P2T6 Focus from
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Our very last G.T project for this year is Music Videos. I'm super excited for this project. I think that this project is the most less stressful project out of this whole year. From experience producing your own music video is really easy. All you need to do is be creative, and a song of course. My teams song is Focus by Ariana Grande. When making a music video you don't just get a song and start filming. Well you can but it won't look as good as if you made a story line. A story line is this whole lay out planning what is going to happen in your music video. It is kind of like telling a story. But you are taking each lyric, or sentence and type/write what you are going to do. Our storyline relates to our lyrics because it is all about sass. We went for a diva kind of feel. You know what I mean? The song is called Focus, the most repeated lyrics in the song is "Focus on me!" over and over again. Doesn't that seem a little sassy to you?
My favorite fast-edit montage sequence is Rocky vs Ivan training montage. I love this montage because First of all I love all the Rocky movies! Another reason why it is one of my favorites because when ever I watch it over and over again, I always get that feeling that I am apart of the movie. I love how well it is edited. Every time the background music hits each beat the either the shot type, composition, or even a scene changes. I also love that even though each shot is fast and quick you can see and hear and feel the story of what is happening you can feel his exhaustion, pain, agony. But you can also feel his happiness, his pride, and his dignity because he worked so hard to get where he is at. It's pretty obvious that this is one of the best montages ever if i can get all those feelings and you can probably get that too, from a 20-30 second montage of him just training. Imagine the other montages in the movie. But I like the training montage the best.
This music video showcases my best work as a director and editor. Since I was the team leader I really had to stay organized and focus, especially because I was the only second year student in my group. I think I showed myself that I can be a really good leader/director if I just stay calm and do what I have to do to get things done. Not just get things done, but get them done right. Honestly I am really proud of how our music video came out. I didn't realize that I actually love editing and just being hands on with the project. This was my first time editing without an 8th grader walking me step-by-step through everything like last year. This year I kind of felt like the 8th grader. Even though I am a 7th grader. I only felt like a "8th" grader because I was more experienced than my team mates because I am a second year student, and I am just so proud of what we accomplished in the time we had and the circumstances that was brought up with filming schedules, and coming in at recess to do some extra editing here and there. So all I have to say is Amazing Job Wailana and Ella!
P2T7 Blossom Learns Soccer from
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For this project my teammates were Blossom, and Akasha. Our story is called Blossom learns soccer. We chose this idea because it brings out all of our traits. For example, Blossom is un-athletic, self-doubtful, and awkward. Akasha is athletic, kind, and self-less. I am a person who likes to make people feel good about themselves, athletic, and kinda a drama queen. Our story helps exaggerate our characteristics because the story revolves around Blossom and how she really wants to play soccer but is kinda unsure if she should take up Akashas offer for her to play soccer with them because Blossom doesn't really know how to play soccer. After Blossom finally agrees to play, Akasha introduces Blossom to Akashas other friend Jaesha. They get on the field and start kinda a scrimmage then all of a sudden Blossom gets passed the ball and tries to shoot it into the goal but ends up hitting Jaesha. Jaesha gets kinda upset and walks away. This exaggerates how I am a drama queen because it wasn't really necessary to storm off like that. Anyways... after that Blossom ends up being really hard on herself and decides to not show up for practice the next day. Akasha and Jaesha ends up finding her in the park and gives Blossom a little pep talk to cheer her up to keep playing soccer.
We certainly put a major life lesson in our story and I think this lesson is super important. Our life lesson in the story is to never give up on yourself or your team. Basically never give up on anything or anyone. Giving up is not a good trait to have. We believe that no matter what the situation or problem is there will always be a way to solve it and keep moving forward. Another life lesson that we put into our animation story is to do what you love to do. We think that this is a good modo to live by because if you think about it, if you don't do what you love your life would be miserable. Nobody wants that right! We show that in our story because Blossom really loves soccer but doesn't really know how to even control the ball. Blossom feels like she needs to give up because she made one mistake. She takes it really hard on herself. But Akasha and Jaesha believes in her and how long she has come from when she first started, and they don't want her to give up on herself and the team.
Considering that we have never worked with each other we were pretty productive. I guess. Well it was pretty hard for us to keep each other focused. But we did pretty good. To be honest we procrastinate a lot. I think that we were so caught up in the due date and how much time we had. We were so scared that we weren't going to get it done by the due date that some of my teammates were thinking of doing the disaster plan the disaster plan is where you take the drawings that you drew on the storyboard and add it to the Imovie. But when Mr.Sanderl told us that he was going to extend the deadline we chose not to do the disaster plan because we chose to utilize the time that we were given to finish our animation story with the requirements given to us. I think the biggest challenge was the actual animating. I think that was the biggest challenge because I was the only second year student but still I didn't know a lot about animating which was pretty hard.
