Movie Poster Promo

The next project that was assigned for the G.T. class was to create a movie trailer and move poster for elementary students to see. The title for the movie that my team and I agreed on was "Young and Broken Hearted". The main character in the movie is Miles Frazier playing as Ziggy Twisty. Ziggy is a freshman and he is experiencing his first year in high school. He gets bullied and teased, the first day of high school was nothing what he thought it would be like. In my movie poster Ziggy is depressed due to what he has been going through his first week of high school.

The title of my movie poster, "Young and Broken Hearted", practically tells you what the movie is about. Ziggy is a young freshman and goes through a very tough first year of high school. But then he meets a very special someone, but it all takes a turn on him. Now he is broken hearted. So that is mainly why my team and I chose to title our movie that we are making "Young and Broken Hearted". In my movie poster I used a lot of effect and one of the most important one is kerning. Kerning is the process of adjusting the space between letters. Kerning is very useful when editing your title for a movie poster because it makes your title more appealing and makes your title stand out.

After I put all of the different layer effect and filters onto my movie poster, it was a huge transformation from the original image. I thought that the effects made the main character stood out a lot more. The effects on the title and information stood out as well. Every effect that was added related to what the movie was actually about. To me it seemed like an actual movie poster you would see at the movie theaters!

Proactive or Procrastination?

To be honest I am a procrastinator, sadly. I'm not really proud of it, but I seem to be able to manage my GPA to be at an average of 3.66. I am a procrastinator because I seem to always do most of my homework and projects at the last minute. I get distracted very easily by social media, games, and TV. But  I seem to always turn in my work the next day on time.

I actually have a lot of free time after school, but I guess I'm just lazy to do any work. Usually when I get home from school I just eat and go on the internet. I usually do my homework at 9:00 pm and usually finish at 10:00 pm or 11:00 pm; it's becoming a routine for me. If I have homework during the weekends, I do it on Sunday at the usually time. It usually depends on what assignment I need to do. If I understand it and know what to do, I do it at the last minute. But if I don't understand it and don't know what to do, I work on it the minute I come home from school or when I have free time. So I'm mostly a procrastinator but just a little proactive.

Honestly I really hate being a procrastinator. I always think to myself, "Okay Leslie get your stuff together and start doing your homework early so you can have more free time". But then I get distracted. If I were to change my work habits is to do my homework or projects as soon as possible. I would change my work habits by using my time more wisely and by slowly taking small steps into being more proactive. For example, I could start doing my homework at 8:00 pm, then 7:00 pm, and so on. By doing that, I'll for sure get a lot more sleep!

My Visual Poem

           

For G.T. the class was given to do a visual poem. A visual poem is poetry that is shown by videos, pictures, or art. I chose to do my visual poem on memories because throughout life we make a lot of happy and sad memories so I thought to myself, why not make a poem about it? The visuals that I put into this video made an impact on my poem by showing and explaining to the audience what the poem really means. It also gives them a better vision on what the poem is mainly about.

The overall effects that I put into this video affect the overall meaning by showing them that memories are sentimental moments that can never be forgotten. The effects also give a more meaningful meaning to my poem. I put the effects to get the audience to feel the same way of the poem's mood, meaningful. This poem that I made was meant to actually relate to you and what memories you make throughout life.

I am somewhat satisfied with my final visual poem because it's not exactly what I thought it would turn out to be but it's close enough. I wished I used my time more wisely and get better footage. I should've started getting footage for my visual poem as soon as I had a thought about what I wanted for my visual poem. I also missed a couple of days of school, which got me behind but I'm happy with what I made with the time I had.   

Finished News Story

The HikiNo project that I did with my team for G.T. is about one of my teammates, Kaylynn Drake, and her family tradition of fireknife dancing.  Kaylynn is actually the first female on Kaua'i to fireknife dance going against Samoan tradition.  My team and I thought that Kaylynn and her family tradition was great to make a story out of. My teammates were Kaylynn Drake, Haley Gokan, and Sydney Nice. We got inverviews of Kaylynn Drake, Emmsley-James Drake (her older brother), and Michael-Alan Drake (her other older brother). We also got a really cool picture of Kaylynn and her brothers that were taken by Dennis Fujimoto. The team also took the time to go to two of Kaylynn's live shows and took some really cool videos and shots.

I think the final turned out to be a lot more interesting than I thought it would be. I definitely didn't think it would get the most votes. My team and I are proud of what we have made. It was a great experience to watch the final on HikiNo. This was my first time doing this and in the end I was part of the team who made the video that go to be on TV. Overall, my team and I worked very hard and that hard work paid off. I am proud and happy of my team most of all.

When my teams news story was critqued by our classmates, I was pretty suprised at the results. For my teams and I news story 31% of the class gave us a three and 69% of the class gave us a four. But in the end of the of the results ,  38% of the class voted for my teams news story; which got the most votes. So my teams news story ended up on being HikiNo!

Real World Report

The story that interested me the most is called "Surfer Attack 'More Likely' By White Shark". This article is about a 23 year-old surfer, Sean Pollard, and he has lost his arm and his other hand at Western Australia south coast at Wylie Bay on Thursday morning, October 3, 2014. Pollard was sent to Royal Perth hospital for an emergency surgery. Authorities say that he was bitten by a great white shark. Prayers and thoughts are said for Pollard from his friends and family.

This is a picture of a Great White Shark. 

