GT Music Video Finale

P1T7 Oui from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

It's officially the end of our 2015-2016 school year! (Last blog post of middle school, Cheeee!) Through out the year we've done multiple projects and it's the last one. Our storyline is about two people who never thought they'd end up together but end up "together'. The song is about how there's no Oui without U and I. I know, that's not how you spell "we" but I think he did it just for the song. Theres no we without W and E makes no sense so he changed to the french word "Oui"

We didn't have any fast edit sequences. So that's going to drop our grade. The reason we didn't have a fast edit montage is because it's kinda a slow song and slow songs don't really have places to put a fast paced edit. Since we didn't have a fast pace edit my favorite part would have to be the part where I run and hug my friend Glenn. It was the  fastest part of the video so it'll be like our fast pace edit lol. Sorry Mr. Sanderl if you see this. We meant to put a fast paced edit but it didn't work out :3.

I've been in the G.T program for 2 years of middle school. It's a lot of work, but our class has learned so many tips and tricks on how to make not only our photography projects great, but also our video projects. In this project, we're obviously showcasing our best video skills. We're showing fast pace editing, filters, text layovers, transitions, green screen, and etc. Pretty much everything I've learned. One of the requirements was fast pace editing montage, since I learned how to do that I can show how well I know how to do it. Also, we filmed using a green screen and we learned how to put that in the background and etc.

Music: "Oui" by Jeremih

Animated Life Lessons

P1T4 Raiden Commentates Dance Battle from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

In our recent animation project, my teammates are Raiden Kurisu and Talia Washington. Our teams personal character traits are weirdness, coolness (lol), and our nerdy selves. In our  video Talia is the nerd and I'm the bully. Raiden is like the announcer cause he's kewl (yup he's so cool it's spelled different haha). Anyways, since Talia is the nerdy one it represents her inner smartness (I'm not sure if that makes sense). Since I'm the bully I'm the one who thinks their top dog and is cooler than Talia (I don't have much nerd in me lol). Raiden is a combination of all in this video.

Our whole story has a couple life lessons. Don't underestimate people, don't bully anyone, except eveyone for who they are, and to not judge anyone by their looks. The life lessons in our story relate to us (especially now since we're middle schoolers) there's lot s of bullying because people don't like each other for who they are. Whether it's something someone wears, eats, who they hangout with, they just hate which i think is really dumb. I'm pretty sure whoever is reading this has been bullied at one point in their life. Nobody's perfect, everyone has flaws. We placed humor in our stories by making it like a fight but instead of having punching and hitting it's a dance battle. Since using puppet warp is kinda hard, our dance moves turned out pretty funny *insert laughing emoji*.

Our work productivity was pretty good. I'm not so good at animating so Talia and Raiden did most of the animation. I made some backgrounds and tried animating. The biggest challenge we faced was using the puppet warp tool. It was the first time we ever used this tool and well.. It was hard to use. If you wanted an arm to move it would make your shoulder weird and the rest of your body would turn with it so you had to remember to put a pin on your body. The best moment of the whole production was listening to our voice over for the first time. Since Talia and I were both absent on the day we needed to film Raiden recorded it.