Animated Life Lessons

P2T7 Blossom Learns Soccer from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

  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.