Music Video Finale

Hello Everyone and welcome to a new blog post. Sadly, this post will be the last one for this school year. In our G.T. class we are doing a new and last project for the end of the school year. We will be creating a music video for our last project this school year. I am in a team of two. It's just me and Alaka'i. Last year when we did the music video, we chose a country song. So I thought this year "Let's do another one?" So this year we chose the song "Big Green Tractor" by Jason Aldean. In the song it talks about this guy wanting to have fun with this girl and they have fun. But since that is not "school appropriate" we decided to change our storyline. It is gonna be about these two friends and one of the friends wants to do everything but the other friend just wants to stay in his car. So then I show him my (Ala's) big green tractor (lawnmower) and he's really interested. When Ala is interested he rides the tractor and then he's finally having fun. This storyline still relates to the lyrics and is fun to watch.

Probably, My favorite fast-edit montage sequence is gonna be the part when we show off the tractor. I like this sequence because it was fun shooting and I like the way it was shot. I really like the shot types. We have a part of Ala on the lawnmower "burning rubba". Then we have a part while we were shooting the ending of the music video. It ended with me driving the lawnmower down the street while was walking next to me. As we were shooting it I "accidentally" drove away as fast as I could and in the background you could hear ala say "STOP!" That was funny. We also shot parts of Ala driving the lawnmower in the woods and in the pasture because those were the lyrics in the song. "Down through the woods, and out through the pasture." We thought that was really good.


This music vid showcases our best work because it shows high quality work such as audio and creative moving shot types. We also learned cool tools to use in photoshop to use for our final poster. I did the poster. It shows that we learned how to do a lot of stuff since day one of G.T. We also have well done shot types. We also learned how to balance our audio. If it wasn't for this G.T. class I wouldn't know this much about film-making. Well I would like to conclude this last blog post and say that I had a very fun school year this year. Goodbye and see you in the next blog post.

Animated Life Lessons

B: Explain how you use humor in your story and how your life lesson or message relates to us. C: Considering you’ve never worked together before, describe your team’s level of productivity, biggest challenge & best moment during production.
Embedded Vimeo, Storyboard Screenshot, 3 BTS

Have you been taking behind the scenes photos?

Hello everyone and welcome to another blog post! I would tell you this but then it would feel like I heard it before. We are starting a new project in G.T.! Oh. I remember where I heard that from. Almost all the other blog posts I did in the past school year. Anyways, back to the topic. This new project is kind of an extension from last blog post. This new project is an animation movie. And how is it different from last years "Asha Moves Away" animation? Well in this animation we are using a tool that I haven't used before, "the puppet warp" tool. This tool helps animate inanimate objects and make them look real. Well we plan to exaggerate everybody's personal traits by looking like we are cleaning really fast.

Our life lesson and message in this story relates to people. Even though we don't have too much humor in this video, there is a part in the video where me and Brody find a bunch of crazy stuff in our room, like a Samsung S7 Edge, IPhone 6S, a xBox controller and an Apple Tv. But we're more focused on finding our I.Ds so when we found all that crazy stuff we just look disappointed and throw them to aside. We put this in because when people look for stuff they find everything but the thing they're looking for.

Character Development

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post! To start this blog post, we're gonna do a little something different. I'm gonna start by talking about myself a little bit. I'm a athletic, very competitive, smart (not all the time), funny, lovable type of person. I also get mad pretty easily and when I'm mad, I work harder. For example, when someone scores a goal on my team, I get mad and I try my hardest to score a goal. I have a lot of imperfections that are humorous and maybe even relatable. One of my imperfections are that I wake up too late. I'm late everywhere I go (most of the times). And finally, I'm somewhat of a hypocrite. This means I tell people what to do when I'm not doing it. Now that I cleared that out of the way let's start getting to the juicy stuff.

