Proactive or Procrastination?

Don't Be a procrastinator and hold on to your idea

Personally I think I am a procrastinator. Some people may say that I am a good worker and stay on task, which is true. Sometimes. When I like the work I am doing then I do the work, I stay on task and I do it well. However if it is something that I don't like to do such as social studies or history I talk to my friends I goof off and I don't get things done. I also always do something that really bothers me. I always say I am using my time wisely but I am not. I say that I will do some today and some later. I still get things done but not as efficiently, if I was going to get things done early then I would get things in on time instead. I don't really want to be a procrastinator and I want to change, I guess why I do this is because I want more free time each day.

Don't Be a procrastinator and whatever you do
DON'T GET SUCKED INTO THE COUCH

The level of my productivity relates to my free time by getting things done. What I mean by that statement is that when I get things done I have a bunch of free time. When I don't though, I have not as much free time. What I do in my free time is I just go on the computer, play games and sometimes watch youtube. I don't do very much in my free time because I don't have very much to do in my free time. I don't surf, I do have a boogie board but I don't go on it very much. I don't play any sports or are on a sports team, I do have some sports equipment but I have no one to play with, their usually doing work. My mom also has me do a certain schedule that makes me work almost everyday academically. The schedule is: on monday I do khan academy( (math), on tuesdays I explore the microscope we borrowed from the school, on wednesdays I have to do teenbiz3000 and it has to be a 100% or I will have to do it again, thursdays I do a thing called i-ready which our school just started doing,fridays my mom makes me research greek and roman engineering, last of all on saturdays I do more I-Ready. So, when I do my work, including my moms schedule, I have a lot of free time although when I don't do my work I do not have a lot of free time.

What I would change about my work habits is trying harder. When ver something is really hard I usually just try it a couple times more increasingly trying less and less and then I just give up. I don't like the way I do that but it is just the way I am. I was a born procrastinator and I don't like it. If I could change anything about my work habits I would probably say I want to try a little harder before I give up. I am working on doing that now by taking around 5 minute breaks then trying it my best all over again until either it gets too late or I get to the point where I say "I need someone else's help because I am going no where with this." All in all what I am trying to say is don't be a procrastinator, be proactive and always try your hardest at the most difficult of times. Don't be like me and give up.

Lessons Learned

These are my lessons learned about my G.T project for Hiki No about El Nino. First The most interesting part of my project is that it is about weather patterns and how they effect you in your everyday life. That personally to me is pretty cool. Also My personal favorite part is that we might be going on television. It is a great opportunity for a lot of things. For example if you want to get a message to everyone than it would be a great choice for television. Also I just plain out like hanging out with my friends. Actually the very very most interesting part of my project are the b-roll shots. They are the most interesting part because we, just this year, learned how to do time lapses, and to me that is spectacular.

The biggest roadblock my team had would probably be that my team argues a lot of the time and it kind of get irritating after a while. Well i don't think its really arguing but we yell at each other a lot. Also we cant find a very good time film. We tried to find a date but at first we couldn't get in contact with Jason, in the end we did but we had to postpone the meeting. Partially the reason is that Preston Quinn and I are in seventh grade and Jason is in sixth. And the sixth and seventh graders are separated by boundaries, so if Jason is in the sixth grade pod than we can't get to him because of the boundaries.

The most valuable part of filming is the editing. If we were to not have editing then we would make a really bad piece. For example it would be harder to transcribe because what we did to transcribe is slowed down the footage so we can hear it clearly. Also if we didn't have editing then we couldn't edit out the mistakes. For example we made some noise while filming, but with editing you can edit out the noise. Also if you don't have editing and you filmed something that was good but shot it for too long then you will have to use the footage. The composition techniques are also very important because if you ever want to get on T.V than you will have to have rule of thirds and  maybe some other composition techniques.

