Music Video Finale

Hey guys I'm here with another blog post. This will be my final blog post of the year. We only have a few more weeks of school and that means music videos! The people I am working with in my group, are three girls named Malie, Elena, Megan. Malie is in 6th grade and so is Elena but Meghan is in 7th grade the same grade has me. We chose the song by Jacob Sartorious "Sweatshirt" because we thought it would funny. They all agreed for me to be the main lip sync person, and I guess I'm lip syncing to a sweat shirt now.


The storyline is pretty much just me singing to a sweatshirt. Then me losing my sweatshirt than finding it again. I don't really know how it relates to the lyrics I mean there is a sweatshirt in it and the song is singing about a sweatshirt which is kinda relating. But when I say "you can wear my sweatshirt" I'm giving it to a tree not a person which is weird but they wanted to do that so I guess. we aren't doing that good with meeting up so that is an issue. Hopefully when we do meet up its a productive work and film session.


I dont think this music videos shows our best work but it is what it is. We realized that we didnt have a lot of film and time to edit so we decided to just lip sync with a little tiny tiny bit of story line. The lip syncs are on point though like I could get a grammy for that. We dont really have any effects mostly because we didnt have enough time in the end but its fine.

Movie Trailer Premier

Hello again, I'm here with another blog post titled "Movie Trailer." To sum up the project we are making a movie trailer of a pretend movie. We can make the trailer on what ever we want just has long as there are no guns, blood, pretty much just bad stuff. I contributed to the plan by helping with the idea of the trailer also writing my parts and adding shot ideas. We, well Moira, Elena, Lili and I decided to name the Movie "Outcast" We decided to name the movie this because in the trailer there is this girl and she is always quit in class and one day she goes missing and three kids go out and search for her. It was a journey and we are leaving the trailer on a cliff hanger, did they find her? Will they find her? Or is she just gone.

Our biggest challenge within our movie trailer project was meeting up. There was some confusion on meeting times which caused one of our meetings to fail but we still got some film from the meeting.
We backed up the meeting with a very productive meeting, we finished almost all of our shots also we got some pretty cool looking shots. Our shot types were on point, just looking cherry. Are biggest successes was getting a lot of work done quickly, but making sure it wasn't rushed. I think we could have gone to some better spots to film because we were literally filming on the side of a road for some of our shots which probably made lilli look like a crazy person because she had a hood on and her hair over her face. I even noticed I don't know if my team mates did but a person walking by on there bike had seen lili and she had gone onto the other side of the road. It was pretty funny. Also another success that we had was our movie poster, our first one and the one required to turn in was cherry, it was made by lili. Me and her are currently working on two more for extra credit points for me because my last blog had some errors which caused me to get a B this quarter and if we turn in some movie posters for extra credit that could somehow jump to an A.

Well finally, we finished our movie trailer. We got 2nd for the best movie trailer out of our class. Which is a good thing, we were one vote off from first. It would have been sick if we got first. If my team mates read this I want to thank them for everything that they have done. Our movie trailer was really captivating and thats why we probably got a good placing out of all the other teams. Well I hope you guys enjoyed this blog post, have a wonderful day.

Metamorphosis Animation

Hey guys I'm here with another blog post. Our goal is to have every single scene and shot done by the deadline. We used stopmotion and stykz. Also we used photo shop and white board animation. Those are the animation types we used. I forgot to tell you I'm working with Violet and Akasha.

Our focus statement was respecting others. Most of our scenes was Richard looking for porky the lost pig. But scene 1 was when porky was being abused by Richard. Scene 5 porky comes back and Richard learns not to disrespect porky or other animals cause they will fly or run away. Richard and porky become really good friends.

Our teams results were not that good. I think we could have added some script into it somewhere. Also maybe a little better animation and communication. Our storyboard went well probably the best thing we did out of the project . Our full animation got a 2.9 I think thats a C.

Geometric Portraits

Hey guys I'm here with another another blog post, Are facial expressions universal. Well Charles Darwin wrote a book in 1872. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals that “facial expressions of emotion are universal, not learned differently in each culture”. There have been arguments both in favor and against ever since. But in my opinion I think they are.


