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

Mini Photo Gallery!

                                                                         

                                                                                                           some photos I took :P

Hey guys Here's some of my favorite (G.T) photos that i've took this past year, Don't mind Mele over there.. It's just random

So far Animation has been HARD our deadline is today so during recess and lunch everyone is rushing into G.T hoping to get their project finished. I finished my first scene ( its not jumpy at all! so im proud.) and for the second scene we are using the picture back-up plan. Well, the 4th period bell is about to ring... bye!

                                                                                                

Character Development

Front Animation pic.

The cutout.

  What's up guys, if you're not in G.T class here's a quick recap of what we're doing: we are animating ourselves and making more GIF's! ( I'll explain how to make one later. ) I have to describe myself in this paragraph so... here we go. I'm just that kid who's randomly smiling,  I have a theatrical personality, I love the stage! and I can be dramatic in a joking way. To be honest, I can be loud,  but I'm really outgoing, kind, strong, confident, and brave. Usually I'm the one asking the teacher a question that my friends have. Another part of my personality is I like experiencing new things and I can adapt pretty easily to anything. (Ex: Dancing, sports, traveling, singing) and I have a creative personality, I love art, and photo shoots are the best! Being active  is something I just have to do... If  I'm not doing any sports or no after school activities at all then I don't feel good and I get REALLY bored.  I can be helpful, but sometimes I'm REALLY clumsy. I'm kinda a perfectionist too, for example; when I go to sleep it drives me crazy if my pillow isn't straight. ( Even though when I wake up It's crooked and I'm fine with it. ) but the weird thing is sometimes I'm a perfectionist and most of the time I'm not, It just depends on the subject. Sometimes I can get excited or A.K.A Fangirl...  Yet end the end I'm just this adventurous girl who's up for anything.

  While animating our characters are going to be exaggerated a LOT! For my character I want to exaggerate my theatrical personality, so you might see me doing big motions and big steps. I also want to have my animation be sleek and smooth,  so you definitely won't be seeing any jumpy movements or me teleporting from one place to another.... unless that's my super power! I'll also be animating some of my clusmy-ness so I might be randomly stumbling or dropping stuff. My character will also be a little funny but somewhat real looking. I really want to animate me flying or doing tricks I can't do in real life so maybe I'll become a ninja...You'll never know! I can create this by frantically rushing and making my character do some wacky stuff.

  Now I've been talking a lot about what kind of person I am and what you'll see in my gif, so now I should talk about how to make the actual gif right? First up you'll have to get a buddy and have them take a picture straight in front of you. Our class did it behind the green screen so it will be easier to cut out. Don't take your picture in front of something that blends in with your clothes unless you want a hard time editing. In the picture you should pose with your arms stretched out to the side and your forearms dangling like your about to do the robot. Next upload the picture to photoshop and use the quick selection tool. ( If you have no experience with that tool I linked a video down below 'cause
I know you'd probably watch then read. )  Just select your body and zoom in to make sure you didn't include the background, and if you do just use the minus select tool and cover it out. Now you have a cut out of yourself! Ok so now your gonna crop your picture just till you have a little bit of space above your head and feet. Then open animation, add a couple of frames, use the move tool to move your character. I started off with y Remember each movement equals a frame, so don't make it jumpy.  Next is the puppet warp! Basically click on the tool and click on all joints, then hold down and move it where ever you want. By the way, each time you make a change with puppet warp, you need to do it on different layer or else that change will apply to each frame. ( I suggest labeling the layers under which frame the change was made on ) After  making yourself do some wacky things (or in my case a doing a bell kick ) Ok were almost done, now select all of your entrance frames, copy them, put them at the end and reverse it. Lastly pick any background either that you took or from google, drag it into your work space and expand it to fit the whole frame. So now your character enters does a little dance and exit!

My gif! 

  Congrats if you actually read all of this. Overall I do like my animation because
its fun to make and you can get pretty creative with it. Make sure to check out the links  I said I'd put down here! Bye! -Kaile
             

               LINKS!

• Quick selection tool

• Puppet warp

.MOV Film Festival

Hailee and I editing.

Hi everyone! Can't believe this is our last full week then spring break! GT students as you guys know, this week our class is entering the student film festival! While writing our script we had to come up with some keywords that relate to our film, and i'll also tell you how they connect with our audience. So some of our keywords are Courage, Hope, Passion, Support, Risk,  Talent Jealousy, Friendship, and Unique.Starting off with Courage and hope: To perform an do well you need courage and hope for the best.  With courage you can come outside your comfort zone and really start something new. Passion is also what else drives our characters to join the talent show. One of our characters has the passion to sing, yet she is very shy. Although her supporting friend helps her fulfill that passion and to show her talent. We chose risk as a keyword as well because, our supporting character is always taking these risk for her shy friend and they have a really great friendship because of that. Jealousy is what our "villan" character feels when she also wants to win the talent show but knows that our shy girl has a better talent then her. As jealousy drives her to do some crazy-mean things she then realizes that all she needs to do is to be unique creates a friendship with our other two characters. Now do you understand how all of these keywords connect? Ok. On with the next paragraph.

Doing some voice overs.

Our film is called Kaile explores talent. (obviously you can tell what happens in the film) Our movie trailer's main message is to show everyone that they can show their talent. We are trying to show kids not to be scared of people judging them or making fun of them because they may just be jealous. Our goal is to fill kids with Courage and passion. We want people to relate to our characters.  At first Kaile (It feels so weird to use my name even though it's just a character!) So as I was saying our character Kaile first had no courage, she was very insecure and filled with fear. She didn't want to let anyone get to her or hurt her, so she never showed her unique passion for singing. Although Hailee made her learn not to be full of insecurity and to take risk, and taught her to not let anyone get to her. This is the main message we want our viewers to see.

