Music Video Finale

Artist:  Adele            

Song: Rolling in the Deep

Lyrics:

There's a fire starting in my heart
Reaching a fever pitch, and it's bringing me out the dark
Finally, I can see you crystal clear
Go ahead and sell me out, and I'll lay your ship bare
See how I'll leave with every piece of you
Don't underestimate the things that I will do
There's a fire starting in my heart
Reaching a fever pitch, and it's bringing me out the dark

The scars of your love remind me of us
They keep me thinking that we almost had it all
The scars of your love, they leave me breathless
I can't help feeling

We could have had it all
(You're gonna wish you never had met me)
Rolling in the deep
(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
You had my heart inside of your hand
(You're gonna wish you never had met me)
And you played it to the beat
(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

Baby, I have no story to be told
But I've heard one on you
Now I'm gonna make your head burn
Think of me in the depths of your despair
Make a home down there
As mine sure won't be shared

(You're gonna wish you never had met me)
The scars of your love remind me of us
(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
They keep me thinking that we almost had it all
(You're gonna wish you never had met me)
The scars of your love, they leave me breathless
(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
I can't help feeling

We could have had it all
(You're gonna wish you never had met me)
Rolling in the deep
(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

My team is Emily, Gavin and Me. Emily is one of my best friends and really fun to work with. We have worked together on our Metamorphosis Animation project. Gavin I have not worked with before, but I think we will have fun! We chose Adele's song Rolling in the Deep. The actual reason why we chose this is because we couldn't find a song we liked. So Rolling in the Deep was the only song that we all kinda liked. Personally, I love that song, so I am very happy! Also, I think it will be pretty easy to make a story, so that is also good.

Our story is about two friends, me and Emily. In the beginning, we have a huge verbal fight. (yelling, etc.) Then, we both walk away, and break up our friendship. In the middle, I start spreading rumors and being mean to Emily at school. In the end, Emily just gives up talking to me and just decides to be by herself. In the beginning, there was aggressive and angry lyrics, so that's why we fight. In the middle there is other kind of vengeful and mean lyrics, so that's why I start being mean to Emily. In the end, there is kinda "I give up" lyrics, so we had Emily give up be herself without me. This is our story line, and I think it relates to our lyrics.

This does show all of our highest quality work. For starters, the poster shows things we learned in our Low Poly projects and our inspiration poster projects, like the quick selection tool and background effects. Our filming shows all kinds of composition techniques and intentional, slow camera movement, which really adds to our quality level. Plus, we used video effects that showcases our use of effects that relate to our story. We did have some trouble, mainly that we couldn't film for about a week, which definitely stressed us out, but we finally filmed and it turned out awesome! I think, overall, our music video will be pretty good, so I'm very satisfied.

Movie Trailer Premier

Our new project is awesome, and I'm super excited about my team. I am the team leader, so I have to make sure they work, and so far, they are doing good. Our project is to create an awesome and high quality movie trailer. The movie we are creating it for is fictitious, though. That means we have to make it all up ourself. We also must have have a dramatic voice actor, which in this case is Isaac, also known as Judge Stan Dubey in our trailer. We also have a movie poster, which yours truly will be making. Prepare for awesomeness! Our movie is Objection Overruled, and it is going to be supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! I am having so much fun working on our plan too. I officially did the poster sketch and synopsis, both of which are awesome. I unofficially helped Alex and Isaac with the 4p's and keywords as well as the voice acting script, both of which turned out pretty good and funny. I have a feeling that this is going to be AWESOME!

Our biggest challenge was probably making the shots look good. When we first planned each composition technique (macro, rule of thirds) and shot type (wide, close), we had not seen our location, unfortuneatley. So, when we actually got there, our location was a small stage in Kapa'a High School Gym, where a volleyball team was practicing. Because of this, many of our shots were impossible to do. This was unfortunate, but we prevailed by adjusting shots. For example, if the planned shot said, "Wide of courtroom" that was impossible to do, so we did a medium of the courtroom on a tripod on a table behind everybody. This turned out pretty well, so our shots were not as high quality as we wanted to be, but with some editing and camera adjustments, we made it work. Our biggest success was probably our humorousness. I was worried that it would be too cheesy and not-funny, but we made it awesome! We all have "acting chops", so we had a lot of fun embracing our characters and leaving it out on the stage; in this case literally! I think we made it quite funny, and I'm very proud of how funny our movie trailer is!

We got voted second best movie trailer! I am very happy and proud of these critique results. Most people thought ours was very funny and good, as shown in these graphs. I am super glad that I got to work with my team for this super cool project. I learned a lot too. I learned how to really work together with my team to create our final product. I also learned a lot about photoshop in making the movie posters, like how to do text overlays and background effects. This was so much fun to do!

Metamorphosis Animation

Our new project is a animation about metamorphosis. I am in a group with Emily M. (http://emilydesigns808.blogspot.com/) and Julian (http://julians18.blogspot.com/). Our two focus statements that we are considering is Tree Bears Fruit and Spirt Recognizes Wolfishness.

The project goal is to create  pitch slideshow presentation with your two top focus statements to our class, and then fill out our plan and storyboard before creating a 1-2 minute animated video. This should be really cool! The focus statement that we are going to work with is Spirt Recognizes Wolfishness. This was chosen by our fellow students after we presented our pitch. We are using Photoshop to create our storyboard pictures. The animation types we are using is the Stykz, Claymation, and Photoshop. Scene 1 was Photoshop, Scene 2 and 4 was Claymation, and Scene 3 and 5 was Stykz.

Our Storyboard

Our Focus Statement is Spirt Recognizes Wolfishness. This is a good summarization of our animation. Our plot is Emily, a lonely orphan who doesn't like her life at all. She then meets a wolf in the woods, and she throws stones at it. That night, she is transformed into a wolf. She goes back to the woods and meets the same wolf. The wolf knows who she is, but Emily does not recognize the wolf. The wolf, Nani, shows Emily the way wolves live and introduces her to the wolf pack, where Nani is the leader. Emily likes living with the wolves after a while. Then, in the night, when Emily is sleeping, the Wolf Goddess appears and gives her the choice to stay a wolf or go back to being a human being. Emily thinks about it, and decides to stay a wolf. Her wolf friends are very happy, and Nani accepts her into the pack. She starts a new life as Mahina the wolf.

Our critique went pretty well. We got a 2.7 on overall animation, a 2.3 on Clarity, Understanding, and Message, a 2.6 on Characters, Props and Background, and a 3 on Creativity, Originality and Execution. We also got 2 votes for Best Animation, which is good. I think these results are pretty accurate. We did a pretty good job on all the sections, although we did mess up on the audio on some scenes, but overall we did a good job. We did have some consistency issues on some scenes that we unfortunately did not have enough time to fix. I think we did the best we could have done in the time we had, especially since some of our teammates computers crashed, could not make it to meetings and exported shots the wrong way. We tried our best, and I'm proud of the whole animation,  my especially scenes 1 and 4. We did what we could, and I'm happy with the results.