My Visual Poem

My Visual Poem Was on the oceans. I think the visuals make an impact because my visuals are of the beautiful beaches of kauai. I had pictures of Anahola beach, Shipwrecks beach, and another beach but I don't remember the name of it. I have to say that my visuals were kinda awesome because I took them myself.

For my special effects I used transitions and the kens-burn effects. The trasitions change the mood because it gives my Visual Poem a little kick and excitement and it's not as boring when the B-roll is just being switched really quickly. I think the audience would enjoy my transitions because there mostly fades so it fades in to another picture so it looks pretty nice.

My finished poem didn't really turn out how i wanted it to but it still came out pretty nice. I'm not sure if it was long enough or not. Also some of the B-Roll i planned on taking didn't really work out. I'm just happy I completed the assignment.

Finished News Story

My teams story was on Henry Panui . It was on how he was able to balance the time for his job and surfing . My teammates were: Jasmine Laplante, Tessa Jensen,  Me, and Daileen Barton. Tessa's mom also contributed to our news story because she drove,  Me, Tessa, and Jasmine to my house to film. The people we interviewed also contributed to the story because they took time out just for our project .

The final product didn't really turn out as i thought it would but it still came out okay. I think  we could've put a little more effort in to the project it would've turned out better. Im okay on how it turned out . I mean its not the best it has very little b-roll , but at least we got it done . Not exactly the best news story but I'm fine with it . 

With our critique results I understood why we got low critique results. Our critiques were mostly two's, three's, and one's. We lacked requirements,  like B-Roll. We had B-Roll but it wasn't the right B-Roll . Instead of video it was picture B-Roll . I definitely agree with our critique results.

Lesson Learned

During our Hiki No project we had so interesting and tough times . I thought the most interesting part was doing the interviews . I've never filmed interviews before . I've also never done an interview before . We had to get mic's set up , tripods placed , clean camera lenses , and prepare our interviewee , I've never done that before but it was pretty interesting .

While working on this project my team and I encountered many roadblocks . I think the most challenging roadblock was getting all of our interviews completed . We had trouble setting up our interviews and actually getting the interviews . Some of my partners couldn't make the day of the interview or we couldn't get the interviews because of bad communication.

I think the most valuable part of the film making process was completing all three interviews and getting the required amount of b-roll . The interviews and B-Roll were basically the whole video . Another valuable part was uploading the clips right , because if we lost the clips we would have to reschedule interviews all over again and get more B-Roll . Thankfully we finished the project.

Hiki No Behind The Scenes

Our Hiki No Project is on my uncle Henry Panui. Me and team have had really hard challenges but we still are trying our best to finish this assignment. We did not communicate well so we didn’t get to film so we didn’t get to transcribe our interviews. My team didn't

When we aren’t filming anything we are trying to come up with more questions or just trying to do b-roll. If we can’t think of questions we watch the video to see if we needed to redo anything or see if the sound is there. If we don’t need to redo anything and the sound is there we are usually just chilling or finding people to interview.

One thing I could do to help my team is to answer text messages or to think of more questions. I could also edit the video if we are at school and I could finish transcriptions. If I had better communication with the rest of my team we would have a better finished products and we would've had all the requirements .

The Experiment

During the 3rd or 4th week of school Mr. Sandrel had us do a photoshop experiment. This is how we first taught ourselves how to use and get to each tool in photoshop. We did this experiment to learn how to use photoshop and where all the tools are.

Things that were right about this project is that we learned something new without instructions. Something that was wrong was is that some of us didn't know how to set up  a new document on photoshop or what each tool meant and how to insert a picture if we needed a picture to be inserted.

This is my photoshop experiment

Back To School

It’s been a week and three days since I’ve began school at Kapa’a Middle School . Since the beginning of the school year my favorite moment was hearing Ms. Bandsma’s funny jokes! She also has some really great labs for us planned for the year . I'm really excited to do some of those labs !!

My biggest challenge would be getting used to the new schedule because it’s very confusing. Also, some of the work is kinda tough and I don't really understand all of it . Some of the work is easy . It's also kind hard for me to get along with all of my classmates.

This year I will be successful by making sure I have all my work turned in and I participate in group activities. I can also be successful by not missing any days of school because if I miss school on a big test day I could fall behind and get a bad grade. I can be successful by re-doing tests or assignments that I got low grades on .