Typography Images

A Typography is a style or way to make art by typing something out. Typography is a kind of design and use of text as a mean of communication. You can use any subject but for our class we took a picture of a teacher at our school. We then used words to fill in their contour. The words are mainly of that persons life, what they like to do, etc. When it is used with images, it makes an impact because when you can see the person as the main subject, mixed with the words about them and their life it makes a big impact on the whole thing. It just shows who they truly are. 

My biggest challenge so far during this project would have to be with my text. When I copy and paste the text it turns out very spaced out and far away from the other words. I noticed that there is a tool in Photoshop called the Kerning tool that helps fix the problem. A way that you can customize your text and the spacing however you want it to look. So to overcome this problem, I went in to Photoshop, found the Kerning tool and fixed my text so that there wouldn't be spaces in between. To overcome any issue all you have to do is stay focus and keep getting help from the people sitting besides you and all around you. 

First of all my Innovator practice picture(the top one)is of Thomas Edison who was one of the most significant innovators and inventors in American history. This is different from the other ones because the background is black and the text is white. The text used in this one is about his life and his history. My next example is the teacher one(the middle one). My teacher was Mr. Relacion, who is an English teacher for 7th grade here at Kapa'a Middle School. This one is different from the other one because the background is white and the text was black but is now colorful. The text that I used in this one is about Mr. Relacion's life and what he likes to do. My last example(the bottom one)is of me. This one is different because the the way we made this one is a totally different way than how we made the other ones. Also the text that I used in this one is describing me and what I like to do. My favorite one out of the three would probably be my teacher picture because I think I did my best on that one. Also because I tried my hardest on that one because I didn't want to mess up on that one because he is a teacher. 

Double Exposed Portraits

Portrait photography is a photo of one specific person or a whole group of people that shows the expression, mood and personality of the person or group. It is usually of the persons face but may include the rest of the body in the background. Since a profile view is of a persons face only showing one side, it can relate to portrait photography because it is still a picture of someones face. Silhouetting is usually a person, object, animal etc. that is black or darkened so it becomes black and plain so the background stands out and causes that shadow look on the silhouette.

Double Exposures are created in Photoshop by you first start by loading the photos into a stack. Then you rotate, resize and crop the image. After that you do blend mode and you change it to screen. Then you change the color tone, and avoid "happy mistakes" or just work on the quality of it. Then you are done! You would want to make a Double Exposure because it makes your picture turn out amazing and also it's very creative. You would want to make this kind of artwork because, it just shows the true beauty of who you really are especially if your pictures in the background are of your life.

The symbolism in my two examples are of my life and my school. My practice one(the first one)
is pictures of the plants and trees at our school during a class session. Then the second photo example(my final one)has two photos. The first picture is of Hanakapiai falls which is located here on Kauai. It is my favorite place to hike and my favorite to swim under a waterfall. Then the second picture is of my backyard. I have a river and it leads all the way down to Kealia Beach on the East Side of Kauai. The quality of my worked could've improved in the layer effects part. I feel like I could have added more to it to make it look way more cool. Overall I think it turned out pretty good though.

HDR Photography

HDR photography, is a method that aims to add more dynamic range to photographs, where dynamic range is the ratio of light to dark in a photograph. Instead of just taking one photo, HDR uses three photos, taken at different exposures. What I like about HDR photography is that it can take up to seven photos with different exposures and take all of them and create a beautiful shot that really brings out the details of that place. There isn't really anything that I dislike about HDR, but one thing might be that when taking a picture of a crowded place or with movement, it tends to make the picture turn out bad.

When creating a HDR picture you start by finding a location where there are no people(so there is no movement). Then you start at the exposure of -3 and work your way up to +3 or if you want you can go from +3 to -3. Then you take the seven photos and merge them to HDR pro in Photoshop. Then you can edit the picture it creates! Whats different between HDR Photography and the automatic HDR functions is that the first one takes up to 7 photos ranging from light to dark, but when using just the automatic HDR it only takes one photo.

When I created the two HDR images, there was definitely a thought process to it. First I had to make sure that wherever I took this photo, it would be creative and also that there wouldn't be any people in my shot because of movement. Then I noticed that right after you take the first shot at -3 and you go to change it to -2, if you move the camera or the tripod just a little bit, it may mess up your HDR photo. Then when I was finished taking my seven photos, I went back to the classroom. I merged the photos to HDR Pro and started editing them, in Photoshop.