So I just started school again from spring break and you wanna know another thing we started (other that school)? A NEW (small) PROJECT FOR GT!!! We are working on an animation GIF. We are making this project mainly to tell people about ourselves. This project is mainly about ourselves because we will be showing the audience our what type of person we are or showing what character traits we have by showing them a exaggerated animation of what type of person we are. The type of exaggerations I'm planning on doing is doing a really sick, hardcore dab. Learn about how I did it in the next paragraph

I plan to do the dab with this tool in photoshop called the puppet warp tool. This is a photoshop tool used to control or manipulate an object by placing different pins and anchor points. Once I place the pins, I move the pins to where I want it to go. Too make it look like I'm moving, I need to slightly move the pins and make a new frame in the animation workspace. Once you do that, you just move it again slightly and create a new frame. Repeat the process and you'll be done in no time. I somewhat like my work because I made myself do what I wanted to do but I just feel like I can do better. I could've done better by making the movements more detailed. Well that's all I have for this week's blogpost and I'll see you in the next one!

.MOV Film Festival

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post! If you can't tell from the title but I am going to be entering the .MOV Film Festival. In the .MOV Film Festival, I could either make a sitcom, animation, or movie trailer. I have teamed with Alaka'i and Meah to make a movie trailer. If you didn't last year's movie trailer, don't because it's terrible. I'm hoping that this year will be better. Before I tell you about what our movie trailer is about, I'm gonna tell you some keywords and you can guess what the movie trailer is gonna be about after. Our first keyword is "Encouragement." We chose encouragement because we encourage people to be themselves. Our next keyword is "Try." We chose "Try" because you always have to try everything. Another keyword we chose was "Embarrassed." We chose "Embarrassed" because in our movie people are kinda embarrassed about who they really are. And our last keyword is "Shy." We chose "shy" because people are shy and scared about who they really are.

We are making our movie trailer about Ala. Ala plays basketball and thinks that he's not good at basketball and Meah is the sister that discourages Ala to play basketball. I then come in and find Ala making these sick shots and encourages him to play. He then plays real basketball and he wins his basketball game. We chose this story because we think that shy people shouldn't be embarrassed about their talent. And embarrassment shouldn't hold you back from big success. And It's always important to TRY! TRY! TRY! And we also need people around the world to encourage people on showing their talent. It may not even have to be people encouraging you to do something. It doesn't need to be a person or a Advertisement on the newspaper. As long as you are encouraged to be yourself. We also want to show if you try as hard as you can then you will lead to big success. And if you lead to big success you'll have a good life just from one decision you made from just thinking "Yeah. I'll try that." or "Yes. Definitely I'll try that!" And that is the overall message we are hoping to overcome in this project.

Of course, in every project, we all have some problems. I'm gonna tell you what problems we faced and how we solved them. So to start off, one of our biggest problems was making the baskets in. We probably spent 10 minutes on this one shot. I told Ala we should just edit in a splash (basketball term for swish). Instead Ala was stubborn and did it till he made it. Another problem we had was finding the perfect music. All movie trailers have Music that make's viewers excited and make them want to watch the actual movie. We then thought of this song that is related to basketball and it has an awesome instrumental. It is "Wings" by Macklemore. Check out the instrumental here! Another problem was having enough shots of Ala making his shots. So we then tried finding some shots in our footage and we found enough and we put it in our film and BOOM! we did it. Thank you all for reading this weeks blogpost and I'll see you in the next one!

Tiny Spherical Worlds

Hello and welcome back to another blog post! Last week, we started this new project called Spherical and Polar Panoramas (Panos). Before I start talking about the polar and spherical panos, I'll tell you what a composite image and why it is important. A composite image is Created from combining several different pictures to go beyond the limitations of a camera. A composite image is important for a panorama because a just one picture wouldn't get all of what you want. that's why a pano is a composite image.


A Polar Pano is a panoramic landscape with defined horizon lines digitally manipulated to create a circular planet-like image. A Spherical Pano looks like a landscape is wrapped around the frame. they're different on how they look. The polar panos look like tiny worlds and the spherical pano looks like landscape warped around in a circle. And that's the difference between a Polar Panorama and a Spherical Panorama.

My finished Tiny Worlds looks convincing because in my final spherical I made myself look big. And while I was editing I noticed that I was facing the sunlight. So added a shadow to make it look like I am really there and I look big. But in my polar panorama it doesn't look like I'm really there. It doesn't look like it because I didn't put a shadow to make it look like I'm really there. Because a real person would have a shadow. But I tried to make myself pop out of my world and tried to make it look convincing as possible. So that was this week's blog and I'll see you in the next one.

