Thursday, September 29, 2016

Verbal Landscapes



Hi everyone so I have a new project and in this new project we have two slow-mo's and three time-lapses on the project we also need to include thing such has a poem. Well any ways the new project is all about nature.

Ready to hear about how nature impacts me. Nature is really peaceful which makes me really peaceful. Nature takes all my worries away and makes me happy. Nature is always changing just like me and it also gives me motivation. Nature is very relaxing and every day it looks very bright and spectacular. Nature can do amazing things such has forming islands. Nature formed the island I live on today which wows me. I enjoy being in nature because I don't have and fears when I'm in nature. Nature contains many thing that many people miss. When I look at nature I notice all the little things like how there is many different color in the sand like green, blue, red and brown it looks more yellow because of how many small pieces of yellow/tan there are but if you look at it more closely you can see more. Maybe you should go out into nature and try to find all the little things.

How are time-lapses and slow-mo's created? Well here is how so the first step is to go out side and take a video but make sure to use a environmental tripod. If you want to make a time-lapses you want to film for five or more minutes (any where below that might be to short). When your filming you might want to get 2/3 sky and 1/3 ground (Unless your filming something else besides nature). Why? You may ask well the most action in a time-lapses happens in the sky when the clouds are moving or the sun is changing. After you get your video you can then go into Final Cut Pro and import your video. After this you can add it to your timeline and speed it up by how every much you want. For a slow-mo when your filming you want to get close (not all the time but most of the time) and get details. You might want to film for maybe ten seconds and then after you get your video you can go into Final Cut Pro and then follow the same steps for the time-lapses but in stead of speeding it up slow it down.

I think that the hardest part of this project would have filming. I have to go to my gymnastics because we are preparing for two gymnastics competitions so the only time I had was on Friday and weekends and sometimes there isn't enough cameras. The only time I had for filming was after 7:15pm so that might have been my biggest issue but I over came that and got ready really fast and used the rest of the time to film what was needed. My next problem might have been getting a 2/3 sky and 1/3 ground without getting a shaky shot but I used many new environmental tripods to help me get it done. My favorite part of this project would be editing and slowing down and speeding up the clips because thats when you see all of the amazing clips come alive. For example when you film your time-lapse you film it has a regular video and then when you speed it up you can see time pass by and it's really cool.

In the video critique I got one developing, twenty four votes in accomplished and two votes in exemplary. I think that I met all of the requirements and I deserved to get accomplished and exemplary but one person disagreed and thinks I did not meet the requirements but there is always room for improvement and next time I will make sure to make everyone happy with the video. I could defiantly improve to get more exemplary's by maybe making sure that I had every single shot super still because I did have some shaky shots. Also maybe next time I can record my poem again because I did have one or two stumps. I think that everyone deserves an opinion and I might think I got accomplished and exemplary but i'm okay with get ]ting some scores I didn't expect because that makes me better.

Friday, September 2, 2016

Poetic Personal Statement


Hi my loyal readers I know it's been awhile but i'm back the the question for this blog post will be "what is poetry and what is it used for?" Poetry is a form of art and art is also poetry. Poetry can change the mood of someone from sad to happy or tired to energetic. Poetry is a creative way to express yourself. Poetry is a creative and imaginative idea on paper.  It doesn't matter wether it rhymes or even has words has long a it tells a story its poetry.


My home is in the ocean at the beach with the amazing breeze
I also like to be under the shaded palm trees that make me feel free
At times my life may be hard it important to keep my guard
I stay up and try not to go down at times it happens I try not to frown
I will conquer my fears before the end is to near
We all shine bright in the night and I'm the light 


I used rhythm and rhyme because I feel like it makes it more interesting and fun to read. If it didn't have rhythm or rhyme I think people would get bored and not want to finish the poetic personal goal above. Rhythm and rhyme makes your poem flow smoothly and gives a happy mood. I enjoy reading rhymes because there interesting and I sometimes funny. Rhyme and rhythm gives it a nice speed that's makes the whole thing flow.