Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Music Video Finale



Artist:  Adele            

Song: Rolling in the Deep

Lyrics:

There's a fire starting in my heart
Reaching a fever pitch, and it's bringing me out the dark
Finally, I can see you crystal clear
Go ahead and sell me out, and I'll lay your ship bare
See how I'll leave with every piece of you
Don't underestimate the things that I will do
There's a fire starting in my heart
Reaching a fever pitch, and it's bringing me out the dark

The scars of your love remind me of us
They keep me thinking that we almost had it all
The scars of your love, they leave me breathless
I can't help feeling

We could have had it all
(You're gonna wish you never had met me)
Rolling in the deep
(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
You had my heart inside of your hand
(You're gonna wish you never had met me)
And you played it to the beat
(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

Baby, I have no story to be told
But I've heard one on you
Now I'm gonna make your head burn
Think of me in the depths of your despair
Make a home down there
As mine sure won't be shared

(You're gonna wish you never had met me)
The scars of your love remind me of us
(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
They keep me thinking that we almost had it all
(You're gonna wish you never had met me)
The scars of your love, they leave me breathless
(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
I can't help feeling

We could have had it all
(You're gonna wish you never had met me)
Rolling in the deep
(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)


My team is Emily, Gavin and Me. Emily is one of my best friends and really fun to work with. We have worked together on our Metamorphosis Animation project. Gavin I have not worked with before, but I think we will have fun! We chose Adele's song Rolling in the Deep. The actual reason why we chose this is because we couldn't find a song we liked. So Rolling in the Deep was the only song that we all kinda liked. Personally, I love that song, so I am very happy! Also, I think it will be pretty easy to make a story, so that is also good.

Our story is about two friends, me and Emily. In the beginning, we have a huge verbal fight. (yelling, etc.) Then, we both walk away, and break up our friendship. In the middle, I start spreading rumors and being mean to Emily at school. In the end, Emily just gives up talking to me and just decides to be by herself. In the beginning, there was aggressive and angry lyrics, so that's why we fight. In the middle there is other kind of vengeful and mean lyrics, so that's why I start being mean to Emily. In the end, there is kinda "I give up" lyrics, so we had Emily give up be herself without me. This is our story line, and I think it relates to our lyrics.

This does show all of our highest quality work. For starters, the poster shows things we learned in our Low Poly projects and our inspiration poster projects, like the quick selection tool and background effects. Our filming shows all kinds of composition techniques and intentional, slow camera movement, which really adds to our quality level. Plus, we used video effects that showcases our use of effects that relate to our story. We did have some trouble, mainly that we couldn't film for about a week, which definitely stressed us out, but we finally filmed and it turned out awesome! I think, overall, our music video will be pretty good, so I'm very satisfied.

Friday, April 7, 2017

Movie Trailer Premier



Our new project is awesome, and I'm super excited about my team. I am the team leader, so I have to make sure they work, and so far, they are doing good. Our project is to create an awesome and high quality movie trailer. The movie we are creating it for is fictitious, though. That means we have to make it all up ourself. We also must have have a dramatic voice actor, which in this case is Isaac, also known as Judge Stan Dubey in our trailer. We also have a movie poster, which yours truly will be making. Prepare for awesomeness! Our movie is Objection Overruled, and it is going to be supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! I am having so much fun working on our plan too. I officially did the poster sketch and synopsis, both of which are awesome. I unofficially helped Alex and Isaac with the 4p's and keywords as well as the voice acting script, both of which turned out pretty good and funny. I have a feeling that this is going to be AWESOME!

Our biggest challenge was probably making the shots look good. When we first planned each composition technique (macro, rule of thirds) and shot type (wide, close), we had not seen our location, unfortuneatley. So, when we actually got there, our location was a small stage in Kapa'a High School Gym, where a volleyball team was practicing. Because of this, many of our shots were impossible to do. This was unfortunate, but we prevailed by adjusting shots. For example, if the planned shot said, "Wide of courtroom" that was impossible to do, so we did a medium of the courtroom on a tripod on a table behind everybody. This turned out pretty well, so our shots were not as high quality as we wanted to be, but with some editing and camera adjustments, we made it work. Our biggest success was probably our humorousness. I was worried that it would be too cheesy and not-funny, but we made it awesome! We all have "acting chops", so we had a lot of fun embracing our characters and leaving it out on the stage; in this case literally! I think we made it quite funny, and I'm very proud of how funny our movie trailer is!

