Visual Literacy

This was a project for our new 7th period class. Our project was to make a word out of pages in a book. This style of art was created by Isaac Salazar. What we had to do first was find a word, then print out a layout of the word from Photoshop. From there we found a book big enough for our word and start folding. What we had to do was fold pages to match the layout of our word. This project was a great example of visual literacy because after it was done it showed a word that meant something to us and displayed it for many people to see.

The first book I did I put Pi. I did this word as a reference to math my favorite subject and to refer to pie my favorite food and word to say. The font that I chose looked really fancy. I also chose an old math textbook to display my word. This took me about two weeks to do and in this book I folded around 275 pages. After that one I made another book of a unicorn because their my favorite mythical creature. It took only about a week to do and I folded around 250 pages. I am also about to start on my third book. I think its going to take me a long time because I have to fold around 500 pages.

I think my two books turned out really well. The pie was my best I think. My table partner also made a unicorn as well and we put them side to side and it looks good too. If I could go back I would make my folds more exact. Well I'm starting on making the American flag and that hopefully is going to look good. But if I was to make another book it would be of a cool car or something like that. I would chose that because I like cool cars and it would be cool if I could make one in my book.

Proactive or Procrastination?

I think I am procrastinating more than proactive. I think this because I'm more useful when we are filming and editing but not so much at typing. I think that i'm going to be doing a lot of filming though because thats usually the main thing I do in projects. I'm also hoping to do a lot of editing in this project.

I think I was more productive then fooling around. Although I had a lot of free time I also helped out a lot with the trailer plan. I'm also going to film a lot of B-roll for our intro and ending screen.  I will be in the video and be the camera man.

If I could change my work habitats I would make myself more productive. I would like to be able to work longer then I fool around but its a little hard for me. I fool around a lot and I'm not use to working a lot. But since we are doing a poster in photoshop I can help a lot with that. My work habits are most likely going to change later on in the project.

Lessons Learned

The most interesting part of our project is that we were able to interview Dustin Barca. The reason why it was so interesting was because he is an important person in kauai and were lucky that we were able to interview him. Also it was interesting that we were able to get good interview film evan with the camera problems that we were encountering while filming.

The biggest road block that our team faced was trying to get more than one interview. The reason why it was a big road block because we didn't know who to interview. We asked a couple of people but some of them said no and it set us back a little bit.

The most important part of the filmmaking process is the interview  composition. If the main interview is low quality of there is a technical problem its hard to fix it. The only way to really fix it is to reshot it or add a lot of B-roll.

http://menialproductions.blogspot.com/2010/04/thoughts-on-framing.html

Back to School

School started about 2 weeks ago and since then my favorite moment so far was when we got to stay home on friday because of the wether. My biggest challenge in school so far is social studies because we were already were given a project. The project is a "Who I'm I " project and theres a writing part and a drawing part and i'm having problems with the drawing part. This year I hope I will be successful by doing all my homework and studying when i need to.