Music Video Finale

P3T6 American Dream from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

 This is not my song. All music credit goes to Switchfoot.

It's that time of year again. It's time for the music video project in GT.  I have a team of four this time. I have Isaac Dubey, Emily Harshorn, Aftan Dodd, and me. We are making a music video of American Dream by Switchfoot. The decision process was not democratic. We only had two minutes left and Emily suggested the song. We had nothing else, so we went with it. That is basically how we came up with our ideas.


Our storyline starts with people working, getting money, and being sad. This goes with the lyrics "when success is equated with excess", and "this is not my American dream". Someone walks in, "kidnaps" workers, and tells them to have fun. At the end, everyone is having fun. They are fulfilling their "American Dream". That is how we wanted to go at it.



We are madly working to get this done. We were the last team to get approved and things are getting rough. To be honest, I don't think this will be showcasing our best work. That being said, we are about 50% done and we have TWO work sessions left. Yes, TWO. We are going to be cutting it very close with this one, if at all. I'm legitimately scared. I will have to somehow pull myself out of this situation. Hopefully, I'll be able to pull it off.

Behind the scenes

Behind the scenes

Behind the scenes

             

Movie Trailer Premier

P3T8_Objection Overruled from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.


In my GT class, we are working on making a fictitious movie trailer. That means make a trailer for a movie that will never exist. It will be 90-120 seconds. We will plan and produce it. We will need a dramatic voice actor that screams "MUST SEE!!!". The trailer will captivate the audience.  You see, we are supposed to work in teams of 4, but I had the odd team out with only 3 people. My team consists of me, Gillian Altman, and Isaac Dubey (links to their blogs on sidebar). We already made the planning document. I worked on part of the Voice Acting (VA) script and the 4p's (Plan, Purpose, Plot, People).


In our movie trailer, we had some major road blocks. One of those is collaboration. With all the bloopers that we produced, my teammates started to get quite irritable. That made it much harder to collaborate on our shots. In the end, we got it done. Our successes far outweigh our failures. We managed to get a high-quality poster and trailer. We are quite proud of our work. Then again, that is the work that 3 returning GT students can show. I hope that the class grades us well.




Well, the critique is over, and we did quite well. The class decided that we met all expectations in the audience and requirements categories. We got an ABOVE AND BEYOND in creativity. That is very good. On top of that, we got second place in the overall class best. That is a huge honor. I learned that with proper teamwork, you can accomplish anything.

Storyboard

Metamorphosis animation

My GT class is doing an animation project. The project goal is "Following the Project Rubric, all students will join Metamorphosis Animation Teams & pitch their 2 best focus statements & story ideas, then complete a collaborative Production Plan & Storyboard before producing their 1-2 minute animated movie including 5 scenes, 15 shots, Foley and a custom soundtrack." My animation team consisted of me, Cate, and Gavin (links to their blogs on sidebar). Our animation types were Stykz, Photoshop, and stop-motion. I think that makes a pretty good combo.









My focus statement for my animation is hermit embraces society. It starts off with this hermit crab in a magical mountain lake. A friendly fish comes up to him and tries to make friends but fails miserably. The crab then gets transformed into a human and has to leave the mountain. He then stumbles upon a village. The villagers teach him about friendship and give him cake. The friendly fish from earlier transforms into a human and goes down to the same village. The fish then succeeds
in making friends with the crab and they live happily ever after.



I don't think my team's results were anything to celebrate about. We got a score of 2.8 which rounds

up to 3. That means that the class thinks we deserve a B on our animation. I was really hoping for an A. Oh well. Our animation did have some flaws. First of all, I don't think that our soundtrack really fits with the theme of the animation. The sound track also plays during the entire animation. Now that I think about it, that may not have been the best idea. I could have played it when it was more appropriate. The visuals could have been better, too. The characters looked different depending on who animated it, even if we all used the same animation type. All in all, if we had just communicated better, the quality of our entire animation would have improved drastically.