Visual Literacy

In 7th period, we were assigned by Mrs. Sanderl to choose a word and fold pages of a book.  This project took a while to finish because I had to restart twice. Its a little hard at first but once you get used to doing it then it becomes easier. This project is called book folding which was created by Isaac Salazar and he has been creating them since 2009. Visual Literacy is the ability to interpret the word and present it into the form of an image. This assignment is an example of visual literacy because we folded pages into a word and people can try to figure out the meaning. 

I did one book and chose the word "Art" because I love to do different types of artwork and the font matched because its simple. I think that the font made the word Art stand out because the letters are bold and easy to read when you look at it. For the book, I folded about 115 pages.

Overall, I believe that my book turned out pretty good. I had to restart 2 times and on my 3rd try, it finally turned out the way I wanted it to look like. At first, I was a little frustrated because I would forget to mark where I left off.  If I were to do this project again, I would chose the word "Create" with a cursive font.

Movie Poster Promo

In G.T. class we were assigned to create a movie trailer and movie poster. Our team decided to name the movie trailer "Letters to John". The main characters in the poster is Andrea(Leleaka Anakalea) and John(Gabriel Sifuentes) her boyfriend. In the movie poster, Andrea and John are sitting down on the dock and that is one of their favorite places together.

The movie poster includes the movie title, reviews, character names and media production. We chose to name the movie trailer, "Letters to John" because its about a girl named Andrea and she is stranded in her own perfect world but suddenly, her boyfriend John goes missing. Andrea receives a letter from John saying that he is okay, after that, Andrea decides to write a letters to John to help him with his depression. The production company is called Dreamworks and I added reviews from movie critics to the movie poster. Kerning is used to adjust the spacing between letters. Kerning is very helpful to anything that includes text. If the font of your text make the letters overlap each other, then you can use kerning to space them out.

The layers and effects that I used in my poster had a big impact on my final product. I made the background brighter with a blurred effect. I made the outline of Leleaka and Gabe have an outer glow effect so they would stand out more. For the text in the poster, I chose to go with brown and white because those were the two colors that stood out the most with the blurred background.

Proactive or Procrastination?

I am both, a proactive person and procrastinator. When I get home, homework is the first thing that pops into my mind. I know that I should get my homework done soon. Part of me likes to get my work done ahead of time but the other part of me says that homework can be done later. It depends on how much I like the project that I am working on, if i don't like it then I will most likely procrastinate. I always like having my homework done early so I don't need to worry about it but sometimes I forget to do it and end up finishing it the day its due.

The amount of free time depends on how proactive I am because if I have a lot of homework but take a while to finish it then I will have less free time but if I get my homework done, then I will have more free time. I would like to be more productive so I have more free time to do extra-curricular activities.

Something that I would change about my work habit is to not go on my phone while I am working. I always do my homework with my phone by me and I usually get distracted by it. One minute I would be doing my work then next I would be on my phone scrolling through Instagram and would end up not getting my work done. How I will get my work done is by turning off my phone and leaving it somewhere else so I wouldn't be tempted to use it. By doing this, I think I will be more focused on my work and will want to get it done.

Back to School

My favorite moment at Kapa'a Middle School is when I was walking around the school and I saw all of my friends, I missed them because I went to a different school and I haven't really seen them since 6th grade. My biggest challenge is G.T. class because you always need to complete your work on time with good quality and if its late then your grade goes down. I am glad that I was chosen to be apart of G.T but I hope that I a can get all the work done. I am not really familiar with some of the programs that G.T. uses but I will try my best to complete the projects that are assigned.

I will always work hard on my projects even if I think I can't do it or don't have enough time. I will stay on task because if you have the time to work on a project and waste it then you will have less time to complete the project. I won't be disruptive in class because that takes away you and your classmates time to work. I will complete my homework when assigned so I can get a good grade. If there is an assignment due, I will write it down so I will remember to do it.