Monday, May 23, 2016

Animated Life Lessons



Hey guys!! So before I start I would like to say that I don't animating in photoshop. Yes you guessed it, its one of those GT projects that makes you want to rip out your hair. Well for me but I'm not too sure about the others. Its the time of the year where we do ANIMATION!! So for teammates we had to choose people that we never worked with and I wasn't too sure about how our team will work together. My teammates are Nick and Katy. At first when I choose them I thought that maybe they work well together but I guess you can say I wrong. They liked to argue a lot but in the end of the day they always seem to be doing their part without killing each other.

We use humor by exaggerating our character traits. Like for example we like extend our legs to make things look funny. Or like we showed weird moves. We did a lot of exaggerating on our puppet warp characters. Our storyline relates to everyone because everyone probably worked in a group. So our storyline is that I'm having trouble and Nick helps me. So in a group someone has a hard time doing their part and the best thing is to help them out. One of our life lesson was you can do anything no matter what anyone says. Its a relates to everyone because there was probably a time where you want to prove something to someone because they said something negative about it to you.  The message relates to our animation because I'm proving to Katy that I can do ballet even if I'm clumsy.

Nick, Katy and I have never worked together. That was the biggest challenge because we weren't comfortable with each other. We didn't know how well we could do. We didn't know anything about each other. So with that we didn't know that we would argue so much. Our productivity wasn't the best. We rush a lot when the deadline came and I think that every time Mr. Sanderl gave us more time we lack a lot. Like for example Mr. Sanderl gave us more time to work on our animation and we only needed one more scene but Nick and Katy spent a whole work session on cat poster that doesn't really matter. But moving on with all that negative stuff, the best momemt working together is how we could laugh so easily with each other. Thats one thing we got along on is that we find random stuff really funny.




Music Video Finale



Ashley couldn't film this day so yea theres no ashley 
Hey guys, its finally the time of the school year where we do the music video project. I really like this project and you can sorta say that the one this year is like prequel from last years one. Before even choosing a song my team Ashley, Kyla, and Denae were all think that maybe we could do a sequel from last years one but that didn't really happen. Instead we choose a song first then came up with the story. Our song is Don't Stop Believin' by Journey. From reading the lyrics it sounds like a boy and girl are trying to get somewhere in life and they're not gonna stop until they get there. The storyline for our music video is that Kyla and Raiden are both trying to find work but they seem to not get anywhere. Then when suddenly they find a job and when trying to get it they bump into each other. From then on they don't really see each other but in the end they seem to reconnect and have a life together.

In our music video, my favorite fast edit montage is a lip-sync. So its basically a part where its everyone from our team pops up and sings a part of the lyrics. Every time we filmed we did a lip-sync. In this fast edit montage its all those lip-sync put together. I think its pretty cool. Another favorite fast edit montage sequence is Kyla walking inside a library to see if she can get a job. So it her walking then cut to a medium shot to her walking to the door. An then another cut but a close up to her opening the door and then back to a medium of her walking in. I really like that because its a 3 shot sequence but instead of going wide, medium, and close its a wide, medium, close then back to medium.

I think this music video shows my team and I best work because we have no limits to what we can do in the music video. Like were free to what we can do. The way show our best work is what were working on. Denae and Ashley are doing
the poster for our music video because they are most comfortable with photoshop and know that they can do their best on that. While me and Kyla are editing on imovie because that what we feel shows our best work. But that only one part of how we show our best work. Filming is another story on how we show the best work. In GT we learned so much about different composition technique and different shot types. So we try to use those technique and shot types while filming. Overall I think we did a good job and showed our best work.