Hockney Style Joiners

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post! So for the past two weeks, my class have been doing this project on photomontage. David Hockney is known very well for his photomontages. Me and David Hockney's work are totally different. Not only how it looks but also how we make it. 1 of the ways how our work is different is that I use a DSLR camera and i think he used like a polaroid camera. Another one is how we made it. He probably used the pictures from the polaroid camera glued them together. Me, I took the SD card out of the camera and imported the photos onto the schools computer. After that, I put it into photoshop and put them together. After I could just print it. And finally, his photomontages are more powerful then my photomontages. He could probably make a photo montage about world pollution more powerful than I ever could. And those were the differences of my photomontage and Hockney's photomontage.

Now I'm gonna be talking about how images can send a positive or negative message. Of course positive images send positive messages and negative images send negative messages, but I'm gonna be digging deeper than that. Images with any type of sexual content or nudity would be a negative image. It would send a negative message by making everybody grossed out. Not everyone in the world would like those type of images. An image of like service or something like that would send a positive message. If people saw that picture they would feel all happy. If the image was a puppy, it would definitely send a positive message. But if that puppy was being harassed by the owner, then it would send a negative message. And that's how images can send positive and negative messages.

The message I intend for my audience to see in my final is time. I chose my watch because it shows what time it is. My watch symbolizes me because I don't have enough time to do anything. Time is an important thing that everybody doesn't have enough of. So that's why I chose my watch because time is a problem that everybody has.

2016 Aspirations

Hello and welcome back to this week's blog post! I know that everyone had a wonderful time during winter break and now we are in 2016! I got some goals that i want to try to achieve in 2016. Here's 5 goals. Goal #1: Do better in school. So far I've been doing good in school but i just think that I can do better. Goal #2: Beat my brother in one-on-one basketball. I just want to say an interesting fact about my family. My family is really competitive. So whenever my brother beats me in one-on-one basketball, I get all salty and don't want to play with him anymore. And I know I'm a sore loser and it's true. I'll admit it. Goal #3: Watch all Fast and Furious movies. So far I tried watching all of the fast and furious movies before the 8th movie comes out. The only movie I have to watch is the 3rd movie (Tokyo Drift). I'm have to at least watch it anytime before April 14, 2017. Goal #4: Win the presidents cup. The Presidents Cup is a tournament on O'ahu. This is actually my first tournament since forever. The tournament I went to on O'ahu was when I was 8 I think. Finally, goal #5: Win the HYSA springs championships. HYSA is actually a soccer season on Kauai. But for the past years I have so close to winning but just not. The last 2 years just destroyed my soul. 2014, Kapa'a FC. We lost in the semifinals. 2015, Futsal Kauai. We won every game except for the game against North Shore FC. They crushed us. But I'm really feeling it this year. And this are some goals I want to attain in 2016.

I think the most important goal from those five are "Winning the HYSA springs championships". Like I said before, I was so close to winning the past 2 years. But they seriously destroyed my soul last year because everytime we played North Shore FC, we spanked them. But in our championship game against them, we got spanked. My soul was crushed. And soccer is just really important to me because it's just an emotional sport that I am really passionate about. And like I said earlier, I'm a really competitive and when I lose, sometimes I'm a poor sport. Like in serious games, I am like a super poor sport if we lose. If it's like a regular game then I would be ok. And also the beginning of the school year, part of the North Shore FC came to KMS this year so when they saw me they made fun of me how we lost and they won. In the beginning of the school year I was kinda pissed but now almost all the north shore people that came from Kiluea Elementary School are like my homies. We're really good friends now. But in all seriousness, winning the HYSA Spring Championships is my most important goal I want to attain is winning.

The steps I will take to obtain success is practice, practice, practice. I'll be more healthier. I'll be more healthier by getting in shape, eating healthier, and maybe even play more sports to fit myself for soccer because soccer is all about running and during my basketball practices, I'm seriously gonna die from running from the free throw line, back to the baseline, run to the half court, back to the baseline, and you get the point. After I'll start playing more with my older brother. Probably shoot some hoops with him or race. Maybe even beat him in 1 vs 1 basketball against him. Maybe even beat him (which will probably never happen (but that's why I'm working on it this year!)). Maybe even in school. I could participate in sporting games there. People play football on the field. That will help me with my running and agility skills. There's basketball at the court. Maybe that can help me with my math like "Oh, shoot it at a 45 degree angle" or something. Girls play softball on the field. That can help me with my sportsmanship by not wanting to be a poor sport and leave and get all mad. And even once in a while someone brings a soccer ball so we can just kick, play keep away, or maybe even a little game. So that's it for this week's post. I'll see you in the next blog post! 

