Facial expressions are most likely universal because, siting the evidence from "Are There Universal Facial Expressions", explain how facial expressions are universal with a quiz. A New Guinea man is shown making 4 different reactions (facial expressions) to whatever scene he is told. The first facial expression he was asked to make was, "If his kids had died", by taking to quiz you can tell that he was sad because, sad facial expressions usually have a frown and droopy eyes. Next, he was asked, "If he stepped on a smelly dead pig", and of course his face could tell you he was disgusted by that. This quiz goes to show, facial expressions are universal and doesn't just apply to one person.
The project we are making this quarter is called a low-poly portrait. A low-poly portrait is an image created by 3-5 sided geometric shapes. For our project, you activate the grid on PhotoShop and create a red line (or any color you choose) down the middle. The goal of this project is to make a symmetrical low-poly portrait of our faces. The next step is to create all the triangles on your face. Since this project is called a "low-poly portrait" your going to simplify the image by using bigger triangles. After making your triangles, you're going to go to filter, blur, then average to fill the triangle with color. To do so, click on the polygonal lasso tool and outline your triangle. After filling in your triangles, take your low-poly and copy it. After doing so, flip the copy to make the other side of your face and, you're done!
After finishing poly-1 and poly-2, there were obviously many different tactics to them. In poly-1, I had to split my face down the middle and make triangles to fill my face. As for poly-2, all I really had to do was make straight up triangles and filling them in right there. For poly-1, I had to average the color of the triangle with my skin. It was pretty easy to do but was very time consuming. For my poly-2, I could just make the triangles and fill them in with color straight away. That was easy to do but, it was difficult not to get the same color as the other triangles. Poly-1 was also kind of difficult to do because, you couldn't really tell if you overlapped other triangles or not. If you did, you had to redo the triangles. Poly-2 you had to make sure you didn't do your triangles too small. As you can see, there are some good and bad things about doing these ways, but I personally prefer poly-2 because it made me feel more challenged and I always like a challenge.
Nature can impact every one's lives in many different ways. It can make you feel a variety of emotion and feeling in general. For me personally, nature makes me feel at peace. Nature makes me feel free and relieves my stress. I love to go outside everyday and sit in my big mango tree in my backyard and just think. Sometimes I even have friends come over and sit in the tree with me. Most days though, I love to just sit in my tree and do my homework. I feel relaxed and at peace, there's no other place I would rather do my homework. When I'm done I usually ask one of my friends if they wanted to join me. When they would come over we would sometimes take pictures, eat food, do some homework, just anything really. This big mango tree really impacts my life because, It's been growing ever since my family moved to Anahola. I have always climbed the tree and just sit in it. This tree is one of my happiest places ever and I love it.
Although time lapses and slow-mos are beautiful, they are sometimes pretty difficult to take. Time lapses are more on the easier side though. For a time lapse, there is going to be 2 parts sky and 1 part ground. The camera has to also be stable enough during the time lapse so, when you edit the video it won't be too shaky. For a slow-mo you want to be really close to what you are filming. You also have to make sure that you don't move too much in your slow-mo or the outcome won't really be that high quality shot you're looking for. Overall, for a time lapse make sure your shots aren't too shaky and your horizon line straight. If it isn't very straight, then I suggest you fix the horizon line before you start to film your time lapse. For a slow-mo get up close and try and also make an environmental tripod.
There were many bumps along the way of creating my time lapses and slow-mos. There was also a problem that I had along the way with my poem. At first, I had absolutely no idea what to write about. There were so much ideas running through my mind but somehow I didn't have one for my poem. So, when I went home I read some nature poems and bounced off some ideas. I ended up writing a free verse poem with the 5 senses. Next, was to get my time lapses and my slow-mos. You see, these were difficult because, you had to think of a place and what you're going to do. I thought this part was the hardest because, I had to film the sunset at Hanalei for my final time lapse. The difficult part about this is, a lot of people go to Hanalei to jump off the pier so, it's basically a huge tourist attraction and everyone goes there. Instead of going all the way to the pier I stayed on shore and filmed my time lapse there. Then, cars were passing people were passing, it wasn't what I wanted in my time lapse. So, to solve that problem I angled the camera up and filmed the sky. I may have not gotten the whole beach but, I got a beautiful Hanalei sunset. Even though there was bumps along the way, my favorite part was filming my slo-mos and timlapses.
