Lyrical Livelihood

This next project that we are going to work on is pretty amazing! We are doing a music video. I think I am going to have a lot of fun with this project. We are working in groups of either four, three, two, and one. I am working in a group of three with Nahele, and Jasmine. It's kinda like a reunion if you think about it. We were a group for the movie trailer project but we had Makena on our team. We sorta reunited because we worked very efficiently together on the movie trailer project.
This song makes me feel energetic. The song we are doing is called Stiches by Shawn Mendes. If you look at the lyrics without any of the music you would think that it is a very deep, sad, or like a very dark song. But Shawn Mendes is smart. The kind of music he actually plays with the song makes it seem like a much happier song. I think that the music choice was amazing because he got to tell his sad, dark story even though the music had an up-beat rhythm to it. This song makes me feel energetic because of the music. Also the lyrics made me feel energetic even though it was a sad song because when ever I hear the song it makes me want to get up and dance to it.

 For our teams music video we chose the song Stiches by Shawn Mendes. We all chose this song because we all love to listen to this song because it makes us feel like getting up and dancing. I am new to this song but when Nahele my teammate introduced me to the song I fell in love with it. We all are fans of Shawn Mendes and we love how he tells his story through his music, and instead of telling a sad story and making it a depressing song. He makes it seem more up-beat and happy in some un-usual way.



 The story that this music video will tell is related to heart break. His real music video story thingy is about moving on. The story that we are going for is how happy and sad heart break is. It is about the freedom you have when you become single but how empty it feels. We are trying to tell and explain how to move up & beyond with life after break-ups. Yes we do know that it is pretty depressing but thats how break-ups feel. In our film we are going to shake things up and tell the story of middle school break-ups. Like we all know as we get into middle school we start "going out." Since some of us never experienced this we will not handle this very well. But the concept of "dating" is basically to teach a lesson of moving on. Well thats what I think its about. Even though I never experienced dating I have seen a lot of movies and videos of couples and breakups it looks pretty hurtful.








Shawn mendes

Movie Trailer Critique

The very last project for the year of 2014 was a movie trailer. We had to get into teams of four. My teammates were Jasmine, Nahele, and makena . I think it was very helpful for me to have 7th graders on my team because I am a 6th grader and I am very new at all this technology so it was very easy for all of us. Our Trailer Plan I think was the most stressful to us, and I think we did the hardest work on it. The Trailer Plan was somewhat stressful because we kept on changing the theme of the movie because the movie had to be first grade appropriate and we didn't want to scare those first graders. I played the leading role Violet. I also filmed the rest of the parts after Violet goes missing.

The project requirements were Foley, five scenes, A movie poster, voice acting, dialogue, audience appropriate, and a timing of 1min and 30sec to 2min. these were I think the easiest requirements to meet. These requirements were easy to meet because they were very simple because in order to make a movie trailer that makes sense we would have to add.     I think my team completed and met the requirements of the movie trailer and I think we went up and beyond and we added more special effects to the trailer. I have a feeling we are going to be able to get a passing grade on this assignment because we tried our best and we got the work done following the requirements.

Another thing that was required, was to critique each others movie trailers. One of the critiques that my classmates gave me was that "we could have had better audio." That one I definitely agree with because we had pretty unstable audio. Also another person said that "our editing did not make that  much sense." I also agree with that one because our editing was not that well put together. With this project I learned alot of things that could be useful for the next two years I have at this school in G.T. One of those things are to shoot not only one scene, shoot several scenes. This is because if you accidentally

Describe the project, your teammates & your Trailer Plan document… Tell us how you contributed.


What were the project requirements & did you complete all of them? Why or why not?

Conclude by describing the class critique & if you agree with the results. What did you learn?


CRITIQUE Results: Period 1 Period 3 Period 5

Screenshot Critique, Trailer Plan & Embed Video                         

 

Our Animation Story

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Our animation story is about one of my teammates Taylor chang. Our animation projects focus statement is Taylor defends herself. This focus statement tells Taylor's story because she was getting bullied all the time by the same person constantly. She knows that she didn't do anything wrong. So one day she had enough! She walked up to her bully and started to pour her heart out! She was proud of herself because she finally defended herself even though her bully just laughed and walked away. Taylor started getting depressed. As her bully watched her, the bully felt bad and realized that what she did had a very bad impact on Taylors life. So she felt that she needs to be a noble person and apologize to Taylor to make it all better. When the bully apologized to Taylor accepted it and understood.