Invention Commercial

P3T3_Invention from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post! For the past 2 weeks, we've bee working on a project about commercials. We actually thought it was gonna be easy but it really wasn't. Our main goal for our project was to actually make the car and make sure it was water proof. Our biggest problem was when we tried to shoot the car flying so Ala threw it up in the air and the car missed the blanket and fell on the hard cement. The whole top part fell off and so that's why there's that redneck on it. Well that was our main goal for this project.

Our best team moment was that last scene when we tryed to get us saying "The Allterainian Auto is Au-some!" while getting us perfectly in the shot. We were all tired but I don't know what was Mele's problem was. I have know idea why she made that face during the shot. But it's good for us because it actually cracks me up! Another team moment for me was when me and ala dropped the car. And that was my best team moments.

During post-production editing we all have to do a certain things. Like Ala. He Put all the shots together and in order. Me and Mele added the fun stuff like the words and the music. We all decied on a fun jingle for the music. Ala also put the voice over next to the shots. So that is all and thank you for reading this weeks blog post.

Scratch Game Design

Title: Scratch Game Design Label: GT Portfolio
I: Explain how user experience influenced your game
B: Compare & contrast the features of each game
C: Describe your best code & most difficult bug fixes
Embed all Scratch games & SS your best code


Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post! for the pass couple of weeks my class has been dong coding and we are now making our own video games on a website called Scratch. We have made two scratch games already - A platformer game and a chase game. My first ever scratch game I made was the chase game. the user's experience made me influenced my game by using scary sprites to chase the cat. I also just chose the default cat as my sprite-1 because it was my first game ever in scratch.

Composition Scavenger Hunt

Hello everybody and thank you for reading this weeks blog! Today I will be talking about composition techniques. The on technique I think is the most important is Rule of thirds (subject). I chose rule of thirds (subject) because I think if we never have rule of thirds (subject) then how will we interview somebody the proper way. You can't just put somebody smack dab in the middle and it won't have any power and emotion. It's also the easiest technique of all. And that's the most important technique to me.

I think the most difficult technique is leading lines because you have to make environmental lines leading to a subject. To me, finding environmental lines pointing to a subject is super hard. The only leading lines example to me is a school hallway at Kapa'a High School. I think we could use this more when But to me is really hard to find so that's why leading lines are hard to me and how I could use it.

My team is very helpful! So right now, I'm gonna tell you what we all did. Ala and Mele took the videos and I was like the actor and kind of the ideas. But Ala and Mele was mostly the ideas. I was mostly the actor. Ala was also the person to tell us what to do and editing. Mele also edited. So thank you for reading this week's blog and see you next time.

Cracking the Code

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post called Cracking the Code! Now we are doing another project about but that's all I really know about it. I think that everybody and I mean EVERYBODY should be able to code because it is as easy as making hot pockets. Also because coding is fun. You could code something to do something. It's basically like commanding a dog to move or sit or stay but more like a computer. People can finally upgrade to thing e next generation and finally learn to code. Coding may look hard but that's also good. Coding can help you move anything on your device. That's why everyone should know how to code.

My first experience with code was actually in 3rd grade when I was in lego robotics and Me and my friends learned how make the robot move and do certain types of things.  For example, we built like a crane to roll a ball and hit bowling pins. I've been doing that from 3-5 grade but didn't code until a week or two ago. And i'm in 7th grade right now! So it's been a long time since i've coded. And that was the first time I've coded.

If I could design any program or game I would wanna design Instagram because I like going on Insta and I think it's a fun to share things to other people. I'd like to make something that I like and make it better. I could probably code it so people can't hack into other people's accounts. I'd also try to code it so it would stop people from bullying online. Thank you for reading this week's blog. See you next time!

My Humorous Monologue

Hello everybody and thank you again for reading this week's blog! Today I will continue talking about my comedic monologue. Right now I will tell you what I learned from this project. Some of the stuff I learned were new and old information. I also forgot some of my old information so if I mention something that I already know then this is why. I learned how to use the cameras properly and import the videos to the computer. I learned that on the cards that go into the camera, they're these little switches to lock or unlock a card. This is something I definitely learned. I also learned how to make a funny joke. I learned how to grade our project. Those were the things I learned in this project.

