Words of Wisdom

This new project,words of wisdom, was a lot of hard work. On my team I had Leleaka Anakelea, Lilio Masi, and Loren Weiner. Go check out their blogs and keep updated with them! I think this project was hard because I got paired up with people I didn't know and it taught me a lesson, don't be afraid to work with new people. It also allowed me to know the person we interviewed. We did our interview about Leleaka's uncle who came to Kauai with only a tiny amount of money and a dream, and his dream was to surf. Now he has fulfilled his dream and more, he now has a family and has grand kids. We worked on this a bunch of times during lunch, and once after school. So, as you can see we worked painstakingly hard on this project. Luckily we got the project in on time,well sort of. Our teacher let all the groups,if they weren't finished with their project, work after class.My project is also about taking risks because the man could have just stayed in California in cold water surfing,but no he decided that he was going to take a risk, to go to another state, explore new lands, see what he could do with his life there.Now this is my project:

Five Tips For

I GOT INTO Hiki No!!! Thats right the Hawaiian P.B.S winner for this project was me. [sorry if this sounds a bit like i'm bragging to you, I was just really exited.]I did my project on making good friends. Who I worked with was Raiden Kurisu and Dylan Niide.It was really fun doing this project mainly because I just got to hang around with my friends after each recording.I would have to say the most fun part of it was doing the bloopers just because we were bored.We didn't add the bloopers in to our video though, but they were pretty funny.We first thought we were going to win for the sixth graders in our class and the seventh graders would win.Once we found out that we won we were so exited but we still had to compete with the other winners in G.T or gifted and talented program,since there were more than one G.T class.Now this is our Hiki No winning piece:

Practice Profile Story

I did a practice profile story before my real profile story.What I did my practice on is Lele likes to sing, Lele is the oldest person in our group.I didn't get to pick my partner though because the teams were already set and me and my sister couldn't pick,there were only two other people left.So I kind of got put with them.I am not saying that's a bad thing they turned out to be really cool so I'm happy I got partnered up with them.The story we chose was about how Lele likes to sing and it was a bit hard shooting it because we had to do the B-Roll first not the interview because there were only so many lavaliere microphones.A lavaliere microphone is what they use on camera so it is tiny and not visible.I like being at KMS it is fun.Come check it out!

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.

Composition Techniques

The first four composition techniques are rule of thirds, framing, unusual angles and leading lines.These are important because they are techniques to having a more interesting video or picture you should use them because it could add more meaning to your picture or draw attention to a specific thing that you want people to focus on.Leading lines is good for doing this. Leading lines are lines that lead to the picture that you were originally supposed to look at. There are ten other composition techniques, and they are Emotion, Action, Close up, Reaction, Contrast in Content, repetition of shape,group shot,parts of a whole,horizontal and vertical.In all there are 14 different composition techniques .These are all the composition techniques, some may be better than others for certain pictures or video's though.For example group shot may be good for an ending of a school play to introduce all the characters at once and for the characters to take a final bow.This is my example of the main four composition techniques,do you like them they were a fun project to do and a great way to learn.

Three Shot Sequences

This is my video of three shot sequences that me and my team did.My team was me Dylan Niide and Raiden Kurisu .A three shot sequence are three shots where the first shot is a wide shot the second shot is a medium and the last shot is a close/extreme close.At first we had a bit of trouble finding a thing to do our sequence on.We also had trouble with the sequence shots on how to shoot it.In the end I think it turned out really well, what do you think of it.For additional information go here sequence and variety shooting or here shooting a short sequence  .Now I give you my video, it still may not be finished but as you can tell it was kind of hard.Now I challenge you to make your own three shot sequence.
P3 T2 Sequence from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

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.