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Hi right now i'm a ninja, yes but the question is how is this relevant, it's not. So hi, hello, sup, and aloha in GT we are doing a music video, and Weird Al Yankovic one too! While parody music isn't my favorite type of music we (Linden) choose it for our team oh also i'm super glad that we (Linden) got to choose our personal team it just so awesome. While I can't just say I have a *Favorite* song off the top of my head a recent one I like is land of confusion (I have a thing for rock) either the original or the one covered by disturbed (Also Heavy Metal.) The music's lyrics give a inspiring and just a over all unique feel. But other then that I enjoy some bands, like Linkin park and the Beatles are pretty good too. Well as you know we (Linden) got to choose our song but the reason we (Lin... Oh whatever you get it) is because we (Do I even need to anymore?) wanted to make our song comedic. Examples of it is like the shot when my face is smashed in a bowl and it sticks on my face. That is comedy right?... Right?
But our story will tell of the epic adventures of a mighty knight who has to slay a giant dragon with CGI that Michael bay would be jealous of... Ok so maybe not. Our story is actually about a slow! Like really slow eater and a guy who just wants to eat.
Sophia dreams freely, Is that an animation or just bad grammar?
Hey hey hey! This is probably not micah, Probably. So here I go, in GT we are doing something called an animation you probably never heard of it so... I wont explain it because my other blog did. My team's focus statement "Sophia dreams freely" is about our teammate Sophia's wild dream where she meets Harry Potter and goes on a wild adventure. Now why does this tell our story. Its about fighting your fears because in order to escape the dream she must fly on a broom out of the dream. You know Acrophobia (Extreme or irrational fear of heights) so uh second paragraph now.
Now the morale of the story is that you should fight your fears, unless you have Galeophobia. THEN YOU SHOULD RUN! (Or the morale of the story is that we are bad at animating).
Well every team has their ups and downs, but ours was more like a roller coaster. Lets start with the bad, the reason why you don't see one of our teammates known as Alakai is that he refused to get taken a picture of. And the candid I took he took the camera from me and deleted it, talk about a case of sour grapes. Also in the beginning (Middle and end.) we had some trouble with team work you know, the usual arguing. The best moment would probably be when we were doing the stop motion. Because if I could take any moment from that and explain it I would choose that one. Now what are you still reading this blog for, read something else! Jeez
Do I have to make this blog? Can't you just look at this bouncing ball .gif
Sigh... Fine I guess I'll do a stupid blog grumble. Hey'o guys how is it going, Micah here with another blog so in GT we are working on animation, ya know stick figures, stop motion all that good stuff. Oh I never described what a .gif is, huh I guess that's kinda important a gif is animation file or commonly known as, that funny looping cat animation. But for real now gifs are looping animations that are internet friendly great for comedy and... Umm actually comedy is all I got. And I forgot to describe stop motion, jeez this is going to hit like 50 sentences but. Stop motion is when you take multiple pictures or frames of something, usually moving it ever so slightly to give the idea it is moving or doing something. Oh my goodness I never even told what we are doing! We are doing a harry potter sorta dream animation of our teammate Sophia... (Is there a link there?) fighting her fear of heights. Hey, hi, hello there aloha etc. So in GT we are working on a thing called double exposed portraits. What is double exposed portraits you might be metaphorically thinking well i'm literally typing to you that double exposed portraits are silhouettes with another picture in the silhouettes (Picture-ception). Now then you may be metaphorically asking yourself, why in the world would i want to make a double exposed portrait I dunno, they’re cool