Something I definitely learned and did not include because I'm going to talk about it right now is padding. If you don't know what padding is, I'll tell you what it is in my own words. Padding is when you start the video and let it play to the minimum of 3 seconds and say action. When you're done with the video wait a minimum of 3 seconds and say cut. That is basically padding. I think padding is crucial because you could start a video and the camera wouldn't be ready to record and then your video will be missing a couple of parts in the beginning of your video. Also at the end because it could cut off some of the parts at the end. And that was what padding is and why it is crucial.

So I found out that my comedic monologue was the best of the whole class! But I'm not going to talk about that. Right now I'll be talking about weaknesses, strengths, and what I could've done to improve. I think the weaknesses I had in this project was trying to get the bingo shots. I had to get bingo shots ASAP. I didn't know when or where to get bingo props. So I just thought as this to be the best possible way to do this. My strengths were probably the joke writing because like I said earlier, I'm growing up watching Seinfeld and I just got great feed back from the series. Probably I could've improve by getting something easier than a bingo game. But I think I chose it because I was trying to think of the boringest (I know that's not a word.) thing in the world. So that was why I chose a bingo game. But now that I think about it, I think I could've use something like channel surfing or something. I don't know. Well that was my post for this week and I'll try to keep you updated during this fall break. So that's all. See you next time and have a great fall break!

My Monologue

Comedy Writing

Hello everybody! I'm Makaio if you don't already know and you probably already know that I'm in a new project about comedy. I don't know if you know this but not only is it my first time doing this project but it is also Mr. Sanderl's first time teaching this project. I think a sense of humor is an important character's trait because everybody loves to have fun. People would like other people that likes having fun. People wouldn't like people who don't like having fun. When people are having fun, they tend to laugh. I learned that the easy way, by laughing everyday. People don't wanna be like robots and don't have a sense of humor. That's why I think a sense of humor is a important character trait.

Here are some tips to make a humorous narrative. These tips might not work because this is my way of making a hilarious narrative. Tip #1: Think of something that you don't like. This works because if you say it with sarcasm it will seem funny to the viewers. Tip #2: Say it with expressions. Like I said with the sarcasm, if you say it in a way that you don't mean it or in a really funny voice, you'll get to the readers funny bone. If would probably also help if you do funny hand gestures. Tip #3: Practice, practice, practice! Practice reading it to make it how you would want to say it. Tip #4: Share. It may not seem funny to you but if you can ask someone to read it and make sure it's funny and makes sense. Tip #5: Confidence. Now that you made your joke now all you have to do is have the confidence to say it to your audience. That was 5 tips (my way) to make a joke.

My comedic monologue is funny because I made nothing into something funny. I chose Bear Grylls because he actually has a pretty interesting life. I think my monologue is funny because it has funny Bear Grylls voices and pretty interesting things. I grew up watching Seinfeld and it is a really funny tv show. Before the show they show a little comedic monologue that he made. So I guess I learned a lot and think it that my monologue is pretty funny. I hope you liked  this weeks post. See you later!

Motivational Poster

C: Summarize biggest challenge & how to improve

Hello everyone and thank you for reading this weeks blog post. If you can already tell, this week's post is called Motivational Poster. The requirements of this project was to at least have our manifesto and our personal quotes in different text layers called Manifesto and Personal Quotes so we don't get mixed up. Then we would need 4 photos. The first three would be the three photos we posted on google+ called #gtsym1, #gtsym2, and #gtsym3. The last one would be of our face. Next we would copy and paste both Manifesto and Quotes in the text layers in photoshop. We would Kern them so they could fit the whole page like the top photo to the left. After, we would need to turn off the layers balance the 4 photos to fit the page. When your done with that, turn on both text layers and double click one of them and make sure that you adjust the text and make sure you turned on and adjust the drop shadow, stroke, outer glow, bevel and emboss. Then do the same thing with your other text layer. Make sure that your stroke is a triadic color with your other text layer. To change the color 
to match with the text, Go to edit and go to adjustment layers and add Color Balance, Levels, Curves, and Exposure. And basically those are all the requirements for the motivational poster.


