Lilio Masi: Our Animation Story

For our animation project, we chose to base our story on Kaylynn Drake's dancing story. The title of our project is "Kaylynn Overcomes Challenge". We chose this as our title or focus statement because it gives you some details on our animation. A focus statement or title should tell you a little about a story, but not too much. So from the title, you can see that our main character is Kaylynn and she faces a challenge. Our title says she overcomes it. We leave the audience with some questions like, how will she overcome it? What is her challenge? It leaves the audience wondering and they become more antsy to watch it.

I think from our story, our audience will learn that giving a helping hand really helps. It can make a big difference in some things. In this story we show Kaylynns friend, Lilio, helping her while shes struggling on her dance moves, and in the end they succeed. And it also shows that even when someone puts you down, don't give up. Prove them wrong and strive to be better. There will be hard times in life, but hey, There can't be a rainbow without a little rain, right? When the teacher is putting Kaylynn down in the story, she seems very down, but in the end, ends up very happy with her success.

With my team, our animation was a very enjoyable project. For me personally, it was one of the easiest with very little to no stress. With an amazing team, Kaylynn Drake, Kuumomi Thompson, and Sophia Rodriguez, the work was completed on time with great quality. We did struggle a little tho. In the beginning of our project, Kaylynn was out of school for a couple days which made it a little hard because she was our main character, but my team and I decided that we would do the stykz and white board animation because we did not physically need Kaylynn. So by the time Kaylynn came back, all we mainly needed to do was the stop motion animation. My team was very productive and handled things greatly. There was some times that we stayed a little into our recess and lunch, but they did not make a deal out of it, they were just happy that our animation was coming out nicely and so was I. i think the best moments was sitting down trying to edit. For many teams, it was stressful, but I think it was fun for us because we filmed only what we needed, so it made it easy to edit and we all got to sit down together and just play around with garage band beats and Imovie. We had a lot of laughters and were very proud with how our final animation came out.