Music Video Finale

P3T1 Faded from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

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Lyrics

Our last project! I cant believe it. For our very LAST project, we have to have a team, and of-course a song! My teammates for this project are Seline Gage, Coral Haeger, and Alexis Chatfield.  We have all been really close as friends since 6th grade. So it was easy to pick our team for this project. The song we picked it called "Faded" by Alan Walker. This song has a really cool beat to it, and we figured it would look really cool with an ocean theme. I really like the song we picked and it is school appropriate so that was a benefit.

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Results

So our storyline for this project is about all of us hanging out. Then its of us getting lost from each other. The second part is fading into a dream while the lyrics say "Was it all in my fantasy, were you only imaginary." Then Seline and Alexis go searching for Coral and I while were looking for them when the lyrics say "Where are you now." Next we find all of each other and we all hug. In the lyrics is says "So lost, Im faded, So lost Im faded." In different parts its Seline and Alexis looking for us and then Coral and I are looking for them and we all find each other on a beach in the end.

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Results

This Music Video is going to turn out to be the BEST, HIGHEST quality, and FLAWLESS project we have done all year in this GT class. All the practice we have had with all our projects, has given us the practice and ability to produce a PERFECT music video. I really think and believe that we did our highest quality on our last project. We ended up getting into 1st place for the class overall best music video. Im really proud of our music video. I thought we put in the best we could do and made it perfect!

Movie Trailer Premier

P3T4_In Too Deep from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

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Its a new project! As it said in the title were doing a movie trailer! My team for this project is Seline Gage (7th grader), Kiersten Donner (8th grader), and Stephanie Agulidaldo (8th grader). Our new, amazing project goal is to "Plan & produce a 90-120 second imaginary movie trailer that attracts and holds the interest of your audience without giving away the ending. Commit to a dramatic voice actor who can fully persuade and hint at why your movie is a for sure “Must See”. Include an original movie poster and give your audience with the highest level of production value so their eyes & ears stay glued to the screen!" How I committed to the plan of our storyboard is I did half of the VA script with the help of Seline. Also Seline and I did the scenes which is like planning what we're going to film (Composition Techniques, Wide, Medium, or Close shots etc.) I put Kiersten and Stephanie in charge of drawing the poster and editing the Composition Technique video.

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Our teams biggest challenge so far is getting everyone to be able to met up for our team meeting. For the first meeting only Seline and I showed up, but right as we left Kiersten showed up because she couldn't get a ride to the beach. Also getting images to put in our movie poster. Most of the images we put in our poster were screen shots from our footage we took. Or the pictures we took were either blurry or low quality. One of our successes was getting awesome footage to put in our movie trailer. We got this awesome shot of Seline duck-diving under a wave and the wave curling over her as she goes under. Another success was getting all of our meetings done or getting the MMAS (2 M's= Team meetings, A= Audio, S= Something recorded at school.) on our team plan. Our last success was turning our highest quality movie trailer in on time.

Results

Results

Our critique results we pretty good in my view. We got voted in 3rd place for the overall "Best Movie Trailer" so I was pretty happy about that. Plus most of the class voted my team in the "All Expectations Met" rather than "Room For Improvement." I would have liked to get more "ABOVE AND BEYOND!!!" But maybe next time. I was really happy and satisfied with how our movie trailer looked. I learned from this project how to manage my time and I got to learn more about my team members, like how they act, what they like to do, what they do to fix a problem when our team faced one, and so on. I enjoyed this project, this was a easy project, I mean it had its problems but still I enjoyed it and was happy with the footage we got for our movie trailer. I cant wait to start our movie trailer. OUR LAST PROJECT!!! Then summer. Right now we have 35 more days of school before summer. I bet our next our team will "hit out of the park." 

Metamorphosis Animation

P3T3 Metamorphosis from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Behind The Scenes 

Story Board

Our goal for this project "Metamorphosis Animation."- Using the project rubric, every animation teams will create a presentation to pitch their 2 BEST,  metamorphosis animation focus statements & story ideas to the class, then finish their production plan & storyboard before making your 1-2 minute animated movie with a custom soundtrack or foley. Right now we are creating a slide show of our our pitches to be presented in front of the class. My team for this project is of course me (Returning 7th grader), Coral Haeger (Returning 7th grader), and Aftan Dodd (New 6th grader). How we picked each other for our project was we all know each other and we had to have at least 1-2 returning GT student and 1-2 new GT student. I am the team leader for this project.

Visual Storyboard

Our focus statement is Seahorse Discovers Kindness. We presented our ideas to the class and they choose Seahorse Discovers Kindness. Each is about how this crab named Joe that is really mean and is ungrateful for what he has so he moves to another reef. Joe meets this seahorse named Fred who makes him this soup and Joe doesn't want it and drops it and the blow shatters. Joe gets cut by the bowl and turns into a seahorse. He starts to notice everything he should be grateful for, like a reef over his head, and having Fred as his friend. The plot or main event is how after Joe gets hurt and changes into a seahorse he becomes a kinder person. When Joe goes back to his home reef he teaches people to appreciate everything they have.

Critique Results

Reflecting our teams results we got a 3/4 on this project for our final grade. I wish we could have got a 4/4  and I can see why we got a 3/4, but if we worked a little bit better on making scenes and creating shots and really making the quality 100% I think we could have got a 4/4. Im glad we didn't get a lower grade than a 3/4 because that would have brought our grade down more. I liked the sound effects and the audio we put into our animation video. Even though there were challenging parts of this project, it was still fun to learn from. If I had the choice to do this project again I wouldn't choose this project, maybe another project like a movie trailer, or a teacher interview with a teacher we choose.