Five Tips For...

The Five Tips For... project was an early project our class did in the first quarter of the year. We had to come up with five tips that people today could use in there everyday lives. Our team chose the tips from One Griffin who came up with five tips for getting better sleep. We chose these tips because it is a common problem among teenagers. While One was the only person who took any film, I created the soundtrack in GarageBand, and Angalie Kaden did the voiceovers. If we could have done something to make it better, I think we probably could have lowered the volume of the music and the voiceovers because both were excessively loud.

Practice Profile Story

Before we did the Profile Project, my team and I had to create a practice story so we knew what we had to do for the main project. My team decided to interview me about my hobby as a parkour amateur. I think my team chose to interview me is because they didn't know who else to interview. The way they had me preform the B-roll didn't feel right. It was too easy for me, but i don't think I would have been able to make a difference. I answered a few questions and edited a few clips and that was about it.

Composition Techniques

This was our awful example of composition techniques.
Composition Techniques are ways to add interesting visuals to a film. The four main composition techniques are rule of thirds, framing, leading lines and unusual angles.

Rule of thirds is when a subject in a shot is not placed in the center of the shot.

Framing is when the subject is placed in an area where they are framed by a rectangle of naturally occurring lines.

Leading lines is when lines in nature go straight to a certain point to draw attention to that point.

Unusual angles are shots that have a unique perspective on a subject that you would not normally see.

Three Shot Sequence

This is my three shot sequencing video I created with my team of One Griffin and Angelie Kaden.

A three shot sequence is a way to add drama and help visualization to clips. By changing between close, medium and wide shots, a director can create a certain depth of the action that viewers can understand.

A three shot sequence can promote continuity by clarifying what someone is watching. It compresses the time of a clip and adds a look of professionalism.Without a three shot sequence a shot will look bland. 

Spherical Panos

 

These are two Spherical Panoramas I created using Photoshop by editing a 360 degree panorama photo. I first make the rectangular photo a square, then add a polar filter to the image to wrap one end to the other. Then I clean up the seams by using a spot brush that takes a sample of a clean part of an image and replaces the chosen area with the clean part. Then I create the fade effect around the edges by selecting around my spherical image and feathering it. These panoramas are in my Digital Sketchbook.

Polar Panormas

 

These are two polar panorama examples I created using Photoshop. 

Steps to a Polar Panorama

1.Find a place that you can easily see the horizon line.

2.Take 10-15 vertical photos in a 360 circle around the horizon.

3.Upload your photos into Photoshop.

4.Stitch the photos together to make it one image using Photomerge.

5.Resize the image so it is a perfect square and rotate it 180 degrees.

6.Add a polar coordinates filter and make edits to make it look better.

Here are some better examples of polar panoramas.

Final Photomontages

These are my two finished Photomontages inspired by the famous photographer David Hockney, who first created what he called "Joiners". I used a digital camera to take multiple pictures, Adobe Camera Raw to edit, and Photoshop to compile my finished image.

Magazine Cover

This is my finished magazine cover I made with Photoshop in the fall of 2013. I took an image of myself and created a contour of me. Then I added headlines and subtitles. I created this for Kapaa Middle School.