Finished News Story

     The story my team and I made was about Henry Panui, and how he balances his work time and his surfing time. Henry Panui owns his own company so he gets to make his own schedule. There were four people in my group me, Leilia Panui, Tessa Jensen, and Daileen Barton. They are good team but I think we could have communicated more. Henry, his wife, and his sister also helped us by letting us interview them.
     The final turn out of our project was okay I guess. We didn't do as good as we expected but we tried our best. Im happy with the project but not as happy as I wanted to be about this project. I thought we would have done a lot better; I would have been a lot happier if we got more b-roll, voice overs, and better interviews. Over all I'm pretty happy with it the final turn out was good we at least turned it in on time.
     With the critique results I was actually not surprised, it was pretty expected that we were going to get a two. With the quality of our project it was obvious that it was going to be a two. I totally agree about a two I think we could have been way better. I didn't use all of the ability i could have, I think my whole team could have applied more to this project. I am totally fine with the score we got.

Lessons Learned

The most important part of our project is getting all the interviews and B-roll done. We have got some footage but we have had quite a hard time because our team isn't communicating very well. We are trying out hardest to get every thing done and trying to do as much wrk we can with the team meats that come help get it done. I have been making questions to ask the people we are interviewing, I have also been trying to think of good B-roll we could film so we can get every thing done a once. All the B-roll, interviews, and voice overs are going to be finished by the due date (hopefully).

My team and I have had many roadblocks we have tried getting our work done, but we tried rushing it and that wasn't very good. We tried filming three times, we were trying to get our three interviews done but it didn't work out as we planed. Our project is getting hard because not all of us can film and not all of can help out when were not at school. We have filmed one interview and no B-roll or any voice overs so we are behind. I think the biggest road block is not communicating correctly and not getting any b-roll done.

The most valuable part of our filmmaking process is getting three successful interviews. Also we have to get at least 6 sequences of b-roll. My team has gotten 3 interviews and no a lot of b-roll. These things are crucial for our project we need them but the only way we will get them is if we don't work together. My team and I have some voice overs but not enough.

HikiNo Behind the Scenes

Our project idea is about Henry Panui. He is a local surfer on the east side of kauai and he owns his own company. We are going to try get footage of him getting ready to surf and also of him working. My team has three other people Leilia Panui, Tessa Jensen, and Daileen Barton. I think we are going to finished but we are having a hard time.

When we are not filming we are usually talking about what we have to do and what we are going to do. We try to get together after school or when we are not at school to we can discuss what we have to film and shoot. When our camera is not rolling we try to get out and film b-roll because that's the most important part of the project that we don't have. We try to meet up after school so we can communicate and get done our pitch sheet and thinking about filming. My team and I always strss about our project when were not filming.

One thing I can do to help my team is to step up and be the team leader because I was in G.T. last year. I think I should make my team communicate more and get together more so we can get more filming done. My team is behind and I think it would be best if we get a camera and film as much as we can. I think our team is having troubles doing this project. But what we need to do is keep going and just finish strongly.

The Experiment

The photoshop assignment was to see what we know about photoshop and how we can use some of the tools and experiment on all the different implements so see what kind of things we can create. We did this project to get to know photoshop and try to get used to using it because we are going to use it a lot this year to do photo projects. I think we are going to use photoshop this year but not as much as last year I think this year we are going to do more video based projects then picture projects. The photoshop experiment was good to start the year off so we get used to doing thing with a lot of different tools. Photoshop will be a big thing to lean to use this year because if we take pictures we might put them in photoshop.

I think the best part on my experiment was that I used a gradient overlay, arched text, drop shadows, a transparent picture over the overlay, and the arched words were a good life quote. I tried to used a lot of things I remembered from my G.T. class last year, I didn't use all of the techniques I knew because it was hard to fit all the different things into one project. One hard thing about this project is that I forgot how to use some of the tools in the program and that made it hard to function in the document. Forgetting how to use the tools was a bad thing because it took me a while to figure out how to get all the thing in place. This photoshop experiment was easy and fun for the first project of the year.