Monday, August 31, 2015
Sunday, August 30, 2015
FFXV Trailer
Final Fantasy XV
The trailer that I choose was Final Fantasy XV because I liked the artwork.
The game originated from Square Enix. Square Enix is one of my favorite game companies because the artwork is awesome and the game designs are interesting.
I hope to someday work there in the future.
In this trailer, it is a about young prince who is about to lose his kingdom to Niflheim. Niflheim was taking over the kingdom by taking control of the Crystal Gods. The young prince must stop Niflheim and save the Crystal Gods.
The things I like about the game are the animation, the character designs and the environment. The animations of the fight scenes make the gamer feel like he is
part of this fantasy world. The character designs used parts of the human anatomy to make it look very realistic and awesome. The environment was structure like the modern world but decorated in a punk motif or as a punk version
The only problems I have had with the Final Fantasy games are the storylines.
The storylines are a bit confusing and did not make sense. In some of the games there are glitches in the game play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z9yUCQzfnA
Attachments area
Preview YouTube video Final Fantasy XV - Gameplay & Story Trailer
Final Fantasy XV - Gameplay & Story Trailer
The trailer that I choose was Final Fantasy XV because I liked the artwork.
The game originated from Square Enix. Square Enix is one of my favorite game companies because the artwork is awesome and the game designs are interesting.
I hope to someday work there in the future.
In this trailer, it is a about young prince who is about to lose his kingdom to Niflheim. Niflheim was taking over the kingdom by taking control of the Crystal Gods. The young prince must stop Niflheim and save the Crystal Gods.
The things I like about the game are the animation, the character designs and the environment. The animations of the fight scenes make the gamer feel like he is
part of this fantasy world. The character designs used parts of the human anatomy to make it look very realistic and awesome. The environment was structure like the modern world but decorated in a punk motif or as a punk version
The only problems I have had with the Final Fantasy games are the storylines.
The storylines are a bit confusing and did not make sense. In some of the games there are glitches in the game play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z9yUCQzfnA
Attachments area
Preview YouTube video Final Fantasy XV - Gameplay & Story Trailer
Final Fantasy XV - Gameplay & Story Trailer
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Define your charteristic
What are your characteristics?
One of my characteristics is the water. My name means "big water" in the Washoe Indian language. Also, I was born in Hawaii and grew up by the beaches in Maui. My life has been surrounded by things I do in and around the water. I like to swim in the ocean and fish in rivers in California. I play water sports such as swimming, bodysurfing and water polo. My art style is based on water. I like to incorporate water and marine life into my artworks.
A second characteristic of mine is that I am an early riser. I find that in the early morning hours my mind is fresh and open to the new day and new ideas.
My third characteristic is that I am a very energetic person. I like to give one hundred percent and more into whatever I do: art, sports and just interacting with people.
Describe your lineage.
I was born in Hawaii on the island of Maui. My parents are Filipino. My maternal grandparents were immigrants from the Philippines to America. My grandfather worked in the agricultural fields of California. He was a farmer worker before he started working as a laborer at the Mare Island Shipyard in Vallejo, CA. My grandmother was a creative dressmaker. She worked as a seamstress for Levi Strauss and Koret of California. They had four children: two boys and two girls. They emphasized to all their children that education was the most important opportunity they could have in America. My grandparents put all their children through college and all of them graduated from college. My mother has emphasized the same things about education to my brother and myself.
What are you standing on?
I am standing on my Filipino heritage, my childhood in Hawaii, my experiences in the water and my travels to Japan. I am standing on the support and encouragement from my mother. She always tells me to do my best and reach for my goals. My goals are to go to Japan, learn their culture and pursue my career there. I would like to work for one of the top game industries in Tokyo, Japan.
What is your position in media?
I see media as a portal to show my creative ideas and express it in a visual mode. I seek is to create worlds and create characters that people can use it, interact with it and gain pleasure from it. I would like to make virtual reality games. This is why I choose game art and design as a major.
One of my characteristics is the water. My name means "big water" in the Washoe Indian language. Also, I was born in Hawaii and grew up by the beaches in Maui. My life has been surrounded by things I do in and around the water. I like to swim in the ocean and fish in rivers in California. I play water sports such as swimming, bodysurfing and water polo. My art style is based on water. I like to incorporate water and marine life into my artworks.
A second characteristic of mine is that I am an early riser. I find that in the early morning hours my mind is fresh and open to the new day and new ideas.
