Music Video Finale

P2T4 Price Tag from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Wow! Time sure went by fast. This is my last blog post of the year! To began, the last and final project that my GT class is doing is Music Videos. My partners for this project is Kalista Brigante, Blossom Novoa, and Mike Perry. The song me and my team chose to do is called Price Tag by Jessie J. To be able to film we created our own plan that consisted of the lyrics and the storyline. The storyline is basically the b-roll parts of the song, it helps the audience understand the story behind the song. The storyline relates to our lyrics because it shows that everybody is unhappy and is being obsessed with shopping and spending money but they don't realize that "money can’t buy us happiness". The lyrics are about how it's not all about the money and we have a good time spending time with each other instead of spending all of your time shopping and spending money on things that you couldn't possibly need. Then in the middle it shows that we all figure out that we can just have a good time with our friends and not have to spend tons of money. Also, in the ending of the storyline it shows us forgetting about shopping and we just leave are shopping bags behind and walk out of the store.

To engage our audience into our music video it is best to do fast-edit montage sequences. My favorite fast-edit montage sequences are the wide, medium, and close shots. Those sequences are my favorite because they really get the attention from our audience. It also puts everything together and makes it look neat yet interesting. In our Music Video we used a lot of the wide, medium, and close shot sequences. Whenever we make videos we usually use these fast-edit montages, so I have a lot of practice and experience with working with it.

One of our goals for this Music Video project is to showcase our best work and make it show what we learned all this year. This music video shows are best work because the quality of it, we made sure the editing was to the beat and the lip-syncs matched with the song. We added effects to certain scenes to add emotion. We also used different filming techniques and added cut shots. Overall, me and my team really put are best work to this. We wanted to end off the year great and produce a quality produced music video. To conclude my final blog post of the year, this was my favorite project and I had a blast creating this music video. Me and my team worked very hard and worked together to complete this project. I can't wait for another fun-filled 8th grade year!

Seems like everybody's got a price I wonder how they sleep at night When the sale comes first And the truth comes second

Just stop for a minute and smile

Why is everybody so serious Acting so dang mysterious

Got shades on your eyes And your heels so high that you can't even have a good time

Everybody look to their left Everybody look to their right

Can you feel that, yeah We're paying with love tonight

It's not about the money money money We don't need your money money money

We just wanna make the world dance Forget about the price tag Ain't about the uh cha-ching cha-ching

Ain't about the yeah b-bling b-bling

Wanna make the world dance Forget about the price tag We need to take it back in time

When music made us all unite

And it wasn't low blows and video no’s

Am I the only the one getting tired

Why is everybody so obsessed Money can't buy us happiness

Can we all slow down and enjoy right now Guarantee we'll be feeling alright

Everybody look to their left Everybody look to their right

Can you feel, yeah We're paying with love tonight

It's not about the money money money We don't need your money money money

We just wanna make the world dance Forget about the price tag Ain't about the uh cha-ching cha-ching

Ain't about the yeah b-bling b-bling

Wanna make the world dance Forget about the price tag

Well keep the price tag And take the cash back Just give me six strings And a half stack And you can, can keep the cars Leave me the garage And all I, yes all I need are keys and guitars

Animated Life Lessons

P2T8 Friends Overcome Issues from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

My GT class is now starting to create our animation videos. My teammates are Ella Beck, Coral Haeger, and Cephas Woodward. One of the goals for this project was to include what kind of characteristics we are. My character traits is that I am always a clean, neat, and organized person. Even the littlest things catch my eye. I clean everything, it's like a habit. Our exaggerates who I am because it shows me cleaning every little thing and it shows me putting cleaning first before anything else. Ella's characteristics is that she is a very clumsy and a awkward person. She's not the type to be that good at things. In our animation it shows her to talk to er thinking about a whole different thing when were trying to tell her something. Also, it shows that she tries to cook something but it turns out to look very gross and not good. On the other hand, Coral is the shy and not so "social butterfly" type of girl. In our story it shows her asking the ones she's close to if she's outgoing and they admit she's not. Last but not least, Cephas is the humorous kind of guy, but a little too much humor. He always laughs at the wrongs things at the wrong time. Our story embraces his traits because it shows him laughing at something not that funny.

In our animation, the goal was to create humor and how our life lesson or message relates to us. Our story has humor because of how we made our characteristics do things funny. For example, Cephas likes to tell jokes but they aren't that funny which kind of throws everyone off and doesn't make any sense. Also, one of the things we added to our animation was an option tool in photoshop called puppet warp. Puppet warp made our characters look silly. Overall, the little details we included, added a bit humor to our story to entertain our audience yet still be relatable. Our life life lesson or message was to accept the kind of person you are and embrace those unique characteristics we all have. It's okay to be different. That message relates to us I'm sure a lot of us wanted to change something about ourselves or didn't like something about them. We want this to help all of us to remind us that it's okay to be different and no one is perfect.

In my opinion, this animation project was the hardest assignment we've had this year. Although, it is good to face challenges because you can grow and get better from that. The level of productivity was about a high level, I wouldn't say on the very top but on the high range. We were good at working together. The biggest challenge in making the animation was probably creating the animations. We had to make lots of frames and detail to it. It took a lot of work. We had to make sure the visuals were things that our audience would understand and take interest in. To add, the best moment during production was actually finishing and turning in our animation. There's nothing better than that feeling when all the hard work we did payed off. We had a plan and a time frame of what to be finished each day and we met those goals to stay on task. Overall, creating this animation was definitely more complex but with the team work between my teammates we were able to conquer yet enjoy this animation project.