Music Video Finale

P3T8 A Drop in the Ocean from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Embedded VIMEO & 3 unique Behind The Scenes & Cite Musician & 2 minutes of the Song Lyrics used

On my team for our next project music video, are my friends that I work well with and that I know are reliable. My team mates are Malia Alo, Miranda Duarte, and Jb Araula. The song we chose the song Drop in the Ocean by Ron Pope. We chose this song because we had an idea that we all thought was cool that also went well with the song.

Our storyline for Drop in thew Ocean by Ron Pope, is that Miranda has all these friends and they leave her. But each friend leaves one at a time so Miranda gets really sad making even more friends leave her. Then Miranda ends up not having any friends left so she has a breakdown and all she can do is cry. While Miranda is in tears I notice her and comfort her. And ten all her friends come back to comfort her and I join their friend group.

I think so far this has been a successful, high quality project. There have been some bumps in the road to creating our music video like, we had to many mediums and wides so we didn't have sequencing which is required. Also one of our team members was off island when our team first where supposed to meet up so we had to film with out him. Another problem or issue I had was that I wasn't really getting help with the band poster. But that problem was fixed by talking to my team.

Movie Trailer Premier

P3T5_A Mermaids Tale from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

We will be making 90-120 second not real movie trailer that interest your audience without giving away the ending. Along the the trailer we must have an original movie poster and provide the audience with the highest level of production value so people can't help but say I gotta watch that. Our teams story is about a little girl and her mother. Her mom was a mermaid so she left so the girl grew up not wanting to go in the water.When she conquers her fears and goes into the water and magically grows a tail. Scared, the girl runs to her dad and asks him to explain. She realizes that her mom was a mermaid the whole time. Then she runs to the water to begin her search.

I feel the hardest part of this project was deciding on an idea to make a movie trailer about. Beside this idea I had an idea that I really wanted to do. But the rest of the team liked our current idea. So I did my best to support the teams decision and I had to realize that it wasn't always going to get my way. But our team has been affective at communication, that help our project run smoothly.

We critiqued our movie trailers on Thursday April 6 of 2017 so yesterday. I feel the our critique went well. Our movie trailer was voted a couple of times for the best but was not voted enough to make it into the top three movie trailers. when making this project I learned how much work, time, and effort real movie trailer makers have to do. It was difficult but easy to arrange times that fit peoples prier plans so you have to be flexible and understanding to get this project to work. But overall it was fun to work with people I don't normally work with and it helped me get out of my usual habit of working with the same people.

 

Metamorphosis Animation

P3T6 Metamorphosis from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.



Our goal for our animation was to pitch our best animation idea, then complete a
collaborative production plan and storyboard before producing a in between one to two minute. While creating our animation we will be using diffrent types of animation. One of the animation is stop motion. Stop motion means to move something slightly, take a picture, repeat. Some examples of stop motion is claymation, whiteboard, flip book. We also animated in photoshop to animate two out of the five scenes.

For our animation project our focus statement is bunny attains wings. Our characters conceits of bunny, he is adventurous, motivational, and curious about flight. Hawk is persuasive, intending, helpful, and tells Bunny about flying. Then there's cat, she is demanding, insecure, and straight forward. Our plot or problem in the story is Cat doesn’t accept Bunny’s dreams of being able to fly therefore making Bunny give up on his dreams. Our message that we are trying to give through our story is to the purpose is to accept others dreams and to follow your dreams.

When we finished our animation we felt confident in our work and we happy that we finished and turned it in on time. I we that our critique went well. We where graded on four diffrent things, clarity of our message, characters and props, creativity and originality, and over grade for our animation. For our overall grade on our animation is a 3.2. The grade is based off of how each classmate felt the grade we deserved. We also got second best out of the class.

Geometric Portraits

I believed that facial expressions or universal. According to a article in google called six universal expressions says that there are, six classified universal facial expressions. Universal facial are facial expressions that are easy to read. The six classified universal facials are disgust, sadness, happiness, fear, anger, and surprised.

First I had to decided what picture I wanted to use for this project. Then you have to import your picture in to photoshop. Then after it's in you're document use the use the shape tool and make appropriately sized triangles. Then use the polygonal lassos tool and select all you're triangles. Then blur the selected triangles and you're done.

When doing the different methods of doing poly portraits, I figured out that when you customize it it looks more realistic and well better.  I feel the further along I got the better they looked. Also the first poly I did was taken on a lower quality camera. I felt that when using a higher quality camera I came out with a higher quality product. I think that in my last poly portrait I will be able to make my project look at it's best quality and fix things i didn't like in my first ones.

Verbal Landscapes

I interact with nature by going outside and being be things that civilization has not touched very much. Nature impacts my life because nature is calming to me and peaceful. It's also a place where you can be you and express your self. It's also help me forget about any stress or problems I could be having. Nature is a place where i'm not afraid or impressed to be myself.

Environmental tripods are objects that nature proved that keep the camera still while film. Environmental tripods are important when filming timelapses and slow-mos because when filming every shake of the camera is shown when your when you speed up the clips. Slow-mos are still important to make sure that your shots are still because when slowing it down shows all mistakes that you could have made and not released.

The hardest part of this project for me was editing. Editing was hard for me because it's just really time consuming. Because the clips where so long it takes final cut pro a long time for it to load. When the clips don't load quickly it takes time away which i could be using to improve and make it better. My favorite part of this project was filming the timelapses and slow-mos. That was my favorite part of filming was I got to do it with friends.

When reviewing my project I saw thing that I could have fixed. Reviewing our projects is us filling out a grading sheet when watching our videos and determine peoples grades. My video 2 people said my video was excellent, 14 said I met our goal, and 11 said I was developing. I personally gave myself a 2 because I saw some things that I wasn't happy with. For example some of the words timing was a little off. but overall I'm happy how smooth this project went.

Poetic Personal Statement

 Poetry is how a person expresses how they feel. People write poetry different. Some may use sentence, some may rhyme, and others may just be a long sentence. Poetry can be personal by if someone is feeling a certain mood they well express themselves and their feelings on paper. For example if someone is sad or depressed there poem will probably be sad or depressed.It's a great way to express yourself with out being judged.

Glam can be bland

But if I was a designer cloths would be finer

Designers give the world a whirl

And I would do it with a single curl

The world will admire

The newest fashion designer

Rhythm is a strong or regularly repeated pattern pattern of sound or movement. Rhyme is a strong or regularly repeated pattern pattern of sound or movement. For my poetic statement I used rhyme.

Animated Life Lessons Label

P2T4 Perfection Meets Imperfection from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.
 When first assigned this project we had to work with people we haven't worked with. I was in a all girl group with Cara and Kacie. Cara personal traits is a perfectionist. She pretty much tries to make every thing prefect.   Kacie was a super nerd in our story.

 When Kacie, Cara, and I were work to we needed are animation to have a lesson. But we also wanted it to be funny. We agreed on the lesson would be that no one is perfect. Our animation wasn't really funny. We were more focused on turning it in.

 When I was working with my new friends it was easier but also harder. Since we haven't work together before we had to figure out what each other could do. But we got through that pretty quickly. It was easier to work with them because we weren't as distracted. Overall I think working with them was a new experience and I think are project turned out pretty good.