 

 I think our audience will learn about bullying, Standing up for yourself, and to forget & forgive.  Our story is mostly about bullying and what happened to Taylor and how she forgave her bully for what the bully did to her. I think these lessons are very good lessons that everyone should learn because once in our life we are going to get bullied at some point, and yah we can grieve for a little bit and be sorry for ourselves. But honestly no one likes that feeling of grief so in order for that feeling to go away you have to forget and forgive. Sometimes it might be hard to forgive because you feel that what they did to you made a very big impact on your life...... But I promise you that forgiving them could make an even bigger impact on your life. It also can help boost up your confidence that you may have lost during your times of darkness.

 Our team.... We have our moments. Their not all good moments, But we have some moments! I think one of the best moments our team has had was our filming we have so much fun filming. You might think "how can filming be fun?" Well when you have teammates like mines. Everything is funny/fun because we all love to goof around and have fun. But don't worry we get the job done! We also have a lot of bad moments. Sometimes we don't meet the requirements, Most of the time it's the time requirements we don't always meet. Also we have a habit of getting aggressive and grouchy when we get stressed, and honestly we get stressed a lot. So most times we get grouchy at each other. It is pretty irritating. But we know that we still love each other and that we don't mean to hurt each other.

Animation Outtakes

This quarters project is animation! I think this is really cool. Animation is the process of creating motion and shape change. For this project we were grouped in groups of four. My four teammates are Taylor Chang, Jasmine Laplante, and Megan Mahikoa. Two interesting facts about Taylor, Jasmine. And Megan is that Taylor is a really organized person, and she likes to do work way ahead of time so that she doesn't have to worry about last minuet work. Jasmine is Canadian, and she is a great problem solver. And lastly Megan is a quiet student who gets the work done, She also strives for big goals in life.

There is many types of animation. But the two main types of animation Mr.Sanderl wants us to try out is stop-motion and G.I.F. Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object or person appear to move on it's own, And G.I.F stands for graphics interchange format. For our teams project we are using stop-motion. It is really easy to accomplish. You honestly don't need to be specially trained or skilled to do this technique. All you need to have patience. For this technique, if you are doing your stop-motion on a object all you have to do is move it a little then SNAP!, Move it a little again then SNAP, then on and on you get the point right?

The theme for this project is tell your story. So out of our group story we chose was Taylors story. She was bullied in the fourth grade because she was new to the school. This just wasn't at school the bully followed her home she would get text saying hurtful things about her. I think everyone should care because bullying is one of the most common things everywhere. There is no way to stop bullying forever but if smart minds put their heads together and try to figure out a way to help prevent bullying that would be awesome. This is technically not only Taylors story because I am pretty sure that a lot of people have experienced this problem. I myself have had this problem many times. But we chose this to tell everyone how you can solve this problem. Simply all you have to do is apologize and make up. That's all it takes.

ANIMATION PROCESS... Step-By-Step! Aspect Ratio: Know It... Understand It… USE IT! 1280 px Width × 720 px Height = 16:9 Read About Aspect Ratio and Common Resolutions STYKZ EXPORT: File > Export Animation > Format .mov > Compression H.264 > Width & Height 100% iMOVIE: Transfer your photos to your “Animation” folder on your computer and Open iMovie Make a new project by going to File > New Project In the window that slides down: Name your animation the same as your Focus Statement Choose the “None” for the theme and make sure that the transitions checkbox is unchecked Click the “New” button the Choose “Movie” Click on Settings in the far right corner Set drop down list labeled “Photo Placement” to “Crop to Fill” Go to file menu and import all of your stop-motion images In iMovie Select all images and drag them into your timeline Select all clips in your timeline and look for the “i” in the preview window… top right corner Adjust the duration of all of your clips by setting it to 0.1 seconds Time to EXPORT!  File > Share > File > Resolution 1280 x 720 > uncheck “Add to Theater” PHOTOSHOP Adobe Bridge to Organize, Label & Rename ⌘8 to label Green, Right Click > Batch Rename Adobe Camera Raw to Edit and DOWNSIZE Blue Options Bottom > Smallest Size & 72 Resolution Photoshop to Animate Stop Motion or Claymation Open P.S. > File > Scripts > Load Files Into Stack Animation Options Panel: Make Frames from Layers > Reverse Frames File > Export > Render Video Size > HDV/HDTV 720p Frame Rate: 30 fps AND VOILA... FIN!