Movie Trailer Critique

For this project we made a movie trailer. First what we had to do was create a story to use for the trailer. Then we made a trailer production plan and we went to work on planning everything out so we could start filming. In this project I had 3 other teammates, Leleaka Anakalea, Brooke Kauo, and Wailana Makepa. In our Trailer Plan document we had to make a Movie Trailer Synopsis also a Voice Acting Script. These were used to help the watchers know what was happening. We also had to chose who the main characters were and the location we were planning on filming. Also the plot and the meaning of the story. Then we could start planning out our scenes. We had a total of 10 scenes that we filmed. For this project to work we had to all contribute to get it done. We all had to help out. 

The requirements for this project were that the time had to be 1 and a half minutes to 2 and a half minutes, we also had to have text layovers, effects, dialogue, our movie poster and 5 scenes. We also had to have the Voice Acting script. I think that my team and I did complete all of the requirements and the final product came out really good. I think our team didn't win because people usually choose comedy over romance. Overall the reason we had all the requirements was because we all worked together to get it completed. 

In the end we watched all of our videos and completed a critique. On the critique we had to check if the that team had Room for improvement, satisfaction, and above and beyond, for audience, creativity and requirements. Sadly we lost to Maceo's team only by two points. For the results I do agree with what people put for us. We only had satisfaction and above and beyond so we didn't have any room for improvement votes. In the end I learned that everything is much easier to do with a team, and if you don't cooperate then the job won't get done.

Movie Poster Prom

In our movie poster, Andrea is played by Leleaka Anakalea, and John is played by Gabriel Sifuentes. The picture I used was a picture of Leleaka and Gabriel sitting next to each other on a dock. The location was at Stone Dam in Kilauea. The picture of them sitting on the dock is supposed to be there favorite place to go on dates.

Our title is called Letters to John because after John went missing he kept writing letters to Andrea, so Andrea would write back and that's why we called it Letters to John. The other text that we added to our poster are the names of the actors and who will be playing them. Also the reviews from the different critics. Then we added the Production Company (DreamWorks) and that the movie is coming soon. Kerning is the process of adjusting the spacing between letters in the font, usually used to achieve a pleasing result. We use Kerning because when you type out a word it's best to give it a better look because you don't want a boring word. You can move it up, down, side, to side and you can space it out to however you want it to look like.

Overall the use of layer effects and filters used in my poster made my poster look interesting. For example the title had Drop Shadow, Stroke, Bevel and Emboss, which made my title standout or pop out. Also that when I added the picture I had already edited it so it had a nice filter on it.

Visual Literacy

In Mrs. Sanderl's 7th period class we did a project were we folded a book in to a word. The process to this project was that we first started off with a word that had to be 4 letters or less. Then we printed out the word with gray and white lines. We had to count each line that was on the paper. We then chose a book that had more pages then the number we counted on the paper. Then we started folding. Isaac Salazar, the creator of book folding, has been folding since October 2009. He first started off doing simple letters, then he moved up to more complex words. Visual Literacy is the ability to make meaning from information presented in the form of an image. It's based on the idea that pictures can be read. Visual Literacy is used in this project because when you make a word, people have to figure out the meaning of your word.

For my books, I chose the words "Life", and "Love". Both of my books have different fonts, the first font had a curvy flow to it. The second book "Love" had a simple font, I think I did it a simple font because the first book was really hard because my font was hard to follow. Overall for my two books, I folded about 300 pages each. The purpose for the words I chose were that Life is what people live, and Love is what people have.

In the end I think my books turned out really good. Next time I would try to fold my pages a little nicer because some of them are off by a little. If I were to do this project again, I would choose another word. The word I would do would be my name, but I want to do one letter per book. The reason I want to do it that way is I've never tried it that way, and I think it would look cool and interesting.

Proactive or Procrastination?

I am proactive person. To be proactive you take care of things right away and you don't come up with reasons or excuses not to do it. I would say I'm proactive because I do take care of things right away so I have free time afterwards. I don't come up with reasons not to do it. Even though tons of homework gets on my nerves, I still try my hardest to get it done, especially if its due on Monday and I have the whole weekend to work on it.

My level of productivity gives me a lot of free time, in school and after school. I have more free time after school though because I can get my homework done quickly. If I do that then I have time to do whatever, invite my neighbor over, jump on my trampoline or even go for a walk. In school I don't get that much free time because we are usually working right up to the bell. Only once in a while we get a few minutes of free time.

If there was a way to change something about how I work it would be, the neatness. I would change how neat I write because right now I don't like my handwriting. It makes my papers kind of messy but not that bad. To do that I will write a little slower and just focus on keeping it neat. Another thing I would change is how organized I am. I'm pretty organized, but I could do better. To do that I will just keep everything in order, neat and organized.