food like a cow. Another imperfection that I have is when someone says something or does something weird I slap them.

SOme character traits that I plan to exaggerate while animating myself is my humourous side. I will add in some dance moves like the dab. I will also add in the character trait of me being quiet and me being really talkitive . I also plan to exaggerate my stupidity. I feel like I know a lot of stuff because i'm in honors and G.T but then when I dont know an answer I usually have my friend ashley in those classes so I will be like, Ashley what do we do or Ashley I need help. I could add in my character trait of dancing and dabbing by using puppet warp. I could use the puppet warp to make my mouth move and have like the words from a text box. For me to ask really dumb questions I could add in a text box while using the puppet warp to move my mouth.


When I created my .GIF we first had to take pictures. Mr. Sanderl  my teacher took pictures of us in front of a green screen so that it would be easier to cut out. When we cut ourselves out we used the quick selection tool which " quickly selects" what your trying cut out really easyily. Next step to making our .gif animation is creating a new document with the name of KeaweM_Character. We then drag our picture that we cut out into that file. When you go into that file you have to make sure that it is in the window called animation. After that you pretty much add new frames and and new layer so that you can puppet warp. When you finish the animation make all the frames 0.1 seconds so it's fast enough to see it all and look interesting. When you finish it at the end make sure that you save it for web & devices. The lower the percentage the faster it will load. 

.MOV Film Festival

Hey guys, Since we finished our tiny worlds project we decided to do either movie trailers or sitcoms for the .MOV film festival for Kauai. My team with Nick Koo, Brody Smith, and Ashley Alfiler decided to do a movie trailer on how boys often think that they are better than girls so we decided to make a video on how girls beat the and how their change of mind is. Some key words are differences, understanding, and rivalry. WE have to connect these words wit hour audience so ill be doing it one by one. Our audience should connect with understanding because they should understand how boys think that they are better then everyone else in some things. They should connect with rivalry because everyone has fights now and then and should have rivalries. When we think of difference we think of how they are academically and athletically. If you think about it everyone is different but boys and girls are really different.

In our movie every single one of us is in a scene. We have a scene where they are taking a test and they give each other glares and stink eyes. Then we have an athelic scene where they are racing and Brody trups and Ashley stops running and she goes and picks him up. THe overall message that is learned from brody and Nick and that girls can be better then them at somethings. At the beginnig of the trailer they thought that they were better then girls. In the middle Nick gets a C and Mele a gets an A, Brody trips and ashley goes back and helps him up. The overall message or learning experience is from both boys and how they learned that even though they may be good at these things girls can still beat them.


The biggest challenge my team faced was probably editing and filming. This was a big challenge because we had to re film the first two scenes at least 10 times. We had to re film  because nick was eating pizza, Brody was talking, it was blurry, or we were talking while it was filming. We had a challenge editing because we had voice overs with words so we had to line up the voice over with the b-roll. We also had to make sure it was the certain length of 90 seconds minimum and 3:00 minutes maximum. We also had a hard time finding the right sound effect that the computer had. We also had a hard time keeping our mouths shut because someone would be editing and we would be like " Oh put that scene in " or " Don't put that scene in I don't look good in it." We were mainly thinking about ourselves until we found out that it is better if we don't think about ourselves for a minute and we think about the greater good for the team the product or outcome will be much greater.

Tiny Spherical Worlds

Hey guys, I would like to introduce our new project. In our new project my class and I are making polar panoramas and spherical panos. Well composite images are created from combing several different pictures to go beyond the limitations of a camera. With one picture it wouldn't be as high quality as a normal picture. The point of composite images is to go BEYOND the limitations of a normal camera. A normal camera doesn't take 10 different pictures and put them together. When you take composite pictures it makes your picture better because you get one big picture to make it look really cool.

Two composite images we are doing right now is polar and spherical panos. Polar and spherical panos are different because polar panos look like little tiny worlds. Spherical panos look like a crystal ball. The polar pano looks like it could be a world in a world. It looks like a world because the background is black and the pictures is feathered so that it fades into the outer darkness. The polar panoramas also look more realistic because they have a feathered and black background. If you added some other planters with it it will look like a solar system.

