Music Video Finale

P1T5 Live While We're Young from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Hey guys, this may be my last blog post. Ever, in my life. Background information, it's my last year here in Kapa'a Middle School and in Mr. Sanderl's class and this last project shall be a bang! The original introduction, the people who I'll be working with are Denae, Shaday and Kyllie. So to start off, we already wanted to have a happy song, the songs we had in mind were very sad and stuff and I wanted like a band so it was either 5SOS or One Direction and we chose 1D. Then we listed down songs that we liked from that band and it was Live While We're Young or Story of my Life. Obviously, Story of my Life was too sad and the other song is like an adventure song and we can have fun filming it so we chose that song.

Okay so onto our story. Obviously, it's living while we're young. We are not promoting ditching class, this is just a music video, we shot these at different times (in school and after school) so we really didn't ditch class to go to other places. It starts off with Denae and Shaday bored in math class, all stressed out and stuff so they decide to "sneak" out and go to me and Kyllie's class to ditch class to go do things such as going to the beach or mall. Some sort of place where kids are all stress free. That's basically our story, you can clearly tell how it relates to the lyrics. "Come on and let me sneak you out" yup... that's it. AGAIN, we are not promoting ditching class, stay in school, you'll need it in the next few years of your life. Although what we are trying to get out is that don't take school so seriously to the point you want to yknow, do things, let yourself out sometimes. Don't stress yourself out too much, have fun. Don't let school take away your childhood, live it now because you can't turn back the time unless some crazy scientist creates a time machine but bessiiiiddeeeessss the point take a breather.

OH MY GOSH BROOO, honestly I'm glad about all my work this year, except animation but like besides that everything is all good. We had our rough cut critique yesterday and it was like what even. Mr. Sanderl sat down, listened to it all, unplugged his earphones and basically said it was all perfect. He didn't give us a critique like how he did with the other teams he went to, like he had a lot to say to other teams but to us he just listened to it and said it was all good. Thanks to Shaday and her awesome editing skills and precise mind and yknow she needs everything to be perfect, we did the best out of anyone honestly. On our last and final project of the year, I am glad we're ending it with a total bang now we just need wait and see what everyone thinks about it. This showcases all what we learned from different composition techniques to editing. I'm overly happy about this and I feel very positive about everything besides my other classes, I will truly miss this class so much.

Movie Trailer Premier

P1T5_Don't Say It from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Hello people of the world, I have come back with a new project. So if you remember, we made a movie trailer I don't really remember if it was 6th grade or 7th but we did and that's our new project. Our movie trailer is titled "Don't Say It" and it's like horror/comedy. My teammates are Shaday, Taylor and Makaio, Makaio being the leader. Our teammates worked together one way on another, I made the synopsis and they were there to tell me what they want to put in or not. I also did the character descriptions and the keywords. We are currently doing the storyboard at the moment, we have our own scenes and I a doing the third and fifth scene. Little insight about our movie trailer, a group of teens (us) did something that we didn't know would bite us back. We stole things from this car in a kind of spooky tree-e place. We don't bring them back, we just keep it and continue on with our lives and throughout what we did there was this dark figure that was watching what we did. That figure is going to be our haunting past, flying an airplane to us which reads "I know what you did last month" and it's been a month since the crime happened. Well, since WE committed the crime that we didn't think was that bad.

Now to the challenges, our biggest challenge honestly right now is editing. Filming wasn't a problem because we got everything done and we were pretty productive and stuck to the script. Putting it together in a way that's mysterious and creepy is hard because of the audio, the synchronizing, transitions, you know, all that. You know when you have the picture in your head and it's so perfect but when you do it, it's not as what you thought? Yeah, that's like me with editing. I have things I want to do but it doesn't turn out the way I want it to. Shaday and Taylor are editors while me and Makaio does the movie poster but Makaio is working on the music. That's another thing, music. We have to achieve the creepy, empty music that matches our movie trailer. What we're so off on is the movie poster, we have to take the pictures in the green screen room but we keep forgetting to get our clothes so it's the same and it happens everyday so like we can't get it so we're currently sticking to a screenshot which isn't the highest quality and not leaning to the creepy side. Filming was the easy part, now the rest isn't.

