Music Video Finale

Hello! So school is coming to an end and that means MUSIC VIDEO PROJECT. We do one every year. My teammates this year are Ashley, Alina, and Sophia. The song we choose is You Make My Dreams Come True by Hall & Oats. The way we decided this song was because of Sophia dad. We have this group chat and Sophia was explaining how her dad was singing this song and told us about it. The other reason we choose this song because we wanted to do a love song about food. The lyrics for the song are perfect.

So the storyline we've created is about how food connects all of us. We all use food as a way to help us cope with things. I'm scared of the dark and food helps me forget my fears. Alina uses food as a way to cope with her nightmares. Ashley uses food to to relieve stress from all the school work. Finally my favorite one is Sophia. She gets caught from eating ice cream at night and she's embarrassed by it so she goes to the bathroom and see a cupcake and is like why not. Basically uses food to help with her embarrassment. The storyline relates to the story because some of the words match with whats happening. For example the lyrics for when you Alina's scene is "On a night when bad dreams become a screamer, When they're messin' with the dreamer, I can laugh it in the face" So when your listening to these lyrics you see Alina's dream. Her dream is about Alina eating a cookie but Sophia ends up eating it and laughing it in her face. So the lyrics match very well with what your seeing. It's like the song was just made for us to do this. Everything about this song is perfect for our storyline.

I believe that our music video showcase our best work because were all using what we have learned from 2-3 years of being in Mr. Sanderl's
 GT class. Our storyline makes sense and there is enough lip syncs to even out our storyline. Alina and Sophia photoshop skills are the bomb! They both did one poster and it turned out amazing. Sophia actually used the letters from the real image to make our names on them. Also me and Ashley did good in editing but Alina and Sophia did help too. The composition techniques we used also used showcases our work well. Overall I think as a team we did a good job at working well together and getting things done. In the end we were all happy with how our video turned out in the end.


You Make My Dreams Come True by Hall and Oates
What I want you've got
And it might be hard to handle
Like the flame that burns the candle
The candle feeds the flame, yeah, yeah
What I've got's full stock
Of thoughts and dreams that scatter
Then you pull them all together
And how I can't explain
Oh, yeah
Well, well you
You make my dreams come true
Well, well, well you
Oh, yeah
You make my dreams come true
Come true
On a night when bad dreams become a screamer
When they're messin' with the dreamer
I can laugh it in the face
Twist and shout my way out
And wrap yourself around me
'Cos I ain't the way you found me
And I'll never be the same
Oh, yeah
Well, 'cos you
You make my dreams come true
Well, well, well you
You make my dreams come true
Come true
Listen to this
I'm down on my daydream

Movie Trailer Premier

Hello to anyone who decides to read this! Its time for another project in a wonderful day of GT. How exciting am I right. Anyway the project we will be doing is Movie Trailer. The project is to plan and create a 90-120 second fiction movie trailer. To have a dramatic voice actor that can hint why our movie is " Must See ". Its goal plan is to catch the eye of the audience without spoiling the ending. Also to include an original movie poster and to provide the audience with the highest level of production value so they will their eyes will never leave the screen. So my team is Mike, Julie, and Kyllie; it's quite a weird team. I contributed to the plan by doing the sketch and the idea for the movie trailer. Mike and I worked on the VA (which is basically the script) Kyllie and Julie had had input and we changed it to their input. They also did most of the 4ps and I did the keywords. We all worked on the storyboard as individuals. We each has a scene to do but everyone helped each other with the composition techniques.

While working on the plan and filming we had a lot of challenges. The smaller challenges is not being able to find a day when all of us are not busy, some of us not showing up when filming day was scheduled, or how I need to be more serious and not sound like I'm  about to laugh while doing the narrator. But our biggest challenge is getting along. It started at first with Julie and Kyllie getting mad at Mike for everything. Then it went on how they thought Mike was wrong. It was always a fight between them and I was seen to be in middle not knowing how to make everyone happy. No matter what the problem was their always seem to be a small argument between them and I would just listen because it seems that they never would listen to what I say. On the other hand The biggest success was probably finishing on time. I don't really think we had a succe

ss except the fact that we had turn it in on time. I say this is our biggest success because to me it was kinda a relief that I don't have to worry anymore.

Our critique results are were basically all 3's which is all requirements met. I'm really happy with the results because I thought that's what we deserved. What I've learned from this project and mainly from every video projects is to never get my hopes up. The reason being is that I get my hopes up with the possibility of what it can actually be but usually my hopes go down due the reality. I like to believe I have really good ideas but when it comes to working with a team not everyone is going to like it. There are some scenes where I like how it was filmed and they're others that I don't really like. Overall I think that we deserved what we got because that was the best of we could do with the problems we had occurred.

Metamorphosis Animation

HAPPY NEAR YEAR!!!! Its another day in GT with an animation post. Its a nice surprises to be doing animation in the beginning of the school year instead of the end. Its most likely gonna be stressful but not as much it would be if it was one of our last projects. Also were finally in teams! YAY! Finally after doing individual projects it's great to be finally doing one with other people. The people in my team are Sophia and Steven. Anyway going back to the topic of animation its gonna be a metamorphosis kind of animation. I'm not excited to do animation but happy that we can just get it over with. Our overall goal for this project is to follow the rubric, come up with two of our best metamorphosis focus statement, pitch that and our ideas to the class and also produce a creative story using various animation types. The animation types we are using are Stop-Motion, White Board, and Stykz.  

The focus statement for our animation is " Jhoanna Gains Courage " It is about Jhoanna (me) who is very shy and just want to be friends with the group in the park but can't seem to have the courage too. In the beginning I'm at the park and I see a group of kids (Sophia and Steven) playing. I decided to go up to them but halfway I end up not going because of my lack of courage and insecurities blocking me from approaching them. After I've turn around I'm walking back home through the forest where I stumbled upon a lion. In the middle the lion offers to show me how to be courages by turning me into a lion. I then feel very happy but then the lion turns me into a mouse. I'm now sad and confused why he turned me into a mouse. The lion was teaching me that no matter how big or small you are you can be courages. In the end the lion turns me back into a human believing I've learned my lesson. Then I go up to the group of friends and introduce myself and they accept me into their group.

Our results were pretty normal. I did expect to get three because thats what we were constantly getting on our other grades. I do agree with the results because I feel like we could do better but we did our best for the amount of time we had.  We also did have our bumps in the road and weren't able to agree on stuff. For example one person didn't finish his scene until the last day we had before having to export everything. Or possibly we kept changing the shot types and the actually scenes them self. But overall I am happy with what we got because I believe we all did our best and did deserve the grade.