Movie Poster Promo

In our latest G.T project, The main character in my movie poster is my one teammate, Daileen Barton, basically becasue she plays the most important character. She's centered in the middle of the poster and just kinda be standing there with all cool layer effects around her being that it is a horror movie.

Our title is pretty basic really, it's the name of the ghost, ya know. "The White Lady". All the other text is just the production house, credits, characters names, critics, when it's gonna come to theathers, and the slogan. Kerning is spacing between letters and lines. I think it's important to use because of the fact that you need to make your title look good becasue it's the first thing people are gonna see before they see your movie and if your movie poster and title look bad, there go your views. See how good you are at it.

I think layer effects and filters had a huge part in the making of our poster to make it look scarier.

Proactive or Procrastination?

To be honest, I am probably the biggest procrastinator you will probably ever meet. I don't use my time wisely and I'm one of those people that lays in bed on Sunday night and realizes that I have a ton of work to do. Yes, It's real, that really happens.

I have free time all the time, which is probably what causes most of my stress because I need to turn things in on time. Like half of my projects are done at last minute the night before. I tend to work better when I'm tired though. Or when it's late at night because my "creative mind" gets going. Or even when I'm listening to music.

I think I would change my work habits by not waiting to the last minute to finish my work, definitley. And maybe trying to complete everything thats mandatory first, so then I don't have to worry about it in the long run. I could probably do a lot to change my work habits.

My Visual Poem

So we just recently finished our Visual Poem, mine was about time and the title was just "Time" obviously. It was about time like time passing and things similar to that. I, basically the whole thing is like time lapses and text layovers. I wanted to keep it really simple but still "deep" I guess. But basically I have a lot of time lapses because you know; Time Lapses and Time and honestly, I think it resembles everything amazingly and no one realizes time and what it does and whatever I'm rambling.

I didn't really add special effects (even though I was supposed to) Like I said I wanted to keep it simple. But I think not adding them was really good on the mood and the whole overall meaning of my poem.

Um, I don't really have results on how I did from other people, but hopefully I get good ones. And I think I've could've did a little better by maybe like getting more variety of B-Roll and having more text layovers.

Finished News Story

Our news story was about the Rebuilding of Coco Palms. My teammates were Makena Kahananui, Zephen Kaneakua and Shanden Matsushima. Makena's mom, Kristy Kahananui was probably the main contribution to this whole project because obviously we can't drive so she was like our driver for the 9 weeks. Well, she always drives us everywhere but anyways.

I really liked how our final turned out compared to how I thought it was gonna turn out. It could've been way better but I'm happy with the way it turned out.

I agree with these results because like I said we could've done way better buy we did do a good job in general.

Hiki No Behind The Scenes

 Hi! So right now we're doing a video project and we've gotten to pick to either do a news story or a profile story we chose profile and our project idea is basically to cover the story of the rebuild of Coco Palms, the history of it, the future and the when it's gonna happen. It's going good right now, we're a little behind but I'm sure we'll get it finished soon. We've gotten all three interviews and more than enough B-Roll, we have at least 12 sequences but the only thing left is the voice overs than we have to put it together.

When the camera is not rolling we're usually either stressing, planning, or worrying about due dates. We've had a lot of problems so far that threw us so far off of track but we resolved those, but we're still worried about due dates. We don't exactly know how long it's gonna take to finish the rough cut but we're trying really hard to get it done when the cameras aren't rolling.

Lessons Learned

The most interesting part of this project so far was probably getting to interview a bunch of people and learning a lot of new things about interviewing and B-Roll and Rule of Thirds and lighting and Exposure Compensation, I think all of that was really cool and that was definitely the most interesting part for me.

I think the biggest roadblock we've encountered throughout this whole thing was probably planning wrong and having only one interview when the transcribes were due, but definitely due dates were the biggest roadblock we've experienced those are scary.

I think the most valuable part of the filmmaking process was probably getting to edit our shots and getting to see what it looked like all together and instead of different little shots and definitely just getting to edit in Final Cut Pro and learning about and getting some good opinions about what were making.

The Experiment

This is my color palate, I made this because I see them everywhere and I've always wanted to try to make one. A color palate is when you take any picture or drawing, and take out the main colors and place them on top, bottom, or even on the sides. I got this picture off of Google and it took maybe 5-10 minutes to make.

I think we did the this experiment so that Mr. Sanderl could see what we know in Photoshop and if the things that he could help us in. The things that were right about it were that I already kinda knew what I was doing in Photoshop with the things that were doing in Mr. Sanderl's digital art class last year.

Back to School

So school just started again and it's going really well so far. This is our first post of the year. My favorite moment so far was getting into GT and getting to sit next to and learn from my best friend, Makena. I'm only a first year GT student but last year I was in Digital Art/Yearbook so I'm pretty familiar with everything and it's nice to be back in this class. My biggest challenge so far this year would definitely be having to transition from 6th to 7th and having new classes and new teachers and knowing that this grade is gonna be harder than the last.

To be successful this year I plan on trying to make everything easier for myself. I know everything that I need to know and how I'm gonna turn everything on time and be on time for most classes and definitely try not to fall behind in anything I do.