Then after, we must insert the three #gtsym from google+. Once you've inserted the three pictures from google+, then open your portrait with photoshop and put them together and visually balance them to look like what's to the left. After I wrote my Manifesto and quotes, I copied and pasted into two separate text layers in photoshop. Then turn off the pictures and Kern the quotes and manifesto to fit the page. Next change the drop shadow, stroke, outer glow, bevel and emboss on the text and the stroke a triadic color with the other text. Then I added he adjustment layer to match with the text. And that's what I did to make my motivational poster.

My biggest challenge was the Kerning. When I was trying to change this one sentence, it would always go to a different place. If I could do this again, I would get the pictures ready and do the kerning better.

Personal Manifesto

Hello everybody! I am now back in school still in G.T. My new G.T. blog post is about manifestos. Before I can get to that, I'll tell you five interesting and unique facts about me. One interesting and unique fact about myself is that I love going to the beach! I could be body boarding or digging a hole at the beach. I love the beach because when I just look at the beach, I just tell myself these words. "I'm so lucky to live here!" Another fact is that I am currently playing soccer and the fun part is that me and my friend Jeran are the most experienced players so we're like the team leaders on the team. A third fact about me is that this year, I'm in the ukulele and choir band. I signed up for ukulele because when I'm playing the ukulele, it's really fun to strum on. My fourth interesting fact is that I'm in a computer class called G.T. but you probably already know that because in G.T. I get to have my own blog! Finally my last unique fact is I got a really competitive family when it comes to sports. I have one last fact. My name is Makaio.

Now that I'm getting into a new G.T. project, where I get to make my own manifesto, here's what my manifesto will say. "Bodyboarding is fun. Goals represent the wave and once you've caught the barrel you have finished a goal. Once you've caught the wave, go for the barrel. If you miss the barrel, go back on your board and try again. Bring the wave your all. Show the wave that you can catch it. Get on your board and kick as hard as you can. Once you've gotten on the wave, turn to the barrel. Try your best to turn to the barrel. If you got through the barrel, you've done your life goal. Once you're done with that wave, go for another wave or in this case goal. Never stop giving up on anything." That was my 2015-16 personal manifesto.

I think my manifesto applies to readers because goals are things that people have a hard time doing. When people try reaching their goals but it becomes to hard for them so they just give up and do it later or never again. So that is I made this manifesto, because people always give up on their goals. It also applies to the readers because people think that doing one thing is hard, but it won't be hard once you've actually tried to do it. People are getting way to lazy just sitting on a couch either on their phone or watching television. So it applies to the readers also to not be lazy. Well, thank you for reading this blog post and see you in the next blog.

Lyrical Livelihood

My favorite song lyrics are "Jungle" from X Ambassador and Jamie N Commons, featuring Jay Z. "Jungle" is my favorite song because the song is like a song to just listen too to just get pumped up before like a game. Basically I listen to this song every Saturday before my soccer game. My favorite lyrics in the song are "There’s records to break, medals to take. Flags to wave. The city is ours" because this sentence means like... what it sounds like. I think this means that legends are made from breaking records and taking medals. That legend plays for their country or state and that he takes all or nothing. Or at least I think that's what it means.

My team is Alaka'i Gonsalves, Meleana Keawe, and me. We chose the song "Everybody's got Somebody but Me" by Hunter Hayes Ft. Jason Mraz. We chose this song because Ala thought that since everybody else is doing like a really new and popular song. So instead, we chose a 2011 song about anti-love. We also thought it would be easy and funny to make and it would be appropriate for school because most songs are about love and other stuff about love. This song we think is exactly the opposite of those songs. We think our final music video will turn out pretty funny when we show it to the class.


Our visual story will show that there are two people in the park trying to look for their friend in the beginning of the school year, but when ever they try to find someone, it just turns out horrible for our three characters. All three of us will be showing us finding the perfect BFF but they never can find a best friend to be friends with. They then find each other and becomes BFF. They meet each other at a park and then they greet each other and they do like a cool hand shake and I don't really know how we end it but I think it's going to be like them just having a good time. I guess that's all we got right now. We start filming on May 7- May 8. That's all we have for right now.