We got voted second best movie trailer! I am very happy and proud of these critique results. Most people thought ours was very funny and good, as shown in these graphs. I am super glad that I got to work with my team for this super cool project. I learned a lot too. I learned how to really work together with my team to create our final product. I also learned a lot about photoshop in making the movie posters, like how to do text overlays and background effects. This was so much fun to do!






Thursday, February 16, 2017

Metamorphosis Animation



Our new project is a animation about metamorphosis. I am in a group with Emily M. (http://emilydesigns808.blogspot.com/) and Julian (http://julians18.blogspot.com/). Our two focus statements that we are considering is Tree Bears Fruit and Spirt Recognizes Wolfishness.
The project goal is to create  pitch slideshow presentation with your two top focus statements to our class, and then fill out our plan and storyboard before creating a 1-2 minute animated video. This should be really cool! The focus statement that we are going to work with is Spirt Recognizes Wolfishness. This was chosen by our fellow students after we presented our pitch. We are using Photoshop to create our storyboard pictures. The animation types we are using is the Stykz, Claymation, and Photoshop. Scene 1 was Photoshop, Scene 2 and 4 was Claymation, and Scene 3 and 5 was Stykz.

Our Storyboard
Our Focus Statement is Spirt Recognizes Wolfishness. This is a good summarization of our animation. Our plot is Emily, a lonely orphan who doesn't like her life at all. She then meets a wolf in the woods, and she throws stones at it. That night, she is transformed into a wolf. She goes back to the woods and meets the same wolf. The wolf knows who she is, but Emily does not recognize the wolf. The wolf, Nani, shows Emily the way wolves live and introduces her to the wolf pack, where Nani is the leader. Emily likes living with the wolves after a while. Then, in the night, when Emily is sleeping, the Wolf Goddess appears and gives her the choice to stay a wolf or go back to being a human being. Emily thinks about it, and decides to stay a wolf. Her wolf friends are very happy, and Nani accepts her into the pack. She starts a new life as Mahina the wolf.

Our critique went pretty well. We got a 2.7 on overall animation, a 2.3 on Clarity, Understanding, and Message, a 2.6 on Characters, Props and Background, and a 3 on Creativity, Originality and Execution. We also got 2 votes for Best Animation, which is good. I think these results are pretty accurate. We did a pretty good job on all the sections, although we did mess up on the audio on some scenes, but overall we did a good job. We did have some consistency issues on some scenes that we unfortunately did not have enough time to fix. I think we did the best we could have done in the time we had, especially since some of our teammates computers crashed, could not make it to meetings and exported shots the wrong way. We tried our best, and I'm proud of the whole animation,  my especially scenes 1 and 4. We did what we could, and I'm happy with the results.

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Geometric Portraits


Links I used to research:

AltmanG_Easy from a website 
Facial expressions are universal. No matter where we come from, we are all wired with basically the same facial expressions to use when we feel an emotion like joy, sadness, disgust and anger. There has been controversy over this subject, but I agree with the scientists and people who think they are universal.  Charles Darwin wrote that  “facial expressions of emotion are universal, not learned differently in each culture”. This I found from The Universally Recognized Facial Expressions. Wikipedia Facial Expression also says that there has been controversy over this topic, but it has studies that agree with it.

First you take a photo. It can be a self-portrait using PhotoBooth, like we did for Poly 1, or a self portrait with a different kind of camera, like we did for Poly 3 or a portrait of someone else, like we did for Poly-2. Then, you take it into Photoshop.
AltmanG_Poly-2 
For our Poly 1, we took a symmetrical photo. This is so you only need to do one side of your face, because you will flip it later. Use the line tool to draw a outline of your face, and all the features, making sure that your grid is on and that the end of your line intersects with the grid.  Then, draw triangles over all of your face, small ones on your features and big ones on your skin. Then you fill in the triangles with color by going to filter<blur<average. Then cut out your face, flip over a copy, and put it on a white background and you are done. For Poly 2, we did not draw an outline, but just used our polygonal lasso tool to draw triangles, then using the eyedropper tool to select a color and going Alt+Delete to fill the triangle. Then we made our background more Low Polyish and adjusting curves and brightness.