So my finished and final tiny worlds will look very convincing because they have a black background and they have a feathered fade in it. The feather will make it look really cool because it acts like a fade and the world is in outer darkness. The other reason why it makes it look really convincing is the fact that it is in a ball and it looks like I'm standing in that ball. When I put my portrait in there I am going to make it look like i am coming out of the world because I'm gonna add a shadow effect on it to make it look like the sun is facing me and i'm not melting.

Panorama at Kealia lookout 

Panorama at the beach 

Panorama at Kapaa Middle School

Hockney Style Joiners

My school photomontage of Ashley Alfiler 

Hey guys, Welcome back. Mr. Sanderl my teacher, gave us a new project. THis project is about photomontages and David Hockney. SO first off what is a photomontage, a photomontage is a bunch of photos arranged to create a new picture or abstract art. Now that we know what a photomontage is, who is David Hockney. David Hockney is one of the most influential pop artist in the 20 century known for making photomontages. David Hockney's Photomontages are different then mines because mines are not taken correctly and his are taken with high quality camera's like the best cannons and nikons.

Positive quote I got on Google. PICTURE

Images can send all kinds of messages. Some can be positive and others can be very negative. One positive image for me on my instagram would be of daily scriptures that I read. Another example would be a picture of the beach and have a really good and uplifting quote. An example of negative messages is cyberbullying. People are very cruel and they like to bully others. WHen you post good things it will make people feel better about themselves and they will be more positive about themselves. WHen you post negative things that send a negative vibe things can get nasty because it means that you are bullying people and putting them down.

In my final photomontage I want my audience to see that I like to go to the beach. I also want them to see that I like to surf. In this picture I wanted to go to my favorite place to be and that was in Anahola.  I really like that I could get the horizon line to go actually straight and not all up down and look like the planet is all messed up. I think that if I moved a little more to the right I wouldn't get that coconut in the photo. Other than that I think that if I just add a little more color it would be perfect. When you look at my photomontage I wanted people to see both the sand and the ocean. 

2016 Aspirations

Happy New Year!!! Now that I am in school again my teacher, Mr. Sanderl, has given us a post again. In this post we will be talking about our goals for 2016. I will be sharing 5 of my most important goals that I want to accomplish this year. A goal I want to accomplish this year is being able to take gnarly pictures that inspires me. Another goal that I would like to accomplish this year would have to be get better at surfing and bodyboarding. In 2015 I learned how to throw net and dive at night. This year I would like to become an expert at doing this. Overcoming my fear of heights and sharks is my main goal for 2016.Another goal I want to success this year is hike over 40 miles this summer and catch at least 1 goat and 1 pig. I would also like to get faster for sports and to just be in shape. I think overall most of my goals is too be fit and in shape.

The most important goal that I would like to accomplish this year is overcoming my fear of sharks and height. I would like to overcome these fears because I am going back to Disneyland and California adventure. I am going back to Disneyland because my Tutu is retiring this year I would like to celebrate it with us. In California Adventure there is this one particular ride I would like to go on called California Screamin'. The last time I went to disneyland I didn't go on this ride because I was too chicken but this year that will change. When you first go on the ride it starts off at like 60 MILES an hour!!! Then there is all those big dips and the dip at the end that is really high and I think that I would die but I will never know unless I try. Being able to conquer my fear of sharks would be wonderful because every time I go night diving or surfing I freak out. There is this one particular Hawaiian legend that talks about amakuas or guardians. My amakua's are the owl and shark.  I think that this should calm me down because it's supposed to be my guardian and protect me. 

Sooooo in order to make sure that I get this goal down I will have to go through a series of steps. My first step for the sharks problem is to research on sharks and how to see if they are aggressive at the moment or not. My first step for my height problem is too ask my sister about how the heights really feel. THen for both my second steps I will practice it out on easy rides like the fireball and baby sharks on the south shore. When I get to the third step it will depend on how the second step and if it doesn't work out then I will research some ore but if it does work out then I will go in with even bigger things like Tower of terror and reef sharks. Then it will co e to the day when I can go into the water with blue sharks and lemon sharks and not get killed. I will also go on rides with the biggest drops like California screamin' and be happy. When this is all over my fears will be accomplished and I can learn something new about myself. In the end I think these are pretty easy fears to overcome because some people are afraid of clowns, lizards, spiders, and dogs so it can't be that hard to overcome.