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.

My Visual Poem

My visual poem was about imagination. How this made an impact was by saying how everyone has imagination even when you sleep. When you sleep you can imagine pretty much anything and you can even lose your imagination. Thats how I end the video by saying that you lost it. Then I say you can still get it back though. My visuals made an impact because without the visuals it would just be plain video and it would be boring. With the effects though, you could make it look like you were flying or make it tinted.

How my special effects make the meaning of it by coloring it and making it sad or happy. Also I panned some things with the ken burns effect. What the ken burns effect does is it gives you a start and an end point where you can change the start and end point to make it smaller or bigger and you can make it pan zoom in and out. My visuals tried to make my poem a little bit deeper with meaning, and tried to give it a little help with understanding. It made my overall meaning even better than if I were to have it without any effects.

I think rating my poem I would give it a 8/10. I rated it this way because I think it is the best I could have done but there will always be room for improvement. Even if I think it is the best thing imaginable someone else could come and say oh this is wrong and so is this. Also I can think of some things that I could have improved on, and that is the exposure on some of the shots. Some of the shots are a bit too bright.  Also some of the shots are a bit tilted. Which in some shots it just sets the mood but in some other shots it looks amateur. This is my poem plan I used to help myself to complete this:

Finished News Story

 

My story was about a weather pattern in Hawaii that is currently in progress. What my story was about is how El Nino is affecting people and just plain out what is El Nino. One of the main contributors was Preston Hayden who did the video editing, which to me is the most important job of all. All together the intended result was to finish it and do it well which in my opinion we excelled at that. From our rough cut we have improved a lot and that was really my goal on this. Our rough cut had camera movement, a bunch of slanted horizons and not very well light interview shots, but I guess thats why we call it a rough cut. So we can go above and beyond in our final cut.

The final cut turned out better than I thought it would. The reason that is, is because we sometimes, well a lot of times we goofed off and didn't get to work, but preston said ok we need to work and we actually got things done. Not to make preston sound like a buzz kill he also had fun except he got things done first, and then play. I am very happy with my video because of all the work we put into it. I honestly feel though if we had more time we could have done better, but in the time period we did amazing.

My critique results were good. It wasn't how I expected with 6 votes for a two but other than that I was proud of my work. We got 6 votes for two 14 votes for a three and 7 votes for a four. I also was not expecting a vote to go on Hiki No. If you want to see other videos go on other peoples blogs to see their video they posted. The other stories (as you can see to the above) was water safety, which won, Xbox versus Playstation, Ms. lardizibal the music teacher, A gluten free diet, Sports authority, Health and obesity rate, Mrs. Sanderl artist and teacher and our news story on El Nino.

Real World Report

Our new G.T portfolio project is doing a real world news story and describing it. What I did my story on was a Chinese professor spoke out against the police and got arrested for life and his life savings account of 800,000 yuan ($162,000). He was accused for separatism of the Hans Chinese and the ethnic Uighur's. Separatism is when someone tries to separate two or more large groups of people be their race, skin color, gender or ethnicity. If he was trying to separate the groups then he would be an important figure in trying to separate the Han Chinese and the ethnic Uighur's.

My opinion on this issue is simple. I feel he should have gone to jail for his life but I feel he shouldn't have had his account frozen. I feel this way because he has a family to take care of and without that money his family won't be able to live on. So, I think it is okay to take away his life, but not his families. What they did to him in jail was treat him harshly because he didn't admit to his crime and because they new he was a great figure for separating the two Chinese groups and they didn't want anyone following his footsteps.

I think this is important information to know because people need to know it is their right to speak up. I know you hear this campaign all the time stop bullying speak up or its ok to speak up. I am not trying to sound like that because personally i think those campaigns come up as an add way too often. What I am trying to say is you don't have to speak up, but if you want to make a difference you can. I understand why he did it, but if it were up to me I would just be a bystander.

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.

HikiNo Behind The Scenes

Hi guys its me, sorry you havent heard from me in a while i was at my summer camp. I just want to tell you that, like last year, we are doing another Hiki No project. Except this time we are either doing a profile story or a news story. My team for Hiki No is Preston Hayden, Quinn Consylman and Jason Hoy, so our team has three 7th graders and one 6th grader. Even though Mr.Sanderl said that no returning G.T students should be on the same Hiki No team me and Preston got put together because we didn't have a team to go on yet. We chose to do a news story instead of a profile story. If you don't know what they are basically a news story is a story of news stating facts about your topic. A profile story is a story based on one person and could have opinions included.

What happens behind the scenes? You may be wondering. I will tell you what our proccess is: First we thought of what our project was going to be about. This was especially hard because our team was a t a disagreement. One person was saying do this and someone else was saying do something different. For example someone was saying do a Twinkie factory while someone else was saying do how I moved to kauai and I was saying we should do something about someone else and so forth. Secondly we filled out a pitch sheet which Mr.Sandrel gave us to fill out. He said it would help get us organized, and it did. Without that pitch sheet we wouldn't know what to do. Next we went out and filmed our interview/B-roll.

I think one thing I can do to help my team is mediate the discussions so there is less arguing. What i mean by arguing is that my team sometimes can be jolly old good buddies, and sometimes we can say things that may not be so nice. yes we can get a little worked up at some points in our life but we still need to mediate our actions and feelings. For example one day Me Jason and Quinn were calling preston and we kind of snapped out at him for going on the bus instead of staying and helping film. Also check out my sisters blog who is also in G.T Loren Weiner. Now here are two pictures of our sneak peak behind the scenes work:

Hashtag Taking Selfies With My Sister

This is the pure definition of a work of art

This is what I do in my spare time. Don't judge.