Music Video Finale

Our last project of the year is once agin a music video. This is my third music video in my 3 years of Middle School and they were all pretty fun. The storyline relates to the lyrics of the song because the lyrics are about two people needing each other and in the storyline we have two people hugging. Only a little portion of the video actually has a storyline but for the most part it's all just lip syncing to the song. The story in the video isn't as clear as we wanted it to but we tried our best.

I was absent for the entire week my group was filming and editing (because I was really sick) so I haven't gotten to watch our video yet. But my team mates have told me that we actually don't have a fast-edit montage in out video but I do think that we could have gotten it done if we worked harder and more efficiently.

Honestly I don't think that this music video showcases our best work. Why do I think that? You may wonder, well because we didn't really work together and communicate well and I was also absent for most of the project so I didn't get to help a lot. If I got to help I think that we could have talk about the project more and worked it out better. I do think that our project shows some of the techniques we have learned but we could have done a much much better job showing it. I also think that we did try our best to produce a well filmed and edited project.

Animated Life Lessons

I'll just start with this.. We were assigned to do a animation project with a group of people we haven't worked with before. Each of our team member have to have a personal trait we have to exaggerate. In this protect my characters trait that was exaggerated was my funniness, Meagan's exaggerated trait was laugh ability, and Daileen's was glamorousness. Our story will emphasize who we are be showing how we would act with the situation given to us in the story.

In this story we use humor by making what we say funny. We made our characters do things that aren't totally normal. Our story has a message that people can relate to, the message is that you never know when or if your friends might move away to another state or a different location and doesn't tell you that their leaving, some people won't know what to do or how to act. People can relate to our story line because anyone can move away.

Even though I haven't ever worked with the people in this group before this project we worked pretty well together. I think that my group and I got most of the work done on time, or at least around the time that it would have been best for it to be finished. The biggest challenge in this project for me was the puppet warp tool, not because I thought it was difficult to use but because there are so many steps you have to go through to get the satisfactory I wanted. The best moment durning the working process of this project was when we were working on the story board because thats was the easiest part to do, also because thats were we get to share ideas and talk about what we want to see in our final product.

Character Development

No one really asks me what kind of person I am, have you got asked that question before? Well I'm going to tell you. I am the kind of person who is nice at most times but can get mean and judgmental sometimes. I can be a weird person but only around the people I am close with and I guess I'm quiet. Im really awaked around people I don't really know and it can get really funny at times. I have some relatable imperfections like I can get super serious sometimes at random moments.

I plan to exaggerate some of my traits while animating my self. I think I'm going to heighten my funniness and seriousness. The way I would do that is in the animation I will say funnier things and do funny things. For the serious part in not sure yet. I think Im going to make my GIF. rather normal but I will exaggerate some things. Im going to also exaggerate my awkwardness because Im bad at talking to people so Im probably going to make my character slide in and wave.

To create a GIF of your self or anything actually you just need to get a picture of your subject. The import it into Photoshop then take the olipticrl marque tool (on the side bar) and make a cut out of the subject and separate it from the background image. Once you have finished those steps you should save your work just in case. Then you have to decide what you would like your character to do, when you know what you want to do you can go to the window option in the top left menu bar and check animation to change your photoshop work space so you can start your .GIF. Then go to edit>puppet warp> place pins on your character so you can animate. Once your happy with your animation you go to file> save for web & devices, then you can change the size of your project if you want.