Showing it's features can tell what kind of 

damage this shark can do. 

My opinion about this story is that I think that if it was a great white shark who bit Pollard, I think he was lucky enough to only have lost an arm and hand. Great white sharks are killing machines with just by biting one time. Especially since great white sharks don't like humans swimming in their domain. I'm glad that Pollard was not injured that severely and that he came out of the water still alive. My prayers and thoughts go out for Pollard and his family.

I think people should care about this story because lots and lots of people are in the water. Sharks are mostly everywhere in the ocean, so there's a high chance of anyone getting injured or might lose their life. It can be any type of shark, depending where you are. So this story is like a warning for anyone who swims, surfs, and etc. to watch out for what may come for you in the water, anything can happen. But I ask for you to watch out for what may hit you in your life at anytime, life is full of surprises.

Lessons Learned

For this project that Mr. Sanderl assigned the class for HikiNo is actually more fun than I thought it was going to be. I think the most interesting part of this project would probably have to be working with my team and going out in the community while filming our project and interviews. It's my first time doing this and I have to say it's been a pretty fun experience so far.

I think the biggest roadblock for our team so far would have to be checking our schedules and meeting up together to film. Due to everyone having lots of stuff going on at the moment but we were able to meet up all together at least once. And that meet up went perfectly fine, I'm glad my team and I were able to get pull through.

I think the most valuable part of this filming process would probably have to be the flow of every shot and all of the film put together. I think that's the most valuable part of this filming process because you basically don't want your audience to get lost and not know what's going on. Plus if we get a good flow and process of all our films, we're more closer to being on channel 9 ;).

HikiNo Behind the Scenes

Mr.Sanderl assigned us to create an episode idea for HikiNo. HikiNo are news episodes that are made by students from different islands of Hawaii, these episodes are shown on Tv on PBS Hawaii. Since it is my first year being in the Gifted and Talented program, it is my first time working on an episode idea for HikiNo. So I was very worried on what are his expectations.

Kaylynn Drake, Sydney Nice, Haley Gokan, and I are team 4. We came up with an idea of doing a profile story about Kaylynn Drake and her family. We decided as a team that we wanted to do it about Kaylynn Drake and her family because her and her family have been doing fire knife dancing for years and has been passing it down to previous generations. Kaylynn Drake and her brothers even performed live on a May Day school event. So far our team is doing great, we finished our profile sheet and we are finishing another sheet for our profile story and planning to interview Kaylynn and her family very soon.

When the camera is not rolling we are coming up with ideas to make this profile story something more different. We are also coming up different b-roll and lots of different edits. We as a team are trying are very best to make this something that no one has never seen before, we actually have a chance for our profile story being on HikiNo. Plus there has been a profile story that was about fireknife dancing already been done. A lot of pressure is on us, so we have to try to make this perfect as can be.

I think one thing that I can do to help my team is to always try to come up with fresh ideas to make this profile story interesting and appealing. Due to everything that's happening I can also focus on what we need to do and remind everyone about the due dates. I could also make sure every interview is done right, the b-roll is great, and ect. This may be my first time doing this but I think I've got the hand of things, I just need to practice on my editing.

The Experiment

In the GT (gifted & talented) program, Mr.Sanderl assigned us an an assignment to make whatever we wanted on Photoshop, no instructions, nothing, just exploring. I really was excited about this assignment but also worried since it was my first time using Photoshop. I did not have any experience with Photoshop what so ever, so in my head I was thinking oh my gosh what am I going to do :o. But once I started on Photoshop and started trying out different tools I kind of got the idea of it. I have to say Photoshop is pretty cool. The class and I was assigned this assignment by Mr.Sanderl because he wanted see what we knew from experience and see what we can make by just letting our minds go free. The thing that was oh so right about this assignment was that we got to make whatever we wanted to on Photoshop. The thing that was oh so wrong about this assignment was well for me I just didn't know what to make, so I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what most of the tools did, I didn't know how to this, that, all I knew was how to draw. But after a couple of minutes of trying out the different tools of Photoshop, I kind of got the hand of it. And before I knew it, I made this beautiful creation.

Back to School

Hello everyone! I am Leslie Acoba and this is my first blog ever, so I hope this comes out great.

So after summer had come to an end, it was time to go to back to school. My first week of school was alright. My favorite moment so far was when I got to know who I will be working with in my classes, I hope to work with them and get to know the new students as well. I am especially excited to get to know more about the new students who are in my classes. My biggest challenge so far was talking to the whole 6th grade and they're parents on orientation day. Since I am in student council I had to introduce myself and what place I was in, student body vice president :) I remembered that I was so nervous that when it was my turn to talk, I totally forgot what to say. "Good morning students ...(thinking what's it called again, oh yeah parents, duh) parents ... and teachers. I am your student body vice president ... *about to walk away* (oh forgot to say my name) and my name is Leslie Acoba". Well at least I got it over with, but I'm most likely going to have to talk a couple times more in front of the 6th, 7th, and 8th graders - oh no. But thinking about that, I just knew that this school year was going to be different since it is my first year of being in student council. I can still be successful though by focusing on what the teacher is teaching and saying what to do, by not doing homework on the last minute especially projects, by being organized with where I put my stuff so it doesn't get misplaced, and putting effort into my work and just giving it my all! Hopefully by doing these things it will help me reach my goal, earning straight A's for the whole year. Wish me luck!