How have you created this project. First you need a photo of something or someone but it cant be a profile photo, then you put it into photo shop and create some layers and lock them and stuff, then you go to your line tool and outline your subject. When your done with that, make your polygons then blur them. When your done with that turn your outline off and Portrait and boom. Your Low poly is done.

Poly-1 and Poly-2 were a lot different in my opinion. The reason to that is because Poly-1 you didn't have to choose what color you should fade into the triangle, with Poly-2 you have too. Doing that I think it made Poly-2 easier in my opinion and look better. Also in Poly-1 you had to show the outline of the triangles in white and in the Poly-2 you don't have too. Overall I think the Poly-2 was a lot more easy and less stressful then Poly-1 because I feel like I understood it more and it was my second time so I had a little experience.

Verbal Landscapes

Nature has impacted my life by giving me a fun sport to do, surf. Also if nature didn't impact my life I wouldn't be alive because nature is trees water plants etc, The plants and trees produce oxygen so we can breath. Also I broke my shoulder because of nature, sometimes nature can be mean. Nature impacted my life so I can have a home to go home to sleep and eat in because with no trees we my house wouldn't be standing currently.

Time lapse are created by taking a video with a timelapse software or camera or just take a regular video and speed it up in a software. Slo Mo's are created by taking a video with a slo mo camera or taking a video really close to to your subject or object and taking a video and then put it into a computer software to Slow it down. Also there is a timelapse on the I phone camera. Also there is a slo mo on the I phone camera app too.

The hardest part for me was finding a nature tripod. Where I was filming there was never really an even spot so it was difficult to find a spot for my camera to sit. Also the A.V. log was stressful because you had to have your poem be in between 45 seconds and 55 seconds nothing over or below. Also being in the right spot at the right time, It was difficult to get my slo mo's and timelapses exactly what they were in my A.v. log. Lastly getting my parents to drive me to the locations I was taking my videos.




I am very happy with scores. I am confused why 7 people gave me a 4, I honestly think my work was a 2, 13 people agreed with me. The reason I think it should be a 2 is because I had school example timelapse and slo mo in my Retime. I mean its possible I could have got a 3 but I don't really know, 5 people thought I should have a 3. Im very surprised that 3 people gave me a 1, I do not agree with them.

Poetic Personal Statement

 Hey guys my name is Brody and this will be my first blog post of the year. I think poetry means like smooth or inspirational, So if someone were to write poetry they might write about one of there family's adventures. Also they could paint poetry, they paint something like a photo of a waterfall or a trail then people could get words or poetry from the painting. Also they could write about one of there lost family members. Lastly someone could paint words it doesn't always have to be written.

Floating in the water, sand below me, my brother beside me
Sitting on our surf boards, looking at the horizon waiting for a wave
my mom and dad swimming with my dog beside us
a wave comes in I start to paddle I pop up and I smile
I make my bottom turn the wave lip goes over my head
then I wake up in bed the whole thing was a dream
family and surfing is the number one thing.

 I used rhyme by just thinking of words that sound the same. The reason I used rhyme was so that my poetry would sound smooth, I didn't really rhyme good until the last two lines. If I didn't use rhyme then My Poetry wouldn't sound good at all. I encourage people to right poetry because it is really fun to write. You can use websites to find words to rhyme. That is what I did but then again you can make it up yourself

Music Video Finale

P3T10 Your Man from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Hi Everyone I'm Back With Another Blog Post and this will be the last blog post for the year, I hope you liked all my projects this year and this last project I'm doing is a Music Video! I Have a feeling this is going to be the best and the more entertaining Project I'm going to do this year. So the storyline is With Ashton, Steven And I, We each have an object that we are Attached to and we sing with it but at the end Ashton Gets All Mad And destroys every object. It Relates With the lyrics because its about a Guy and a girl but for us its a Guy and an Object. Also when we filmed We weren't really doing the storyline, but tords the end of filming we realized oh gosh we haven't even filmed our storyline. Oh yeah the song we are lip-syncing to is "Your Man"By Josh Turner, Its a country song.
My favorite fast edit montage is when its farther away and you switch to a close up. Also another one of my favorites is when your in one location and you film there for like 3 seconds then go to another location and do the same thing so it cuts in-between locations. When you do that Fast-edit montage I feel like it engages the audience that is watching, They would probably think wow this is creative they must have put a lot of hard work into this video. Also they would be able to see different lip syncs in different locations so im guessing the audience watching the music video will like that.

