Music Video Finale

P3T1 Faded from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

We have just started a new project, it's called the Music video Project. I have teamed up with Danielle Gunn, Alexis Chatfield, and Seline Gage. We have chosen the song Faded by Alan Walker. My team and I have chosen this song because it has been in are minds for some time. It starts of sad but then the person found his old home at the end so be decided to go with a lost theme. Some of us didn't agree with the song chose.

The storyline of my team and my music video is about friends being lost or got separated from each other. The beginning is a group of friends in a forest walking then two of us went another way and then others went the other way. In the middle we are walking from different areas of the beach and try to find each other. At the end we found each other swimming in the ocean. We start to become happy again now that we found each other. During some of the scene we will be lip syncing to the music and have emotion.

During this final project of the 2016-2017 G.T school year I want to showcases the best of my ability in this project with the highest quality. In this project I was assigned to edit so I have added different camera angels with some movement but most nice steady camera. The lighting of this project will not be dark but still not that blinding bright. It will showcase a story of theme that we have chosen to go along with this music video. We want to put in different layovers of effects to make it look like a real nice job done music video.


Song Artist: Alan Walker
Song: Faded (0:00-2:00)

You were the shadow to my light
Did you feel us
Another start
You fade away
Afraid our aim is out of sight
Wanna see us
Alive

Where are you now
Where are you now
Where are you now
Was it all in my fantasy
Where are you now
Were you only imaginary
Where are you now

Atlantis
Under the sea
Under the sea
Where are you now
Another dream
The monsters running wild inside of me

I'm faded
I'm faded
So lost
I'm faded
I'm faded
So lost
I'm faded

These shallow waters, never met
What I needed
I'm letting go
A deeper dive
Eternal silence of the sea
I'm breathing
Alive

Where are you now

Movie Trailer Premier

P3T5_A Mermaids Tale from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

In class we are currently working on our own creative Movie Trailer. This is a team assignment so I have teamed up with Raja Counts, Alexis Chatfield and Viora Yamamoto. We have decided to Mermaid story and this is a 90-120 second trailer about are idea. In this team work project I have worked on a lot of the plan to make sure that every thing works well to get it done and as great as possible. Along with this project we have to use composition techniques that can help you with your photograph. It will also help us with filming are videos for the project.

Even though this is a fun project there still are some problems that come and we have to solve. One challenge is when we have to meet up because some people can't meet up for some reason. Another challenge was that the poster wasn't looking right. A success that we have had was that the film has be turning out just like we planned it to be and it looks really good. Another really good success is that all of are film was done early so that if we missed or have to re film to make a shot look better we will have enough time to do it. This was a great project and I loved working with new people during  this project.

We are slowly starting to exit this project but before we do we needed to have are whole class to critique or grade on each teams movie trailer. When it was my teams and my turn to present are work the class gave us a 3 out of 4 (3/4). I can understand why we got that grade because it wasn't the best quality like we should have done and it wasn't above and beyond. We got "All Expectations Met" which is pretty good. In the future I would like for us to work even harder and better then we did to get that amazing 4/4.

Metamorphosis Animation

P3T3 Metamorphosis from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

During this new project with metamorphosis animation my team and I have a goal to be on task and not fall behind on any animation time. In this project I am teamed up with Danielle Gunn and Aftan Dodd and we have picked two main ideas called Seahorse Changes Attitude and Petal Develops Beauty.  Also we will be using a new animation type named Stykz. An goal that my team and I will have is maybe to make the animations that we create as nice as we can. Our main goal for this project to make the animation as smooth and well as we can. Also we don't want an stick people or characters in are story or animation.

Are focus statement is Seahorse Changes Attitude and it means that people can change in different ways, like there attitude. There is two characters the main character is Joe who changes and the other Character is Fred who is nice and helps other people. The plot of this story is Joe is very Selfish and doesn't appreciate what he is living though, also he is very mean and everyone wants him to leave the reef they live in. Then when Joe leaves the reef then he moves to a dirty reef where he meets a seahorse named Fred. Fred wants to be friends with Joe so he give Joe a Soup but Joe doesn't want it so he slams it on the ground. Joe gets hurt and then turns into a seahorse and he learns to be kinder and appreciate the way he is living.

The results that my team and I got was a ¾ from are class for our Metamorphosis Animation. I agree with the class because it wasn't the best but we still did our best that we could. There was some things that didn't match and some shots were shaky. Also I think the class gave us that score because it was a little dark in some shots but I really think that we did good. I think that the class gave us a good grade for my team and I, because it was good quality even though we had some very hard problems though out our production time. In our video we meet all of the requirements for our video like time, shots & scenes, foley, soundtrack. We also meet all of the deadlines on time and with good quality.  Some of our problems was that we had to change some scenes to match the video. Also I had to make a lot more scenes for other people but it turned out really good.

Geometric Portraits

I think that facial expressions are universal but it is based on what peoples faces appear as and a article written by Paul Ekman and Dacher Keltner about Are facial expression universal. In this article it talks about how and what are facial expressions along with are they universal. There are six different types of emotions happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise and disgust. Many people show different emotions or expressions every day. Each expression shows how you are filling and what is happening.