or something. Soooooooo how to make a double exposed portrait well if i'm boring you can always look over HERE to find out (Is there a link there, no? ah i’ll just fix it up in post). Well obviously we can't make a picture without pictures so hold your camera vertically and take a picture of someone (Or just selfie it or whatever). Then you need a landscape slap those into photoshop and onto step number two. So once you got your pictures load them into a stack and get cooking, use the dodge tool to make the area around your face white then quick select that face copy and paste and disable the old portrait. now you got that stuff done double click to the sides of your layer and choose layer option screen, while i'm pretty sure you can use any transparent option thats what we are using. And finally, fiddle around with it, go have fun just play with the color overlay until you find something you like and thats pretty much it simplified at least. My first double exposed portrait (Which I believe I have shown) shows wires and grass. The wires represent my interest in electronics; The grass showing my love of nature. The other portrait is a bit more complex. The gate represents my open personality and the computer parts represent my complexity. Now I don't see much room for improvement other than my eyes are not shown well, so if… Wait I saved it as a PSD. This is Micah, whitening an eye peace! Oh hey guys im just back from a trip to the Tomato Soup Illuminati uh... I mean NOTHING! So hey hey hay guys how is it going this is Micah here bringing the news. So about... Now in GT we are doing typography stuff and we have just finished our Innovator portrait. Now whats typography you are most likely thinking, well em its uh kinda, oh do you remember the double exposure its like that but with text instead of the images (READ IT SO I DONT HAVE TO RE EXPLAIN IT). If you're lazy typography is making pictures with text hopefully this picture does it justice. Now you see it is really cool to see the text and the picture together and in fact these words are from wikipedia so if you read them it should be true. Now you may be confused as heck or following easily whatever the case let me explain the pictures I have up. I choose Nikola Tesla because he worked to a energy filled utopia which is a pretty good goal, nothing much was done except adding text. The second picture is of my math teacher Ms Nakamura she liked purple so I tried to make that a focus while adding enough variety
H.D.R? High def resolution, heavy darn rock, hecka dude rocking? (What does HDR mean, the world may never be smart enough to know) Hey hey hey so how is it going, because in GT we are doing HDR photography (Insert sarcastic woo here) so High-Dynamic-Range or simplified HDR is a type of photography that is combining the best parts of multiple pictures into one. How you may ask? I don’t know what do you expect us to know how HDR works! pah well we are shooting HDR photography which has us taking seven pictures at different exposures then slapping it into photoshop and it barfing out a work of art. Now believe it or not its actually really fun i'm a guy who enjoys going into full on customization so this is sorta fun for me. The way to make a HDR photo is to get seven photos at different levels of exposure, 3 2 1 0 -1 -2 -3. Then you slap it in photoshop click “Merge to HDR pro” then it will take a few seconds and then badara bang pow. You got yourselves a HDR photo, and if you don't have photoshop. Then you are unlucky because why would we learn how to manually make HDR photos (Pfft… Learning how to make HDR when we learn HDR, silly). So the thought process behind all of these pictures is pretty much. How can I make these normal pictures into a sight from a dream. I started by taking a unique angle of a nice tree I saw but I saw a wonderful cherry tree in full blossom not a tree with colored petals. For my portrait I knew that I “saw” just a hazy image from a dream, I just fiddled in photoshop until I could make it a reality. And for my superimpose, I actually don't exactly know what I was doing till I did it and then it was done
1C 3C R34M That's binary for how is it going! or, at least what I was told.
