Slide 2: THESIS STATMENT

The landscape of Maui has changed tremendously since the onset of industrialization. Deforestation as the direct result of industrialized agriculture, cattle farming, and housing development is drastically changing the island’s fragile ecosystem; making it more susceptible to drought, more rapid soil erosion, and the decline of valuable species. Each scene addresses a different cause of deforestation with visualizations layered with symbolism: from scythes representing the violent sacrifices of poorly planned development to conveyor belts moving cattle representing the mechanization of meat farming. The film leaves audiences with a speculated future, a visualization of what will happen if we continue down this path. The final scene pays homage to our ancestors by incorporating an ʻōlelo noʻeau that embodies the message of the film.

Template Instructions:

This template is meant to help you organize your mid review presentation. to grab images from other slides, you can copy the entire slide over, then move things from there.

Each slide has text to the side explaining what the content should depict.

it is your kuleana to make sure all the content makes sense. This means paying attention to captions, titles, formating, and not leaving behind traces of the weird gray boxes in the template.

The Last One is an animated film that explores the main causes of deforestation on the island of Maui. The goal of the film is to raise awareness of a topic that should be critically considered in further land-use planning .

Animation Sample 1 (Mid Review)

Slide 3: Animation Sample ( from mid -review)



Show your animation sample from the mid review and speak to Key feedback pointes you recieved at the mid review., Breifly comment and how your group wanted to synthesize that feedback in the next animation version. .

Feedback:

Choose fitting audio

Go more in-depth

Use larger scale

Find more causes to deforestation

Project Roadmap

Slide 4: Animation Sample ( from mid -review)





Brefly describe some of overarching animation strategies (approaches to your animation) while showing your project roadmap (ie. are you alternating between micro and macro views from scene to scene?) Is the whole animation approach to contiuously zoom in. The strategy for how you frame your animation and how you transition from scene to scene should support your narrative. This is is the opportunity to emphasize this.

You can duplicate this page for additional project roadmap pages. - do not go over these in detail at all- just speak to the big points outlined above.

Asset Development : Feature Components

Slide 5: Asset Development

This page highlights the key assets that support your animation

These are the assets that we found to be key to conveying our message. We wanted to use strong senses of symbolism, in our film. These assets here are to represent three leading causes of deforestation stemming from industrialization, including development, meat farming and agriculture.



Adjust this layout as appropriate to speak to the key assets

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Tree Replacer

Cow Conveyer belt

Flipping Agriculture

Asset Development | Supporting Components

Slide 6: Asset Development

These are assets that we included in our film to enhance our message and strengthen our film.

Animation Process

Slide 7: animation process

Include animation process photos.

these are process shots - behind the scenes look at the animating process.

What to say?

This is an opportunity to reflect on the experience of the studio, challenges the groups faced along the way, anything leading up to the animation itself which you will show next.

Slide 7: ANIMATION!



Show your animation!



Evocative Image

Slide 2: Evocative Image (Raejia)



Speak your thesis while this slide is up. (people like to look at pictures).

The evocative image is an image that represents the conceptual intent of your project. For instance, if your animation is about the effects of extreme weather events, you might include an image of flooding, or wildfires, etc.

The Last One is an animated film about deforestation on Maui. In an effort to raise awareness of this overlooked topic, the film explores the driving reasons behind the phenomenon, the impacts to the ecosystem, and speculates on possible futures of these vulnerable landscapes.

Slide 3: Thesis Slide (Raejia)



Include your 1-3 sentance thesis statement here (from the thesis statement assignment. Since you already spoke your thesis over the previous slide, no need to pause here.

Issue Research

https://www.hokunui.com/

https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/forestry/frs/reserves/maui-nui/

https://www.globalforestwatch.org/

Slide 4: Issue Research (Isaiah)

SRepresent the 3 main issues your story is addressing With images and captions for each. Speak BRIEFLY to each. (This should be in part from the issue research assignment, but may have evloved since you've been developing your project.

"This story includes research about x topic, y topic, and z topic. "

Manaʻo a me a Neʻe | Emotive Sketches

Depressed

Conflicted

Educational

Slide 5-Movment & Meaning Sketches: Gia

In the Manaʻo a me a Neʻe assignment, Each person in your group identified emotions that you want your animation to evoke in the audience- speak Briefly to those here.

while presentating this slide you might say :

"our group explored how to evoke the folowing emotions in our audience: x, y, z through movement alone"

Put 3 gif movement and meaning sketches (or 1 per group member). Under each write the emotive word that accompanied each

Adjust layout to accomodate amount of movements shown ( if you are a group of one, you wil only have one full page gif.)

This was an assignment where we used paper and movement to show and convey a specific emotion where we wanted our audience to connect to and have an understanding of.

Manaʻo a me a neʻe | Mimic Movement Research

Cutting Action Mechanical Linkage

sawing four bar linkage

Slides 6 - Mimic Movement Research Gia



In the Manaʻo a me a Neʻe assignment, each group member did hands on research mimicking a particular movement (example shown).