As you can see from the results, we won first place and tied with Focused, 9-9 votes. I feel very proud of my team, it's great winning first place and knowing the class likes what you've been working so hard on. On the bars thing, we mostly got 4's and a little bit of 3's on each one but it's cool. Knowing the majority of votes is a 4 I'm happy. I learned that after 2 years of being in GT your last year will be your mots accomplishing year ever because I've been always at least like in 3rd+ place. It's literally great, if you work hard, plan well, schedule, communicate that's how things are going to work out for you. Also sticking to the script is the main thing because it's easier when you're editing. You don't have to jump around looking for clips that are all over the place, you can just drag and drop on clip and
the next clip is the continuation of the last clip. Key to success is honestly communication, some teams in our class didn't communicate well that's why they we're slacking and behind with filming. Well that's all, I'm glad we won, we worked hard, it payed off and overall it's just great.

Metamorphosis Animation

P1T8 Metamorphosis from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Hey guys I'm back, front, side to side... Okay well, that was lame but I'm here to tell you about our NEW project. Since we just finished our Low Poly thank the lord I cannot see another triangle without being put in a bad mood, anyways. Our new project is a Metamorphosis Animation, Mr. Sanderl hasn't done this project in 4 years and now he's bringing it up. So our goal is to make an object or a thing turn to something else while the story delivers a message. Say, one of our ideas is "Butter Finds Fly" and the concept is that the Butter and Fly want to turn to a butterfly and in order to do that they need each other. They travel round to find each other, even through the obstacles in their way they still manage to find each other and they both morph to a butterfly. That whole story is interesting and has a message, well, so I think so. Goal one is to morph your character, goal two is the story shall deliver a message and goal three is that you should use more than 2 animation types. Speaking of animation types, there is a variety of animation you can use. Such as claymation, 3D Animation, Flip Book (honestly that's the coolest and more time consuming), Stop Motion or Motion Graphics. We only have done Photoshop animation, stykz and stop motion, I think we're going to use all three and maybe flip book animation because I want to try something new.

Our focus statement is Butter Finds Fly, if you guys don't get it. It's basically a Butter and Fly morphing together to make a butterfly. In the beginning a fly living in a dump sees its unique friends playing and wants to be different. He sees a big hill and is curious about what is on the other side. In the process of getting the the other side the Fly experiences tough challenges such as strong wind and humans trying to hit it away. In the middle a Butter is sitting around just chilling, hears a noise and gets up to sees a butterfly flying overhead. Butter is inspired and wants to be a butterfly too. Starts walking up this big hill to find a fly so it can turn to a butterfly. In the course of walking up the hill, it suffers from melting bit by bit and animals trying to get a taste of it. In the end the Fly and Butter finally get to the top of the hill. They encounter each other and decide to morph into a butterfly. They touch hands and instantly turn into butter with wings. They didn’t transform quite the way they pictured it but they still accepted the way they are because they are unique and one of a kind. We have 6 scenes all together, one the first scene it's the introduction of the fly. Then the second scene is about the Fly flying away from the dumpster to be unique like his friends. The third scene is the introduction of the Butter. The fourth scene is the Butter jumping out the window to explore the world. Then on the fifth scene, the Fly and Butter meets each other on the top of the hill and last is when they morph into a special butterfly.

We critiqued all our animation yesterday and we got our results. I think we do deserve the grade we got, animation is very hard and whether our quality of work is bad or not, I still think it’s okay. Although, I wish we had more time to animate to produce more of a high quality work. Overall, I’m glad of how ours turned out, I spent a lot of time doing this animation so I HOPE that we will get an A. If you round it, overall we got a 3.5 that would be a 4 and would be an A right? Left.