Music Video Finale

This project is the last project that we are every going to do as 8th graders! There are two people other than me on my Music Video team. There is Julie, and Wailana. The song that we are doing is So Sick by NeYo. We chose this song because we wanted to do a song that no other class in G.T has done. So we are the first students in all of the years in G.T that are doing this song. We also Chose this song because even though this song is pretty old it is making a comeback. We hear it all over the radios. People on the internet are making covers to this song, people are also taking the music from this song and making their own lyrics. So we thought why not! Since nobody else has ever done this song lets be the first.

This song is about how my mom disagrees with my unhealthy eating habits. So she takes my junk food away and gives me healthy food to eat. But while everybody is eating their chips, ice cream, cookies, etc.  am stuck over here forced to have a healthier eating habit, Which is driving me absolutely crazy. I come across all these obstacles where the junk food is just laying out into the open but I tell myself that I am strong enough to resist. This storyline does actually relate to the song and it's lyrics, but in a weird way. So instead of being sad about a break up with and actual person, I break up with junk food. Our first plan was to have a real break up with a person. But that started to get depressing and we wanted to leave middle school with a project that is humorous and that everybody can kind of relate to. So we thought that it would be funny and #relatable to make our sad love story breakup about food! I think that this is a pretty creative idea because no other class in the whole existence of GT has ever done this song. We also thought it was more appropriate than having our storyline about a relationship. because we are just in middle school.


NeYo So Sick

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 walking 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 calendar 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

This Music Video shows and meets all the requirements. But in all honesty it could have been better. I think that if we actually put way more effort into our music video that it would be 10 times better than it is now. But besides that it wasn't all that bad. There was a lot of great sequencing in our timeline that I am very proud of. We also had a lot of great fast cuts, from wide, medium, close, back to medium and then to extreme close. Anyways, I could go on and on but I think that you get the point of how the fast cuts looked in our video. Even though we didn't have a lot of different effects on it, I  don't think that it would have done anything to affect it. Also I don't think that a lot of different crazy effects would be appropriate for our music video song.

Movie Trailer Premier

P1T2_Grandpa's Goodbye from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

For third-quarter we are doing a movie trailer. Our movie trailer is called Grandpas Goodbye. It is about this boy named Tom who lives with his grandma and grandpa. Tom hears has been hearing these weird noises the night that his grandpa goes out and doesn't come back home. But when he asks his grandma about his grandpa and the noises she tries to play it off like Tom is making this a bigger deal than it actually is. So the next night Tom's best friend Brad comes over for the night. But while Brads stay at the house he hears the same thing that Tom has been hearing for the past couple of nights. So Brad suggest that they should go and check it out and Tom agrees. Since Tom assumes that the attic is where the noise is coming from that is where they go and check first. When Tom turns on the flashlight and looks around the attic, Brad and Tom finds an unpleasant surprise. My job in this project was to make the movie poster and help edit. My job was also to take foley and I was the voice actor.

Of course like every other project we ran into some difficulties and challenges. One of our major challenges was filming. Since our story is based around night time we had a hard time getting the right lighting and the right angles without messing with the exposure. We especially had a hard time filming with everyone there. We all made it to our filming sessions but one or two of us had to leave early because we are all middle schoolers with crazy busy lives. Another challenge we had was finding the correct appropriate music for our movie trailer. We also had a difficult time correctly placing and balancing our foley. Although we had our challenges, all of us have experience with making movie trailers. We have been in GT for about three years now. So we knew how to do most things. Such as our foley and filming. Our foley matched our movie trailer story. We also had everything eventually filmed correctly. When I say "eventually" I mean that at first we had some difficulties with lighting and adjusting the camera. But towards the end we got it right and we filmed some pretty awesome scenes.

For our critique we did pretty good. Not the greatest, but pretty good. I think that we got what we deserved for our critique. Except for the "Audience" portion. I didn't really understand how we got some room for improvements on that one, and I am really proud that our creativity and our requirements portions didn't get any room for improvements. But hey at least we made it to the top 5. Thats pretty awesome. That means the class liked ours enough to be nominated! There were so much things I have learned in this project. One thing I have learned is to manage my time wisely. Managing your time wisely is going to help what ever project you have be less stressful and your project or what ever you have to turn in by a certain time will end up having quality work written all over it because if you don't manage your time correctly, by the time the deadline rolls around your probably going to end up rushing to get it done which brings down the quality. Unless you are a super human that does everything perfectly. Another thing I learned is that communication is key. There has been too many times during this project where we plan something out, then at the very last minute something changes. We know now to plan things ahead of time and communicate effectively with each other if we want to get anything done right.

Metamorphosis Animation

P1T4 Metamorphosis from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

This quarters project is an animation project. Specifically a Metamorphosis Animation. It is when your character starts off as whatever you want it to and somehow ends up as a human. I am on a team with my classmates Julie and Makaio our goal as a team is to be able to all communicate effectively with each other and take care of our responsibilities that we each get on this project. Our goal is also to create a animation that follows to guide lines to get us a perfect grade. For our Metamorphosis Animation project we will use many animation types. Some animation types that we will be using is stop motion, photoshop, and Stykz. We chose these animation types because we feel that it will fit in with the story of our animation.

Our Metamorphosis Animation projects focus statement is Stone Sparks Imagination. It's message is to love who you are and never doubt who you are and what you can do. We choose this message because we know what it feels like to be doubted and sometimes we even doubt ourselves. We just feel that it is a very important message to give everyone of all ages.

Our metamorphosis animation met requirements. Although it was a little confusing. i think that we could have made our characters consistent because in every scene our characters looked different. It looked like it was a different story.
A lot of the critiques were on the audio and the character switch ups. I think that we could have leveled out the audio because some of our voice overs were really soft and you couldn't really make out what we were trying to say. But other than that we tried are hardest and worked until the final deadline to make it meet requirements.