Put the 3 gifs (or however many prototypes your group had) - for the mimic movement exercise-

**Adjust layout to best show amount of prototypes shown.

if your group has only 2- get rid of the other box and make them similar to template slide 8 for instance.

After, with this assignment we explored with different types of movement that we thought would compliment our animation

Asset 1 : Brainstorming & First Prototype | Displaying the forests that are no longer forests by using a flipping motion

Slides 7: Asset 1 Brainstorming and first hand prototypes

This is brainstorming skethes and first hand prototypes for your first asset that you produced during the manaʻo a me a neʻe assingment.

Include the brainstorming skeches, any hand prototypes created for that asset (if you had more than one, show that here. Edit the caption accordingly to explain

What to say: breifly describe your approach to your asset, how it would help communicate meaning (how and why it moves), and what you learned.

Asset 2 : Brainstorming & First Prototype | demonstrates a sawing motion

Slide 8: Asset 2 Brainstorming and first hand prototypes

Same instructions as previous slide (but for second asset ) - rmember during this assignment we only required one asset prototype per group member, so delete slides you don't need.

Asset 3 : Brainstorming & First Prototype | transition from forest to buildings

Slide 9: Asset 3 Brainstorming and first hand prototypes

Same instructions as previous slide (but for second asset ) - remember during this assignment we only required one asset prototype per group member, so delete slides you don't need.

Story Arc

Slide 10: Story Arc Group.

(Isaiah)

Include the most recent story arc your group created during the Narrative Workshop.

Speak concisely to the parts of the narrative:

• Beginning
• Middle
• End

Start story from the end. (Specifically, the last tree falling over) Next, we can have a flashback of where there is a forest abundant with native trees and animals. Then we will have the invasive species and humans enter the storyline.

• Flipping of trees into buildings
• Large scale, All of Maui

Rising Action: Humans arrive and so do invasive species

Climax: Trees begin to be cut down and overrun by invasive species

• Trees getting cut down (sawing back and forth motion)
• Smaller scale, specific area of trees we will focus on

Falling action: The trees begin to rapidly decline in numbers and not a strong enough effort is made to preserve them.

• Flipping over of trees
• 
  

Resolution: Resume from the beginning, final tree falls (we will be following the story through the perspective of this tree.

• Tree turns into houses

Storyboard

Slide 11: Storyboard (Isaiah)

This is our story board and it is a visual representation of how we envisioned our story arc

Asset 1 : (Cow Conveyer Belt) Orthographic & Digital Drawings

Slide 12: Asset 1 Orthos

(L)- hand drawn orthos / sketches

(R)- Digital orthos/ sketches

edit text to describe asset

Asset 1 (Cow Conveyer Belt ) Prototype V2

Slide 13: Asset 1 Prototype Photos

3 stills of assembled laser cut prototoype (use different angles so audience can understand)

Asset 1: (Cow Coveyer Belt) gif

Slide 14: Asset 1 GIF

Shows Asset in Motion

Asset 2 : Saw Orthographic & Digital Drawings

Slide 18: Asset 2 Orthos

(L)- hand drawn orthos / sketches

(R)- Digital orthos/ sketches

edit text to describe asset

Asset 2 (Saw Prototype V2)

Slide 16: Asset 2 Prototype Photos

delete if not needed

3 stills- of assembled laser cut prototoype (use different angles so audience can understand)

Asset 2: sawing gif

Slide 17: Asset 2 GIF

Shows Asset in Motion

Asset 3 : (tree to building) Orthographic & Digital Drawings

Slide 18: Asset 3 Orthos

(L)- hand drawn orthos / sketches

(R)- Digital orthos/ sketches

edit text to describe asset

Asset 3 (tree to bulding) Prototype V2

Slide 19: Asset 3 Prototype Photos

delete if not needed

3 stills- of assembled laser cut prototoype (use different angles so audience can understand)

Asset 3: (tree to building) gifs

Slide 20: Asset 2 GIF

Shows Asset in Motion

Animation Sample

Slide 21: Animation Sample

Shows Assets together as a sample of your animation .

Reflection & Next Steps:

Gia

Our animation has a lot of room for growth. For example, finding a more fitting audio and audio effects for our film.

We need to find something that will engage our audience as well as strongly conveying the emotion and message we are trying to get across. We also need to find more data on this topic. The data we currently have is not sufficient to completely inform our audience about our issue. We also need to work on finding more assets that will help display it well. The assets we have, convey our message decently, but on the other hand, we could use more. We also need to determine if we want to have a narrator, or something like a display text on the screen, during the animation itself. We should also clarify a few things like the trees that we have. The straws could be used in a more accurate manner to convey our data. After looking at our first animation sample, we can conclude that it was mediocre and there is much to improve on.

• LOTS of Room For Growth
• Find Better Fitting Audio
• Find more Data, specifically Percentages
• Work on making more Assets
• Determine Narrator or not
• Use assets to convey Data
• Well done, More to do