Profile Project Progress

For my Gt class, we are interviewing Grandma Glenna, Chazz's grandmother. We are interviewing her on how she has fun, how she has fun in her shop, and what she does to keep upbeat. We have filmed at her shop, Earth and Sea gallery. We chose to interview her because she is always upbeat and fun when Chazz is around her, she's hardworking and knows how to balance it with fun.

B-Roll gives a video visual interest and helps to tell a story. When using B-Roll correctly on top of the interview, adding B-Roll for visual help can give the addition of great imagery and give the viewer a relatable feeling. When you use B-Roll, you layer your footage over your interview and you can still hear the interview going, but you also see different footage. Voice over do basically the same thing, but with only your voice, while the footage is rolling, you only hear the voice that is speaking.

My team works together well. Sophia Rodriguez, and Charles McConnell, are both my partners. So far we have not fallen behind, we have filmed everything correctly, and are moving on. To work better than we already are, we can try to work faster and efficiently. Thanks to us, our video is great and is being done correctly. We made sure that we had enough time to get everything done on time, and planned what to do. To get more B-Roll, we are filming as much as we can whenever we can.

We can improve upon our video by piecing the story together better. We can also add more B-Roll, and add more interesting angles. We can also make the voice over sound smoother, by practicing it and then re-filming it. We can also cover up some cuts in the interview. When we did our critique, we saw what we needed to improve and we are going to act upon what people said.

Composition Techniques

The main four composition techniques are the rule of thirds, framing, unusual angles, and leading lines.
Leading lines are are when lines lead to the subject. Framing is when you create an image using things in the background or foreground to frame your subject. Rule of thirds is when your subject is aligned with the graph thats sometimes is on a camera, the subjects eye is on one of the crossings, and looking off the frame. Unusual angles give the picture or video a different more interesting view, like a birds eye view or a looking up shot.

Unusual Angle

Leading Lines 

Rule of Thirds

Three Shot Sequences

Sequencing is a series of three shots or more in a row in a movie or video. Sequencing can add interest in a video by giving different points of view. You can sequence by doing different shot types, for an example, a wide shot, then a medium shot, then a close up. In some quality videos, sequencing is a series of 3 short clips with interesting and complex angles with different perspectives that help describe the action thats happening. Sequencing is important because it adds to the video, if a video starts to drag on, sequencing can have an effect that keeps the video interesting.

Practice Story Reflection

In my Gt class, we did a practice interview to prepare us for a new project later on. My groups video was about me, talking about how I love books. In my group I worked with Charles McConnell and Sophia Rodriguez. While we were doing this, we learned how to work together when we had a short period of time. Mr. Sandrel gave us a high stress environment so we had to work together to get it done on time. He was preparing us for a real life deadline that could happen later on.

Making this video, we first shot our interview. While we were shooting the interview, we had to quickly come up with the questions we would use that related to our topic. In addition to that we had to make sure that we had a good interview composition, not a shot that looked like a profile. A profile shot is when you see only the side of your face. Good interview composition is when your head is slightly turned, in the rule of thirds, and your looking off the camera frame. We also had to make sure that the background noise wasn't too loud that it would take away from the main audio.

We used a a small microphone that clipped to my shirt to get the highest quality of sound. After we finished shooting the interview, we shot the B roll. B roll is the footage that shows while the interview audio is playing. We shot our B roll in the library because what better place to show and read books, than a place literally full of books?

I think that our project definitely could of been better, but with the time we had, we did our best. We had to corporate as much as possible to get everything done. We made a transcript to follow along while editing. We did our editing in Final Cut Pro .

Then, after everyone was finished, we critiqued all of our videos. We graded them on audio, visuals, and story. 

Polar Panoramas

These are my two Polar Panorama example. First I got a camera and took at least 10 photos moving from left to right all vertically oriented with a 10-15% overlap, at a location with an interesting horizon line. Then in camera raw, I edited all my photos and named them correctly. Next, in photoshop I used the PhotoMerge plugin in Photoshop and resized it to a square image, the next step is rotating the image 180 degrees before applying the Polar Coordinates filter under the distort menu.

Then I had a portrait photography session to copy the feeling of being on top of the world. After editing the portrait photos, I used the Quick Selection Tool to cut out the background, refine the edges and resize the layer to fit their polar panorama perfectly. The last step was creating a shadow effect by copying, inverting and warping their portrait layer, decreasing the exposure to pure black and adjusting the opacity to around 40 or 50%.  

Spherical Panoramas

These are two pictures of Spherical Panoramas that I created. First, I took two different sets of 10-15 images in a 360 degree rotation with a 10-15% overlap. The images were then edited using Adobe Camera Raw and compiled into a panoramic image using PhotoShop's PhotoMerge plugin.

After, the rectangular 360 degree panorama was resized to be square and filtered using Polar Coordinates. Lastly, the final spherical panoramas were selected using the elliptical marquee and feathered by refining the edges. A black or white background was applied before saving the finished composite image.

All About Me

Hi, welcome to my blog! Here is a bit about me and my background.

I am in seventh grade, attending Kappa Middle School. Currently, my favorite classes are GT (gifted and talented), with Mr. Sanderl, and art class with Mrs. Sanderl.  Since second grade, I've always been in the Kappa schools, next Ill go to Kappa High. I am A student with an occasional B in my report card. I'm currently in honors English and plan to take it in eighth, and through out high school. For my career, I want to become a psychologist.

After school I go to the gym two times a week, go to the park I live near by, and go to the library. I love books, and I am at a high school reading level. I have lived in the state of Hawaii all of my life, when I was two years old I moved from the island Hawaii to Kauai. I have a brother and a half sister.

My favorite music genres are pop punk, scream, classic rock, and sometimes pop. My current favorite books are The Faults In Our Stars, by John Green, and Divergent, by Veronica Roth. I watch a ton of anime (Japanese animation). I want to attend Oregon state university when I'm older, but due to out of state tuition, it could be only a dream. I'm hoping to get scholarships for college so I can go to the one I want.