Our Animation Story

P5T8 Sophia Faces Fears from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.


Each team had to pick a focus statement to show for their animation. Our focus statement for this animation is "Sophia Faces Fear." This tells Sophia's story because it shows her facing her fears and it shows the fears she faces in our animation. It's pretty hard to tell that she's facing her fears but I hope you understand it. Sophia was played as herself, Alaka'i as Harry Potter, Micah as the professor and me as the friend.

Our lesson for this animation is that you can face your fears if you believe in yourself. Sophia wanted to get out of the book so she had to face her three biggest fears to get out. It takes courage to face your fears, Sophia is scared but she still decides to take the challenge. By the end she receives a trophy for all that she's done.

Our best moments were in the beginning and the end because we didn't have much stress at those points and we felt relieved when it was the end because we accomplished a lot. Our worst moments were in the middle of the making of our animation. We had to deal with a lot of things, we argued but we got it together. Also sometimes we can't decide to do which and which scene is which. Half of the time we argued about those things.

Animation Outtakes

For this new animation project Alaka'i, Ashley, Sophia, and Micah are my teammates. We are expected to do a real life animation mixed with Photoshop, Stykz, or Whiteboard. Two interesting facts about Ashley Alfiler is that she cheers for Eagles and she wants to be a coach when she grows up. Sophia Gregory plays the piano and also plays volleyball. Alakai Gonsalves is in Boys Scouts and likes to play sports.

Stop-motion animation is a type of animation that requires photos. To make one, you need a bunch of pictures that describes what the person is doing. For example I am walking, each step I take somebody will take a picture, when you put all those together it will look like I am walking normally but in pictures. GIF is an acronym for Graphics Interchange Format. This kind of format allows people view it in the Internet. Although, you have to draw out your scene.

Our story is about "Sophia Faces Fear", she dreams about her being in the Harry Potter book/movie. Her dream takes her on until she faces her biggest fear and a challenging challenge. Her challenge was to go through a raft while an alligator is chasing her and fighting a snake. We are going to manipulate the movie, we are not going take a picture of the actual movie. You should care because our story is all about facing your fear and how your dreams can take you places unexpectedly. We really had a hard time to think of this idea, even though it's not a type of story that makes sense, I hope we still get a good grade