HDR Photography

HDR Photography stands for high dynamic range imaging and it's exactly what it sounds like. It's a method used to add more "dynamic range" into photos. Dynamic range is a ratio from light to dark. When you take a regular photo, it's just one. When you use HDR, you take 7 photos taken from all different exposures. We use Photoshop to layer these 7 images and highlight the best parts of the photo. I like HDR sometimes, when it's used right but other times it just makes things look terrible.

To create an HDR image, you take 7 photos at different exposures from -3 to +3 without moving the camera at all and then going into photoshop to put it all together. In Photoshop, you go to File > Automate > Merge to HDR. Photoshop does it thing and then allows you to edit what HDR image it gave you. This,  I think this is very different from automatic HDR, like the thing on your iPhone. When you do you it on your phone, it's way less drastic then when you would do it professionally in Photoshop.

Movie Trailer Critique

For most of 2nd Quarter, our project was to create a Movie Trailer and Poster. We decided to do ours on a old legend, The Lady In White. The Lady In White, is an old myth originated in the Phillipines. My teammates were Daileen Barton, Taylor Chang and Tu Nguyen. For our Trailer Plan document we had to write all our scenes, our movie synopsis, our voice acting script, and and the plot, story, and meaning.

The project requirements were quite simple really. We had to make the trailer as appropriate as possible so 1st grade level kids could watch it. We were told to put our poster in the trailer, have a minimum of 5 scenes, our timing had to be between 1:30-2:30 minutes, a voice acting script, dialogue, and foley. We completed most of them, what we didn't really do was make it 1st grade appropriate.

For our class critique, for audience we got mostly satisfactory which I agree. I don't think it was "Above and Beyond!" but it wasn't so bad. I learned to mostly follow requirements and rules and you might be a little more satisfied with what you come out with it.

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.