My Poly 1 and Poly 2 were very different in how we did them. The Poly 1, has a grid over half of the face, and both sides are completely symmetrical. Also, it looks more realistic. Poly 2 is more creative and harder to do. It is not symmetrical  and it has a background that looks like low poly. In Poly 1, the computer blended all the colors of the triangle to blend it in, whereas in Poly 2, we had to hand select the color and had to make sure that no triangles were the same color that were next to each other.
However, both things are created in photoshop, take a lot of time, and have the Low Poly look. Also, they are both very interesting to look at.






Thursday, September 29, 2016

Verbal Landscapes



Nature impacts everyone's life.  However, for me, nature is very inspirational and I love to just explore everywhere, from my backyard to the woods. I love to collect things from nature, and have quite a collection. Nature is also big in my family, and we try to go on as many hikes and swims as possible. Nature is also very soothing for me, and I try to be in it as much as possible.

Timelapses, such as the ones in my video, are creating by filming a wide view of something for about 10-20 minutes. In this project, we are also required to use environmental tripods to film both timelapses and slow mos. Later, when you import your video footage into Final Cut Pro, you go to the ReTime editing tool, which will let you slow down or speed up your footage. You would speed up a timelapse. For a slow mo, you would do much of the same things. Except, you would do a close or macro view of your subject for 30 seconds to 1 minute. Then, you import your footage to Final Cut Pro, and go the ReTime editor, but you would make it slower not faster. Timelapses are sped up so you can see things like clouds moving or waves breaking faster. Slow mo's are slowed down so you can see movement in great detail, like leaves moving or water washing onto rocks.

One of the hardest parts of this project was filming the timelapses and being able to keep still long enough to do it right with no shakiness. Also, the editing has been a bit of a struggle for sure. One of the most fun parts was the filming of the slow mo's and writing the poem. The slow mo's were fun because I filmed some fun things and was pretty easy. The poem was really fun and fairly easy to
write. I love nature, so I definitely had a lot of material to chose form to write my poem.


Our critique is of 27 people viewing your video as a class. Most people, 70%, gave my project a 3.  I think that's pretty much what I think. However 5, people, 18%, did give me a 4 and two people said I had the best video, so I'm very flattered. I definitely feel that some parts are a 4 quality, but some things, like the shakiness, is more of a 3, so it's difficult to pick what grade it is. Two people gave me a 2, which I definitely don't agree with. It is not developing.  I'm glad no one gave me a 1. I agree, with most of the results that I got.









Friday, September 2, 2016

Poetic Personal Statment

My Sketch
My Text
Poetry is an elaborate form of writing that is used to express yourself. You can add rhythm or rhyme to make it better. You can also make it personal by adding personal thoughts, opinions and personal experiences. This will make it personal. Many things can be poetic, such as photography, videography, paintings and nature. Poetry is very expressive. I think poetry is used to describe something in a way that you might not have ordinarily thought of.



This is my poetic personal statement that will be on my Poetic Designs Project. Here it is:







I wish to write a story
of things glory and gory
Someday, one day
I will be what I want to be
Arguing for a fee
Happy, having fun, yet free
and when I am old in age, 
a cat lady

I used rhythm to make my Poetic Personal Statement more fluid and nicer to read.  I think rhythm is very good for poetry.  Also, I think using your creativity to think of words that rhyme makes your poetry more interesting. I used rhyme throughout my kinda short statement. I also tried to use metaphors throughout it. I think rhythm is very good for poetry.  It was fun figuring how many things rhyme with "e".





