Music Video Finale

P3T4 Happy from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

In G.T. we are making a music video for our last project of the school year. We chose the song Happy by Pharrel William to do our music video on. In our story line Josiah goes to all his other teammates (Tyler, Treysen, and I) and makes them happy. All three of us are faced with things that make us unhappy so Josiah cheers us up. Then we all become happy when Josiah throws magic dust on us and we become happy. This relates to our lyrics because our lyrics are saying that you shouldn't let the troubles of the world effect you. It also says that you should enjoy life while it lasts.

My favorite fast-edit montage sequence is sequence is when it goes from Josiah ripping the paper to Treysen being shocked and Josiah making a smile on Treysen's face. We also have Treysen jump up and join Josiah in a parade. We had a lot of fun filming this montage because all of the actions we filmed made us laugh. I enjoy this montage because I like how it switches shots at a quick pace. It is my favorite because a lot of weird faces are made. This montage is kind of fast paced and has about 3 shots in it.

This music video showcases my best work by showing all the things that we learned in the school year. We have to use our iMovie skills that we learned and gained over the year to make good editing choices, good transitions, and sequences. The only difference is the fast-edit montage. We also need to use our Photoshop skills to make a icon for the beginning. We also need a screen for bloopers that we will include in our video if we have. It also needs creativity. The teams need to think of different ways to portray their songs meaning. The editing that is taking place is much like what we have been doing all year. I enjoyed this project because it allowed us to use all of the knowledge we have gained over this past school year.

Lyrics Used

(Intro Music)

Well, I should probably warn you I'll be just fine, yeah, 

No offense to you, don't waste your time

Here's why, 

Because I’m Happy

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you know what happiness is to you

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you know what happiness is to you

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do

Hey

Go

Uh

Bring me down

Can't nothing

Bring me down

My level's too high

Bring me down

Can't nothing

Bring me down

I said (let me tell you now)

Bring me down

Can't nothing

Bring me down

My level's too high

Bring me down

Can't nothing

Bring me down

I said

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you know what happiness is to you

Because I'm happy

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you know what happiness is to you

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you know what happiness is to you

Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth

Bring me down

Can't nothing

Bring me down

My level's too high

Bring me down

Can't nothing

Bring me down

I said (let me tell you now)

Bring me down

Can't nothing

Bring me down

My level's too high

Bring me down

Can't nothing

Bring me down

I said

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you know what happiness is to you

Because I'm happy

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
Because I'm happy

Animated Life Lessons

P3T6 James Gains Confidence from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

As stated in my previous posts, we have been assigned a new animation project in G.T. My team has three people counting me. The students am working with are Denae and Tyler. Denae is a encouraging, supportive person and Tyler sometimes is an discouraging person. We will use this in our animation by having Denae encourage me to enter a school race. I end up deciding to enter it, but Tyler comes along later on and says I won't be able to do it. This continues throughout the story in different forms. Those are the ways we will incorporate and exaggerate my team's personal traits into my animation.


To use humor in our story we will to have humor in our story we will have Tyler say I am as fast as a turtle and then maybe show me as a turtle. The life lesson in our story is that you should have confidence in yourself. It relates to the audience by some people being shy. I'm shy, so I don't really do many outgoing things. I think shy people will be able to relate to the fact that I don't want to do the race. They will also know the feeling you have when you do something and you do good.

Our teammates for this project had to be people we had never worked with before. Considering this, I think our team's productivity level was pretty good. Although we didn't finish before the deadline, all of our class didn't either and my team was about 5 minutes away from  finishing. I think our team's biggest challenge was communication.We didn't always talk about what we were doing and if we needed help. This caused us to not always be progressive in our animating and just sit there trying to fix it.  Our best moment during production was when we finished. We watched our animation and it was pretty good at the end so we enjoyed it.