I think it describes are best work because you have different filming in different locations, also it has different angles and and it has us in tree's and We, well Im really enthusiastic in the music video. I wasn't Shy at all because I was having a lot of fun even though there was a crazy kid named Crispin Throwing sticks and objects at us while we filmed. Ashton and Steven were really fun partners to work with. They were really patient and they could show up on time to our film location. They Had a lot of the creative ideas in the Music video.

Animated Life Lessons

P3T10 Boys Organize Room from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Hello everyone I'm back with another blog post! So we started an animation and we had to work with people we had never worked with before, Makaio an athlete pretty chill Unorganized and Daniel a clean freak and athletic.  They were really easy to work with because they were both pretty chill.


Well we used humor in scene 2 and scene 3. In scene 2 Makaio says something humorous about cleaning the room. In scene 3 Me and makaio are looking for our id's and we were finding the most random things like apple tv's and apple/samsung phones an xbox controller and more. That was really the only Humor we used.

We actually worked pretty good with each other. Our level of productivity was high because when one of our team members were absent one of us would go and finish there scene for them. The biggest challenged we faced was getting the perfect amount of frames for our voice recording to be spot on. My best moment of the animation was turning it in, it just gave me a releif that im not going to be late turning it in.

Character Development

Hey guys I'm back with another blog post! I just had spring break and it was good.  I'm the kind of person who doesn't really care, My friend could fall and hurt himself playing Basketball and I would just be like get up, Another example would be if my friend would spill something on himself I would be dang that sucks for you. If I were to define my self I would be a chill person who does not care about much and likes to play sports and talk to girls. Some humorous imperfections I have is when I eat my cereal in the morning I have to have bananas in it, Another one is that I sleep walk and talk in my sleep, Oh yeah I forgot to tell you we started a new project in GT which is using a photo of me in photo shop on the puppet warp tool to make a animation which the Shortest animation time is 1 min and the Max time is 2 min.

So theres this editing tool in photo shop  which can make me do wacky things, I could make it look like I have gigantic muscles or I could make my self look super small. I can become super tall so I'm Abnormal or I could have very small hands. I could make myself to flips and and all sorts of fun amazing things with my body. How would you do this? Use the Puppet warp tool.

How do you make a GIF? First you will need to take a photo of yourself then crop yourself out of the photo and then save it. After that you will want to move it into photo shop and use puppet warp and make your animation. I like mine because it looks goofy and really weird.

.Mov Film Festival

P3T9 Boys Understand Girls from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Hey guys I'm back with another blog post! My class has got into groups to make a 90 second video/Movie Trailer to be entered in the .MOV Film festival, I could have done a sitcom "Tell me a story" or an animation, I chose movie trailer. So how do keywords connect with your audience? If they are big or interesting the audience would be more intrigued with the Trailer. Also they will think Wow they wrote the scripts good. And they keywords they hear could be seen in the trailer.

My overall message that I want people to notice is that boys/girls Can be athletically the same and they can both be Smart. A part in my movie trailer has (Actor 1) Staring at (Actress 1) In a class room the teacher is grading papers (Actor 1) thinks girls cant get good grades. When the teacher asks to come up and get your graded papers, the boy gets his and theres a C-, He starts crying but when the girl gets hers she has a big A+ with a "Good Work". Then we have another scene at a soccer field where a Boy and a girl are racing . The boy thinks he's going to beat her so fast that she would be at the start when he passes the finish line. The Race starts The boy runs about 10 meters and trips on a rock, The girl See's him and goes and helps him up, Then they continue the race. When they get tords the end they are neck and neck, they pass the finish line and its a tie. The boy realizes that girls can be the same has boys Athletically. They all learned a lesson that boys/Girls can be the same.

What is the biggest team challenge that we faced? Well first was finding a place to meet up to film. Then when we started filming we couldn't stop laughing, Also there was pizza so that was a big distraction. By the time we finished with scene one it took an hour. Honestly the biggest team challenge was getting the scenes done without messing up. We tried scene 1 probably 15 times, also It took us like 10 tries to shoot scene 2.

