Proactive or Procrastination?

If you really want to know, I am a huge procrastinator.  Some of my projects that I turn in for school are at least a day late. I always want to do things, but I never actually end up doing them until it's too late. I know it's a bad thing, but I am just a natural procrastinator.

I think I shouldn't have as much free time as I do because, being a procrastinator, I always have free time until I feel like doing the work that I'm supposed to do... if that makes sense. I don't have much free time because my work is never usually done. I know I can be less of a procrastinator if I just try, but I've gotten so used to it that it'd be really hard to start being more productive. I guess I just have to work harder.

I think that I could definitely do a lot of things in change my work habits in a good way. If I were to try harder ti change my work habits, in a good way. I would probably try harder to worry about my work. I never really worry when I procrastinate. I would also try my best to finish my work as soon as possible. It would definitely help if I also did the ones that absolutely had to be done first.

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.

Back to School

Hi! I'm back and school has just started again. This is our very first blog post of the year. My favorite moment this year so far would have to be meeting all of the newer G.T. students. I'm only a second year G.T. student, but it is really fun to help the first year students. This is actually my favorite moment of this year so far because now I know what to do and get to help other students.

Although I have my favorite moments, I also have challenges during the school year. My biggest challenge so far was not a very big challenge though. It would have to be our experiment project in Photoshop here we had to explore the program and do whatever we want. That will be in my next post in case you are wondering. It was fun yet kind of hard to do because I haven't been on Photoshop all of Summer.

This year will be easier for me than last year, because now I know what I need to know. To be successful this year I have to be sure that I complete and turn in all of my assignments on time this year. I need to be sure to do all of my homework, and I also have to be sure to listen to all the directions that my teacher, Mr. Sanderl gives me. I really feel like this is gonna be a good year and I'm going to have lots of fun.

Profile Project Progress

For this project, my teammates and I did an interview. My teammates Nahele Keale, Jasmine Laplante, and Kalani Young all pitched in on helping to make this video the best it could be. In this video, we interviewed Nahele's grandfather, Michael Keale. When we interviewed him we really dug into his love for music and the way he wants to spread "aloha" or love through his music. We asked him questions about why he loved music and how he got into it. We interviewed him at the Coconut Marketplace and we also took the b-roll in the Coconut Marketplace. He was a really great sport when doing this and was really easy to work with. The way he put his answers also made it easy to do the voice-overs.

My team and I had to find out a way to make our b-roll eye catching and our voice-overs sound interesting. In case you don't know, b-roll is something that many people use in interview videos. The b-roll plays on while the subject is talking and is used to create interest. It helps the viewers relate to the video and it even helps to cover cuts in the video that you don't want the viewers to see. The voice-overs also help to create interest in the video, but there is a little more to them. The voice-overs help to send a message in the video, but if you don't use them correctly they can just make the video boring to watch. So when making the voice-overs you ave make sure to be careful about what you're saying it could have an effect on the whole video.

My team and I did not work well together. We had our ups and downs, but mostly downs. My team was very negative most of the time because there was a lot of bickering. I don't know if I was the only one, but I noticed that my team needed to find a way to get along so that we could finish this project and make it at the highest quality possible. I think that to get better at teamwork, my team and I have to learn that we all are different and that we get things at a different pace and rushing each other isn't going to help to make our team better. My team has a lot of differences, but if we learn that we all are different then maybe we can get along better.

To make this video better, we have A LOT of work to do. I think we can do this though. We are getting along a little better now, but we need to keep up the positive attitudes if we really want this video to turn out good. Our teacher has been supportive and helping us out a lot. He helped us to make our video a little better and has made really good improvements.

Practice Story Reflection

For the past week or two my G.T. class and I were doing a little project called our Practice Story where we learned about shooting interviews. We learned many things, like interview composition, A- Roll, B- Roll, and even teamwork. To make this video we had to work together to get it done. Although we didn't make the BEST team, we tried our best and got the work done. It actually turned out pretty good.

To start the video me and my three team mates started off by making the B-Roll. Incase you don't know, the B-Roll is little cuts of videos where we show the interviewee doing whatever it is that they are talking about. For example, the interviewee is talking about soccer so it is our job to take little clips of the interviewee kicking around a soccer ball. On the second day of filming, out team had to shoot the interview where we take one long video of our subject talking about this sport or hobby that they do. 

From then on it was all transcription and Final Cut Pro. This is where the real pressure started. Every team had to make a transcription of the questions that the subject answered and what the narrator says. When editing we had to blade the footage. When you blade footage on Final Cut Pro, you are cutting and separating video. In the video, the interviewer's voice had to be cut out because we want to hear the subject talk. We added the narrators voice and the B- Roll and our interview was finished. We may not have finished on time, but it still turned out really good. It may have been a lot of pressure, but I loved doing this project. It taught me a lot about teamwork too.

All About Me

   

Hey there. My name is Makena Kahananui and this is my blog. I was born on the 17th of April in the year of 2002, and grew up on the island of Kauai, HI, USA. I am in the 6th grade, and have four other people in my family, my mom, my dad, my sister, and my brother.

Before I came here to Kapa'a Middle School, I went to Kapa'a Elementary School. Throughout elementary school I got good grades and I loved to go to school. Elementary school is actually the place that I learned some of my favorite hobbies, but we'll get to that later. It's even one of my favorite places on the island. Now, I'm in Kapa'a Middle School and it is one of the best experiences of my life.

Outside of school, I love to spend time with my friends and family. My family is a family of music and we love to sing, play instruments, and some of us dance. I love to sing and play the ukulele. I started to sing around the third grade and, I started to play the ukulele in the fourth grade. My grandfather saw that I had talent so he started to teach me the basics of the ukulele, along the way I started to improve. When the school year started, I was officially in fourth grade and it turned out, my teacher loved ukulele too. He taught me how to play even better than before! To this day I am in my school's ukulele band and I still love to sing. My name is Makena Kahananui, and this is all about me.