Music Video Finale

Hey guys! Sorry I'm posting this a little late, I just got back from a very last minute trip to the Big Island! (For secret awesome stuff!) We have came to the final ( and most fun! ) project of the year, Music Videos! Last year I did Thriller by Micheal Jackson with some friends which won 1st place.  I'll link it down below. This year I am doing Man in the Mirror by Micheal Jackson - what a coincidence - with  Meah,  Katy,  Jeanne, and Eve. Yep! Another Micheal Jackson song. 2 times in a row now. We chose this song because it has a good message - to spread kindness around the world. Also it was a song that we all know and would agree to do. I had a list of around 20 songs to choose from. So we looked at them all and highlighted some that we would like to do. Our remainders were Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen, Tear in my heart, House of gold, both by Twenty one pilots, Man in the Mirror, ABC - Jackson 5, Enter Sandman - Metallica, and Ice Ice baby by Vanilla ice.. Then at the end we chose man in the mirror because it was a song we all knew. Picking a song with a group of 5 is not an easy thing to do!


Our storyline includes kids being bullied because the song kinda talks about going through hard times and bulling is one of them. Also we have the bullies realizing their mistakes and making a change, this relates to the song because some of the lyrics are "If  you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make that change." Throughout the whole video everyone starts to be more kind to each other. Everyones actions and thoughts change. There's also a whole bunch of us goofing around ;P. I'm not going to say everything that's in the storyline because I don't want to spoil it for you, but there is a lot of people forming together, making new friends and having a good time with friends. Just watch it and you'll understand!

We show our best work throughout the whole music video. A lot of the skills we learned in photoshop we show in our band posters. Katy, Meah, and Eve did a great job on the posters. I only have Eve's poster on this post though! This music video shows how even a group of 5 (the biggest number of people possible for MV groups ) are able to work as a team and meet up to film outside of school. I made a lot of the shots cut to the beat for example the beggining where I'm walking and the filters change according to the beat and so do the shots. We have a lot of places where there is a loud snap or bang in the music and we have a clip of someone jumping in the water to match it. For example the part where we flipped our hair on beat. This music video shows that we can memorize a song and put emotion into our lip-syncs (which were editted on beat!)  We were all so expressive and there were so many times where we would bust out laughing! You do not know how many takes it took to do the bulling scene! Yet it's always fun to look back onto your music video and remeber the process and hard work everyone that contributed. I'm really happy with this music video, It was very fun to make and it was certainly one of our best videos of the year. It also won 3rd place for the MV awards. (Meah told me, because I was all the way in the big island on last minute notice that's also why I'm posting this so late because I didn't have my computer at the big island either and the wifi was soooo laggy!) Can't wait for next years Music video. If we even have any... (Good bye Mr. Sanderl!! You were an awesome G.T teacher and I learned a lot from you and this class! )

LINKS

Last year's Thriller Music Video

Meah 
Katy
Jeanne
Eve

Movie Trailer Premier

What's up guys, it's Kaile with another blog post! Right now we are currently working on a Movie trailer! If you guys remember from last year I also did a movie trailer. ( It was more like a whole movie though. ) The goal for this project is to create a fictitious ( A.K.A fake ) movie trailer that is 90-120 seconds long. The trailer should not give away the ending and make your audience want to see the real movie. ( If it existed. ) Have a dramatic voice actor who can make people realize why your movie is a "Must See".  Your trailer must also include an original movie poster created by your teammates and provide your audience with the highest level of production value so they stayed glued to the screen and can't take
their eyes away! The first thing we have to do before filming our movie trailer is coming up with what it's gonna be about. I was looking at my ring and I thought hey, what if our trailer was about a test of survival to get a ring? Then we started working off that idea. I wrote the V.A script with Katy, and I edited part of the storyboard.


While working in any project, you face challenges and struggles. Same with the previous project I did, I would say meeting up is the hardest. We all participate in different after-school activities and we all have busy schedules. Also getting our setting for filming was pretty difficult. We had to find a somewhat forest-y area by Katy's house. So we had to hike down a hill while swatting away trees and spider webs. It was somewhat irritating to film because there was a million mosquitoes biting us so then we hiked back up and grabbed some mosquito repellent. Some successes that we have is everyone in our group made a movie poster. Each movie poster you create after the one that is required you get an extra credit point. Also editing is going great! Every time I did the voice over it matched perfectly with the persons lips! When Katy was saying "GO, GO, GO!" I put the audio from the video and the voice over at the same time and it matched perfectly! It also sounded like there was two Katy's.😂We have really nice shots, like the action scene where Megan and Dana are battling and also the close-up of the ring with the sunlight shining on it.

Lastly but certainly not least we have our critique! In total we got a pretty good grade, and we got nominated 2nd place for best Movie Trailer! Overall I reviewed over a lot of techniques like how to customize the text and how to use the masking tool. I learned that working with a big group is difficult, and that sometimes you have to compromise on things. I also learned that when things don't go right you just have to make other things work. I also learned that Dana has a pretty sweet dramatic voice actor voice.

LINKS!

Katy's Blog

Meah's Blog

Megan's Blog

Dana's Blog

Metamorphosis Animation

What's up guys, I'm back with another project we're working on in class! For this project we are doing animation! ( Hence the title ) Last year we did animation yet the story type is somewhat different. I'll link last years post at the bottom. Last year was life lessons, this year is about metamorphosis. For this project we have to animate a story where our main character transforms into something else. For example: A mouse turning into a lion, A ghost turning into a human, or a king turning into a rat. The goal for this project is to create a 1-2 minute animation using Stop-Motion, PhotoShop, Flip Book, Whiteboard, and Stykz animation. During this animation your character must go through a change both mentally and physically.

Our story is called Witch Explains Selflessness. There's this prince named Nevan and he is getting crowned king at his ceremony. After ceremony there's this witch who walks up to the King and starts to give him a blessing, but King judges her based off her looks, quickly rejects her and immediately banishes her from kingdom. Because of this the witch gets angry at the king, curses him by turning him into a rat and sending him to the center of the kingdom. Hoping this will teach him a lesson. Suddenly king (who is now a rat) is in the middle of the kingdom, dodging feet and running franticly trying to find safety.He gets kicked into a sewer and tries to find company, but the moment he tries to make friends they instantly reject him and he is left all alone. With no food. Can you imagine? 😭 🚫🍔 The king leaves and goes further into the sewer. As he goes further into the sewer he finds an old wise rat. The rat tells him that he is treating the witch like how he being is treated as a rat.
The King goes back to the witch and tells her he understands his mistake and is going to be a better ruler. When he is king again, he allows the witch back into the kingdom, and he treats all the common people fairly.

Whew and after about EIGHT WEEKS of working on this animation we are finally done! We had our critique yesterday and our results were pretty good! We used Menti to grade each others work. We got many 3.7s and 3.6 on every category. I think that the results I got were accurate because our animation was nice but there is room for improvement in everything. Check out the link below to last years animation and catch me in the next blog post! Bye!✌❤☺

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Last years animation!💫