Five Tips For...

Hello everybody! Today I'm going to be talking about one of my first G.T. videos that me and my teammates made. This video was called "5 Tips For Turning in Your Homework on Time." I did this video with my friends Jasmine Laplante and Nahele Keale. When we made this video, we still didn't know very much about composition techniques and sequencing. We weren't the best at this at the time, but we still had to try our best. When my team and I chose this we thought that there was a lot of people who sometimes had trouble doing their homework and turning it in on time. We chose this topic because we wanted to let these people know some tips on how to turn it in one time and raise their grade. In this video that I have above, we show and tell you tips on how to turn in your homework on time and how to focus better while doing it. 

For this project I think that my teammates and I could have planned this a lot better. We never really got a chance to meet up because we never had time to do it together. We probably could have planned during school when we could get together to record footage. Since I had to do a lot of the recording by myself, we didn't have a lot of time to edit the video. One thing that I really regret about not putting in the video is music. My team was falling really far behind and had to turn the video in before it was too late. We were under pressure and I honestly wish we would have just added that music. When the viewers were watching the video I really wanted them to be interested, but when you don't have music or anything it really gets the viewers bored. One thing I really like about the video though, is that when the text shows up we chose the paper theme to match with the fact that we are giving you tips on homework.

This project was probably one of the hardest video projects I had to do. There are many reasons that this video was hard to make. One of my two other teammates were off island, my only other teammate and I never got the chance to meet up so I had to record the footage by myself with some help from my parents. In the last scene with Nahele in it was shot with our teacher helping us. I really think that this was pretty good for our experience at the time. We learned that when doing a project like this, teamworks very important and the only way do get things done is to communicate with your team. 

Words of Wisdom

One of my G.T. class' latest projects was called "Elder's Words of Wisdom" where we had to find an elder person to interview and give us good words of wisdom to help out the viewers of the video. We chose to interview my teammate, Nahele Keale's, grandfather, Michael Keale. The main idea of the video was "Grandpa Michael Spread Aloha Through Music." In case you didn't know "Aloha" means love in Hawaiian. To make this video the best that it could be, my teammates and I had to make sure that we took a lot of b-roll to work with and make sure that our voice-overs helped to send messages through the video. The first time my team and I met up to take b-roll and do the interview we did not get to take enough b-roll. Although we didn't get to take enough b-roll for our video the first time we got another chance to meet up and take more and then we got enough b-roll to make our video a success. One thing that I really liked about this project was that we got really great new cameras. They were DSLR cameras that I really loved that you could use the manual focus and I loved working with them.

When we finally got all of our b-roll and recorded all of our b-roll, we got to start editing. While editing my team and I still had some problems getting along and having the same ideas on some parts of the video. We sorted it out enough to get the video done, but I know that if we could just maybe get along better, the video could have been ten times better. I'm not saying that I didn't love the way it turned out. I honestly loved how it came out but I just know that we could have done better. Editing this took some work. We had to cut out all of the parts that the interviewer spoke and put b-roll over those parts to hide the cuts in the video and make the quality of the video better.

Michael Keale and our team think that our words of wisdom are important because some people just think of music as guitars and singing to a rhythm. We wanted to show everyone that messages and stories can be told through music, songs and singing. We wanted to show that Michael Keale spreads love through his music and love to o what he does to this day.