Cracking the Code

I believe everyone should learn how to code, at least one class of coding. Everyone should learn how to code because it's important, it may not seem important to you right now but, it will be very important when you get a little older or later in life because coding is every where you look. If you were wondering coding is a set of written instructions used by computers to do something. Coding also may come in handy in many situations what if you want to make a game or something like that but there are many things you can use coding for. What if you need to code something on a computer one day and you don't know how to code.

The two lessons on coding I did in my G.T. class weren't my 1st try at it. Well my real first time was last year in my science class and it was difficult at first but the more I did it the easier it got. When the levels got more complex I had to start thinking harder about what pieces went where. I realized that you have to be very precise or you wont get the code right, also the less code the better. My overall first experience with coding was good, It went better then expected at least.

If I could design any program or game it would most likely be an app that would help you pick out your outfit daily. This is how it would work, you would take a picture of all of your clothes individually, oh yeah don't forget about your shoes record them all into the app and even all the new clothes you buy you record them to. After there recorded your ready to go, but every morning, night, or when ever your picking a outfit out you have to choose what design you want for example: if your really happy one day you would choose the happy selection, or if your feeling down, 80's, modern, flashy, anything you want or even choose random. I feel that this would be good for teenage girls or maybe even boys, and some adults. There will actually be more of this in my next blog ;)

Humorous Monologue

This project helped me learn a few more thing that I didn't know before. For example, when creating a joke you have to revise it over and over agin until you think its perfect or at least good enough to make people laugh. I also learned that when you make a joke plan the timing seriously matters, because if your timing is off even just a tad it will loose the effect of the full potential of your humorous joke. Those are really the only major things I learned from this project, except it's super hard to hold a camera up for a long time with out a tripod. Thats all that is really gained from this project.

You really need padding for your videos because if you don't you cut out some of your audio when you speak. It is actually very crucial to have padding because if you cut out your audio it will be super confusing cause your audience wont know what the first and last words you say while filming. Padding is actually the five seconds before and after you start speaking in a video. It is very crucial to give yourself 5 seconds before and after because you cant always just start filming when your camera might not even pick up the first couple word you spoke. Another description for padding is the time needed to help make a good video.

The strong suit for me on this project was making the actual joke because I think it was a pretty good joke. My weakness on this project was filming because I wanted to use my own camera but my mother kept taking it and using it for work. Ways I could have improved on this project was to get much better b-roll, and b-roll that matched my joke. Over all on this project I think I did a pretty good job because I tried my best and did my highest work I could have. 

Comedy Writing

A sense of humor is very important for a humans trait because everyone loves a laugh here and there occasionally. Its always better to have a person thats funny and jokes around then someone who's always serious and can't even take a joke (no offense to anyone). A little humor can always brighten up someones day. Most of the time with humor your being funny and getting people happy but sometimes you can go to far and insult someone. Being humorous can be a good thing or a bad thing depends how you use it.

To make a humorous narrative you need to find some material to use or to write about. You can also think about your life or your self and find something funny that happened to you and embarrass your self. Also when being funny don't laugh at your own jokes it makes like you don't think it's funny which makes it even more funny. Make your jokes short and fast; but remember timing is everything. Last you should be kind of serious.

My comedic monologue is about me and how I'm a teenager looking back in to my life. Its funny because I called my self a mutant creature, but actually a teenager so I'm kind of in the middle of being a child and being a adult. Also I said that I couldn't help but look back into those good old days where you would just jump into a van and realize that the man doesn't have any candy; this is funny because when your little your taught to never talk to strangers and to never get into a van when the man says he has candy. The fact that your not supposed to do what I said that I did makes it humorous. Last I said that all a kid wants now days in the 21st century is food or free wifi and this is funny because all teenagers go on there electronics most of the time.

Motivational Poster

For this motivational poster project were doing right now we have a couple of requirements we need to reach to get a good grade, first theres the layer requirements. For the layer requirements we have to have four pictures in total, which are three images that represent who I am as a person, the last photo is a portrait of my face. The second layers we have are the text layers, we have to use only two text layers one  is for our manifesto and the other one is for our personal quotes. Also we have requirements for our design, here they are, every text layer will always be kerned so there are no blank spaces all around the page. We also need a triadic color scheme for our posters. On our text we need to add a drop shadow, stroke, outer glow, a bevel and emboss.