During filming you have the good times and the bad times, now sit back and relax because I'm gonna tell you  all about  it. My team mates are Hailee and Tierra, Filming and TIME was our biggest challenge because we could never find the perfect time to film. Plus I wish we had a little more time. Tierra had practice almost every day, and Hailee and I couldn't film over the weekend. Everyday I was trying to make plans but we could never find a perfect day. Then we were on our last day before we have to turn it in. Finally we could all film, so at the kamalani playground stage I got there a little early and started to set up. Then my team mates came and we could finally film! We had a lot of fun filming. Yet we still needed to edit and this was due in our first period. Although lucky I'm in the kms news cast! (Go check it out on Vimeo KMS )  So I got dropped off really early and finished editing the rest of the movie trailer while running through our practices. Overall I think we did a good job and our movie turned out great, but time got us.

So guys, Spring break is this week! I know that I'm gonna be going to the beach 24/7.
See you guys in Quarter 4!

Confused while playing guitar, 

Spherical Worlds

Sphere 2

Hey people of the world, i'm back from a weekend of essays, math homework and hiking. This week in my GT class we're making tiny planets, and it all starts with composite images, Composite images are taking more then one photo and then digitally putting them together, but what's the point? I'll tell you. The reason why people composite photos is to expand the limitations of a camera.  So you can see beyond the camera. For having much more content and more detail in your photo. If you've read my last post your probably thinking: isn't this the same thing as photomontages? No, their not, in joiners (aka photomontages) you take many photos of one thing and overlap each other to create a abstract/new view of it. Composite images are not very abstract and are only digitally made, but a good example is the pano on your iPhone. Don't they make a nice photo? That's why composite images are important.  

Polar 2

Ok, enough ranting about composite images, now we can talk about our little worlds! So, we're actually making two. One is called Polar, and the other is called Spherical, and here's the difference between the two. Polars are like a tiny planet with a background or sky around it.  Sphericals are more like a crystal ball with a pinch in the middle. Plus they have a white background, it kinda looks like your seeing the future or a dream. When I see a polar I feel like I can go out and grab it. With Sphericals everything inside is in a somewhat loop, their bending into a circle. Although with Polar it's bending outside, and things such as trees are popping out.  Polar has its sky on the outside, but spherical has the sky on the inside. Basically the major difference between Polar and Spherical is that Polar is bended outwards, and Spherical is bended inwards.


Whew, that took awhile... especially watching the super bowl all day. (Broncos won! Halftime was the best part btw) Obviously our "tiny worlds" are photoshopped are heavily edited, but how 
are they realistic enough to make you believe it could be real? I think what makes them look real is

Sphere 1

Polar 1

blending them with the stamp tools, Using normal-ish effects. Also making sure your horizon line is exactly in the middle, because if your horizon line is on the bottom your planet will be teenie-tiny, and if the horizon line is at the top your planet will be ridiulousy huge like Jupiter! I'll have my G.T photos up very soon....See you guys next week!

Hockney Style Joiners

Hey guys! This week in G.T class were learning how to make images David Hockney's way. An example of one of his photos called the desk on the side. I'll link the source down below.( This technique is also called joiners/photomontages.) Basically taking different pictures of the same object in different angles and perspectives. Then you edit all of them into one cut up photo. In the end it looks really cool but can look a little confusing. So this week i'm supposed to tell you how my photomontages are different from David Hockneys. Davids is more abstract and taken at many different angles. he takes about all of the ways you could look at the object and puts it into one. That's what really makes it eye catching because you've never seen this before. Since i'm just a beginner my photomontages are pretty basic they just look really cut up. I want to try taking the photos at different times and at different perspectives so it's more abstract. Hopefully I can improve so my photomontages can be as good as his.

Most of you guys have an Instagram.....(kaile_smiley ;D ) Or if you don't at least a google plus, and if you don't have any social media then you have probably seen photos on google images. Every photo has a message, a strong one, helpful, sad, or positive. Some are abstract some aren't. Most of my photos I like to send a bright positive message, but how can you tell? Think of the mood in the photo... Is it gray and not very vibrant? Maybe a sad or mysterious message. Do the colors pop, bright lighting and adventurous setting? Maybe they're trying to send a motivational message. Everything in the photo counts. Even what you take a photo of. Most of the time I see positive pictures on Instagram, people posting about their recent activities, hanging out with friends, or just being motivational. Yet sometimes I also see negative photos. Dark, blurry photos of people staring at the camera, or just the reflection of a flash in the mirror. I know it doesn't sound negative but if you think about it, it could be. Usually the caption gives it away. ((Emojis)) Sometimes there is very explicit negative photos. People killing each other, or bombs or things that shouldn't even exist. Never send bad photos to people, it could really hurt them. Anywho, I think it's time to move on.

At last, time for that final paragraph to talk about my final photo montage. Photo montages are really confusing but really abstract and cool. For my photo montage I took a picture of a fruit stand that's by my street. I definitely took too much photos. ( 146 ) I want to send a positive, healthy, motivational, and inspiring you to become more healthy by eating fruit.

The one of on the right is of Andrew is my school photo. (Sorry that your head is wayyyy bigger than the rest of you.) This is also showing that I like to keep a healthy life style and how important it is to be healthy. I also wanted to tell you that I REALLY like fruits and vegetables... they may be even better than meat! I want this photo to inspire you to think twice about what's in your food that your eating and to (possibly) not eat it anymore! I know it can be a huge struggle... (Especially when you need that ice cream! ) Although you will definitely feel better. I hope you guys like my photo montage and get that message! That's all for now see you in my next blog post!


--> David Hockney Link!