Verbal Landscapes

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Nature is all around us. There is really no way of escaping natures presents. I live in an area where nature surrounds us. So nature impacts my life a whole lot. One way nature impacts my life is through emotions. When i'm around nature it just fills me with different kinds of emotions. I feel happy, relaxed, overwhelmed, and much more. Nature is something that you just can't live without! There is really no way of living without some kind of nature around you. It doesn't matter what kind of nature it is. Did you know that we are apart of nature. We are mother natures creations. We were brought into the world along with the other types of nature around us.

Have you ever wanted to create your very own timelapse? Well with these simple steps you surely can! The first step in making your very own timelapse is to grab your camera and find a good looking landscape. A landscape where you can see 2/3 of the sky and 1/3 of the ground. You want to make sure to get a greater ratio of sky than ground. You can take a timelapse of the ground if you want to, but that would be really boring. Next you want to make sure that your camera is steady and sturdy so that your timelapse doesn't make anyone dizzy. You can use an environmental or a man-made tripod. Whatever works for you. Then when you find your tripod and you are all set up all you got to do is start your camera and wait for 5mins or more whatever you decide. But the minimum is 5mins.

There were a lot of challenges with this project. My main issue was finding a unique spot to shoot my timplapses at. It was also hard to find things to make slow-mo's of that were interesting. So basically finding something that no one else would do was the hardest part. I tried to film my timelapses at places that I thought no one else would think of. But of course I was wrong. A couple of my classmates had the same shot as I did; which was fine because we live on a small island. There is not that much places that are easy to reach and not much places to go to either. But the shots that I got were good enough to the point where some of the shots are somewhat unique and meets the goals and requirements. But the slow-mo's were I have to say the hardest shots to film! I didn't really know what to take slow-mo's of. There was nothing I could think of or have the patience to film; and because mostly everyone in my class took slow-mo's of waves crashing at the beach. I wanted to be different so I decided to film a bee going from flower to flower and put that in slow-mo. It actually turned out really good I have to say so myself. I also got a shot of some old leaves falling on the ground from the ground point of view.

I don't really agree with my critique because two people grading my work with a two which I don't think was fair because there were others who really deserved a two but didn't get it. But other than those two bad grades, I do agree with the rest of my scores. I think it's fair that I got graded a three 's and four's because one of my shots were shaky but not to the point where you would get dizzy. I also didn't really put as much text effects as I wanted too, because I kind of doubted how good it would turn out. But now that I got feedback I realized I could have put way more text effects on my project,, I also could have balanced my audio out more. My audio wasn't bad. It was actually pretty good. I just think that I could have played around with the audio a little more so that it would sound more professional.

Poetic Personal Statement

This quarters assignment was Poetic designs. What we basically did was take pictures of things that mean something to us and we added some poetry to it. Poetry is a type of literature. I think that poetry is a more emotional and sometimes touching way of expressing your feelings. Usually poetry relate to people and the way they may feel. Poetry is used to express feelings. In my opinion it is a more creative way of expressing your feelings. Sometimes poetry can be personal, meaning that the piece of poetry you may be reading doesn't really relate to you but it is about the poet and the way they are feeling. To be honest I am not a poet type of person. But since I do write a lot and enjoy writing, I sometimes catch my self being a poet without even knowing it! But even though I do not write poetry I enjoy reading it. I'm pretty sure that every one has listened to poetry before. If you listen to music than you surely listen to poetry. Music is poetry with rhythm. So basically we hear poetry on the daily!

I like to be myself, don't need to hate
I move to the beat of my heart rate
My motto is to be yourself

because there is really no one else
Reach for your goals like no there
Along the way you may discover something new
Or maybe not, you never know
But right now I'm gonna outgo

In my poem I used rhyme. I used rhyme my forming my poem in a way that each two sentences or lines ended in the same sound. For example know and outgo don't end in the same letters, but they end in the same sound. I used rhyme because I feel that it went well with what I was writing about. I also used rhyme because it is a personal preference of mine. It is kind of difficult making a rhythm to my poem. This is just an opinion, but I think that rhyme is prettier when you read it. But of course everyone is different. I also didn't use rhythm because I think that rhythm makes the poem sound more like a rap. Which isn't the style I was going for. I was going for a more calm poem. The kind of poem that when you read it you automatically feel relaxed.