My third characteristic is that I am a very energetic person. I like to give one hundred percent and more into whatever I do: art, sports and just interacting with people.
Describe your lineage.
I was born in Hawaii on the island of Maui. My parents are Filipino. My maternal grandparents were immigrants from the Philippines to America. My grandfather worked in the agricultural fields of California. He was a farmer worker before he started working as a laborer at the Mare Island Shipyard in Vallejo, CA. My grandmother was a creative dressmaker. She worked as a seamstress for Levi Strauss and Koret of California. They had four children: two boys and two girls. They emphasized to all their children that education was the most important opportunity they could have in America. My grandparents put all their children through college and all of them graduated from college. My mother has emphasized the same things about education to my brother and myself.
What are you standing on?
I am standing on my Filipino heritage, my childhood in Hawaii, my experiences in the water and my travels to Japan. I am standing on the support and encouragement from my mother. She always tells me to do my best and reach for my goals. My goals are to go to Japan, learn their culture and pursue my career there. I would like to work for one of the top game industries in Tokyo, Japan.
What is your position in media?
I see media as a portal to show my creative ideas and express it in a visual mode. I seek is to create worlds and create characters that people can use it, interact with it and gain pleasure from it. I would like to make virtual reality games. This is why I choose game art and design as a major.
Artist/ work
Keali’i Reichel
Keali’i Reichel was born on the
island of Maui in Hawaii. He grew up in
Lahaina, Maui and attended Lahainaluna High School. He is one of Hawaii’s
most popular contemporary Hawaiian
singers, songwriter, choreographer, hula dancer, chanter, scholar, and teacher
from Hawaii. His music is based on the Hawaiian culture’s ancient music and ancient
hula called kahiko.
In his early adulthood, at the age
24, he was convicted for theft and was sentenced to community service. It was this life changer that turned him
around and influenced him to study the Hawaiian culture. He focused on learning the Hawaiian language,
on the art of hula and it’s music. In 1994 at the age of 33, he recorded and
released a collection of traditional Hawaiian music. The first song he released
was Kawaipunahele. This is one of my favorite songs because I grew up listening
to it as a child in Maui. He released three albums: Lei Hali`a, `E O Mai, and
Melelana, which put him at the top of the best Hawaiian music entertainment
industries.
In his music
he most often included the vocals over a guitar, a bass, ukulele and
drums. Also he included Western string
instruments, the violin and cello. His music emphasizes the Hawaiian language with
chanting and singing. He will occasional
intersperse English into his music. He performs stage productions that
incorporate the old kahiko-style hula and modern hula with his music. He also
performs with the Maui Youth Theater on
Maui.
The song I chose to talk about is “Kawaipunahele”
I made a time line to show what I heard. I want to describe the instruments played and how
it is mixed with the voices of the
vocalists.
Example of the song:
0:00 It starts with
soft strumming from each string on the guitar.
0:11 Solo singer (Keali’i)
0:16 Strumming
starts to get quieter.
0:23 He holds his
voice “OOOoooheeleee” giving it a soft rhythmic sound.
0:33 The singer and
the instrument start to change quieter while he says “kaluwa” and then holds
“eeehh” in a strong deep voice.
0:43 For less than a
second, the guitar stops.
0:45 The lead singer
(Keali’i Reichel) sings while the call and response repeats what he says, but
sings one long word.
0:46 A second singer
syncs in with the lead singer (Keali’i Reichel)
0:49 “HhEEELLLEEeee”
in a high to low vocal. From the call and response singer and the lead singer.
1:00-1:05 Call and
response takes the lead.
1:08 Lead singer
syncs with call and response singers into harmony.
1:16 Different strumming
from the guitar changes the sound flow of the music.
1:30 Violin layering the lead singer and the call and
response singer
2:20 Change of rhythm with the lead singer and the call and
response singers while the lead singer is singing.
2:17 Third singer
jumps in the lead and the call and response “EEEeeeehhh
2:25 It starts
getting louder
2:55 Sound starts
getting lower volume
4:00 The song would
go silent and then a heavy strumming from guitar.
4:30 Call and
response from the other singers join the final ending.
4:37 Different strumming
from the guitar change in the string tones
4:39 Slowing down the
strum
4:44 Declaration with
one strumming of the guitar.
I choose this artist because he is one of my favorite
Hawaiian singers and he is from Maui and I’m from Maui.
Monday, August 17, 2015
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