Critique Reflections: I agree with the results 100%. The only one I honestly don't understand is the 2 but, maybe it's because 2 of my shots were shaky. I think some people might have given me a 4 because of my scenery, or maybe it was just a good poem, or it's just good overall. I think I could've stabled some of my shots a little more and maybe have read slower. Also, I think I should've made the music a bit louder but still quieter than my natural sound. Overall, I think I did a very good job with my ReTime Nature video and I will do the highest quality possible on my next video project.
Poetry has a lot of meanings to different people. It can be calm, soothing, frustrating etc. It's all about your mood and the way your brain is flowing. To me, I think poetry is art in the form of words. It can represent your emotions and all the thoughts going through your head. Poetry can also teach you life lessons in a rhythmic way. Words that relate to your life in a way can affect the way you feel about the world around you. Poetry can also show you how words can be turn in creative expression.
Best friends are there for you FOREVER and ALWAYS,
They're Kind, Caring, Compassionate and, they have your back
Sometimes they can be crazy like they lived in a zoo but,
If YOU were their Best Friend, you would have their back too,
be crazy with them! They're your BESTFRIEND boo (;
Rhyming can be easy at times but, the rest of those times, rhyming and getting that rhythm down can be very hard. If you're a creative and open minded person, doing something like a poem shouldn't be that hard for you. If you're a intelligent thinker, it could be kind of hard for you because, it has to make sense to you. I'm a thinker but, I'm creative as well. We had to do a poem as you can see above, it was very hard for me to think of a theme that I can rhyme easily with. It was difficult for me because, I am also an intelligent thinker and everything in the poem had to make sense to me. It became easier once I figured out what to write about and found some words to rhyme with. After that, I finished off the poem and got to move on to the next step in this project.
P2T1 Dangerous Woman from
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Okay, this is the last blog post of my 6th grade school year. One of my favorite things to do is listen to music. In GT we have a chance to make a music video with a song of our choice. In my team is Isaac, Raja, Coral and, me. The song we chose to do is Dangerous Woman by Arianna Grande. It's one of my favorite songs to listen to so I was obviously excited about this project. So, the lyrics in the first part is "Oh, yeah don't need permission made my decision to test my limits cause it's my business, God as my witness" Our storyline for this part is a business scene. It's suppose to match up with the part "Cause it's my business, God as my witness." Obviously because it says business in it :). Since the title is Dangerous Woman, we decided to pretend that Raja and Coral both go crazy but in a good way. It was suppose to show that they are independent and do what they want to do. The only thing I do not advise doing is throwing papers around at your job.
My favorite fast-edit montage is probably the part when Isaac is lip-syncing. It started out as Isaac just lip-syncing to the song but we wanted to put some humor in it. So, instead of making Isaac 'disagree' with the girls, we just put him in a wig! The first wig was pink and black for his first lip-sync. For the second time he lip-syncs we put him in a bright pink wig wit a cute little hat on top. I think we did a pretty good job with putting him in a wig, it was also for humor but, also because it made our music video more interesting. For an example it added more surprise to it. You'd never expect to see Isaac in a wig for our project. To be honest though, Isaac didn't want to wear the wig but we said it was for GT purposes. After a long time of convincing, he complied and agreed to put the wig on. So, that's how we got him to wear a wig and it's my favorite fast-edit montage because, it has some great humor in it. We also made him do a hair flip. :)
This music video showcases my best work because, of all the edits I had to do. I finally learned how to pad correctly and, make sure all of the shots make sense. It shows what I'm capable of doing in iMovie. To be honest, it was kinda hard in the beginning of the year to work with iMovie because, I haven't worked with it before. Doing this music video, it was my chance to show that can do better than last year. That I know what I'm doing and, how I'm doing it. The best part of making this music video was being able to work with an amazing group. We have had our disagreements and arguments but, we have worked through it and was able to make an awesome vid for GT. Our music video also shows how well we worked together. Dubey ( Isaac ) was hesitant about putting on a wig but, for the team's sake he put it on. I had a blast in GT this whole year and I also had some tough times but, I know I always had my friends there with me.
P2T6 Malia Finds Courage from
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My keywords connect with my audience because, they can relate to it. Our keywords are inspire and courage, people can relate to them because, they know what it means and they at least have to have it happen to them. The first keyword is inspire. There are many different ways to be inspired by something or someone. For an example, I was inspired to do art when my brother started drawing. He is an amazing artist and I look up to him a lot. Our second keyword is courage. You know when your teacher tells your class is doing a project and you have to present? What about speaking in front of an audience for a talent show or for a campaign? All of these take courage. Sure you may get anxious and not want to go up but, courage keeps you going. You have to have courage in many things or else you may not succeed.
