Verbal Landscapes

Hey guys, its Jhoanna with another blogpost. We have a new project coming up and I'm pretty excited. Its an individual project using FCPX (Final Cut Pro X) with video clips of time-lapse and slow-mos. Also it involves poetry again. I cant say that I'm not a big fan of poems but I do love reading them. This project is about nature so our poem has to be involved with nature and does our video clips. Anyway enough of me talking about the project it self and what not.

To me nature is everywhere I go. Nature impacts my life because its usually what makes up my mood everyday. I look up at the sky and if the whether is sunny, I'm usually happy. If its kinda sunny but mainly cloudy, then my mood would be kinda down but still pretty happy. If the whether is very rainy and its kinda resembles a storm then my mood is usually very sad. I don't know why I'm like this but it just kinda is. Warm whether makes me feel like going out and doing anything I want while cold whether makes me want to stay at home covered in my blankets. Also nature impacts my life because when I'm around plants and trees I feel very calm. Being around nature helps me think, de-stress, and keeps me very calm and relaxed.

Creating time-lapse and slow-mo's are pretty easy. They're fairly simple to make but the most important thing to me about making them is patience. Reason being is because when making time-lapse you kinda haft to wait to get your video because a time-lapse is usually a long video thats sped up. Also patience with slow-mo's too because although its only a couple of seconds it can take a pretty long time to get a perfect shot. Like a slow-mo is just a short video that gets slow down. But thats just the process of getting the videos you want to make a time-lapse and slow-mo out of from. Next step is basically importing those clips into FCPX. Then drag one of those clips and click on the retime function. I kinda would custom the speed I want them to go instead of choosing the ones it let you. Then after that it's all about waiting.

The hardest part of this project was figuring out a my poem and getting the time-lapse. I actually got help from my cousin through text which I'm really grateful for because I couldn't have thought of anything else. Also getting my time-lapse has made me put somethings on hold. Like for example, my sunrise time-lapse used up all of my sleep time in the morning. Also my sunset time-lapse has made me miss some of my quality time in the afternoon of Friday considering I went all the way to the west side. My favorite part was going to different places for taking my time-lapse and slow-mo's. To places I barely go and that was really my favorite part. Its was great because instead of being cooped up in my room on my phone the whole day, this project has motivated me to go outside and do something.

So in class we had a critique on all of our retime nature videos. So when watching the video in class I've realized of what I could've done better with the extra time I had. Anyway so from the results I got I mostly 3's which I do believe is the grade I deserved. My voice over isn't expressive in it probably because I'm not a very expressive person. And some of shots are pretty shaky and my text layovers are just really there it. To me it didn't resembles a 4 at all but mostly a 3. Although I did get a one 2 which is a
development which I don't believe I deserved because even though I had shaky shots it wasn't every clip was shaky and I felt like I do meet the all the standers. But really thats just someone opinion on what they believe the video was. Overall I do agree to my results because I got more 3's then 4 and thats really what I was kinda expecting. 

Poetic Personal Statement

Hey guys its a new school year and my last year in GT. Sad I know but its only the start of the year and I'm super excited for what project is coming up next. So
our first project of the year is a poetry project. I like poetry, I like reading them just not a big fan of writing them. What I think poetry is a way to express your feelings and ideas. I think poetry can be personal by the way you write one. It could be about who you are or what you felt at the very moment writing it. Although being poetic doesn't have do with words. You can be poetic through pictures, videos, structure, and etc.

Quiet, shy, messy yet organized girl
Awkwardness and uniqueness trying to fit into the world
I dive into books and I'm cured
You can be assured that
As I grow older I'll be matured

My last three lines it rhymes because I use rhyme zone. The website is very useful that I actually used for my other classes too when we need to make poem that rhymed for homework. To be completely honest this poetic statement happened on accident. I was just listing things about who I am and then randomly decided to put them together. I like how the first 2 lines don't have a rhyme or so I think it doesn't but to me it flows really well. Although I do believe that I could have gotten done better at making it. To me it seems very "kiddy" like you know maybe a 4th grader could've made this not an 8th grader. Overall I like the way my poetic statement came out.