First I got a whole bunch of manifestos that matter to me and I also got some quotes and kerned them to fit onto the page, so almost all of the words were different sizes. After all of my words were kerned I put three pictures that mean something to me and a portrait of my self in the back of my text. Then when I'm done with all my pictures I have to pick a triadic color scheme for the text, the colors go on the stroke, drop shadow, outer glow, and the bevel and emboss. Last I have to change the colors of my pictures to match my triadic color scheme.

My biggest challenge I had with this project was to kern all my words right. But when I kerned all my words I realized that I needed a lot more quotes and manifestos; that was the hard part I couldn't think of any thing that matted to me so I had to really think. About three days I was still suck on trying to find some quotes or manifestos and I was also way behind on this project I thought I was so behind I wasn't going to get a good grade. Then two days before the project was due I thought of so many things that means a lot to me but by the time a typed them all in I had a day to kern, and etc. So at the end I didn't finish it all in time but I did get a good enough grade to get an A, yaaay!

Personal Manifesto

Hi! It's Jasmine I'm back in my blog for a new school year. Heres some interesting and unique facts about me, I was born on 9/11/01 the exact day of the plane crash on the twin towers. Something else fascinating about me is that I'm supposed to be in 8th grade. Last but not least, my moms side of her family is from Canada and is Canadian. There are many intriguing facts about me but these ate the most interesting.

My 2015-2016 manifesto is to be helpful and strong. There are many things that mean something to me, that I say every day after I wake up. Some of them are get everything you need to get done, done as soon as possible. Also help out family when they need it and always do things with out asking. I also try to do house jobs for my parents so they don't have to work to hard. These are some times I say to my self when I wake up.

My manifesto relates to all of my readers because the sentences I'm using can be for everyone or anyone. The goals I have said are something that average people can use in there everyday lives as well as me. Many of my goals or manifestos apply to my or maybe anyones everyday life. I believe that the manifestos I chose can relate to any person but mostly children or teens because it has to do with things that don't really interest us.

Lyrical Livelihood

My favorite song lyrics make me feel happy. Why? You may ask me, well because when I'm board, tired, or sad I could just listen to that song and I would get more up beat and happy. I think the reason music makes me happy is because when I listen to music it takes me to a different place. Well it feels like it because my mom doesn't bother me and i cant hear her anyway. Also because when I'm listening to music I don't even need to pay attention to whats going on around me.

My team and I chose the song stitches by Shawn Mendes. We chose this song because we like the beat and the lyrics. We feel that the song relates to us, we also chose it because it has nice meaningful word in the lyrics. I feel like we really chose this song because it has a good beat, words, and harmony. We really like all kinds of music but we decided to choose a happy sad song this time.

The visual story my team and I will tell is, at first we are going to show that there is this one boy who was cheating on three girls that are best friends. He doesn't know that they have figured it out yet but they did and when they did they realized that they were all very sad they didn't know what to do, they all cried. After a while they tried killing themselves because they were all so sad but then they didn't have the strength to really die. They talked to each other and talked it out, they found out that it was a mistake, no one knew that they were dating the same boy. They have a sleep over and dance around one of their houses and fun to get that boy out of their heads.

About Shawn Mendes

Our Animation Story

Our focus statement tells our story because it shows what the stories going to be about. It also helps to give you an idea about how its going to be done. It tells our story because our focus statement is "Taylor Defends her self". It makes sense because the whole story is about how Taylor stands up for her self and tries to make her problem better. This also tells our story because it gives the main idea of the story.

Im hoping that my audience will learn that bulling is never a good thing. Everyone gets bullied at least once in their life time. Stand up for your self it does make the bully stop. We are trying to tell the audience that when and if you get bullied then you have to show that you don't like getting bullied and you want them to stop so you have to get up and show you can be the bigger man. The thing is that every kid getting bullied has a hard time with getting through it so we want to show kids that you can stop it, no matter how weak you think you are.

My team and I had some major ups and downs but we got through them. The first bad thing was we couldn't find time in our schedules for filming but the good thing is when we did we got to work. We tried really hard to get stuff done, work on it as much as possible. I think that my team did a really good job over all. I think the biggest problem we went through is the fact that not all of us worked together through out the whole project.