Our Animation Story

P1T7 Noa Explores Imagination from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.


Our Animation is about our team member, Noa Harrison, in a Dream of being in space and since space is endless, we will have Noa bigger than usual so exploring space is like a walk in the park so our focus statement which is " Noa Explores Imagination " can really relate to that. Pretty much to sum up the title is to say that " Noa " is our main character, " Exploring " is what Noa does in space, and " Imagination " is his mind or dreams. So our title is a shorter version of saying Noa explores his mind.

The lesson we intended to teach is that everyone, in their own way, is special. They may not know it yet or may not even know it at all but everyone has a talent whether it's being an excellent artist, athlete, singer, dancer, or have an excellent mind. Also a lot of times in life, there are things so important that you don't trust people to deal with things or get things done, so sometimes you just have to do things yourself. As we go through our animation movie making process, sometimes some of us wouldn't trust the others to get something done right or finish something right so thats why we chose that purpose or lesson. How are we going to do this ? When we have Noa and Miles meeting in space, Noa doesn't know it yet but he can't trust Miles with the Orb, which is what causes the both of them to fly into space, and Miles takes the orb from Noa and eventually Noa chases down Miles and takes it back, thanks to a comet.

In the "Good News and Bad News" situation, I like my good news first so our best moments as a team were actually filming and planning out because after our 2 scene teaser our team really woke up and said " We Gotta Get This Done ! " which was good and I appreciate how aware we've become since then but our bad moments were probably trying to import in a computer while someone is animating on that computer and a couple times some of us do more things than others, for example Michael does all the photoshop things and I do a lot of the importing and I eat up my own time to do this " Team " project but as a team and when we're all on the same page, we can be pretty effective.

Animation Outtakes

For this project, we are doing Animations of course I can't do this alone so my amazing team mates are Noa Harrison, Miles Fraiser, and Michael John Anderson. First to begin with our protagonist, Noa Harrison, who enjoys drumming and is a really fun and cool person to know. Now with our antagonist, Miles Fraiser who is a really competitive surfer and is a really funny person who every one knows. Last but not least, we have Michael John Anderson who likes to play guitar and who went to the same elementary for the same amount of time as I did.

Stop motion, also known as stop frame, is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object or persona appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. A Gif or a Graphic Interchange Format is a is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987, and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.

In our animation,  we are modifying a dream that our protagonist Noa had. The dream was Noa on a beach and he finds an orb and when he held it he levitated and floated off into space and some one took the orb and that was Noa's ticket back to earth and he couldn't go back with out it so he had to chase the person who took the orb and he eventually got it but shot down back to the beach and he wakes up from his dream. So to modify the dream, we are making Miles the mystery person but we actually know who Miles is this time.