Music Videos Rock!

Hey guy so I just wanted to let everyone know that this is the last blog post of this school year! I'll probably be posting more actively in august when the next school begins. Yeah so hope you enjoyed!

Each member of our team, Talia, Asha , and I contributed by all being in the music video and having a fairly equal amount of being in front and behind the camera. We all had a chance to edit and we all agreed and really like the song we chose. My friend Luca also contributed in our music video even though he's not on our team or class, but he helped us by being the man that we all rejected so big thanks to him! We also all helped out to plan the music video and we all did our fair share to keep this project organized and not getting out of hand. We were also very cooperative with each other and it was very fun to see the finished product after all the hard work we've put into making it.

I think a part that our audience will enjoy most is the dancing and towards the end where Talia Asha, and I are laughing and falling together. In my opinion I think those parts will be the most entertaining part to watch because I can't dance and it's probably not gonna look like I'm not dancing because I really am that bad. I think they would enjoy this because its also funny and unusual because not a lot of people in our class will be trying to dance in high heels. Another part I think the audience will enjoy is when our friend Luca is chasing us in the music video because I found it hilarious the way he ran it looked like he was gonna eat us...

I think the MV shows what we learned this year by showing a bunch of different shot types that we've learned, how to edit some video, putting on different effects to match up with the video so we could engage the audience.  Also when we have the finished product you could tell how well we worked together with our teammates, this shows what we've learned this year because and we've been doing this mostly thought the year. The MV also shows what we've learned this year because at the end we put a poster of us that we made using photoshop. The photoshop poster we made is very eye catching and I think our team did a pretty good job on it, we cut our selfs out just like how we did in our double exposed project so we did show some stuff in our MV from what we've learned this year.

 Behind the Scenes

Lyrical Livelihood

My favorite song is Honey Im good and its by Andy Grammer. The lyrics in this song makes me feel like I want to dance because the song is really catchy and up beat. I just found this song a couple of weeks ago but since it still feels new and fresh in my mind I actually really like it. If you listen to it you can hear a little country beat but its not too much which is the reason why its very fun too listen too. This song also makes me feel hungry, I don't know why maybe because I'm always hungry or either the song makes me hungry which I kinda highly doubt...

The music video song that my team Talia, Asha, and I chose to do is All the Single Ladies by Beyonce. We chose this song because in the music video theres three girls and we thought that would be good because were three girls and we are all single ladies. Also the lyrics and the song overall is very fun and up beat song. We felt the song really relates to us and we all love Beyonce's songs.

The visual story that our music video will be trying to tell is about how its good to be single. But it says more than that, the song basically says about how guys had their chance to be with them, that if they liked them they should've put a ring on it and how now these girls are rejecting them because its too late to go back to them. Were going to try and tell this by creating our own little story and dance. If you've ever seen the real music video for this song theres Beyonce in the middle and there are two back up dancers on the sides of her. Talia will be playing the main Beyonce in the middle because she has a super swag afro and Asha and I are going to be the back up dancers.

 Our musician:

                                                                                                           Beyonce

Our Animation Story

                                                       Behind the Scenes: Asha Moves Away

Our teams focus statement "Asha moves away" tells the story about how Lani's best friend Asha moves away leaving them very sad and full with sorrow. In the beginning of the story Asha comes to the new school ready for a new start and she meets Lani, they start hanging out a lot and having fun but one day Asha tells her the news that she's moving away.  Our team will try our best to tell this story by trying to make it relate to them and have them feel some emotion while watching this. I think our team chose a really good focus statement to do for this project because it tells a good story and the focus statement tells you whats its about.

The lesson that we are trying to teach our audience is when someone you are very close too and you love is gone, try your best to move on and make new friends. Kind of like the old saying, "If you love something (or someone) set it free" ... and hope that they come back! "Move On", easy to say, hard to explain, harder to do. A lot of people suffered from loss of loved ones and I feel this project will relate to those people as a life story, it can help people get through tough times if they learn the lesson that we are trying to put out there.

Some of the worst moments as a team is not finishing on time, during the 2 scene teaser and rough cut we barely made the cut. Also sometimes we would disagree but only on the very little things. Another thing is sometimes splitting up the work evenly but we fixed that.. Some of our best moments as a team is when we all laugh together when filming our scenes. During a scene Asha had to jump to make it look like she was floating across the room and we ended up taking a really funny picture of her in the air and I enjoy moments like that. Another good moment we've had as a team is laughing about the music and sound affects when adding it into imovie.

