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.

Geometric Portraits

Facial Expressions are universal because I found that "Charles Darwin wrote in his 1872 book, the Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals that 'Facial expressions of emotion are universal, not learned differently in each culture'. There have been arguments both in favor and against ever since." It sounds like it's a very controversial thing in the world. I believe that Facial Expressions are universal because a scientific blog called Kairos says that joy, sadness, surprise, anger, disgust, and fear have and always will be universal.

I got this project done by, first, taking a picture that my face, not including the background, was symmetrical. Then, I made an outline of the left hand side of my face. Our class decided that we would do the left hand side of our face and then what we had would be symmetrical. Later, We started an outline of our hair, then mouth, then eyes and eyebrows, and then colored in our entire face. The way we did it was by using the line tool to make triangles/polygons in our face.

The easy way of Low Poly and hard way are different but not that much different. If you get a big spot in average it will give the average color, but with the other way you can be more specific with  your color. I like the average way because then it's the computer's comparison instead of your own. Plus, a lot of the work is for you to do doing Poly Portraits the hard way. Also, it looks a lot better.

Verbal Landscapes

I interact with nature by going to the beach, hiking, even taking a walk through a forest or natural place is interacting with nature. You can also do something for nature. Like a beach clean up, start a place to adopt pets, etc. Nature also impacts my life by protecting me and giving me a chance of shade and shelter under trees when it's hot, nature gives me places to go. I am grateful for nature because if it wasn't for nature I'd probably have nothing to do all day. I wouldn't have any exercise, I'd be fat and depressed.

Time lapses are created by taking time to record something within a long amount of time and in editing shrinking the clip. Slow-mo's are created by filming something for a short amount of time and in editing extend and slowing down that clip. Retime editor is very needed for time lapses and Slow-mo's. Retime editor can also be a useful way to time audio and clips. To get the timing perfect you'd have to take a little while.

I think the hardest part of this Retime Nature project was filming a clip needing a certain detail needed for dramatic effect and what you need won't come. Filming clips like this were fun when everything went your way, but it's frustrating and stressful when it doesn't. My favorite part of this project was seeing the time-lapses progress in Retime Editor. Something about it for me makes it so satisfying. I've had pretty good luck getting a nice sunset or great close up for a slow-mo in this project while filming.

 

Project Reflection: I think I did good but I could have done better. I think the reason that I didn't do as well as I'd hoped was my audio was really scratchy and weird and I didn't here how bad it was in Final Cut Pro. I think I should've redone my poem. But I appreciate the 25 people that looked past that. I don't know how two people found mine the best, but at least I wasn't the best because then I'd be really lost. 

Poetic Personal Statement

Hi guys, I had an amazing summer but I am glad to be back in school and doing blog posts again.

Poetry, I think, is a creative way of expression and showing off your beauty, passion, and writing ability. It's basically all of your creativity in a rhythmic and rhyming pattern. I think poetry is used to express and feel emotions and maybe even learn something. It is both beautiful and expressive to writers and readers. I think poetry is very useful, fun, and I think I'm pretty descent at writing poetry mostly in whatever subject. I enjoy poetry and I hope other people do to. 

I was born with it and so were you

Never had to dream if it came true

Always knowing what will happen

It's what gets you good and zappin'

Confidence is key and you know it

So get out and boldly show it 

Be big, be bold, and even brave

So with that get up and show that you rave

I thought I would give myself more of a challenge to use rhythm and rhyme. I used rhyme by just thinking of sentences or statements that had a rhythmic connection and words that rhymed at the end. It was fun and I did a lot better than expected. Since I've heard so many songs that rhyme and have rhythm I just took what I've heard probably a million times and put it into words. I'm good at poetry compared to other people and have been getting better. I had a lot of fun on this project and am so excited that we are just getting started in GT.


Required Images: LastF_Poetic.jpg

Music Video Finale

P2T1 Dangerous Woman from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Hi guys, before I start this blog post I would just like to say thank you for all the views and support on my blogs. This will be my last blog post of my sixth grade year. Next blog post I will be a seventh grader. Which is this coming August. Have a great summer and enjoy the blog. 




Underneath this text is the 2 minutes from the song our team used in the music video. 

