Music Videos Rock!

My team consists of Makaio Gonsalves, Meleana Keawe, and me. I feel that everyone on our team contributes to our project equally. Makaio is a big help when it comes to the set up and break down of our equipment when it comes time to film. Meleana is a big help when it came to the planning and also the camera functions. So I thought id ask my teammates how I contributed, They said that I contributed by helping in the editing process. I think we make a good team and work with one another well.

I feel that the part the audience will enjoy the most is the beginning. The start of our music video starts with each of us lip syncing and I think its pretty funny when it cuts from one person lip syncing to the next person. It starts off with Makaio sleeping on the couch then suddenly waking up and lip syncing. Then it suddenly cuts to me lip syncing. Then it goes to Meleana where jason Mraz is singing. I really just think that the part the audience will like is when were lip syncing.

Lyrical Livelihood

My favorite song lyrics are from the song "Take your time" by Sam Hunt. I like the song because I like how the Sam Hunt expresses the lyrics. I really like the way that the song is written and the story it tells. My favorite part of the song is when it says" No, I ain't gotta call you baby And I ain't gotta call you mine I don't have to take your heart I just wanna take your time" because its basically talking about how he just wants to be freinds and get to know her.

My team is Makaio Gonsalves, Meleana keawe, and me. The music video song my team choose was "Everybody's Got Somebody But Me" from  Hunter Hayes Ft. Jason Mraz. We choose this song because we believed it was a good song that was appropriate for school. Also because the original music video had two guys singing which which is perfect for are team because we have two boys, even though we have one girl we can still incorporate her somewhere in our music video to make sure we meet the requirements.

The visual story that our music video will show is that you can easily make friends by just simply communicating with people and finding things that you have in common with them. It will show this by having our whole team in the beginning lonely with nobody then in the middle trying to find friends and at the end finding friends and hanging out with them.

Our Animation Story

Each team needed to pick one persons story. Our team chose to do a story about sophia and how she faces her fears. Our focus statement is "sophia faces fear" which is pretty self explanatory and shows how she faces her fears. So the story starts off with sophia reading the harry potter book then she goes into a dream which she faces her fears and wakes up unharmed at the end. Although it is pretty difficult to figure out what are focus statement is trying to show, I hope it somewhat makes sense to the audience.

When people watch our animation they will learn that sometimes you need to face your fears even when you don't want to. This will be showed because is shows and says that Sophia will face her biggest fears and she is scared but still does it. Also at the end sophia is given a trophy which shows that if you face your fears you can receive a reward. Me and my team expect to make an impact on people that are afraid to face their fears.

As a team we faces many struggles and problems. At first out team work was going pretty good, we could all agree on something, work together, and complete simple tasks together as a team. Then when we started to film things started off pretty good until we started to get confused on what scenes each other were doing and who should to what. Also everybody thought their idea was the best and right idea even though everybody's idea couldn't be right, right? I think out team struggled because we had 5 people on our team instead of 4 like all the other teams. All I can say is that i'm happy its over and that our finished product turned out alright.

ANIMATION OUTTAKES

 My teammates are Ashley, Sophia, kyla, And Micah. Our job is/was to create a real problem animation with unrealistic movements. Some interesting facts about Ashley is that she cheers for the kapa'a eagles and She wants to be a coach when she grows up. Some facts about Sophia is that she likes to play the piano and also volleyball. Kyla likes school and likes to learn new things.

stop-motion animation is the Process of taking multiple images of and object  which is unable to move on its own to look as if it is moving by itself. Or making a human or animal move in unrealistic ways. Many images are needed depending on the amount of frames per second (fps) which your animation is created with. the more images per second the smoother and more clear your animation will be.

The story we are telling is "sophia faces fear". In our story Sophia dreams about being in the harry potter movie/book. In our animation she faces her fears and completed many tasks. Her Challenge was to do scary things that she did not want to do. you should care because it teaches you to face your fears even when you really don't want to. Although it  really make sense of what the lesson of our story is I hope it is easy to understand after it is all tied together.

Typography Images

Typography is the style and appearance of printed matter. Typography can be either a portrait of someone or an object with a chunk of text placed over it. In our case were using images of people. The text usually shows the persons feelings, but can also represent other things such as their traits, interests, and hobbies. Typography can be used with images to make a lasting impact by making the image memorable.

The biggest challenge during this project so far was understanding how to add the gradient overlay. to overcome the issue I asked for help from Mr. Sanderls helpers and they couldn't seem to fix the problem as well. So I explored through the blend modes and I finally found One that showed the gradient overlay as well as the text. That blend mode was subtract btw. Also I couldn't seen to figure how to create my text brush. So I watched and re-watched the tutorial until I could figure it out

My three examples are of Steve jobs, Mr. Mchugh and Me. What makes each of them different is that they are all done in different methods. Although they are each done using photoshop there were 3 different tutorials we followed. Also they are all of course portraits of different people. My favorite one would have to be the one of Mr. Mchugh, mostly because I like the method and how the text is added to the photo. Here are the links to the other tutorials 1 & 3.

Double Exposed Portraits

Portrait photography is really just a photo of someones face. But more in depth it is a photo of someones face that captures their personality, mood, and expression. Portrait photography can relate to profile view because the focal point in each photo is the persons face. Also a persons feelings can be captured through a profile. It can relate to silhouetting because they both can be shot on only one side of the face.

Double exposures are created in photoshop by first loading all of the photos into a stack. You do this by going to File>Scripts>Load files into stack. When the tab pops up go to browse, then find your photos and press OK. Then use the dodge tool to separate your self from the background. Next, resize the image to 8.5 x 11". After that, its time to get creative. Fist double click each layer and change it to screen mode. Last go to image>new adjustment layer, then explore the different effects until its ends up how you want it.

The two symbols I chose were a wave and a chicken. I chose the wave because I like to go to the beach with my gopro and take photos of waves. I decided to put the chicken because raising chickens is something I enjoy doing. I also chose these photos because I liked how the wave was in my head and the chicken was in my neck. I think they worked really well. Something I could improve is the line right above my ear because of the eraser tool. Another think I could improve on is the cut out with the dodge tool especially by my hair

HDR Photography

HDR Photography or "High Dynamic Range" it is the process of taking multiple images at different exposure levels and blending them together to make the photo look like something your eye would see. You can use HDR to highlight the best parts of an image. In HDR you want to include aYou can also use it to make boring photos less boring and make them pop. I like HDR because it really helps regular old photos more creative and detailed. What I don't like about HDR is that it takes a while to take all the photos then edit them in photoshop

There is 6 easy steps to make HDR photo. Step 1: Change the exposure to the darkest setting then take a photo, then take 6 other photos at brighter exposers. Step 2: Import photos & organize them. Step 3: Open photos in go adobe photoshop. Step 4: File>Automate > Merge to HDR Pro.Step 5: Make the photo More creative using the tools to your right. Step 6: REPEAT! Its as easy as that to get amazing HDR photos. The difference between automatic HDR is that only 3 photos are taken, also the camera does all the work.

In the Landscape photo I was trying to get the fence, pasture, and mountains all in one shot. Also I was attempting to make the horizon line straight  but at the angle I was taking the photo there was no way I would be able to get it perfectly straight. Also I was attempting to get rule of third and it didn't really work out as I would have liked it to. In the Experiment I really wanted my subject (my dad) to hold still  and he did a really good job at that so thats a thumbs up. I also wanted to get him within rule of thirds but it still was a little off. And last but not least I wanted my photo to have good lighting so I faced my back to the sun and made him face the sun, and I think that plan worked out pretty good.