Monday, May 23, 2016

Music Video Finale




P3T9 Stayin Alive from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo

Song: Stayin' Alive           Artist: The BeeGees          My team: Alex, Nick and Me

Lyrics:


Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
I'm a woman's man: no time to talk
Music loud and women warm, I've been kicked around
Since I was born
And now it's all right, it's OK
And you may look the other way

We can try to understand
The New York Times' effect on man

Yeah, Nick and Alex totally worked great together! 
Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive

Well now, I get low and I get high
And if I can't get either, I really try
Got the wings of heaven on my shoes
I'm a dancin' man and I just can't lose
You know it's all right, it's ok
I'll live to see another day
We can try to understand
The New York Times' effect on man

Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive



Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me
Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me yeah

Me and Alex hanging out
Our team is doing Stayin' Alive by the BeeGees. This is an 70's song, so its one of the oldies! Whoo-hoo! Our storyline is about a girl, (me) who was walking in the park with her friends, Nick and Alex, when she sees a tree, and she wants to climb it. Her friends try to convince her that she should not do it, because it is dangerous. She listens but decided to do it anyway. Her friends are very worried about her, but she prevails. She climbs the tree, and comes down easily, and her friends are relived that she was alive. This is related to our song lyrics. I am overcoming my fears, do something I would not normally do, and still stay alive!!! So, our lyrics definitely match our storyline.


Nick enjoying the tree
Our fast edit montage is going illustrate the struggle between me and my friends. What I'm talking about is when I want to climb the tree, and my friends don't want me to. What it will be is one shot me climbing the tree, one shot of Nick worried, me climbing the tree, Alex worried, me climbing the tree and then my excited face. This is showing that I am climbing while my friends are worried and then I am on the top and I am staying alive! This is will probably not be quite as fast paced as I would like, but it will probably between 1-3 seconds each shot. Another shorter, faster, and quite better fast edit montage is at the very end of our music video. It is about me thinking back to what happened that day. There is one shot of me that we green screened and put on a red background, thinking, then there will be one shot of Nick worried, one of Alex worried, one of me climbing, one of Alex and Nick relived, and me happy, and me going, "Well, it all worked out good". I think this is nice end to our music video.

Alex "acting" (like a dog)
This project definitely showcases our best talents. Our filming showcases our filming skills, which if their good, their music video will turn out good.  If your stuff, is well, not as good, then you might want to re-film. Our lip sync, well I guess that showcases our practicing skills? Because if it's not good, you obviously didn't practice. Our editing definitely showcases our editing techniques. Also, how good you can maneuver in imovie definitely shows. If your good, your music video will have transitions, green screened stuff, and more! Plus our psds for our bloopers and intro graphic showcase our acuteness in Photoshop.






 



Monday, May 2, 2016

Animated Life Lessons



P3T2 Friends Clean Garage from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.


My teammates are Steven and Tierra. Tierra is really athletic and doesn't like to sit still. She is also very neat and orderly. Steve is also neat and gets distracted quickly. He has a bunch of different hair colors that he like to wear. In our story, both these peoples traits get exaggerated to form our story. In our story, both Steven and Tierra are neat freaks. Steven is very easily distracted by talking. Tierra is very neat and careful in our animation.

Our animation is pretty humorous. It looks kinda weird with everyone dancing, talking or trying to work! Also, at the end, we threw in a funny little joke about a garage cleaning business. Check it out when you watch are animation! We also have life lessons. They are that everyone's different and you should respect that. Also, by working together you can get things done. Plus, you should make sure everyone's ideas our heard.

Our team had a lot of challenges, especially since we had not worked together before, it was difficult to know who should do what.  Some of us in our team did not work as hard as others, which probably created some hard feelings. Also, none of us were particularly well-versed in photoshop. As Mr. Sanderl accurately says, we have a "love-hate" relationship with photoshop. However, we are gonna get through it, and that's what counts! We have had differing levels of productivity during this project. Sometimes we were doing great, some times not as much. I'm not really sure what our greatest moment was, but getting it done was definitely fun! Also, animation, once you get started is really entertaining.









Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Character Devolpement

Hi  everybody! Now we are doing some awesome animation in class.

Photoshop cut-out
I have a kooky personalty and I can make people laugh.  I want to make people happy by making them laugh. I am smart and I dance all the time. I'm dancing right now! I am neat freak at heart, but if you saw my room you wouldn't believe me!  I absolutely love to sing songs.  I'm such a animal lover. I refuse to kill insects except for mosquitoes.  I smile when I'm nervous. I'm also dramatic. I have a lot imperfections. I chew with my mouth open. To be honest, I misspell when I type on the computer and have to check my spelling later. I also tell bad jokes a lot. I also love to tap out beats with my hands or pencil. I read when I'm not supposed to if its a good book. So, I definitely have humorous and relatable imperfections.
My awesome GIF!