Tiny Spherical Worlds

Hey guys I'm here with another blog post. This will be my second post of 2016, this blog I will be talking about Tiny Spherical Worlds. So my class will be working on Tiny spherical worlds and I'm supposed to answer what is the point of composite images, isn't 1 photo enough. No one photo is not enough. If you want to make a tiny world you will have to have multiple photos that are perfect. You would have to put those photos together. Then edit more and change it into a tiny world its hard to explain.

 Also we were supposed to talk about the difference between polar & spherical worlds, the polar looks like a little world and it has an ants eye view. A Spherical looks like a snow globe it has a really straight line around it. They both look very cool and interesting. On polar images the circle might never have a straight line around it, there could be slopes going up and down on the outline/horizon of the Tiny little world.

In conclusion what makes my tiny world convincing. I haven't finished mine but I can tell you will make a tiny world convincing. First you want to use the clone stamp to take the line going straight through the world out. Then you can edit it some more so it looks the way you want it.After that you want to change the background to black/white then feather it and it will look like a tiny world.

Hockney Style Joiners

Hey guys i'm here with my second blog post, This blog post I will be talking about how my photo montage is different from David Hockney's photo montages. David Hockney would take photos of many different thing and items but im assigned to take photos and make a photo montage of one meaningful thing in my life, also I used a DSLR Camera and he used an older one called the Polaroid which didn't have has good of quality, another thing that is different I have Photoshop and adobe camera raw to edit my photos and put them together in a photo montage. His camera would print the photo out of the camera and he would have to put them together by hand, and those were the differences between my photo montages and David Hockneys photo montages

Many different images can send positive and negative messages, so if you saw a smiley face you probably get a positive message and if you don't well you don't, but if you saw a photo of a sad face you would probably have a negative message. If I took a photo of a thunder storm at a lake you would have negative message but if i went to Hawaii and took a sunny photo on the beach you will get a positive message. Also if I took a photo of something you liked you would have a positive message. If I took a photo of something you dislike you will have a negative message, and that's how photo can send positive/negative message.

So one of the thing I have to do is what message I want you guys to feel with my photo montage. So I took a photo of my surf board and I want you guys to feel that I like surfing. Not only do I want you to feel that I like surfing  I want you guys to fell creativity and more. Also I want you guys to get a message that im dedicated to surfing and becoming pro. I also took a photo of my friend and I want you guys to be like Wow those are many different photos to make a person and I want you guys to feel amazed, happy, and creative messages cause I had fun doing these photo montages and i want you guys to have fun looking at them, maybe you can try it yourself someday. So those were my photo montages, What messages did you get from these?

2016 Aspirations

Hey guys I'm Brody I'm new to gt. I hope you All had a good Christmas and New year, Happy 2016! I have 5 goals I want to achieve this 2016. Number 1: I want to pay attention More in classes so I understand what I'm learning. Number 2: Ive been getting good grades in my classes and I want them to stay that way So my goal is to keep good grades this 2016! Number 3: I want to Save up enough money to buy myself a computer so I can edit my photo a day Images and make sure there what Mr.Sanderl wants. Number 4: Stay in the barrel for more then 5 seconds and come out. Number 5: Listen more at home and keep my room clean and the house clean so I don't get in trouble.

My most important goal of 2016 is to get my computer. The computer costs $500 And I have $340 so i feel like I'm close. The reason why I want it is so I can edit my photo a day posts and I can play games with my friends from the mainland. Also I will be able to Skype my friends! The computer I'm getting is a 8GB RAM 1terabyte space and it has a back lit keyboard. So I will have enough space for A lot of downloads.

To pay attention more in my classes and understand what I'm learning I will need to stop talking to my friends and not play around with stuff that will distract me. To keep my grades the same I will need to keep doing what I'm doing probably do a little more than expected. If I want to save up all my money for the laptop I will have to keep doing chores and don't spend it on anything useless. If I want to stay in the barrel for more than 5 seconds I will have to train a lot and keep trying, but usually when I get barreled its off shore winds, so I have to go out when its perfect. If I want to listen more at home I will have to stop doing what I'm doing when my parents ask me to do something and get up and do it right away. Once again I hope you all had a good new year.