Lyrial Livelihood

My favorite song is Sun Models by Odesza. It's a remix, and it's a really fun song, and it will cheer you up. It is a song that has no lyrics, and it has a lot of interesting sounds. This song makes me feel energetic, and puts me in a happy mood! That is why I enjoy listening to Sun Models by Odesza.

In our new music video project, I am team mates with Lani Alo and Talia Washington. For our song, we chose to use Single Ladies by Beyonce. We chose this song because it's fun and humorous. We all agreed on this song because it's upbeat and we figured we could be really creative with the choreography and film making.

The story that our song will represent that we are all individual characters. We don't need a relationship to live our lives or to have fun. We believe that this is a very strong moral and that we would have fun and learn from this song if we chose it. We wanted to express that we shouldn't always be tied down or feel the need to be in a relationship at all times.

Our Animaton Story

P5T4 Asha Moves Away from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

With my group, we have created an animation. Our focus statement was "Asha Moves Away". This explains Lani's story, because she had her friend Shirfei move away awhile ago. I could relate because I understand what it feels like. I can understand by when my friends go away on vacations over summer, I miss them a lot. Although I did not have that happen to me personally, I can just imaging how it would feel.

One of the best moments I've had with my team was when we tried to draw a car for a whiteboard animation. None of us could draw one that looks like an actual car. It was really funny that none of us were capable of drawing a simple car. One of the worst moments was when our animation was due, and we were all rushed and it was hectic. That's the worst moment I can think of, so we worked pretty well together! Although it was hectic, it was super fun, and I'm sure I'll benefit from it. 

Here are a few of our behind the scenes photos!

This photo seen above was when Makaio and I were drawing the school bell for one of our scenes.

One of my favorite parts of this activity was taking part in illustrating and editing. 

Animation Outtakes

 My team have four people in it, Lani, Makio, Meleana, and myself. An interesting fact about Meleana is that she enjoys hunting! She also likes to go to the beach. Makio likes to play basketball, and other sports. Lani's favorite thing to do is surf, and she's on a volleyball team!

Stop motion is a technique of an animation. It is where you take a picture then move the object in the frame slightly. You do that many times then you can open the pictures in Photoshop (or another program of your choice) and animate them so that it looks like the object is moving by itself.

A gif is an animation, created digitally. The gif seen below was created in Photoshop, and was created by making numerous frames, and saving each one as a different image. For every frame, we would adjust the object by moving it a different direction.

My team and I have created an animation. The topic we chose was "Asha Moves Away". Lani was the person who experienced this in real life about three years ago, when her friends Shirfei moved to Oahu. We chose to use her story because we all agreed that friendship is important, and we also know how hard it can be to have that happen to you.