Movie Trailer Critique

Hey guys, its been a couple weeks since I've been blogging, hope everyone had a wonderful winter. Before the winter break, in class we were assigned another project. It was a movie trailer. We were in groups of four, my teammates were Maya Clark, Aedan Betts, and Seth Kostelecky. We had an idea that our movie would be about overcoming your fears, since the movie audience would most likely be first graders. Our movie is called " Getting Over It." Although we had some ups and downs with contributing all of our ideas as one, we still was able to finish it and we all agreed that it was ok. It was all about teamwork.

The project requirements were to have the finished trailer to be at least one and a half to two minute long, five scenes in the trailer with the actors, voice-acting scripts for the voice overs, and text layovers for the title and other words in the trailer. We also needed effects in the trailer to make the viewers more interested in the movie so that they would like to watch it. The effects were to make the different angles in the shots we took and take them from good to GREAT! We also had another project that was involved in the movie trailer which was to make a movie poster to sell out the movie. Each person in my team had to come up of their own poster and then we had to vote on the best one. My movie poster didn't win though, but to me I think it looks pretty good. To the right is my movie poster that I created.

After we all agreed that our movie trailer was able to be sent to our teacher for our critique session, the whole class watched it and voted for the best trailer in the class. Based on the results of the critique session, I agree with the votes because our trailer wasn't the best but we did our best cooperating with each other so that we were able to finish and turn in our finished movie trailer. In the process of finishing our project, my team and I learned that with teamwork, cooperation, and with everyone all in it together, we finished everything on time. We did our best!
To the left, is the critique polls from my class.

Book Art Project

In the first quarter of the school year we were assigned to make a book art project. This book art idea came from Isaac Salazar, the person who created book art. The process of making the art is to fold each page of the book into the shape or word you want. Because this project is supposed to be apart of visual literacy, we were to come up of a two to four letter word. My word was " pray."We printed paper with the word on it and had lines on it to show where we had to fold the paper to and the shape of the fold we were to do. Every time we created a fold we had to mark where we left off so that we don't skip or redo a line. When we first started it became a little confusing but after a while I got used to it. 

For my book, I had to fold sixty-four pages for "p,"  thirty-five pages for "r," sixty pages for "a," and forty-eight pages for "y," but to finish the entire word in the book, I had to fold two hundred and seven pages. I chose this word because if I keep this book, I can remember to always pray and talk to god everyday. The font of my word, carter one, relates to my word because the font looks kind of inspirational, so I chose it. My intent of the project was to inspire, move, and to motivate others especially myself.

When I finished my book art project, I thought it came out pretty good. I liked it, it was pretty ok. I think the only thing I would do differently is to choose a different word so that I could be more challenged, with the word that I already had, it was a little to easy. If I were to do this project again, I think the word that I would like to do would either be " dance," or a word that has more than five letters. The book that I would create the word in would be like a dancing book with cool moves or any book that has to do and relate with the word I will be using. Doing this project was really fun and I would recommend it to all art classes or for free time project at home or even at school.

Below is my finished book art project and the process of creating my word!