Song Title: Dangerous Woman
Artist: Arianna Grande

Our music video's storyline matches our song, which is "Dangerous Woman" by Arianna Grande, because the lyrics are all about being independent and free. But our story is about a group of women trying to be crazy and do whatever they want. It starts out with people in a very serious office meeting around a table when one person rebels and makes the scene very chaotic. It also makes everyone go crazy. In our storyboard we have people meeting new people and "Infecting" them as my teammates put it in our storyboard. It is a inspirational and funny music video and we put so much effort into this music video, seriously, all of our team has put so much into this video. 

My favorite fast-edit montage sequence is when we switch from all of us lip singing. I think that fast-edit montages are important because it gets so many different angles. It also has the possibility of getting everybody a little bit of screen time or camera time. Fast edit montages make you do a lot of filming, which is tiring and takes much time but its worth it when you are editing and say to yourself I'm glad we took that time to really work on this quick but useful piece of film. It may be a quick one second fly by that only the people who look closely saw this, but to the editor and filmmakers its everything .
 
This music video showcases my best work because it lets me use a little bit of every resource and every tool that I have ever used this year in my intro year of GT. It involves very precise editing with iMovie, I get to use Photoshop, for something fun finally, which is making the intro video screen, it still involves picture taking with the three behind the scenes pictures, and so much more that I can't mention. The video itself is kind of a wrap up of what I've done through the whole year which is me making a fool of myself, but also getting a very good final project for my last project of the year.

Animated Life Lessons

Alina Puig and Sophia Gregory were my teammates for this project. Alina Puig is a perfectionist who over achieves in anyway possible. Sophia is a quiet, smart, energetic person who is very sure about everything she does. In our film, these traits are portrayed because Alina and Sophia are feelings that are actually inside my head. Alina is fantasy who always wants more always wants something different. Sophia is reality who thinks that everything is okay just the way it is. Make the similarities between real life and the animation.

We use humor in our story by, as you can tell by the plot, confusing the characters to make them seem ridiculously funny. They're feelings they only think or feel about what they are labeled as. But when they switch they are confused and scared and not used to doing what they do. Our story's message relates to our audience because people everyday are trying to be someone different for someone and sometimes some people go to far or do it too much. Our story teaches that it's ok to be different and yourself and you instead of fitting in all the time. Like Dr. Seuss said "Why fit in when you were born to stand out.".  

Considering that me, Sophia, and Alina have never worked before our productivity was very low when it came to animation. I think it was because we were very effortless to have each scene done within an hour, which is the amount of time we had for each period. But when it came to editing we were decently productive. Our team's biggest challenge was getting things done because in animation I had the most frames and number of seconds to animate and I didn't do very well. When I was not even halfway done with my scene they're almost done. Our best moment in production was coming together after the final product and saying it's okay if we made mistakes, it's ok if we are slow at animating because we are a team and we are done.

Character Development

Hi guys, my GT teacher has told us that some eight graders that are also in GT have posted a video that has been posted and published and are now in the final 25 out of 600 videos that were published in this program called No Bull. Please Click here and when you do, go to the bottom and click on vote. Thank you, and please promote this video as much as you can.   

I am the type of person that's different than almost everybody. I like being different because it helps me stand out of the crowd and like I said I'm weird and I like standing out of the crowd. Some humorous imperfections about me are that like I said I'm weird I'll go all out in spirit week. Also, one thing about me is that I take almost everything really seriously unless they actually tell me that it's a joke before they say it. Overall, I'm a bystander to some people, I'm a weirdo to others, and I'm a friend to the most important. 
   

The character traits I plan to exaggerate while animating is to act like I'm trying to impress everybody but not get to cocky and gangster like. I'm also the kind of person that is worried about what everyone else is thinking. I don't know why I think I've just been a person who has always been like that. Some people think that it's a bad thing, honestly I don't, but sometimes I'll worry too much and end up making a fool of myself. I have been trying to get rid of it, but I just have to think what other people think. I plan to animate this by being a little bit have my head down and not try to anything to fancy in my animation.

To animate a GIF animation in Photoshop is you need to is first take a picture of yourself and in Photoshop use the quick selection tool to make a cut out of yourself. Then, crop out your background so that it's only a picture of you. But later, you'll have to put in a background if you want to have a good background. After that, you make the character move with puppet warp in each animation frame. I like my animation because I do a hilarious and girly movement that is so funny.