Visual Literacy

For this project our assignment was to fold a book to create a word. It may sounds hard but its quite easy. So the process is to fold each paper have a line on the template of your word. Then you make a mark that shows that you have a already folded half or that line. But back to my book. My word was Love. The man who help grow this fun activity is Isaac G. Salazar. He has been folded books since the 2009. He says he does this so he can share that books are fun to read and also fold because he sees that everyone in this generation is using technology, while books just sit there.Visual Literacy is the ability to recognize and understand ideas through visible actions or images. This book folding process is an example of visual literacy because you see a word through the book, kind of like a hidden message. 

For my book i folded the word love because nobody used it yet and because i just love the word love. My font and my word relate because my font is kind of bold looking and my word is just bold its self. My intention was to show the word love in a book because i "love" to read books. I folded 588 pages for the word "love". 

I think my book came out pretty good because one: you can see the word really good up close and far away. And two: its really neat. I wouldn't do anything or change it because i like the way it turned out and the final results. If i would try to fold another book i would try do a heart because i think that would look pretty and it probably would be easier because there's not as much angles as a word then an image. Or i would do a image of a moon, star, wave , or flower.
 

Proactive or Procrastination?

To be honest I feel I am a little of both. But if I had to pick one I would say I am a procrastination type of person because I usually donʻt study as much as I should. Also, I am usually late on some assignments which is pretty bad. Lastly, I sometimes play around or space out in classes. But I am definitely trying to become a proactive person!


My level of productivity is kind of high when it comes to my free time because on my free time I be sure to do my homework or assignments. But the reason I say "kind of" is because sometimes I just go home and just go and play like go to the beach even though I know I have to study for a test. Or I just wonʻt study till night time when I should be sleeping. I know I have to work on my level of productivity.


Somethings I would like to chance about my work habits would be to not fool around in class and really pay attention to what the teacher is teaching. Also, I would be productive on my free time such as studying or doing work that could improve me in a class. I would remind myself to try to study right when I get home. I would also take time doing my homework so I do a good job.

Lessons Learned

For our project the most interesting part about it is the fact that we are doing a segment on Dustin Barca's thoughts on GMO because GMO is a big thing in Kauai. Its also cool because we get to learn more about GMO doing this project.

For our team the biggest roadblock is meeting up to film because everyone is busy on the days we try to meet. We are trying to solve this problem so we can shoot. Another roadblock is checking out the camera because there is a lot of kids in Mr.Sanderl's class that check out cameras everyday so we usually gotta wait to get a  camera.

The valuable part of filmmaking is when we film someone or something we learn more interesting thing about our segment and other interesting facts. Another valuable part of filmmaking is going to places that i have never gone before and filming.

Back To School

My favorite moment so far in 8th grade was in G.T because in G.T we are doing this project on final cut pro or in my words photo shop. The project is to create a picture or video on photoshop but with no help so at first i was so mad and confused because i didn't know how to do anything. The biggest challenge lately was math because we are doing square and cube units and i do not understand it at all.  I will be successful this year by always studying before a test, asking questions if i don't understand it and lastly paying attention in class and ignoring the people who are fooling around and making noises.