Animation Outtakes

 Gif: Bouncing Ball 

Two interesting facts about one of my teammates Asha is that 1) She is one of the fittest little girl I've met, she swims, surfs, runs, and more she has some abs and muscle too and also 2) We are basically the same person, I've known her since preschool, we love all the same things and she can be kind of stubborn sometimes but that's okay. Two interesting facts about my teammate Makaio is that 1) He plays multiple sports whether it is in or outside of school (#VeryAthletic) and also 2) He has very long eyelashes. Two interesting facts about my last teammate Meleana is that 1) She is kind of a tomboy, she loves to hunt! and 2) She is also very smart and gets straight A's in school.

Stop-motion animation is a type of animation technique that can make an un-animate object or person seem like its moving by itself, sometimes in an unusual way.  In this type of animation, the subject in it will be moved in small increments in between individual photographed frames, then when you edit it together and play it at a certain frame rate it appears to be animating on its own! Gif stands for graphic interchange format. Gif is a format for compressing image files.

The story that my team (Meleana, Asha, Makaio, and I) are choosing to do is my story which is about when my best friend when I was in 3rd-5th grade moved away. I think a lot of people can relate to this because pretty much everyone has lost someone really close to them and our animation teaches a lesson or moral basically saying learn to move on, make new friends even when your old ones are gone. Also if you love something (or someone) set it free. I think our animation has a strong purpose and I like how we are sharing this lesson in a fun expressive way. People should care about this because it relates to them.

Queens Bath

Queens Bath :)

Hey everyone I just wanted to share this lil Queens Bath edit I made a couple days ago, hope you guys like it and comment below if you think I should post more vids like this.

Yet by the time the food had been manipulated to capture photos of it in ideal lighting, Achatz said, what the blogger probably ended up critiquing was Warm Potato-Warm Potato.

Spring Break so Far

Ok so far our flight to ŁA was canceled last night so I'm still stuck on this island of Kauai... But today at 3 we went to the airport to catch a flight leaving at 4 but it got delayed for a couple of hours (more like a LOT of hours!) right now it's 9:30 and I'm still stuck on Kauai!!! IVE BEEN AT THIS AIRPORT FOR OVER 6 HOURS!   Me and mysister Malia have been getting kinda delusional these past hours heheh but I think we're changing our plane were gonna catch a plane to OAHU at 11:00 PM which means another 1hr and a half more hours at the airport...then when we get to OAHU around 11:30 PM we have to stay at the airport until 6:30 AM (the next day) and we catch a plane to ŁA well arive at ŁA around 3:00 PM CALIFORNIA time. And Last we catch a plane to Denver at around 4:00PM and get there around 7:00 or 8:00 COLORADO time. So yea guess I'll be spending a lot of time at airports hahah but we'll probably ski on Sunday if everything works out. Were staying i. Colorado until Saturday But we have 6 days to ski and snowboard YEAHHHH! Can't wait to hit the slopes! Well that's the update or you guys I'll blog when we get in ŁA or Denver or sooner if the plans change so bye! Remember to Live Like Lani! #LLL !!!

                   Lol still in Kauai

Typography Images

Typography is the art and technique of arranging words/type to make written language readable and beautiful. It is also the style and appearance of printed matter or processing data and printing from it. It can be used with images to make a lasting impact by having the image you want to expose or tell a story with easier to understand. With the words on it, it makes the image more of a story or an easier way to explain the photo if thats what your going for.

One of the biggest  challenges that I've faced in this project is one of the final steps in the second tutorial when I finished inverting the colors because the face disappeared and I started stressing out. I thought I was going to have to start it over but Mr. Sanderl helped me and that was a relief. Another challenge is the time because at one point during the teacher portrait I realized I was in the wrong layer and had to redo the image from the beginning. Plus I missed a day of school and work time.
Last of all I wasn't going to be here for the last day of school so I have to find a way to finish my self portrait typography in a day if I can or I just can't do it.

My first example is a typography portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci. He was an amazing artist (you may know some of his paintings: Mona Lisa, Last Supper) and he is very famous for is art work. Not only was he an artist but he was also a philosopher, engineer, and inventor. I picked him because I like art.

Another typography portrait that I did was one of the staff members at KMS, Julie Washington (Talia's mom). The last typography portrait example that I've done is one of myself. My favorite one that I've done has to be myself because I feel like I put harder work in that one because its me. (Yes I know its self centered but oh wells.) Oh and picture credit for my portrait picture that I used goes to Asha