Our Animation Story

P5T2 Julie Overcomes Writers Block from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

Our focus statement is "Julie Overcomes Writers Block" Our animation is Maddie's story but Julie is the main character. Julie plays the girl that has writers block and has an all out battle in her head. A wall, played by Maddie, is the thing that is blocking Julie's idea when she is trying to write an imagination essay. She fights paper soldiers and archers. Finally as she defeats the last soldier, the wall begins to crack and finally, it breaks and her ideas begin to flow out of her mind and on to her paper.

The lesson we are trying to teach our audience is that everyone has writers block and it can be an all out battle in your head. We wanted to share that everyone feels that way sometimes. Its something that not many people think about because its not really a big problem most of the time. But when you do have writers block on an essay, its a real pain. We wanted to show the battle that goes on in our heads sometimes. It is a bit literal though.

In my opinion, I think this project was a lot of fun. I wasn't stressed so much like everyone else. Sometimes, I like a challenge. I think, honestly, we didn't really need the extra time we got, but its always good to had extra time to finish our projects. This was also my first time animating anything so i think it was a lot of fun. I think the best moments were when we didn't show up at lunch to work on the project. I mean
we always did but we always showed up late.

When ever we were late Maddie would get mad and say she would kill us. I like working with Maddie, she makes the project less stressful and even more fun. She always puts a smile on my face. I also like the day when Maddie tried to film but she had the lens cap on. She is the best leader I could ask for. I am very lucky that I got to be on her team twice this year. The best moments are always the moments when someone gets the whole team to laugh, like when Jayse forgets my name. The worst moments are when our whole team starts to stress. Everyone starts to stress and worry and run around. We never really get anything done when we stress.

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The people on my team are Julie, Maddie, and Jayse. Jayse always seems to make the team laugh. Hes very hardworking, funny, and helpful. Julie is fun, and out going. Julie is very funny, and way more brave than me, Jayse, and Maddie. Julie is the main character in our animation. Me, Maddie, and Jayse are pretty quiet and shy in class, but when it comes to Julie, she is our speaker! Julie isn't afraid of presenting in front of the class or embarrassing her self in front the class either. She is friends with almost everyone in the sixth grade. She is also friends with a lot of seventh graders. She is very friendly and kind. Last but not least, Maddie. Maddie is our team leader who always makes me smile. She is very funny and always makes me feel less stressed. She is a hardworking straight A student. She is the best leader I could ask for and I'm very happy and lucky that i got to be on her team twice this year.

A stop motion animation is when you take a picture of an object and then slightly move it and taking another picture in a sequence. The do that over and over and over. Finally when you finish taking pictures of the object replay them in a sequence to make it appear like the object is moving on its own. A GIF is hen you play a short animation or video for a certain amount of time and finally when it ends it replays again. An example is the red ball bouncing up and down continuously.


Our animation is called "Julie Overcomes Writers Block". This is Maddie's story but of course Julie is the brave one so she is the main character of our animation. We chose this topic because everyone has writers block so we wanted to share the all out battle that goes on in your head. Of course, we made it a bit literal. This animation shows that everyone has writers block once in a while. Its not really a big deal to people until they actually face it. Writers block can be a big problem.