In are new class project which is called Low Poly Portraits we first started with taking our portraits and even on ever side. Our next step was to centre are portraits in photoshop with the layer size. Next we locked are image layer so we couldn't move it and make a mistake. Then we made a line in the middle of are face because we only are doing one side then copying and flipping the copy to make it easier. Final we get to start making triangles and only triangles. You want to outline the side of your face then make triangles with your hair, mouth, eye, nose, ear and skin. Once you are done with that you need to make a copy of your portrait and then you need to use the polygonal lasso tool and trace those triangles on the outside so that you have no gapes. Final you need to flip your image and  match those right and left sids together.

During my project of Low Poly I tried to do my best but It was my first time doing this type of work. In my Low poly-1 I really need to work on a lot of things but during my Low Poly-2 I did have some problems but I fixed them and I really think that I did much better then my first Low Poly.  My low poly-1 had a lot of work that could have been better but it was my first time doing this, after I knew what I need to work on I really Improved my work and made it look much better even though I had some places that could have been better. In caparison of my Low Poly-1 and my Low Poly-2  I really think that I improved my work by a lot. In both of my Low poly project I really improved my face and facial features in my Low Poly-2 then in my Low Poly-1.

Verbal Landscapes

When I go outside to play me and my sister like to help my mom with are garden by watering it and putting new seeds in the ground. My mom has a lot of work so my sister and I help pull out weeds along with watering. Another way I interact with nature is when I go to the beach because I go surf and play there a lot. When ever I go to the beach or somewhere else I always have to pick a piece of trash or I feel just weird.Another way I interact with nature is when I go on a hike or bike ride, I love going on hikes because I feel like I can touch the sky because I'm so high up.

Timelapses are created by a normal video mode then in Final cut pro there is a retime editor that helps with slowing and speeding up your clips of video. With the retime editor you can make your clips as fast as you can like 5000 for speeding up a clip. For videoing you clips you need to keep the camera still because then if it moves it will be shaky when you make it a timelapses or slow-mo. In Final cut pro there is a on the left side of the screen that helps with reversing an slowing and speeding up different parts of your video clip.

In my Retime nature video one of my hardest parts was filming my timelapses because you camera has to stay still all through the time that you are filming. When you are done with the timelapses it is worth waiting because it will be your good timelapses video when you are done. In the Retime nature project my favorite part was editing and making the clips faster and slower to make the clips work with the amount of time that you have. Another hard part is getting the volume level the same with the rest of my audio. One other part that was one of my favorite things in the project was filming some parts because I saw the sunrise and sunset during this project.

In are critique session 13 people voted mine as exemplary and my classmates voted my retime nature video as 2nd place with Alexander Henriques. I was surprised that I got a lot of votes for exemplary in are class critique. In my video there were still some shots that were shake that I could of fixed. During are class critique I thought that I would have gotten three's with the shake shots but I fixed them as much as I could. When people were taking the time to grade mine I was really scared and surprised that mine was the tied with someone else's work or video but I agree because I put in my time and hard work to make it my best in the time I was given. 

Poetic Personal Statement

Poetry is what you might be feeling inside, that you write down on something.  I think that poetry can be made into a song, such as a love songs or rap. People might say that that poetry is rhyming but it is a a way of expressing your inner feelings of  a person . Adults usual write poetry if their stressed about something. Poetry can sometimes express your feelings, emotions and personal goals in your lifetime.  

As the night sky roles around up so high, my fears turn into dreams.

When I see Nature theres always different behaviors.

When ever I fall deep asleep I think of the sea.

I'm always inspired by my drawing.

My friends are on their way, for me I stay in the bay.

In the ocean I can feel the way of the motion.

If I have a chance I get up and dance.

If i'm in a wave a have to be brave

Under the palm trees that's where I leave all my worries

The reason why I used rhythm in my Poetic Personal Statement project was because it relates to my life and who I am. Another reason why I used rhythm and rhyme was because it is can relate of how I have been living my life. In my Poetic Personal Statement project It can relate to how I feel. One other reason why I used rhythm I'm my project was because it could carry on how my life will be through the years.

Music Video Finale

P2T1 Dangerous Woman from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

 My group and I have made are music video about the song Dangerous Women by Ariana Grande. In my team I have Raja Counts, Issac Dubey and Miranda Duarte  Are plan was to make our music video about a business meeting the all the girls are going crazy and there is only one boy who can stop all of this madness with the girls. The song that we are doing has a lot of emotional parts so we were trying to make it relate with the emotions. Many people might think that it " Ow Ariana Grande whats next" well my team and I though that it would be appropriate If we made it as a business meeting and one girl is getting stressed out because of the boss. Then that one girl rubes of the stress all on other people (girls).

In my music video there are some fast shot types, but my favorite is the place were a girl is getting infected my two other girls. I think the reason that I like that part is because it is where there are many different places of shots that come together to make that type of scene that is made as one. Some of those shots are wide, close and medium shots in that one verse of song. It is where the shots are in a different color then the other shots. Another reason why this is one of my favorite fast shot scene is because it has different kinds of moment in faces and walking.

This music video showcases are best work this year because there are many things in my team's and my video with different kinds of shot types. Many of the shots have different themes in them, some are the same but others aren't. Miranda and Raja were the main people who edited wile Issac and me did the photo shop title page. The things in are video have to do with different kind of shot techniques and shot sizes, like wide, medium and close. Our music video has different color scenes in the middle and end.