Music Video Finale

P3T4 Happy from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

In G.T, we are starting the last project of the year. This is also my last blog post of the year... I think. Our last project is a music video. We are doing Happy by Pharell Williams. So, our storyline is about some other people who are sad, and I make them happy. I give them magic dust, and they become happy. We all start parading around, spreading joy. In this project, me and another teammate bust out a move. My teammates in this project are Treysen Nishida, James Kessler, and finally Tyler Tanaka. This storyline relates to the lyrics, because, well, the song is literally named happy, and everyone is happy. The music video will have a fun feeling to it, and it will be fun to make and film.

In our project, we have a lot of scenes and edits. My favorite fast-edit was when we have a dance off. It was really quick, but also very fun. We danced, I fell down, and I chased Treysen. We had a fun time filming the video, but it was embarrassing, and sometimes frustrating. Sometimes though, you have to go out of your comfort zone. I am pretty proud of our music video. It is very weird to think that this is our last project of the year. It is good that we are doing this project, and if we should do this project again, we have the experience. The project may also help in future jobs, as we know how to edit and film. We learned how to use special effects, and do green screen.

This music video is pretty good in my opinion. I think it is either the best work or second best work that we did. This is because we had fun, and we did a pretty good storyline. The editing looks pretty good, and it is synced pretty good as well. It fits into the project rules. It is close to 2 minutes, and is pretty high quality. The story is edited to the beat of the song, which also fits the requirements. We added cover pictures, which matches the song, and also green screen and effects. This is our last project of the year, as well as blog post. See you in a couple months!

This is what was happening behind the scenes, while making the video!

Lyrics- Happy by Pharell Williams


well I should probably warn you I'll be just fine

Yeah, no offense to you don't waste your time

Here's why

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you know what happiness is to you

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do

Happy, bring me down

Can't nothing, bring me down

My level is too high, bring me down

Can't nothing, bring me down

I said bring me down

Can't nothing, bring me down

My level is too high, bring me down

Can't nothing, bring me down

I said

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you know what happiness is to you

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you know what happiness is to you

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do

Happy, bring me down

Can't nothing, bring me down

My level is too high bring me down

Can't nothing, bring me down

I said

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you know what happiness is to you

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do

Because I'm happy

Animated Life Lessons

Hello! In G.T we are starting a new animation project. In this project, I was teamed up with new people that I have never worked with. My teammates are Christina and Julie. My teammates are all fun to work with, and they have some personal character traits that we want to exaggerate. In our animation (it's about soccer), Julie is the coach and is nice and supportive. Christina is the friend who is helpful and makes me feel better when I mess up. I am the clumsy player, but I still try hard and practice as much as I can to get better. These character traits are what we have in our animation and real life.

In our story, we have an important life lesson that people can relate to. Our life lesson is to never give up and to keep trying even if you mess up. This can relate to other people because when you mess up, you get very stressed, and you stop. In our story, I get hit in the face and I still keep on trying! That is our life lesson that relates to you. We have humor in our story as well as a life lesson. Like I said already, I get hit in the face, and I just mess up. So our story is not just all the serious life lesson, it is also funny. That is how we used humor in our story and what our life lesson was.

questionable drawings

So, as I have said already, in this project we were all working with new partners. This had some benefits, but also some down sides. Our productivity was good, but sometimes we did not all go in at our free time to work on this project. Our biggest challenge in this project was slow working. We have been behind because of this. Although there was a very frustrating part in this project, we had some fun moments. Our best moment in this project was probably when we were puppet warping. This was the best moment because of the weird movement.

Character Development

Happy late Easter! This post, I am describing myself and talking about the GT project I am doing. I am a person who likes to laugh, and to make people laugh. Sometimes it's on purpose, and sometimes completely on accident. I am nice, clumsy, and I have a lot of reasons to laugh. A funny imperfection that I have is I love pressing the snooze button on my alarm clock. I set my alarm extra early, just to press the snooze. For some reason, it helps me sleep better. Sometimes, I set my alarm a little late on accident, so when I wake up from the snooze, I have to hurry! I don't know why, but that is one strange yet funny imperfection I have.

