G.T Music Video Finale!

 

Aloha, Bonjour, Ciao, Salut, Kon'nichiwa, and Hi. Can you believe this is the last blog post of the year! Bye 6th grade then hello 7th grade! Time flies by faster and faster every year right? We also have our last project that is a music video! Since this is our last project of the year, we will be combining everything we learned from G.T and putting into our music video. ( For example: in the beginning were gonna have a cover made with Photoshop.) Finally you probably have been wondering... what song our we doing? Well, me Katy and Alexis are doing Thriller by Micheal Jackson! Our story for our music video is somewhat like the original music video. So there is this girl ( Me ) walking alone in the woods  ( on Friday the 13th! ) She hears creepy noises, and next something comes out of nowhere and scares her, then she gets taken away. Of course then theirs a whole zombie flash mob and plenty of lip-syncs. I'm not gonna go into full detail because I don't wanna spoil the whole thing. Our story matches our lyrics because you see what you hear. For example: Night creatures crawl and the dead start to walk in their masquerade, You see zombies walking everywhere attacking people. It was really fun getting everyone to get in a flash mob, but it was kinda hard 'cause I had to teach them all the moves and help one-by-one. Then we had another member, Christina join our group because the original group didn't work so well. It was somewhat of a challenge to fit her in the video since we already filmed everything, but in the end it worked out.

Usually while watching a music video, the shots change quickly. The same for our music video. Our visuals change very quickly to make sure the viewers stay focused on our video and are always paying attention. We are not fully done editing, but so far my favorite fast edit "montage" is the part where Katy puts her hand over my mouth and then it awkwardly repeats. It's pretty funny to me. Another well-edited fast montage is when we our doing our thriller dance, the hardest part was getting the moves to match exactly with the lyrics. (But I'm pretty good at doing that so we were fine) There's also the part where all the zombie heads turn around with the beat. (We got that idea from the original Thriller video.) We also added different effects to the beat to, So far editing has gone well, we still have to get our cover picture in and finish the ending. Yesterday (Wednesday 5/17/16) our group was having a lot of trouble with the green screen during recess, we were freaking out. Overall I think our editing will be done well and I hope you think so too. 

Like I've said before, the music video is our last production of the year so we will be adding everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) we've learned this past year. First off we used photoshop to create our cover image. It said the title in a cool font, a picture of Christina, Katy, Alexis and I. We made the background a creepy forest-setting so it matches our theme. ( Scary-ish ) We filmed a lot of extra scenes so we for sure had something. My dad filmed a lot of the shots that were on the sleeping giant trail because most of our scenes had all of us in it at the same time. He did some camera movement which was great, and he knew how to do the shots we told him to do which made filming easier. We all did some editing, the girls helped picked which shot we should do next, what filter we should use, and if we should do a picture-in-picture edit. Alexis helped with some of the green screen, Katy did the part of the end and added transitions. I did most of the editing because I can edit super-duper fast and efficiently. This video showcased our best work because we had great expression in the clips, our scenes always have changing shots with filters,  slow-mo or fast effect, cool transitions, awesome title page, and fun dance moves! I really loved our music video, and I'm proud to be ending our last 6th grade G.T project on a high note.

this is what we used for our green screen

Hey over here! 
P.S bloopers were hilarious! Everyone in it was fine having those clips of them in there. 
Here's the links to my teammates blogs! I might post over the summer but don't count on it... See you guys in 7th grade!! o.o
VIMEO VIDEO COMING SOON!

• Katy
• Alexis
• Christina



"met rihana today" 

• Thriller lyrics

RESULTS

Animated Life Lessons

Welcome back guys! I know that its been three weeks, but we had to focus all on animating... Remember our animated GIFs? Well with that knowledge some teammates and I came together and created an animation! Whew let me tell you animation is hard! In each on of scenes our teammates character traits are showing. For instance Kyla is caring and supporting so she fixes the "problem" between me and Elijah. I'm forgiving and funny so later in our animation I say "Hey lets go play some soccer." (Which you'll understand if you watch it.) and Elijah is kind and understanding, we show that by telling him our side of the story and our point of view. Sometimes in scenes we exaggerate emotions and what peoples reactions could be, like I get mad at Elijah because he "hit" me with a soccer ball. The story exaggerates that by us getting in a mini fight and then storming off after. We exaggerate us getting along by having a fun game of soccer. Finally this animation exaggerates all of our emotions, feelings, and reactions that our characters have.

Every story has some taste of humor, here's ours. Our story isn't based around comedy and don't have any jokes or puns in it. Most of our humor comes from the visuals, because when working with puppet warp things get a little ridiculous. One time I just randomly made Elijah's' leg bend as if it were circle and it looked pretty funny. During class sometimes I catch myself messing around with puppet warp. It's just really entertaining to do ridiculous things with your characters. (And now that everyone is about done with their animating, we go around just laughing at puppet warp.) Anyways during our animation sometimes our bodies bend weirdly and its just impossible not to crack up. For Instance, in scene three I lift my arms up but it bends really funny, and one time Elijah kicks a soccer ball and It flies all funny due to shaky animation... :P but don't worry there is more to our animation than just funny visuals, there's also life lessons. Our main lesson is to imagine what it's like in their shoes, what is their point of view, how do they feel about it, I think you get the point. Sometimes we expect people to feel the same way we do about something, we wouldn't think they would have a different reaction. Yet when they do we misunderstand. Sometimes that can lead to fights and ignoring each other but then you need to forgive, forget, and move on! Another little life lesson is to always support your friends, and try to help each other up, not push them down.

Kyla and Elijah aren't complete strangers to me. In yearbook I did a commercial with Elijah, and sang with Kyla, but Mr. Sanderl said team up with people you've never worked with in G.T. so I thought why not?   I think I chose good teammates because I know them a little bit so I'm not afraid to talk to them, but their not my closest friends so we don't goof around. (Even though in yearbook I work with Mele on all my projects and we get them done...) We worked pretty good, got all of our scenes done with efficiency. Our biggest challenge was probably getting the last couple scenes in there before the deadline, but we didn't have any major problems. Another challenge was keeping photoshop organized and not messing up layers. After a while it gets kinda annoying by adding a new layer with each and every frame. Kyla, Elijah, and I had many good moments during our production time, we all had good ideas, and we all communicated well. I think our best production time was the final stretch a couple of days before the deadline, and we were all fixing, editing, and adding things to the video. Either one at a time or all at once our team would edit and add effects to our video. In the end I was glad that me and my team successfully finished our project, and we earned 1st place for the best animation! I'm proud of our animation and I hope you are to. This is Kaile, and I'll see you in two weeks!

Links!

~Kylas Blog!

~Elijahs Blog