Movie Trailer Premier

Hey everyone! We are making movie trailers, and our team is very excited about this project! To start off, we all planned out a few ideas and presented them to our group. All together, we chose my plan. I had the idea of a trailer about a girl who is chosen and wakes up in a futuristic world. Why is she chosen? How did she move into the new world? Watch the trailer to find out. ;) We all took the initial idea and added a lot to it. We came up with details that will contribute to the trailer and make it great. We all planned out where we would film, what shots we would use, and what our script would be. Can't wait to show you all the finished product! :)

In this project, we had many successes, but with success there is challenges, and we definitely had our share of them. The hardest part to accomplish on this video was finding time to meet up and get the perfect shots. Since our video was based in the ocean, we had to figure out a creative way to showcase the scenes and make the shots stable. We had to redo most of our shots a few times to get the perfect ones. Our main success was definitely editing. Once we had our shots in order, we cut them to the beat so the final product would be more intriguing. We also had good lighting which made the video even more interesting.

We learned many things in this assignment. We learned to plan ahead and always be prepared. Knowing what to do made our video a lot easier to make. Our critique results showed that we mostly met our expectations. For creativity, we did great. Some parts of our video were weak, but most of the parts were flawless. This was a very fun project and I thought our team did great!

Metamorphosis Animation

P1T5 Metamorphosis from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

The goal of this animation project is to have a character change into something completely different. Our story is about a selfish unicorn that realizes what other people think about him. He always steels food, so a magical rock turns him hungry. After a while of being hungry, he realizes that what he has done is horrible and rude. He finally finds a way to give back. We used PhotoShop and stop motion animation in our video. It took a while to draw everything out but once we got the hang of it, it was easy!

Our focus statement was Unicorn Transform Attitude. We chose this because the unicorn completely changes his attitude in life, from a negative to a positive attitude. The first scene shows that Gwynn takes all of the herds fruit and moves it into a private spot just for him. The second scene is when the herd finds Gwynn and starts yelling at him for always stealing the food. The third scene is when Gwynn sneaks away with the food again and starts eating it. This time, he hears a faint shouting and looks down to find a magical rock. The fourth scene is when the magical rock explains to Gwynn that he has been leaving the herd hungry. The rock turns Gwynn starving for a few seconds to show him what the herd feels like all the time. He then tells the unicorn that his attitude should change and that he should be selfish anymore. The fifth scene consists of Gwynn asking the rock to turn him into a apple tree to give back to all of his herd members. Gwynn gets his wish granted by the magic rock. The sixth and last scene is when Gwynn stays an apple tree forever and gives back to his herd by feeding them and being less selfish. Our plot is when Gwynn the unicorn finally realizes that he has been very rude to the entire herd, and changes his appearance and attitude to be nice and give back to the herd.

The critique went very well for our team. A lot detail and thought that was put into our video. We took time to draw things out so it would look as realistic as possible. Our score for clarity and message was 3.7/4. Our score for the visual part was 3.7/4. Our score for creativity was 3.6/4. Last, our overall score for the entire video was 3.8/4. We did really great on this project!