In my animation that I will be creating, I will exaggerate my character trait of having fun. I might also add in laziness, since I am a little lazy. I will do this by creating scenes in my animation where I am playing with a ball, doing magic, or just having fun. I might also add me sleeping, for the laziness trait. I also want to add in sports in my teams animation, because I love playing sports. Especially soccer, as this is my favorite sport. This would be very cool, and I am excited to finish this animation project.

Creating a good .GIF takes a lot of steps, and some time and focus. Without these things, creating your .GIF will be very hard and frustrating. The first step in this .GIF is to take the pictures. We took the pictures in front of a green screen, so that it is not to hard to cut out in photoshop. The next step is, you guessed it. Cutting you out of the background with the quick selection tool in Photoshop. After you finish cutting it out and making your cutout image a new layer, we saved it. This is where the .GIF will be happening. When creating a .GIF in photoshop, you must crop. We had to crop the image to a certain size. After this, you go to view, animation, and a bar shows up. This is where you can start animating. You can create some new frames, move your character around, and when you are ready, make a new copy layer of your cutout, go to edit, puppet warp, and start animating! I love animating, because although it is frustrating, it can also be funny, seeing you make your arms act all funky. This is also a fun project, because when you finish a scene, you feel proud of it. We will be doing some cool projects, so stay tuned.

My .GIF

.MOV Film Festival

P3T8 James Rescues Candy from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Our teams keywords connect with our audience because it matches what is happening in the movie/film. It also reminds us of what our team is needing to focus on for our film. Our keywords are loss, chase, friendship, rescue, and feelings. Without these keywords, our movie would probably be really strange and unorganized. That is how my teams keywords that our movie revolved around connect with the audience.

My teams movie's overall message is friends trying to escape from the cops, even though they don't think they did anything. Our sort of morale is to stick with friends, and to never leave friends behind. Our ending shows this morale, as he finds a new friend to save his other friend from the cops. We made this movie with action, and a morale, but we express it in a funny way. That is our morale and our overall message in our movie.

In our movie trailer, we had a few challenges. The biggest challenge came while filming. We created some comedy, so our team members were laughing. This led to us having to do the scene over and over again. Also, William, kept messing up on putting the handcuffs on James, in our part where James gets arrested. This also led to restarting the part over and over, since William took to long. Although we had a few challenges, it still went pretty smoothly, and we had fun filming.

Tiny Spherical Worlds

Composite images are good, but why all those images instead of just taking one? If you don't know what a composite image is, it is basically a image made up of several images. Composite images are most of the time more interesting than just one picture, as it is usually abstract and interesting. People get really creative with composite images. They are interesting, and even though they take a lot of work, they can end up to look really beautiful if worked on hard enough. That is why one picture is not always enough, and instead take a few and piece them together. 

If you don't know the difference between a polar and spherical panorama, here it is. A polar panorama looks sort of like a planet, and it is really cool and creative. It is a panorama that is made into a planet with the magic of photoshop. A spherical panorama is also a panorama that is turned into something really cool with Photoshop. A spherical panorama looks a lot like a glass ball, and it is really cool. If you have Photoshop, you should definitely make a polar and spherical panorama. Here are some examples. 1, 2. Check it out!

Spherical 1

My finished polar panoramas/ tiny worlds are pretty convincing because of the magic of photoshop. Photoshop made the planet, I just had to fix the planet. There was a very noticeable line right down the middle of my planet, so I had to use Photoshop's clone stamp tool, because if I just painted on to the picture, it would not look as realistic. So I actually used some parts of the picture and just cloned it and put it somewhere so it would fit in and also make the world convincing. My planets might look like a moon, because I sort of messed up :(. That is what makes my tiny planets convincing that they are actually a real planet (or a real moon). 

