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. 

Scratch Game Design

User experience influenced my games because I had no idea what was going on. Every time I had a question I really was like let me google this or let me find a game or even let me find a tutorial. One time I even learned how to make a very simple plat former game from a 8 or 9 year old girl and her father. My chase game was actually pretty easy to make because it was pretty strict and you knew exactly what to do and how to do it. I had no idea what was going on because it is very knew to me and I am not smart like all these new six graders like Meah, Tyler, and Alexis who actually made wonderful games.

Each of my games were pretty complex with all the coding. If I had to pick any of the games I made and games I'm gonna make it would probably have to be operation freedom. In both of my games they use very simple codes because I didn't want to push myself hard enough, I think that if I push myself really hard I could make a  game like Kyhler. In operation freedom some goals are that they need to be of your highest standards and really challenging, complex, and high-level directions and requirements. Both my games are very different one of them is very well thought and another has like 10 bugs in there that I am trying to figure out.

Chase game code

My best code was probably the code that was in my chase game. In the screen shot on the left it show my chase game code and I think that this was my best code because it had the best turn out then all my other ones. These codes turned out the best because they were fairly simple and I could do it without any bugs. My biggest bug was the bug that was stuck in my plat former. My plat former was bugged up because in the process of trying to make the backgrounds change so that there would be two levels were hard and the fact that when it started the words were not starting when the game started.

Invention Commercial

Hey everyone my teams goal for this assignment was to get the project done within the standards. I liked having the requirement of ENTERTAINMENT because we could have a little fun and we could get really creative. Another goal that my team had was getting it in on time. This was a major goal for us because we were kinda getting into it with each other. We were fighting with each other because we all wanted something but didn't want the same thing as each other. I was really scared when doing this project because I didn't think my idea would be good enough and thought that they wouldn't like it.

When we almost broke the car was would probably be team moment. We almost broke the car because we had the blow torch and we put it right by the car. When we were filming at a building we kept driving it off a ledge. By the end of filming we had to zip tie the middle of the car. It was really fun especially when we got together as a team and worked and made some treats for a fundraiser the next day.

While editing Ala and I shared most of he editing. Ala had most of everything because he's awesome at it. If you hatched the video he did an amazing job at talking and editing. Makaio was an awesome photographer and had a lot awesome shots. I have to admit that I can't do anything as good as them. When trying to film our last project I couldn't even talk into the camera because I stutter. When filming I have to give credit to them because they may not seem like they don't do anything in class but when we go out of school to film they are focused the whole time until we are done. 

Composition Scavenger Hunt

Hey everyone Mr. Sanderl gave us a little test on composition technique and I got all of them right except for leading lines. I thought leading lines was the most important because half the class got it wrong. I was one of those people because I didn't really get it but if Mr. Sanderl gave us another test I would ACE it. If I asked you right now would you say yes or no. If your answer yes your wrong even though the kite looks like it's leading to the person. Well now look at the next picture of the tire tracks on the beach. Would you guess that this is leading lines? Well this is leading lines because it is pointing to the trees in the background.Well now you  know a little bit about leading lines just like me.

The most difficult for me was color in contrast. Color in contrast was hard for me because I don't use it as often and don't know how to use it.I can use color in contrast for when I need thing to  pop out and stand out. Some things I could make pop using color in contrast is people, flowers, plants and even words on text. If you put people in whtie and put them by trees it is color in contrast because it's white with green. When I took my picture of color in contrast I didn't make it work because there were dead     flowers in it and they were both nature.

                                                                 

With my team of three there was Alakai Gonsalves, Makaio Gonsalves, and me. If you didn't know this already I don't want anybody thinking that Alakai and Makaio are brothers cause they are Cousins. Ala likes to Play basketball and he likes to build things. Makaio likes to play soccer and lives in Anahola. Makaio, Ala and I are really close so this project seemed easy but we didn't want to say anything that hurt anybody. I like to  do archery and hunt. In this project Makaio was like the model because all of us didn't want to really be in the picture. I was like the camera man because I was good at filming. Ala was the main editing man because he knew where everything is and how good it would be.

Cracking the Code

Did you know that famous basketball player Chris Bosh is learning to code.Yellow everyone, This project that we're working on is a coding project. Some of the sixth graders are saying we should learn how to do it. So I think everyone should learn how to code because it is very key in how to get a job. A lot of high paying jobs will except you if you know how to code because there isn't very much coders in the world. Even Famous people like Will.i.am even learned to code, You don't have to be famous to code but it may make you famous.

Have you ever coded before? Well the very first time i've coded was just a few weeks ago and it was pretty fun. I went onto code.org with Mr. Sanderl my teacher and did the very first lesson at first it didn't make any sense. I thought that the funnest one was the flappy bird lesson because it felt like you were making your own app with easy codes.It was really easy until level ten when you had to use the repeat button. Overall I think it was a very good experience because now I pretty much know how to code and can make my own app if I wanted to even.

  If I could design an app that you can download onto any Device and it can give you ideas of things to do and if you need to buy anything it will tell u the exact place. I would create an app like this because sometimes I get bored and I want to go on Pinterest but it doesn't tell me where to buy the thing so with this app I would be able to do projects. I think that people would want this app on their phone because they want to bake stuff and make projects but they can't find where it's located. I would create this app using all the things that Mr. Sanderl taught me because I'm still not used to this. I would even use this app when I'm at home and is nothing to do and I can't watch a video because whatever reason and I'm just sitting there doing nothing. 

My Humorous Monologue

What's up everyone!! The most important thing I've learned from this project was probably to copy your work before you edit it your HTML because on Thursday I had to make it all over because I deleted it all. I felt very stupid but then I looked at everything else I learned. Like how I learned that when you work with yourself it can be harder since you have no one to lean on except yourself. Especially since you have to work on a lot of sin a very short time and you always leave it for the week before the project is due. Another thing I learned is Patience because when working with yourself you always feel like it isn't gonna be the best and lower your self confidence. In all I learned that when working by yourself you can have a very very very hard time.


Pad is when you add extra rolling time to your film. You should add pad to your film because when you don't your voice or monologue gets cut off. I added pad to my film hopefully because I knew that it was crucial. I also did to my partners Ashley Alfiler and not sure if she did the same for me. If you haven't already you should go and check my work and see if I did. When you are finished watching you should go and comment and tell me if you did. When I think padding your clips I think of adding extra protection to my film.



Okay guys I don't want to admit this but my biggest weakness was the lighting. Lighting was my biggest challenge because I was filming on the inside of my house and the lighting wasn't very good. My biggest strength was probably getting my 5 year old brother (at the time 4) to help me with this project. I practically bribed him into doing this by telling him I would make him caramel popcorn, ice cream, and giving him money. One way I could improve is by leaving more pad not in film but in time. I should have left pad in time so I wasn't rushing and I could have added music, more transitions, and maybe even effects.