Back To School

I am back in school and now I am in 7th grade. My favorite moment so far in the school year was seeing all my old friends from last year. Now we have to wear black shirts! Also they didn't have any size smaller than the one I'm wearing so I'm stuck with an over sized T-shirt. I like all my teachers this year, they are all really nice. There is now something called an I-Ready test that tells you whether or not you need extra help in math or English. So far I am taking my math I -Ready, and this is the last day. Next week I am taking my English I-Ready. To be successful this year I plan to study a lot.

Profile Project Progress

My new G.T work is on interviewing someone older than me to get their words of wisdom.My interview is about my teammates uncle who's words of wisdom is to never be afraid of taking risks.He takes a risk by moving from California  to Kauai with very little money a bag and no one to accompany him.He soon opened up a family run business called kayak Hanalei.My group did this project because well we couldn't think of anything else,also when we thought of him we said that sounds good it is about risk taking and not being afraid.

We needed B-roll to make our plot more interesting and to show them what we are talking about. B-Roll is a footage that allows you to cover-up anything that you don’t want people to see or if you want someone to see what the interviewee is talking about.We also needed voice-overs to help the audience understand or to clarify what the interviewee is saying.A voice-over is a technique to help understand what is happening in your story.these are just two components of the many techniques that you use for video taking.In my opinion these two are the most useful.

I think my team can work better by getting to know each other more.I think that if we know each other more we can work together better because you would feel more comfortable.I also think I could have done more to help because sometimes I would do what is less important rather than doing the shot list or key words.A shot list is planning out your B-Roll for your wide shot medium shot and close shot.This is my groups shot list for our interview.

I think I could also work better by making the interview a little bit shorter because our video is five and a half minutes,frame for the videos time is 3-3 and a half minutes.I think it is that long because of our interviewee responses,though my teammates think that all we need to do is cut out some of what our interviewee said.I also think that we could improve our audio because some voices sound louder than others,for example the voice-over sounds louder than the actual interviewees voice.This is what other people think about our videos audio,story,visuals and overall quality.

Practice Story Reflection

In G.T I made a project where you had to interview someone in your group and write a story about it. We did our interview about how Leleaka Likes to sing. Leleaka is someone in my group that was the oldest person. Since she was the oldest person there and the project we were doing was about how old people have a lot of wisdom. I think I did well on this project but could have a lot of improvement. The people I worked with, the people in my group were, Lilio Masi, Loren Weiner and Leleaka Anakalea go check out their blogs as well.

I think we could have improved by making better choices because our team finished late and had to come in at lunch recess. I also think that I could have spoke up more because most of the time I was sitting there asking what can I do. I think we did good because even though we finished late I think it came out really good. When my teacher first said to pair up with people that live close to you I knew no one lives close to me. It kind of worked out in the end though because we found people who were planning to meet in the area I lived in.

I am afraid of what might happen now that everyone is finished and we get graded and the whole team gets the same grade. I paired up with someone I hardly knew but the first day we got together I thought oh this might work out. It did work out for most of the part but toward the end of our time limit one of the people were absent.We stretched through it though.This was a big challenge.

All About Me

   I am a student at Kapa'a Middle School, I like it here it is fun. I used to live in new york and it was cool, but now I can finally be a tourist there! I am very hyper all the time and always optimistic. I am addicted to Minecraft because it is fun and want to play it every second of my life.I have a google account that I use in the program gifted and talented at my school.We also use photoshop and final cut pro and its cool I learn a lot everyday.

   Usually I like to stay at home and use electronics like play computer games or watch T.V. I am an honors student that always does his homework.  I also have a fun side to me like ... did you know I can shoot a B.B gun?Also that I went to honolulu and went to a shooting place? I am a creative person usually but when it comes to creative writing, I stink. For some reason I just cant come up with anything.

I am also very athletic. No not in the I can throw the baseball 10 yards or I can run 26 miles, I just like to do sports stuff. Unlike a lot of other people I DON'T LIKE PIE! everyone looks at me funny when I say that and their probably thinking "Is that guy crazy everyone likes pie." Well its not that I don't like pie its just that I just don't want it. I tried one that was really bad and I never wanted to try it again.