The character traits I plan to exaggerate on is definitely my open mouth chewing. I'm going to make it look like I am a cow chewing her cud! (nom nom!) You might see me ridiculously misspelling words while on the computer. That is a humorous trait, not necessarily for me, but definitely for other people.  Also, I will be saying like, the worst jokes ever. (Ha, groan) Now that's not necessarily funny for other people, but it is to me! I'm also doing a funny little dance in my GIF. It kinda looks weird, but I'm okay with that.

Green Screen 
There is a lot of steps to create our GIF! First off, you have to take, or have someone take for you, a photo of you. You should try to have this done with a very simple background, or in our case, a green screen. You should be facing the camera with your hands and legs spread out. Basically, pretend you are making a snow angel standing up. Then, take that pic to photoshop and using the quick selection tool, cut out your body from your background. Then, go to windows > animation and make sure you have frames at the bottom of your screen. After that, make a copy of yourself. Using your first copy, you should have yourself enter the screen. You do this by creating several frames and in each one, move your character toward it's place. If you want your character to move into the frame, move it a tiny bit each frame. Now your beginning is done! To make your ending, select all of your frames of you entering the screen and click the "new frame" button, right next to the trash. You will now have you entering twice when you play your animation. Now select the second set of frames and go to the tiny drop down menu at the far right of your frame timeline. Click the option "reverse frames". If you play your animation, you will be moving in and out of the screen. Cool, you now have your beginning and end. Time for the middle! Between your entrance and exit, make several copy frames. Turn off the your first layer of yourself and make sure your second layer is on and selected. Then, go to edit and puppet warp. Now, place pins on yourself. Only put them in areas that you don't want moved or warped. Move the pins to make your body move. Now keep doing this, and you have a GIF. I like my GIF and I think it's lots of fun.

Friday, March 11, 2016

.MOV Film Festival


P3T1 Girls Use Technology from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Now we are doing an awesome project, filming!! The keywords for my group's video are:

computers


first time


Alex "modeling" for the camera! 
humorous


bickering


teaching


cooperation


challenge


These keywords will connect with audience because they are all words that people would often use to describe something like their day.  People may have even had a situation that they would have described with our keywords. Then our keywords would definitely connect with those people. These words are also connected to our video because our video is all of those words. That's why we picked them! Hopefully these words will connect with our audience just like our film will. Our film is all of these words. Its about the challenge of the first time with computers, where two girls bicker as their tutor tries to teach them. They finally cooperate at the end of this humorous film. 
Christina needed a nap after working with us!
Gillian and Alex discussing things. 

My message for my film is that it takes awhile to get used to using technology. Our characters definitely go through a change. Gillian (played by me!!) and Christiana (played by Christina) go through the change. At first they do not want to cooperate with their tutor Alex (played by, yep you guessed it, Alex), so they are not getting anything done and they are complaining about that. Alex gets fed up and tells them that they will not be getting anywhere if they do not listen and the girls finally realize that it's true. They decide to listen and a couple hours later they have figured out how to do some simple stuff. Then they go out for shave ice to celebrate. The two girls go through the change, because it is they that have to listen so they will understand.
Gillian and Christina hang out at the library.

The biggest challenge we faced was working together. Our team is made up of natural   leaders, so no one really wanted to follow each other. We had a lot of trouble figuring it out. During the script writing stage, it was difficult to make a solid script, because people kept changing their lines. Finally, we decided to take a fair, diplomatic approach, a.k.a, we took turns doing everything. Filming, directing, acting, scripting and editing was all shared. This worked great! However, like everybody, we had our rough spots, especially during editing. In the end, though, we pulled through and was able to create our video!
























Monday, February 22, 2016

Tiny Spherical Worlds

AltmanG_Polar1.jpg
There are several reasons why making images of composite photos are very popular. For example, in making photo montages it is very cool to see multiple views and positions of the same thing. Also, and I can speak from experience, it is very fun to put multiple photos together to form an image, like we did with our photo montage. Also, even though a panorama doesn't seem like a bunch of images, it is, because when you take a panorama with a smartphone, or a camera that does panoramas, it is taking a bunch of pics when you are holding down your shutter button. So, panoramas are really popular because you can see a really big landscape. Also, in the kind we are doing now, the polar and spherical images, are made up of a lot of images that a photo editing program will help you make it like a sphere.

