G.T. MUSIC VIDEO FINALE

By: Bruno Mars

Hey guys! For our next project we are doing music videos. In our group there is Ashley, Makaio, and Ala my team leader. We are in eighth grade so this is our very last project of our middle school lives! The song we chose was When I was your man by Bruno Mars. Ashley said we should do this song and we all said sure why not. Bruno mars songs most of the time are school appropriate. We also chose this song because it was also the only other option that we could just say and we would want our parents and Mr. Aiwohi watching and not questioning us about like why this was the song that we chose.I think that we can really make a good music video with this song. We were going to do a literal definition of this song but Mr. Sanderl said it might be a little awkward filming.

So our storyline for this project is pretty funny. Ashley, Ala, and I all have chickens and it runs away from us to Makaio. I feel that this relates to the music lyrics because it's talking about someone that he used to like leaving him and going on to another boyfriend. But in our version of it we all like this chicken and it leaves us for another person. Which I feel is just like his lyrics but a little less awkward since we are filming with friends. So in the beginning we are all holding a chicken and then the chicken runs out of our hands to makaio. In each shot of storyline it's either ala, Ashley or I trying to get the chicken to come back to us but it ends up going straight to makaio. We keep doing things that we think would be very good to earn a chicken back but Makaio knows how to do it better. 

I think this music video shows that we have learned a lot in this class. My whole team was in here for all three years of our middle school years. So we have the potential  to make very high quality work. We have a bunch of shots with composition and very good lighting and scenery. At the beginning we have a bunch of awesome shots. I have two favorite shots in the music video. The first shot in the very first thing you see, it's an opening drone shot of the landscape. The next one is in the middle and it has Ala, Ashley, and me. Ashley is there first and then I appear (with Martha the chicken) then Ala appears. At the end I throw the chicken and let it fly away signifying that we have got over the fact she chose Makaio or us. I really believe it is high quality and that we can win. 

MOVIE TRAILER PREMIER

In our new project we are making a movie trailer. My new group is Kalista Brigante, Blossom Novoa,  and Wailana Marvin. We have to make a 90- 120 second original movie trailer that can't be what has already been made. The voice actor has to be really committed to the script to make sure that everyone will want to watch the movie if it ever came out and while watching the trailer they keep looking at the screen and not away saying," Turn it off!". In the plan I helped to do the VA script and the Storyboard. I also helped them to film, I brought my gopro so we could have water footage. I helped right what we are going to hear and see in the movie trailer. I am also going to be a character in the movie trailer. Our movie trailer is "Escape" and it's about a surfer who finds wax and uses it. While surfing she falls off her board and wakes up in a different world; there are two girls there along with a doctor. She wakes up in a surprise and the doctor tells her that she is the chosen one.

I think we did things really good and there was other things that we could have done better. One big thing that we could've worked on was communicating. Another thing we could've done was getting a day that worked for everyone.  Another thing I think we could have done better was making the video longer because it was supposed to be 1:30 seconds but we made it 1:14. Besides these things I think we did really well in creating the story and producing it. When editing we didn't use any transitions which I think made the production quality way higher. I think that the editing and filming was done really well. I feel that we made it super high quality and really good. I think that our teamwork was really good and together we made a really good movie trailer.


In the critique it said we had a lot to improve upon. I think that I will have to agree with the results because we didn't meet all the requirements. If we made the time limit I feel like we probably would've got better scores. For creativity I feel we did pretty good and the class thought that too. But for audience the class said we did pretty good and i'm happy with that. Overall I thought that we did pretty good but i'm pretty sure we did the best on creativity. That was the one that we got the most above & beyonds. If we made a few tweak adjustments we would have gotten a better grade. But really I thought we did pretty good considering that we had to film in the water and had a few struggles with the camera. 

Metamorphosis Animation

After we finished our poly portraits we decided to do animation next. We got to pick our own teams and who we wanted to work with. My team consists of Micah Miller, Taylor Chang and Ashley Alfiler.  We had to come up with two focus statements that go in the order noun verb noun for example Rock sprouts flower. After we came up with two focus statements that got approved by mr Sanderl , our teacher, we had to come up with a presentation to get feed back from the class about which idea they think would best work. After the presentation we had to fill out a production plan and storyboard to have an idea of how it would look before we actually shoot it and draw it out. We have to make sure that it fits the time requirement of 1-2 minutes with a custom soundtrack.

Our focus statement is rock sprouts flower. So pretty much a sad drab old looking rock gets thrown and stuff and a small seed is planted but cant grow. A girl finds him and decides she wants to keep him. The love and affection that this seed is getting from the girl makes the seed turn into a sprout then later a flower. So the plot is a rock gets found by  a girl and the affection the girl shows for him eventually turns into a beautiful flower. the first scene is of the rock getting thrown and kicked around while it gets kicked around.In the second scene Taylor walks up to the rock and picks it up. She also takes it to the waters edge to get washed off. Then in the third scene Taylor walks home with the rock.After in the fourth scene Taylor brings her rock everywhere she goes including surfing and school. Finally in the fifth scene you can start to see the little sprout everyday the little sprout gets bigger and by the end of the animation the sprout is a big beautiful flower. 

I thought the critique results were pretty accurate. We did a lot of things good but we could have made  those things better. I thought the audio was pretty good and so were most scenes. The drawing and animating on scene 3 could have been better (animated by me). The scenes that Taylor and Ashley did were really awesome and Micah made some really good soundtracks. I thought that the scene I made could have been more high quality. I agreed with the critique because the understanding could have been more clearer and we could have portrayed it so it was easier to understand but it was pretty good overall I thought. I thought that we did really good with originality and executing our idea.