Polar 1

Polar 2

                 

Spherical 2

Hockney Style Joiners

In my photomontages, I use different objects and ways to create them than David Hockney. In David Hockney's photomontage, he had to glue them together piece by piece! In mine, I used photoshop to piece all the images together. I took a picture of a doorknob, and David Hockney does more scenic and portrait photomontages. That is how my photomontage is different from the creator of the photomontage, David Hockney.
                                               
 Images can have a positive and negative effect on viewers. How? Photo's that are truly amazing or inspiring can make someone feel energized, happy, or any other emotion that the picture gives off. These are pictures with a positive effect. Yet sadly, some can give off a negative effect. There can be sad pictures, or pictures that are inappropriate, for example a picture meant to tease someone else. That is how images can give off a positive and negative effect. So when you are on social media and looking at pictures, find the positive ones!

For my final photomontage, I want to show people my love for soccer/football. This is my favorite sport, and I just love playing it. I am going to try to edit it so that it is interesting and inspiring. I want to make people want to just get outside and play some old fashioned soccer/football. I want a positive effect on the viewers of the photomontage. This is what I intend the viewers to see.

                                                         
My school
photomontage.

                                                 David Hockney                                                 photomontage.

                                     

                                   My final photomontage -->

2016 Aspirations

For this new year, I have 5 (and a bonus) goals that I want to achieve. I want to at least score 5 goals in the upcoming soccer season. On scratch, I want to start a new game that will be really fun for users.  I also want to learn how to cook more things, because I love cooking. On my youtube channel, I want to hit at least 40 subscribers. I also want to help a lot of people with tutorials. And as a bonus, I want to get more views on my blog. Those are my goals for this new year! Have a good 2016!

The most important goal for me this year is scoring at least 5 goals in the upcoming soccer season. This is very important to me because I am aiming to becoming a pro soccer player. So if I do reach my goal, I will know that I have improved dramatically and I will gain confidence as I make my goal bigger and reach it. Reaching this goal will be a massive milestone for me. That is why that is my main and most important goal this year.

I will do as much as I can to reach my goal. I will practice almost always and always try hard. This goal will be hard to complete because my position is not always forward. I will always try to get to practice on time and every time we have it.  I will not just try to get 5 goals, but more! That is what I will do to reach this milestone.

These are my top
three best picture for the photo-a-day challenge so far.

                    

Scratch Game Design

CONTROLS: Use arrow keys to move. In level 1, touch the red square to get to level 2. In level 2, touch the blue square to get to the boss fight. Press space bar to shoot lasers at Randy Orton. Do not touch him! The orange pool in level 2 is deadly lava. WARNING! This game is super hard. Beat the game before the time runs out. Good luck. In level 2, keep hitting the up arrow to sort of glide above the lava. Once you hit the space bar, you can not press any other arrow!




Scratch Chase Game

How to play: Touch red part to score. Do not touch referee or else you will lose points. Use arrow keys to move. Get to ten points to win. 

Experience from playing other games gave me ideas that would really be useful. It made me think of the players and how they should play it.  Therefore, I decided to make easy controls that most people are used to; the arrow keys. I made it so that up is obviously up, left is left, right is right, etc. I made my games moving pretty smooth so that it would not be disappointing. That is how experience helped me create a better game!

My platformer game and my chase game are very different. The two games have two things in common though. First, I customized thew characters in both games. Also, there is an enemy in both of my games. Now the differences. In my platformer game, there is a boss fight. Also in my platformer, there is way more code than my chase game. There are obstacles and time. There is even levels! Those are how my two games are alike and different.

My best code in scratch was definitely in my platformer game. My best code was either my shooting script which was actually simple yet super effective. Also, my levels took a while to code. It was again, simple, yet also effective. My hardest bug fixes was also in my platformer game. I could not figure out how to stand on my platforms. It was very simple, but at that time I did not know much about scratch. That is a wrap of my best code and my hardest code.