Whats with the binary joke you may ask? Well this is a sci-fi-comedy-spoof-fake-movie-trailer (A bit of a mouthful) and good thing it has never been done before (The starving games, Spaceballs don't get me started.) so welcome to, M.I.B IV. So yeah our trailer is about two “top” M.I.B agents. Makio Gonsalves as Chase and Mason Doo as Markus. So these super duper agent guys need to take down the best villain in movie history (Why because it's played by you?) Venah ba… Venu bae qu… Vah, you know what lets just call him bad guy because who thought Venuq Bae Que was easy to pronounce (For one you just pronounced it and second of all you.) Oh also there is an evil apprentice played by Jason Hoy, but really who even is named E-minx. Basicly I like to think of myself as the somewhat director, mainly because its much easier to say then ahem, “The guy who helps the other guys with their work after finishing his work because he wants to feel helpful”, so that sums up how I contributed. Now the rundown on the requirements. We needed a trailer that is at least 1 o’ 30 long but no longer than two thirty so that added a bit of a challenge mainly because we didn't have enough when we started but then we had too much so that's why a lot of the intended content ain't there. It had five scenes but not the ones we intended, like there was going to be a plot twist (Its not even worthy of being called plot) that i was the FBI agent calling the M.I.B agents. It required folly, And some other stuff I don't remember (A voice actor, Clear dialogue, text layovers and including the poster at the end). Now lets get to the critique... Sarcastic drum roll please. For audience, most people said satisfactory strange I thought the sci-fi-comedy-spoof-fake-movie trailer was easy to follow huh I guess that's just me. Alright moving on to creativity, it seems that its half and half on either above and beyond and satisfactory ill let you guys decide on this (11 Above and beyond 13 Satisfactory) but for me this trailer wasn't done by any other teams so I would say its above and beyond because originality=creative… I think. And the last critical critique, requirements well it’s a sad day for us because it is 10 on 12, 12 satisfactory and 10 room for improvement (Or in Latin terms, bad) honestly I don't really have an opinion on this topic because requirements isn't something I look out for so what do you think? This is Micah signing off (And don't forget, Team 8 best team) In a world, Where the M.I.B aren't just stories and folktales comes a menace wishing to rule it all… M.I.B IV. Bah, enough of that epic movie voice. So this is our epic movie trailer felt I needed to add that joke in because… well this is a comedy trailer. Yep going to be a huge joke, Literally (And metaphorically) so take it away movie text! Ah, So in the creation of this epic soon to come movie trailer are four mighty villains and heroes, Jason Hoy as- E-minx the evil apprentice. Makaio Gonsalves as Chase and Mason Doo as Markus, And the Handsome Micah Miller as the evil dastardly also handsome and super evil, Did i mention he was evil? Venuq bue que (Vae nux bae q, Trust me you will need this pronunciation). Alright but enough of those jokes. This is our Movie trailer poster! While I didnt choose the title or ever watched a M.I.B movie. This is a joke trailer so I imagine I won't need much knowledge of the franchise. I wrote some reviews on the top right to add a bit more humor and sadly no. Meh Guy didn't give us a 10/10, he gave us a 9/9. (Insert sarcastic sad violin music here). The poster is of us being swag, and kewl, and other catchphrases but enough with the funny stuff, and on to the funny stuff. While I can’t really explain why my team chose the name M.I.B IV I guess it has to do with the main villains being aliens, and the heroes being a part of a alien stopping organization actually, that name makes a lot of sense. I gave the title a silvery lawbringer feel a hero fighting a villain. I wanted to give it a dark, epic feel to it so I ordered a two moving trucks full of text to give the, law bringer feel so to say because this is about to heroes trying to take down contour lines and two more full of the color black and added a touch of color. Also I, wait are those mustaches... JASSSSOOOOONNNNNN! This is micah! Running after Jason! Peace, out! I am a procrastinator because I tend to forget a lot. Mainly because I don't write my assignments down, and “sadly” I don't do my homework. Wait, this project is homework?! Well, poop so when I forget my brain sorta just goes "..." to explain it best. And... sometimes I just lay it off, so what I have plenty of time I can play a few video games- And its midnight. Now don’t take pity because I do have a, lot of free time and I spend it mostly on the computer (I'm a junkie.) BUT!, I usually have nothing else to do because I tend to finish my homework in school, However the projects that I don’t do in school I usually forget which brings me back to sentence one. Now the question here is, “What would you change about your work habits & how would you do it?” to be honest, I don't really know what to change or how i would do it. Maybe I could start remembering but I dont know how I would remember to do that. But before you say “Procrastination is bad” “Do your homework!” “Yak yak yak yak”. I feel that I do a lot and I deserve that time on the computer and in fact I! Oooo, TV! This is, Micah erm uh… *Click* this is Micah signing off |
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