Music Video Finale

P3T6 American Dream from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.


On my team I have Emily Hartshorn, Alex Henriques, and Aftan Dodd.  My teammates chose the song American Dream by Switchfoot. My team has some really good shot ideas and I'm hoping it will be okay. My team and I are trying to make a funny and creative music video. My team wanted a soulful song that we could all agree on. I think we found a very catchy and exciting song to work on.

In our movie trailer we want it to relate to the lyrics. Our song is about how money and work and success is everything in America when it shouldn't be. And in our music video we are trying to show different people's situations. In our music video we show people who are stuck sitting at a computer, people who are lonely, etc. We also tried putting in some random humor for good measure. I hope we can get a nice grade on our project.

In this Music Video project showcases our best because of all the contrary. We are two weeks into this assignment and we are finally filming today. We have not had a time to agree on a time to meet. When some teams are almost done and have had maybe 2 or 3 film sessions we haven't even filmed once yet. But from all the things we've filmed at school we have also have lots of effects and very high quality work we have so far. But, I do believe in us and have no doubt we can come out with a high quality Music Video.


3 unique Behind The Scenes

Movie Trailer Premier

P3T8_Objection Overruled from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.



Our new project is to make a movie trailer about a movie that you created. I started the script and was going to finish it but I noticed my partner did it already. But I did up editing and adding humor to the script. My partners for this project are Gillian Altman and Alexander Henriquez. We have a very funny, unique, and creative movie.

I think our greatest success was creating a very funny script. We also have a very good lip sync to our original audio. One thing we had a problem with was just getting along. I mean we didn't like argue a lot it's just that when we stopped we would start playing around and play teasing each other until we'd start kicking, etc. But we had to suck it up, performed very well, and have a very creative final product. We worked very hard on this trailer and I hope you like it.

I thought our critique went very well. It got very great laughs in came in second place for the entire class. I was a tiny bit disappointed we didn't get first, but I'm fine with second. I learned that some of the jokes we put in were a bit over shown. Meaning some jokes we just tried too hard. Our movie trailer was so good we are actually thinking of making a home video.

Metamorphosis Animation

The project goal that we have for this project is to have a 1-2 minute animation video that has a well thought of message. I thought about who I would have on my team because in the past I've either gotten distracted by them or I noticed I'm doing all the work. My teammates are Emily Hartshorn and Lucas Freitaz-Diaz. In our story the main character has to make a physical and mental change. The word our class uses is metamorphosis.


Our focus statement is King loses royalty. Our story is about a happy and wealthy king that falls in love but he fell in love with a witch. The witch turns the king into a crow and sends him into the village. In the village the crow meets a pigeon and asks if the crow could come help to look for nuts to eat and the crow agrees. The crow looks and finds glowing nut and eats it and it gave him an idea on how to attack the queen. They lock her up and the pigeon turns into a beautiful woman and the crow went back to his normal self and they live happily ever after.  

In our critique we didn't get the best results but we definitely didn't deserve the greatest results. A lot of the mistakes was on my part. I was the final editor and there were some things I left out and my animations that I made were not that good. Also there was some lack of communication my partners thought I would do certain things we never talked about. But our final product came out a lot better than my team thought it would.