Our overall message for our movie trailer is kind of simple honestly. The movie trailer is about how a friend can help you through some tough times. It is called "Akasha Inspires Courage." It's about how Malia surfs and gets wiped out. She doesn't want to surf anymore but then she meets Akasha. Akasha is a horseback rider and she loves what she does no matter what happens. Since Malia doesn't want to surf anymore, Akasha talks to Malia and inflicts courage in Malia. The next day when Akasha and Malia go back out to the ocean again, Malia surfs well and she makes it. Akasha is proud that Malia will continue surfing and is proud she helped out one of her friends.
The biggest challenge we faced so far was filming. It was the biggest challenge because, our schedules are way different from one another. I am free almost everyday, Malia sometimes has practice at different times and, Akasha has soccer games and the arena is used on Tuesdays and Fridays. So, this made our filming pretty hard. When we finally found a day all of us were available, its was still pretty hard to film. The reason is because, we used a GoPro Hero to film our water scenes. This was hard for me since I had to film and I didn't have a board. We also couldn't see what the GoPro Hero was filming (I knew that) so I didn't know if I captured the right shots or not.
P2T6 Reality Meets Animation from
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My teammates' personal traits are a leader, weird, fun, quiet, kind, shy. My personal traits are artistic, creative and, clumsy. All of these traits are very different from one another. Some how, we actually got to animating and got to exaggerate our character's traits. So in the beginning, Cody is planning to go for a walk and suddenly Jason and I walk up to Cody. Cody then asks if we wanted to join him. We agree but I ask where we are going to go because, if your gonna go for a walk wouldn't you have to know where? He suggests we go to the forest because, he heard about a new path there. Then, he goes the wrong way and I tell him it's the other way. Then when we find the portal and I fall in, Jason insists on going after me. Once all of us are in the portal, I'm creative by calling the new world we find the "Animation World" since all of us are basically animated. Then, we meet an all powerful computer that makes us do 3 trials. When all of us finish the 3 trials together, the computer sends us back the reality.
We used humor in our story by first making Cody accidentally go the wrong way to the forest. Second, being the clumsy person I am, I fall into the portal that appeared out of nowhere. Jason then tells Cody that they can't leave me in a magical portal in the woods because, obviously it's not right. In the end, I then have to pet a snake. I overreact but, Cody then convinces me to finally pet the snake. Our life lessons relate to people because, it tells us that friends are always important. No matter what happens you can always get another friend but, you can't always get another best friend.
I would say our level of productivity was pretty low. Since we haven't worked with each other before we were all really, really shy. We would only really chat with one another on the computer. The biggest challenge was probably talking to my teammates. Since we had to do a slide, we had to talk to each other to be able to actually do it. It was hard for us to do the slide since all of us were too shy to talk.We were the last team to present but, since we didn't talk to each other much we had to redo the presentation. You could probably guess that it didn't go well. The consequence of being the last team was less time to work on the actual animation. As I said before all of us were very shy. It was very difficult to wok together but at least we got some of the animation.
There are many different ways to define me. I am unique, funny and that person who you can talk to and trust. One reason why I say I'm unique is because, everyone is different. No one is perfect and no one is un-perfect, we are who we are. I say I'm funny because, I make a lot of my friends laugh whenever I can. They also tell me that I'm funny :D. You can also trust me for various things. Another way to define me is clumsy. I have a lot of imperfections, everyone does. Such as me tripping over almost everything xD. One relatable one is I can't fix my bed perfectly. In the morning when I have to fix my bed, I feel like the sheets are just too heavy to lift up and it feels like it's gonna take forever to fix it. Another relatable imperfection is brushing your hair. Sometimes my hair doesn't want to cooperate with me and just wants to stay down. When I try to brush my hair, sometimes the brush catches some of my bangs and it just messes up everything about my hair. Same thing happens when I try to put my hair in a bun or ponytail. I think these imperfections are somewhat relatable :)
I don't really plan to add much traits to my animation of myself honestly. I plan to add the main traits about me like how I'm very weird or how I'm funny. I could also be sociable and happy. I could do this and add all of these by simply the way my character acts. Maybe I can make myself talk a lot and, just that person who wants to talk and meet everyone. I could make myself very clumsy, like I am 24/7, and trip over a lot of things in the path. There are many traits about me and I could put all of those traits into my character. The only problem is, its might take a while to put all those traits into my character.