                       

Invention Commercial

This is my teams commercial. It took us quite a bit of effort but it was worth it. Hope you enjoy!!!

My teams main goals in our assignment is to make our commercial convincing, entertaining, and unique. We might be able to achieve this because we have funniness in it, which helps with entertainment. We explain pretty clearly what it does, and we have an invention nobody has made. I think we can achieve our goals. Our invention commercial is hopefully top notch!

The best moment my team had while filming was when we were editing the video. We found awesome music for our commercial and added something funny to it. One of my teammates, Treysen, had a part where he had to act all serious to pick up a weight. We played some intense music and then when he picked up the weight, he fell. When he fell, we added a descent noise and added text to say, "Ouch". That is our teams best moment (or at least what I think was) and why it was.

In our commercial, before we went to editing, we had important roles. Max was the camera man, Treysen was the one who did b-roll, and I was the spokesman. We all did somewhat good at our jobs, and our finished project was very good. We were one of the teams who were on the top and finished first, but we still had to edit. In editing, I was in charge of the music, and I think I found pretty good music. Max was in charge of transitions, and Treysen was in charge of sound effects and text. We were quick yet smart about editing, so we were finished fast.

Composition Scavenger Hunt

This is my groups video of composition techniques. Enjoy!

I think that contrast in content is the most important composition technique because it makes the subject really stand out. The definition of contrast in content is in the link. The contrast in content makes the eye notice the subject immediately, from the difference in color. This composition technique will be very useful in a shot where your subject needs to stand out. If you want a natural object to stand out, you should put the object in front of non natural things. For a man-made thing, do the opposite.

I think the most challenging composition technique is leading lines. First, you must find lines in the world that lead to your subject. The lines must end where your subject is. When you finally find leading lines, it will bring the eyes of your audience directly to the subject. Though it is challenging, it is worth it. I can use it much more so I can make a better video. That is the composition technique I think is the most challenging but one of the best.

My teammates in this project were very helpful. We would never have finished if one of us gave up. We all rotated on being the subject, camera man, and the speaker. We finished pretty quick from doing this. My teammates in this project were Treysen, Max, and me. This project was fun, yet challenging. This project really made me think about the composition techniques and I am going to use them in filming projects to come. My teammates are really helpful and nice.

 These are not the techniques I talked about but they are also some of my personal favorites.

Cracking the Code

 I think everybody should learn to code. I think this because coding can open up so many job opportunities. You can create a system that millions might use! Coding is a very important skill to have. If you want to code or not, you should learn it as a backup. Coding is pretty fun when you get the hang of it. If your job is coding, you will love it. The places where you work are unique and creative. There is so much to do if you chose to code!

My first experience of programming was just a week or two ago. I have never even seen code until I stumbled upon it a few days ago. I am very excited to do more programming. I have heard of coding and I have always been dreaming of creating a good game! I hope I will be able to. I hope I learn a lot about coding and am able to do more. Coding sounds exciting and I can not wait to start.

 If I could design any program or game, I would create a survival game with such good graphics you would swear it was real! You have to survive, find other humans, and create a city! My game would be awesome! I would create more games after that, and more and more! My first game will be a simple game, and then I will move on to harder things to create, such as my dream game.

These are screenshots of the code lessons I took and my certificate for finishing. 

My Humorous Monologue

I have learned so much from my comedy joke project! I learned to keep trying, even if some things were distracting (which they were). I learned how to write a good joke. I learned what b-roll is (added visuals shown while there is speaking in another clip). I had to be responsible in this project because I had to sign out a camera to film my b-roll and I must take care of that camera. I also had to return the camera the next morning, at least in the shape I got the camera. This project helped me to understand time management, because of the deadline.

Their is something in filming called padding. This is a strategy you use for filming. You say rolling when you hit the record button, wait 3 seconds, then say action. That is the beginning part of padding. In the end, you say cut, then count to 3 in your head, then stop recording. This strategy is very useful because it usually take 3 seconds for the camera to actually start and stop recording. You need to use it so that some of your video is not cut off. You can always cut the "action" and "cut" parts. That is padding and why it is useful.