Okay, on to the next thing! There also several differences with polar and spherical panoramas, the most obvious, (to me), is the perspective. The polar panoramas' perspective is looking down from a spaceship onto a planet. The spherical panoramas are slightly different, because their perspective is from inside the planet instead of outside. You feel that you are in this really cool planet where there is stuff on the walls. Also, in the polar panoramas, the sky is on the outside while in the spherical  panoramas, the sky is on the inside. There are also technical differences. For instance, when  you are using Photoshop, you do different processes to make polar and spherical panoramas. However, you take polar and spherical panoramas the same way, the difference is how you do it in photoshop.
AltmanG_Sphere2.jpg
AltmanG_Sphere1.jpg

AltmanG_Polar2.jpg
You obviously have to do multiple steps in Photoshop to make your tiny worlds believable. I mean, seriously, who would want to look at a image that looks completely unrealistic. So, you have to things to make it look as realistic as it can be. This is done by using the "clone stamp tool" in Photoshop, which is basically copying and pasting parts of your images to other places, which creates a much more realistic effect on the viewer. Another thing you need to do when taking your pics is to make sure nothing is touching the sky, like a tree. If you do accidentally do this, your tiny worlds will not be as realistic, because you will have a tree in your planet's atmosphere.  Also, as a handy tip, rotate your edited world by 90 degrees clockwise or counter-clockwise to distract the viewer from any slight mistakes you might have. Plus, it looks way cooler if you do that. ;) Also, when you are taking the photos that you will turn into a tiny world, you need to have it look like a good panorama, so when you turn it into a world it looks like an awesome world.

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Hockney Style Joiners

Hey guys! Since were doing really fun and awesome photomontages, we are writing a post about them.Yay!


My photomontages are very different from David Hockney's. First of all, he uses a way better camera than me, because I mostly use my dad's tablet or my Nikon camera.  Plus, he invented photomontages and I obviously did not. Mine are also more abstract and have more blank space than most of his work. His work also includes many, many photos, whereas mine mostly contain about 15-25 photos. For example, the third photo of his work has a lot more photos than my photomontages. David Hockney also uses a style of photography that takes photos from multiple points in space. This is shown in the second photo. I also think that several of his photomontages are designed to provoke an emotion. This could possibly shown in the first photo.

Images can be positive or negative and can provoke positive or negative reactions. For instance, a photo showing adorable kittens and/or puppies at the Humane Society definitely is positive. I mean, who would not, upon looking at a photo like that, not have the positive reaction of either wanting to  find homes for those cute kittens and puppies, or adopt all of them.  That is a example of a positive photo provoking a positive reaction. However, photos can show and provoke a negative reaction. Any photo showing or promoting drugs, smoking, alcohol, abusing substances, or anything inappropriate is a negative photo. That is like, the definition of a negative photo. Those photos will also provoke a negative and often inappropriate reaction.   There are many examples on different social media sites. For instance, when I am looking over my dad's shoulder at his facebook account, I will see positive and negative photos posted by random strangers (mostly the negative photos) or my dad's facebook friends (the positive photos). Recently I saw a cool photo of Gandhi, which is totally a positive photo.However, there are some completely inappropriate stuff on facebook also. You should take only completely appropriate and positive photos, not only for school, (obviously) but also for fun.

I hope that my photomontages' positive message will be easily identified by the viewer. In my final photomontage, my message is that trees are awesome and they should be respected. The avocado tree that I photographed is my favorite tree ever, and I just feel like all is right in the world when I am with it.  Climbing it is super fun too! Talk about a birds-eye view!  Plus, it produces fruit so that's definitely a plus! Also, trees give you oxygen and therefore, we are dependent on trees to survive. We should not be killing the lives of trees just for wood and paper. I hope that my photomontage represents the message that we need to respect trees and they are also the best thing ever!


My final photomontage

My school photomontage


I got these photos from http://joinerphotography.com/How%20to/1JHowTo.html

My Mother, Bolton Abbey








The desk










Pear Blossom Highway