My Visual Poem

My poem was about canine- which means the relationship between human and dog. It makes an impact because it represents dog is not just a simple an animal, it means a lot. It helps people to understand more about the relationships that their dogs are giving to them.

I used aged film, artifacts, and more,... One of them I used aged film because it shows that our relationship have lasted for a long time. I have never had a dog that I can keep more than one year. The reasons are because their behavior were bad, they barked all the time, chased the chickens and even killed them. So to me Coco (my dog's name) is special. Because he's none of those. Well ya he did chase the chickens, of course because he's a dog and dogs chase chicken. But if you tell him to stop he will stop.

I am satisfied and also unsatisfied with my results. I'm satisfied with it because in my life I have never done it, never film and actually got to edit it so I think I did it pretty good for the first time by myself without needing any helps. I am also unsatisfied because I could have done better by film more videos. I put a lot of pictures in it insteads of putting more videos.

Finished News Story

Our team's profile story was about Carly Garrison- who is a bikini designer. Carly runs a Bikini making business in Kapa'a called ''CG Bikinis.'' The people who were contributed to it were Ethen, Megan, Nahele, and me. We all worked together to edit the story.

The final turned out was not as good as I hope it would be. The last voice overs were before the last interview. We could have done better by watching the story slowly, so will will noticed the mistake. But we were in a hurry, because it was almost at the end of school. Everyone was rushing, and so did we. We were having about 3 or 4 minutes left.

Looking back at the critique result, I have to agree to the people who voted 2 out of 4 for us. We deserved that. Just a little mistake can affect your whole story.

T8: CG Bikinis by Nahele, Ethan, Meagan, Tu

1	7	24%
2	11	38%
3	10	34%
4	1	3%

Real Worl Report

In Dallas Schools, Fear of Possible Ebola Exposure

Thousands of parents and school children in the Dallas area are very concerned after learning that five school-age children had contact with a man that is sick with Ebola. The school is just around the corner from the apartment where the Ebola patient was staying. The children that had contact with the Ebola patient are being kept at home. None of the children have developed symptoms and health officials said the chances that they pass the virus on are very low. Still some parents kept their children at home. Ebola dominated the conservations in the classrooms. Some parents had concerns about sending their children to school. Some felt the schools were not doing enough to ease fears.

My opinion is Ebola is a very dangerous disease. Keeping your child at home may be pretty good way to avoid Ebola when other children in school have been exposed to the disease. There are a lot of ways to avoid Ebola like wash your hands with soap and water or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer and avoid contact with blood and body fluids and do not handle items that may have come in contact with an infected person's blood or body fluids (such as clothes, bedding, needles, and medical equipment).

We should care about it because it is a very deadly and contagious disease. It has already killed thousands of people. So far there is no known cure for Ebola even though some people have responded to a new vaccine. Health authorities keep assuring us that it is not easily spread and we should not be worried about it, yet it continues to spread.


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/us/dallas-schools-worry-about-ebola.html

Lessons Learned

The most interesting part of our project is to interview Auntie Carly Garrison- who makes bikinis. It's a part of fashion and beachwear. It's very interesting to find out the way she makes and figure out her own patterns for bikinis. And one more thing that is interesting that our project was actually got to the final product and edited it. It took us a long time to finish it, about 9 weeks.

The biggest roadblock was we could not meet up at Auntie Carly's house. Meeting the team is a big challenge But we still work together in class. Another roadblock was some of our b-roll did not match the interviews, so we have to re-shoot them. And we also need more b-roll too.

The most valuable part of flim making process was everyone was knowing what they are supposed to do and one person does not have to do all the work. Also know where to place the mic and choose the best angles so the lighting will not be too dark or super bright. And you need to know how to make your story interesting. You do not want to make the audience look at the same shots over and over right??

HikiNo Behind the Scenes

In GT, we have been working on a HikiNo profile or HikiNo news story. There are four people in my group: Nahele, Meagan, Ethen and including me. We all chose to do a profile story about Carly Garrison, she is a bikini maker and owns her own business. So far it has been going as good as i hoped. But we only have one interview! The requirement is three interviews. Also, we have to have all three interviews transcribed by Tuesday! Ahh, gotta hurry up!!!

When the camera is not rolling, we are working on the final cut pro and writing things in the template we were assigned and take photos of us working to post on google and in our blog, that was one of our assignment too. We might be also discussing about when is the good time to film b-roll. I think we became closer than we were when we started the project.

I think to help my team I need to try to focus more in class about the directions and how to use the equipments. So when we go out to the community we won't be so ''surprised''.  I need to communicate more with my group. And I need to tell my group when they are doing something that is not going to make the project better. I think our project in the end is going to be great!

Back To School

My favorite moment so far is to be in Chorus and G&T. I like to be in it because it helps me to know more about using the iMac. I like Chorus because it helps me to improve my voice and know how to control it. My biggest challenge was to experiment the project in Photoshop, we had to explore the program and do whatever we want. It was fun and also hard, because I never tried it before, it was my first time doing it and I didn't know where to start so it was kind of hard.

To be successful this year, I need to be sure that I complete all my homework assignments on time and I also need to listen to all the directions that my teacher gives me, Mr.Sanderl. I think this is going to be a great school year and I'm going to have lots of fun!!!

The Experiment

Hi again, do you remember in the last post I told you about how Mr.Sanderl let us do a project called "The Experiment"?! The project were totaly something the teacher has never asked me to do. In this project we got to explore Photoshop. There were absolutely no rules, we can do whatever me want to. We did it because we could learn by trying all the tools, the brushes, the effects,.. We learn it by trying ourselves, we will get better at it, and we also learn from the mistake we made, so when we have a project to go on Photoshop, we will know what to do.
What was good about it was we got to try some new things, things that I never tried before. It was also pretty hard becuse there were no directions. Mr. Sanderl is the only teacher that gives us this project without direction. Anyhow, it was very fun experiment. I enjoyed doing it.