Lessons Learned

Hello. This blog post today is going to be about my project and the lessons I have learned from it. I would have to say that the most interesting part of my project for me would have to be filming the b-roll. There was just so many things at the remains of the hotel that we could film. We got a lot more b-roll that we needed, but its much better to have lots of b-roll than to have no b-roll at all. There were so many amazing things to film at the hotel and we got a lot of it. We only had one chance to go on the tour and we used that one chance to focus and make sure we did the best that we could.

The biggest roadblock that my team and I handled would probably have to be the due dates and turning everything in on time. Although we did our best to plan everything, we still couldn't turn stuff in on time. We would either turn it in the day after or we would have to stay after class to finish it. Luckily, our teacher accepts late work as long as it's not something like a week late. Turning things in on time is definitely something we could all improve.

In my opinion, the most valuable part of the filmmaking process would have to be editing all of your footage and finally seeing all of it together in one piece. To me it just shows that all of your scheduling, planning, and filming was all worth it. You put your all into it and you made an amazing video that you are proud of. I just honestly love that feeling of accomplishment you get when you put that very last touch.

HikiNo Behind the Scenes

Hi! So right now we are doing a video project. All of the other groups in my G.T. class are doing a Profile story, but me and my group are the only ones that decided to do a News story. We are doing a news story about the Coco Palms which is a famous hotel on the island that was destroyed by one of Kauai's biggest hurricanes. It was the only hotel that was not re-built after the hurricane. Sadly, earlier this year, on July 4th, the remains were somehow set on fire. So far we have interviewed 1 person, and I guess you could say that it is going pretty good.

When the camera is not rolling, my other team mates and I are discussing what our next shot will be. Whether we are going to be filming b-roll or an interview. We will talk about how we are going to position the shot or what questions we are going to ask our subject. We can even talk about out next shot. A lot of times behind the camera my team and I usually plan ahead. We try our best make sure we have a plan for the future. 

There are many things that can be improved about out team. My team and I don't really communicate well with each other so it is really hard to try to make sure that we are all there to do things like filming our interviews and b-roll. I think that is one thing that can really be improved. To improve this we can try harder to make plans and make sure that we have somewhere to meet up and film. It may be hard, but we are at least gonna have to try.