Monday, May 23, 2016

Music Video Finale

P3T1 Fight Song from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Hey! In GT we are making Music Videos!!! Our song is Fight Song, by Rachel Platten. Our storyline is that my partner, Danielle, wants to play soccer, but doesn't think that she is good enough. Throughout the song, I encourage her to play, and in the end Danielle scores a goal. This matches with my song, because like the song, "I've only got one match," Danielle is telling herself that she can't do it, and that she isn't good enough. Then, later she "smashes the mirror," which symbolizes that her match is defeated. This matches because the song talks about how you are strong and you will keep on going. Our video matches this, because I keep on trying to encourage Danielle so that she will play soccer like she wants to. Our song matches our music video.



We have many fast-edit montage sequences in our music video. My favorite fast-edit montage sequence is when Danielle is scoring a goal. Is because our scenes are switching quickly, it gives our audience a feeling of anticipation. It also gets the audience nervous for Danielle and hoping that she will score the goal. This is my favorite because not only does it make the audience get worried, but it also makes me feel worried to, even though I know what is going to happen. We have many fast-edit montage sequences, but my favorite by far, is when Danielle is about to score a goal.

This music video showcases my best work. Like in some scenes we use the green screen, which I have never done. Also, we use both photoshop, and iMovie. We use both slow-motion, and speed-up. We use a lot of different effects and have a cover page. I also get to do the fast-edit montage sequence, which I have never done before, either. This music video showcases my best work, and all that I have learned this year.

Monday, May 2, 2016

Animated Life Lessons


Hey! In GT we are making team animations. Both my teammates have personal character traits. Treysen can be serious, overthinking, and high achiever. In our story, we are going to exaggerate this by making him super serious and is always overthinking the jokes that me and Ashley tell him. Ashley is a fun, happy, positive, and clumsy person. In our story, she is going to be always cracking jokes and falling. I am also, fun, happy, clumsy, and positive. In our animation I am going to slip on bananas and I try to make Treysen laugh by telling him jokes. In our animation, we are going to exaggerate our character traits.

In my team's story, we use humor. Me and Ashley are very humorous people. Also, we use humor to try and make Treysen laugh. In our animation, our life lessons, and messages relate to us.Our message is that it is great to have fun and laugh, but there are some times when you need to be serious. This relates to us because Me and Ashley are super happy and funny, Treysen is serious. So, we teach Treysen that it is good to have fun and laugh, Treysen teaches us that sometimes we need to be serious and focus. In our animation we dont just use humor, but we also use life lessons and messages.

Considering we've never worked together before, I had a very challenging animation. Our team's level of productivity was very high, but we still had a hard time getting all of our scenes done with just three animators. I had many challenges while making this animation. One, was that puppet warp was super hard, because I would mess up and go back to fix it, but it would just mess up even more. Also, I had a hard time communicating with my team, and making sure that I was doing my animating right. The best moment, during our animation, was probably when we were planning our script and doing voice overs, because we tried to make it funny, and we laughed a lot. Overall, we had good and bad times during our animation.