My weakness in this project was the special effects. Every time I added transitions, my visuals went all over the place. At one point, I had to start editing all over again! I think editing was somehow also my strength (not the special effects included). I was one of the first people to put in my visuals. Although it was tough, I handled it well. I could improve by figuring out how to organize better. My visuals at first were all in the wrong spots. I should have organized them better and it would have been easier. That was my weakness, strength, and my ways to improve on this project.                                                    
                          THESE ARE MY GRADES  (The majority gave me a 3)

Comedy Writing

I think sense of humor is an important character trait to have. I think this because it is always nice to laugh, same as making others laugh. Laughing is important because it can relieve stress and can make you feel happy. Laughing will help you in life because if you are sad or depressed, you just should laugh, and you will feel a little better. So for the last time, laugh and make others laugh.

Here are 5 tips for a pretty good joke. This will hopefully make you have better and funnier jokes. You must be confident. Do not be afraid if no one laughs at your joke. Remember one laugh is an accomplishment. My second tip is to think of the persons sense of humor. Try to find something that they would think is funny. Add gestures and possibly speak in a different voice to make it funnier. Try to be your inner self.  Try not to laugh at your own joke. Try your hardest to not get distracted while you are telling your joke. This will make your audience think you are an amateur at joke telling. Those are my five tips.

I came up with my comedic monologue by thinking of an animal that is innocent and funny. I chose a little bird. I added dialogue with sarcasm in it to make it funnier. I added a lot of words in the beginning. I added a cheesy pun (those actually can be funny) and I thought of every one else my age and if they would think it would be funny. My ending was just a simple little sentence, "This bird never flew again". That is how I created my joke. You can follow these steps and maybe create a very funny joke!

Motivational Poster

I will be explaining how I created my motivational poster in photoshop. This is a project for my class. It is challenging but in the end it will look really nice! We put in our text layers, our pictures, and we kerned. Here is how I did it.

Here are the steps. I first created two text layers, one with my personal quotes and one with my personal manifesto. I then added my three personal symbols, things that represent me, and a portrait photo. I put them in one tab and moved the pictures around so it would fit and it would look nice. I started to kern. I made some words bigger and some words smaller. Then I was pretty much done!

My biggest challenge on the project was definitely kerning. It was so hard. I could have done a better job if I knew what I was doing. I probably should have asked for more help. In the end, I could not finish it. So there is my biggest problem and how I could have improved what I did.

I could not finish my project. I could not finish because I could not put in a triadic color scheme. That is why I could not finish.

Personal Manifesto

My name is Josiah. Here are some unique things about me. I love soccer. I have played almost all my life and have gotten much better over the years. I am a good athlete. I like to run, throw, catch, kick, and get sweaty. I am a big fan of animals because they are so cute. I LOVE to eat pancakes. I could eat them every day! I have even went to a professional soccer game. It was Chelsea vs Paris Saint Germain. It went to penalty shootouts at the goal I was sitting by. Courtois [Chelsea's GK] scored the
winning goal. That is my five interesting things about me. This is me; Josiah Nelson.

Live. Have fun in life. Never give up. Believe! Love everyone. Don't hate people. Laugh a lot! Try your hardest. Make others laugh. Laugh at yourself! Never be bored. Enjoy life. Don't stress. Enjoy life. You can do what you dream. Always be happy. Help people. Inspire. Be creative. Bounce back up when you are down. Smile. Enjoy life, because you're only here on Earth once. Keep calm. Do not make others sad. When you cry, make your tears be tears of joy.

A manifesto is an inspiring list of words that inspire you to live a good life.My manifesto is important in your life because it might inspire you. This manifesto was made to motivate people in their everyday lives. Whether you are at home working, or in the army, let my manifesto inspire you to live your life to it's fullest.