Our Animation Story

If you don't already know that I'm doing a project, I already told you in my "Animation Outtakes" blog post. I also told you that we were doing "Asha Moves Away" and why we are doing it. Our title/focus statement is "Asha Moves Away". The focus statement tells "Lani's story" because Asha is Lani's friend. Asha, in the film, moves away. If it is hard to tell if we are telling Asha's story our Lani's story, I don't blame you. Lani was such good friends with her friend (her real life friend) that they shared a bond.

The audience will learn that when you love something, you must set it free and that you need to make new friends even when your best friend has left. The audience will learn this lesson because our team thought it would be easy for the audience to understand this topic (but not entirely). They are probably going to figure it out the lesson by knowing that Lani and Asha are going to be really good friends. Asha needs to move away and Asha gets on the plane and goes to California. After that when Lani goes home, she gets a message from her conscience (played by me) and the conscience is basically telling one of the lessons. When I said you weren't going to get the lessons entirely, well this is what I mean. I guess we forgot to put in the extra lesson (or at least I think, you need to watch it for yourself).

The best moments were when Lani was trying to fake cry. It was hilarious watching and listening to Lani fake cry. She tried it twice. The first time was hilarious and the next one was pretty successful, but still kinda funny. When we were trying to make the fake tears, the water drops were going everywhere. When my team was watching what we had so far, and we saw Lani's face and heard her cry! The worst moments were when we were trying to focus the camera on the white board and half of all the pictures were blurry. So we had to redo the pictures. When we were trying to retake the pictures, something bad happened! When we were taking the pictures, Mr. Sandrel got a call from the SBAC people. Lani had to go and finish her SBAC test. SHE HAD TO BE IN THE SCENE!!! We just need her finger/hand so we used Meleana's finger/hand. Everything went okay after that.

Animation Outtakes

 

So this part of the year is quarter 4 for school and as usual, we have another project for G.T. I think that this project is going to be somewhat fun because this project is all about animation. Before I can tell you about this project, I need to tell you all about my teammates. My first teammate is Lani Alo. Lani loves to surf. Lani is also really funny... Most of the time. Asha McGinnis is Lani's friend. Asha likes to swim. She is also really happy all the time. Meleana Keawe likes to go to the beach. Mele also has a really good personality that everybody likes. They are all the people on my team for my project.

Stop-Motion is when you take a series of pictures of a subject and every time you take a picture, you have to move the subject. when you are done taking pictures, you put them into imovie and put the pictures in order the way you want it. A .GIF is a repetitive stop-motion that goes over and over and over again. The bouncing ball up there is a .GIF. To make one, you go to Photoshop, put your windows into animation. Then draw what you want to do, then make your subject. Once you make the subject, click on the little button on the bottom that looks like the new layers buttons. Then move your subject and click the button again. Just keep on doing that and when you think your done, your done.

Our team is doing our story called "Asha Moves Away". This story is about a girl named Asha moves to Kauai and becomes BFF with Lani. They become such great friends after they meet. Then Lani gets the news that Asha is moving away. We are telling Lani's story because she had a best friend that moved away. This story is something we must care about because this is a very sad topic. our movie is supposed to teach that "If you love something, you must set it free." and "You have to learn to make new friends, even if the greater one has left. That's why we all decided to do our story on "Asha Moves Away".

Typography Images

Typography is the style of printed matter. Typography makes images an impact on photos by knowing who you really are because whatever the words on there represents you. For example, you are smart, responsible, and athletic. You put all those words on top of your picture and people will assume that you are those words. That's what you need to achieve when you are making your own typography photo. Once you've got your words you can start in Photoshop.

Probably my biggest challenge during this project was catching up to all my work because I'm part of a ukulele and choir program and they have this competition that's right before aping break. The bad part is also a good part in some way, but the competition is also in California. So at the beginning of 4th quarter, I asked my teacher "Can you tell me what to do?" and I asked other people what I was supposed to do next. I don't know if the final draft of me is okay because it's your choice if it looks like me and stuff. In my opinion, I don't like mine.

The first example of typography is of Steve Jobs. I chose Steve because my teacher said that we need to do an easy typography on an innovator. I also chose Steve because he made the future come true and made the iPhone. I would be dead if I didn't have phone! The second example is of my advisory teacher, Ms. Fujimoto, and I used her to make the intermediate typography.