Music Video Finale

P2T2 We Go Together from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

The current and last project my G.T. class is working on is a music video. My teammates for this project is Violet Alao, Sofia Tittnich, and Michael Tittnch. The song we chose is We Go Together by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John from the movie Grease. The reason why we chose this song is because we all love Grease and because we're a group of friends that love hanging out together and relate to the song as in we go together as friends. We brainstormed all of our favorite songs then songs from movies we liked and Grease was something that came to all of our minds. We also thought it would've been a fun video to shoot with all of our friends, with all of us dancing around and having fun together.

The original storyline to the song is Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) and Danny (John Travolta) going together as a perfect couple. So to make our video more school appropriate the storyline we created was a boy, Michael that would play on his phone and didn't want to have fun with Sofia, Violet, and I. We try our best to get Michael to dance with us until he finally starts having fun. Once he starts having fun and dancing he realizes that we aren't there anymore and he's just dancing by himself. It relates to the story by " We go Together " as friends and we should just all have fun. A part in our storyline that relates to the lyrics is when we all try to get Michael to have fun, we're all working together.

The music video project showcases our best work because it shows what we've learned how to do in Final Cut Pro and in Photoshop. It show that we learned what special features in FCP.  It showcases are photoshop techniques because we are making a photoshop cover photo that shows what we've learned wile using Photoshop. It also shows what we learned while using PhotoShop and iMovie when trying figure things out. It also shows the teamwork we've learned to develop and to become friends with everyone in the class.

Lyrics:
WE GO TOGETHER
By: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John
We go together
Like rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong
Remembered forever
As shoo-bop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom
Chang chang changitty chang sha-bop
That's the way it should be
Wah-oooh, yeah!
We're one of a kind
Like dip da-dip da-dip doo-wop da doo-bee doo
Our names are signed
Boogedy boogedy boogedy boogedy
Shooby doo-wop she-bop
Chang chang changitty chang sha-bop
We'll always be like one, wa-wa-wa-one
When we go out at night
And stars are shinin' bright
Up in the skies above
Or at the high school dance
Where you can find romance
Maybe it might be love
Rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong
Shoo-bop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom
Chang chang changitty chang sha-bop
Dip da-dip da-dip doo-wop da doo-bee doo
Boogedy boogedy boogedy boogedy
Shoo-be doo-wop she-bop
Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-na yippity dip de doom
Rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong
Shoo-bop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom
Chang chang changitty chang sha-bop

Dip da-dip da-dip doo-wop da doo-bee doo
Boogedy boogedy boogedy boogedy
Shoo-be doo-wop she-bop
Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-na yippity dip de doom
Wop ba-ba lu-mop and wop bam boom!
We're for each other
Like a wop ba-ba lu-bop and wop bam boom
Just like my brother is
Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-na yippity dip de doom
Chang chang chanitty chang sha-bop

Movie Trailer Premier

P2T4_EscapeFromHim from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

The next project my GT class is currently working on a movie trailer. My partners for this project is Mele Tokuda, AJ Galiza, and Malie Osakoda. Our trailer is based on every typical kidnapped movie, except we changed it into our own trailer by adding a different story behind it. Our project is about a popular girl who gets kidnapped after a weird boy with a kidnapper uncle stalks her, when the boys plan goes wrong they end up kidnapping more that one girl. I contributed to the plan by pitching the idea and helped with writing the synopsis. Andrew and I are currently working on the scenes and shots. I will also be contributing by being a part of the trailer as an actor.

Our biggest challenge so far was probably finding time to film because we each have different schedules and one of our teammates won't be here for filming. Another challenge we faced so far was trying to make or scenes fit our VA script that we didn't already use in the beginning. Other challenges we faced were that some of my group members didn't do their assigned work. Another one of our challenges was that when we tried to film it started raining and we couldn't get any film done. Our biggest success was making a soundtrack for our trailer. We also did pretty good on our movie poster and how we edited it. Another one of our successes was placing our foley and audio in FCP.

I think we got these results on our critique because we didn't meet the critique requirements. We didn't really have all of our audio and foley, but I think we would have gotten a better grade if we had better audio. I think if we added more scenes and had more audio we would have gotten a better grade. We didn't really meet for our project and on the last day we had to edit we started editing all of our clips. So basically we didn't meet all the requirements because we didn't commit to meeting and editing. I learned to use FCP better. I also learned how to add layer affects in PhotoShop. This project taught my group and I how to be more responsible and be more committed to our work and projects.

Metamorphosis Animation

The latest project my G.T. class is working on is a Metamorphosis animation. For this project I am working with Violet Alao and Brody Smith. We were making an animation that states a Blobfish turning into a beautiful Beta fish along the animation story. Our goal for this project is creating a presentation that is original, logical, communicated clearly and explained by all students.  And that our entire proposal is clear from beginning to end with interesting descriptions of sequences, scenes and actions. Production plan is detailed, very easy to understand with organized visual storyboard. Group roles have been clearly assigned. Sets, Characters, Props are used cleverly to communicate the animation concept. They are visually stimulating, imaginative and create a sense of realism. Much thought and attention to fine details is evident, ultimately enhancing the overall animation. For this project we will be using a program called Stykz. Our second animation is about a pig named Porky who grows wings after getting abused by his owner. Our focus statement we used is "Richard Appreciates Pig". Our animation rational is basically a pig named Porky who get dirty from a mud puddle then gets hit by his owner Richard who is a mean old farmer. When Porky gets hit he becomes very sad and runs away, when he reaches the edge of the farm he grows wings and flies away. Richard spend all day looking for Porky but doesn't find him. A few days later Porky returns to the farm and hugs Richard and they all end up happy. The types of animation we used is PhotoShop, Stykz, paper animation, and white board animation.


For our focus statement we decided to do our second animation, about Porky. Our focus statement is Richard Appreciates Pig. Our focus statement is a farmer named Richard learns to appreciate his pet pig, Porky after he grows wings and flies away, because Richard abuses Porky. We wanted people to understand and learn how to appreciate the things you have. You only realize how important things are once they're gone. We want people to know that you should love and appreciate things and people you have before they're gone. People don't stay forever and you could look back and realize how much they really meant to you. We also want people to spread Aloha and appreciate and respect others. Our first scene is basically just Porky jumping into a mud puddle and then Richard getting mad because Porky gets mud on his truck and then Richard hits Porky. Our second scene is Porky walking to the edge of the farm sad and growing wings then flying away from the farm.


For our animation critique, I think we got this grade because we had a few shaky shots and bad lighting. But we also got some good scores because most of our shots were good and matched our animation well. I think we got these scores because we didn’t have any talking and there was only sounds so the class didn’t really understand what was happening in our animation. We also had a few short shots, If we had extended our shots of our characters walking and made it so they were actually walking and not just sliding across the screen we would've done better. I think if we had our characters talking and clear shots we would've gotten a better grade. But overall I think we did good for our animation, although it could have been done better.