Music Video Finale

Hey guys and welcome back to my blog. So through out this year this is my favorite project that we are doing and it's the Music Video Finale. Also this will be my last project of the year and blog post of this whole entire year. And that's because it's my last year of middle school. But don't get to upset I'll be posting here and there about how I'm progressing through high school. Not going into depth so lets go on to the blog. This year my teammates are Wailana Marvin, and Jaesha Mata. So the song for this year is "So sick" by neyo. We chose this song because for me I'll go with any song, and we had 2 songs in mind at the time we picked it. So we looked at each other if it was So sick or the other, it.

Describe storyline you created & how it relates to lyrics? So this song is about love and going through a break up. So in this music video it will be featuring Jaesha being broken up with, we are still deciding if we either need a male actress or we can just do it over text. So our storyline was very confusing at first but and changes I gotten used to it. Our storyline first was the main character which is Jaesha being broken up with and I was gone for 2 days and the whole storyline was turned from a break up story to a food/ diet kind of thing. And ya it's confusing. To go more into depth the story is Jaesha, Wailana, and I we are all love junk food and I mean who doesn't. So when our parent see us eating junk food they put us on a diet I guess and it's just for show were not actually being put on diets. Were just showing our parent taking away junk food from us and putting a bag of carrots or lettuce in front of us. So we were trying to make a comedy out of it because with this type of song for me personally I can't take things seriously.

So overall I think our MV we could've done better and that's because, we didn't have a various locations of where our lip syncs. For me the degree this MV showcases of I think most of what we can do. And This will be my last blog post of this school year.

So Sick Ne-yo
Gotta change my answering machine, now that I'm alone
'Cause right now it says that "We can't come to the phone"
And I know it makes no sense, 'cause you walked out the door
But it's the only way I hear your voice anymore
It's been months and for some reason I just
(Can't get over us)
And I'm stronger than this
No more walkin round with my head down
I'm so over being blue, crying over you
And I'm so sick of love songs, so tired of tears
So done with wishing you were still here
Said I'm so sick of love songs, so sad and slow
So why can't I turn off the radio?
Gotta fix that calender I have that's marked July 15th
Because since there's no more you, there's no more anniversary
I'm so fed up with my thoughts of you and your memory
And now every song reminds me of what used to be
That's the reason I'm
So sick of love songs, so tired of tears
So done with wishing you were still here
Said I'm so sick of love songs, so sad and slow
So why can't I turn off the radio?
Leave me alone
(Stupid love songs)
Don't make me think about her smile
Or having my first child
Let it go
Turning off the radio
'Cause I'm so sick of love songs, so tired of tears
So done with wishing she was still here
Said I'm so sick of love songs, so sad and slow
So why can't I turn off the radio?

Movie Trailer Critique

P1T4_Hidden Secret from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Hey guys and welcome back to my blog and this weeks project is Movie Trailers. And for me this is one of the projects that I have been waiting for. What I really like about Movie Trailers is that when I see it on TV I want to see the movie when it comes into theaters. Explain the project & how you contributed to the plan? Well I literally have the best team leader ever Jhoanna Domingo. She's so creative and we went with her idea and it was Hidden Secrets. So she took care of the sketch of the movie poster. While Kyllie, Mike and me, we were in the studio doing our script. So for Hidden Secret Julie is an everyday girl living in an ordinary town where it all seems perfect until she suddenly encounters drastic changes. The unexpected death of her best friend is determined by the authorities to have been an accident. However, Julie suspects there's something unsettling. What will she do, what clues have been left behind, will she find the truth?

Describe your biggest challenges & successes. Well I would have to say the biggest challenges I would have to say is finding time to meet up. We pulled through with the 2 meet ups, for our mid qurter grades I think it was. Though the thing is it would be great if the all of our teammates showed up. One example is we would plan the meet ups and one of us would either be busy but its's better than nobody showing up. Our successes were that we have 2 people assigned to do something on the team, and not leaving anyone out. Like Mike and I we are working on the movie trailer posters. And Jhoanna and Kyllie are the editors. Overall we worked good together as a team and that's because we got it turned in on time and we got good results from the critique.

Summarize critique results & what you learned. This project I would have to say turned out better than I thought because before the actual project was due we had a filming session with Kyllie, Jhoanna and me. We had a lot of fun filming, and it was a good turn out we had 3/4 team members show up and we got more than we needed. And when it was due I didn't even see the final product so when the day came it was the critique that's when I saw it. When it was the end of the critique I really like how the results turned out. And if we had anything to improve was my acting. Through out the movie trailer project I couldn't take anything seriously. When we would film and meet up all I did was laugh, and for some reason I was laughing at the littlest thing. Though the team and I had a lot of fun. So see you guys next week in the next blog post.

Metamorphosis Animation

P1T4 Metamorphosis from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Hey guys and welcome back to my blog. This weeks project is an animation project about metamorphosis. Our focus statements are Rock Sparks Imagination, and Makaio Overcomes Sorrow. During the pitch critique we had a tie of votes and we had to make a decision. What I did was to break the tie I asked my team members what do they want to do. And the funny part was we all said we could do either one. Then we did something else, we visualized what the Rock Sparks Imagination vs  Makaio Overcomes Sorrow and what I visualized Makaio Overcomes Sorrow. And my team members thought or Rock Sparks Imagination. So that's where it all started.

Describe the project goal? The project goal for me would be to make things look realistic and make it the best quality. The animation types that we used is for the title is stop motion with drawing. For scene 1 we did stop motion, and for the rock part smashing on the ground we incorporated a mix with photoshop. Scene 2 we did photoshop with a little mix of stykz, scene 3 photoshop and for the last scenes 4 & 5 we did stop motion, for the very ending we did photoshop.

Rock Sparks Imagination that is our focus statement. So in this animation we are trying to show that dreams do come true and that if you can think it you can do it. So the story is a girl that walking home which is me, that is very frustrated. While she is walking home she stubs her foot on a rock and she gets angry, picks up the rock and throws it on the ground. Black screen and it shows Makaio waking up as a human. During the journey as a human he meets Jaesha his new friend, and he befriends Juli the bully that threw him on the ground. Then in the end they were playing a good game of tag and Makaio runs into a tree and wakes up and he's still a human. Then happily ever after the three friends walk into the sunset.

Final Critique Results 

The critique it went really well better that I expected because I thought we were going to get two's but not really. It was ranging from 2.9 to 3.4. Even though we didn't win I still though we did good on turning it in on time. If we did have a chance to redo this project, what we most improve on is trying to find time in meeting up with my team. Comparing from my animation last year I think I improved. Overall this project was super fun and we had a lot of laughs and new memories to keep.