The step-by-step process of creating my GIF is kind of confusing to me. First you have to crop it the correct way. If you don't and, it ends up being 640 in by 720 in when it's suppose to be pixels... Your PhotoShop might crash. So, your have to make sure you put pixels and not inches. To be honest, I don't really enjoy making a GIF animated character because, it's very hard and confusing. After you make it the right size, you have to start animating. Honestly, the animating part was actually pretty easy. The only hard and confusing parts about making my GIF was everything else, even putting in the background.
The point of composite images is to go beyond the limitations of a camera. For an example, the camera's viewfinder isn't able to take a picture of the scene in different angles at once. By taking more photos you could capture more of the scenery. As an example, taking multiple pictures can include more detail of the scenery itself.
Polar and spherical panos are two different images. A polar pano image is almost like a snow globe. The image is basically turned inside out. For an example, the ground becomes the frame around the globe and, the sky and objects smashed inside the frame. A spherical pano is when a scenery becomes it's own miniature world. The ground becomes the world while the sky is surrounding it.
The one thing that makes my tiny world convincing I the way I edited it. I made sure all the colors matched each other so it wouldn't look like a line was going through my world. Another thing that made it convincing is that I made hopefully everything even. For an example, I had to even out the shape of the water in my sphere world.
David Hockney's photomontages are different than mine because, he uses more photos to create his. His photomontages are also more what a photomontage would look like. Different angles to make a pretty cool image. Mines doesn't have that much angles of the camera put into it. For my photomontage, I didn't have that much angles to work with. Some of the pictures I took were straightened out. In other words, I took pictures of how you would normally take it. One other thing that is different is that he added more background than I did.
It depends on what the image is. It can send positive messages if someone can relate to it. A image can send negative messages if someone thinks that the image is offensive. For an example, cyberbullying. Images that are posted about a person can send negative messages about the person. They can be offended and hurt. that's a negative message. If you post something good about them it can send positive messages.
The message I want the audience to see is, even a stuffed animal can be one of the most important things in your life. I have had my panda since 2005, I named her Lovie because, I felt like she loved everyone (I was only 1). When I was little I refused to go anywhere without her. When we went to the store, I had to leave her in the car because, apparently you can't bring a medium sized panda in Walmart >.<. Back to the message.. I don't think taking a picture of a stuffed panda as one of the most important things in your life is a childish thing. That stuffed animal could mean the whole WORLD to you. For an example my panda as you see above ^^^ I have had her since I was 1. I have had her for 11 years! I want people to see that even the little things can be the biggest thing you can ever care about.
I have many goals I want to do but, I picked five of those many goals that I want to do. My first goal is, to get higher grades. My grades might be good but I always get at least two B's. I want my grades to reduce down to at least one B or all A's. My second goal is to, eat healthier and work out more. I used to be active a lot but then I turned into a couch potato. The third goal for me is to, clean my room more often. My fourth goal is to stop watching Tv for the whole weekend. I would literally tell my mom to get me snacks for my Walking Dead marathon. The last goal for me is to convince my mom to let me have a cat. I don't know why but they're just so cute and fluffy. I understand why my mom won't get me a cat though. It is because, we have two dogs and two birds.
My most important goal
is probably to get higher grades. The reason why that is the most important is because, I want to be in a good college. I don't want to have bad grades. Mainly because, my parents get mad sometimes and i get grounded :/. I also want good grades because, I feel accomplished whenever I get good grades. The last reason why is probably because, it makes my parents happy and they are very proud.
To make that goal a success, I will do better in my classes. In class, I sometimes don't get to finish my work and when I get home, I sometimes don't end up doing it. So, one of the ways to fix that is putting my homework some place where I will remember where it is. Another way to accomplish that goal is to pay attention more in class so I know what to do. I honestly don't know what else I should do to accomplish that goal si i'll end this writing session here :) Have a Great Day!!! :)
After finishing poly-1 and poly-2, there were obviously many different tactics to them. In poly-1, I had to split my face down the middle and make triangles to fill my face. As for poly-2, all I really had to do was make straight up triangles and filling them in right there. For poly-1, I had to average the color of the triangle with my skin. It was pretty easy to do but was very time consuming. For my poly-2, I could just make the triangles and fill them in with color straight away. That was easy to do but, it was difficult not to get the same color as the other triangles. Poly-1 was also kind of difficult to do because, you couldn't really tell if you overlapped other triangles or not. If you did, you had to redo the triangles. Poly-2 you had to make sure you didn't do your triangles too small. As you can see, there are some good and bad things about doing these ways, but I personally prefer poly-2 because it made me feel more challenged and I always like a challenge. 
