Lyrical Livelihood

I don't really have a favorite song or song lyrics, but if I had to pick it would be a line from "Livin in the sunlight" by Tiny Tim. One of my favorite lyrics from the song would be the line in the chorus "Living in the sunlight, Loving in the moonlight Having a wonderful time!". When ever I hear the lyrics and the way Tiny Tim sings it I just have to smile. So when ever I need a smile I always listen to the song.

For our new project in GT we are making music videos. My team and I are doing the Bee Gees - Stayin Alive. We picked this song because we wanted to do a funny song for the video. So we started to look for songs that are funny and are fun to do. One of my team mates, Justice showed me Stayin Alive and we went with it.

Our video is going to be really similar to the original music video. Its going to be of 4 people who survive an apocalypse event. Throughout the story we are going to be walking around desalinate and barren places while singing. Our video is also going to have funny and awkward moments. It will also feature many dance moves from the 70's and the 80's.

Our Animation Story

Our focus statement is ''friend solve conflict". Our focus statement is about a friend that solves a problem between two friends. Our focus statement tells our story because our stories is about a team that has a argument. But in the end one of the friends solves the problem and they come back together and win the competition. So our focus statement fits perfect in our story.

Theres is two lessons that you can learn from our story. One lesson is that fighting never solves a problem, and that one person can solve a conflict.  In our video it shows two friends fighting and then they get mad at each other and one team member leaves. After the team member leaves another friends goes after her and solves the problem and they get back together and win the competition.

Some of the best moments as a team for me was at the end when we turned in our video on time. I also liked when we did the critique and I saw the video and my team did a good job on the editing. Some of the bad moments was at the beginning of the project.  Our team didn't know what to do and we kept tossing around ideas and nothing was working. In the end I had to pretty much do the whole pitch sheet last minute. 

Animation Outtakes

My team for our new GT project is Ehu, Seth, and Brooke. Two interesting facts about Ehu is that she is really tall and she is cool.Two interesting facts about Brooke is that she likes to box, and likes to take photos. Two interesting facts aboutSeth is that he likes to boogie-board and likes to eat good food.

What is stop-motion? Stop-motion is an animation technique that consists of taking many pictures to create a film out of the pictures. Stop motion is commonly used to make a physically manipulated an object so that appears to move on its own.The object is usually moved in small increments in between photos. A GIF is one type of stop motion. GIFs are usually short stop motion animations that are played on loop for people to see.

The story that we are telling in our story is one of my stories. Its a story of a team that goes to Florida for a competition and has some trouble. The team has an argument and everyone gets mad at each other. But in the end the work together and win the competition. The animation describes a struggle that people can relate too which is one of the reasons why people should care.

Typography Images

Typography is the art of arranging text to make it appear as it was an image of a subject. By using text that relates to the image helps the viewer get an idea of the personality and the subject. It also creates a sense of interest in the image. Typography is used in many images. Typography helps turn a normal picture into a an image with a lasting impact.

My biggest challenge in this project was that on my second try my image was very bright. We couldn't figure out what was wrong with it. We redid it, messed with the opacity, we made the image as dark as it could but nothing worked. So in the end we used the curves tool to make the colors darker.


This was my first try at typography image. It is a picture of Wilber Wright. This was my first attempt at typography and I think I did a good job.

This was my second attempt at Typography. This is a picture of       

Mrs. Ruvalcaba, a teacher at Kapaa Middle School. The color of the text stands out great but it makes the text hard to read.

 










This was my third and last attempt at typography. This is a picture of me. I think I did a reasonable job. But the background doesn't match the picture.

Movie Trailer Critique

This project was to make a movie trailer about a fake movie that we thought of. Our team had four people on it. The main character, Bill was played by Justice Chatfield, I played DJMax the cop, Sophia Rodriguez played Bills mother and Noa Harrison played Random Guy. Making the video wasn't the only thing we got graded on. Each team had make a trailer plan. The reason we made a trailer plan was to keep us organized and to make sure we knew what we were doing. The main thing I did in the team was acting. I was the second main character and I was in half the film. I also helped out with the editing and I did the voiceover too.

This project had a lot of portions to it. We needed a voice acting script, a voiceover, dialogue, foley, text layovers, the movie had to be between 1:30 to 2:30 minutes and we needed a movie poster. My team and I did complete all the requirements. We had enough time so we were able to go all the work.

The way we critiqued the movie trailers was we watched each video and then scored then on three things. Audience, did you want to keep watching, creativity, how creative the video was, and requirements, did they meet all the requirements well. I was really happy when I saw the results and I agree with it. I was so happy when we had the best video. I learned a lot about editing because are video need a lot of it, and I learned a lot about green screens too.

Movie Poster Promo

 What overall impact did the layer effects & filters you used have on your finished movie poster?

In our movie poster you will see the main character, Bill and the second primary character Cop DJMax. What I'm thinking of doing is showing Bill holding on to a cliff and having Cop DJMax above him on the cliff.  It represents all the tasks that bill has to go through. Its going to be positioned in an unusual angle with the camera looking up to Bill. Its going to make the movie look interesting and unusual.

The title of our movie is Plane Ride Home and it is the biggest text in the  poster. Also it states the actors, reviews and the date it comes out. To help make our text look good we use the kerning effects on it. Kerning is the process of changing the spacing between letters to make the text look how you want it. We use it to make our text look better an more pleasing.

My Visual Poem

My poem is about water. It talks about how it helps us and is all around us. In the end it also talks about how we are affecting it. The visuals show water and nature. It also helps visually show what i'm talking about.

It may not seem like it but the effects really helped my visual story. I used the effects to make my film clearer and vibrant. I used the color tool in many shots to make it more colorful. I think without the effects my film wouldn't of looked as good as it dose.

I think that I did a good job on the poem. I was surprised that I was able to make a poem like that. One thing that I could of done better was add more B-roll. I also could of re-filmed the the voiceover. Another thingI could of done was make my poem longer.

Finished News Story

Conclude with your critique results, do you agree?

Our G.T story was about the problem related to GMO testing in Kauai. It talks about the issues with GMO and what they are doing on our island. This story also talks about Dustin Barca's experience with them. The story was made by Kuumomi Thompson, Kaehukai Keala, Wailana Makepa and myself. It features Dustin Barca and Kaehukai Keala.

Our final video turned out good. It wasn't the best video but we put in a lot of work into it and I think we did a really good job. I am very happy with it and I think it presents the story well. I was actually surprised that we were able to do that much and make it good.

In all we got a 2.6 out of 4. I don't really agree with some of the votes. I think our video deserved more 3. I also think that there was to much 2's.

Hiki No Behind The Scenes

Our idea is to do a profile story on Dustin Barca and his view on Gmo and what they are doing on the island of Kauai. I think its going well. We were struggling in the beginning because besides Dustin Barca we didn't know who else to interview.

When we are not filming we are usually working on the written part of filmmaking. We work on our profile pitch, our writing tools, and transcribing the video that we have. Besides that we edit if theres nothing left to do.

One thing I can do is to get more B-roll. If we can get a lot more B-roll then I think we will be able to make our story a lot better. Also what I can do more that I have been be doing is working on the writing work. We have been having trouble with it because we had to change our story three times.

The Experiment

This was the first assignment we were given in the year. Our assignment was to draw a picture of anything in photoshop. The reason why we did this was kind of to see what we could do and to see what we could think of. The reason why I chose to draw this was because I like bunnies and I didn't know what else I could draw.The bunny fits in with the background and the setting. I messed up on the bunny's legs shape and hand's.