High School

Soooo... I decided to keep this blog going after middle school. If you didn't know I just became a freshman and I had this blog for a class I had in middle school. Anyway I'm back! Over the summer I went to the Big Island (of Hawaii) so see some of my family and I was there for about a month; but not all at the same time. I went with my sister for a week then she left and I stayed for another week then went home for a month and went back until school started. It was pretty fun we went to the beach a lot, saw the volcano (but we couldn't see the lava), camped, and some other stuff. I was glad I got to spend time with that family because I barley get to see them.

High school started!!! It's already the 5th week of high school, I've been doing pretty good and we just received out mid-quarter report card and I'm actually satisfied with the results. My classes so far are good and I like all my teahers so far. and I'm up to date on school work even though I'm absent quiet a bit. It does seem like this year is going to go  by faster then I want it to.

I hope I do well this year at school, I'm planning on trying my hardest, turning in ALL my work in on time, and not being absent so much. I'm telling my self "right now is whee life starts, this is when it all starts counting", most people don't realize then when you enter high school you have to commit your self to want to graduate and go into college. I do understand that some high students  don't want to go to collage but you should still want to push yourself to at least graduate high school.

Proactive or Procrastination?

To be honest I am proactive and I also procrastinate. I guess I just worry to much and over think about way to many things. But I also use my time wisely and use it well. I may procrastinate but that doesn't mean I dont use my time with caution. I like the believe that all my time goes to use because I try to use all my time as much as I can till the last second; I could take a little time to think but when I'm done I go back and work.

When I have work to do I usually do my work then do what ever else I have to. On weekends I would do all the work like things on friday or Saturday morning. So in the afternoon or Sunday I can go out or have friends over. The balance between my productive and free time are pretty well evened out. I think the time I spend is used well according to work and free time.

Theres not much I think I would change about my habits because I spend my days well there full of work and play, mostly an even amount. What I do about my work habits is try to work wisely and try not to think about it to much. If I tried really hard and focused on the work I was doing then I'd finish it on about 20 min. Most of the time I'm working on school work or house chores and I almost always focusing on the important work but try to play to. I think my habits are good, I like how I spend my work time and my free time.

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.

Back to School

  Hey its Jasmine this is my first post in my new school year! I have been at school for one week and two days, school has been good lately.
My favorite part of school so far would have to be when me I got to hang out with all my friends and talk. I was happy to come back to school because during summer I didn't get to see all my friends. My biggest challenge so far in school was in Mrs. Nagatori's class on the first week because we had to finish a flag that represented us. I brought it home one day to work on it and it was hard to finish because me and my family were getting ready for a hurricane that didn't evan happen. The flag project was a big part of our mid quarter grade.

This year I will try to be successful and get all my work in on time and get all my notes finished with out any difficult. I will try to stay ahead of the class so I will be a great student. I will also try to help other people. This year I will try to challenge my self more and more because I want to make my seventh grade year difficult. I hope this year will be a great 7th grade.

Profile Project Progress

For my team and I, we decided to interview Nahela Keale's grandfather Michael Keale. Our interview was about Michael Keale and how he loves music, storys and sharing words of wisdom with others. This project was shot at Coco MarketPlace and at Michael Keale's home. We chose Michael Keale because he had a inspirational story to share and he also had a good choice of words. Michael Keale loves to play music and he shows how hard he works for what he loves.

For our B-roll and voice overs we had a difficult time trying to fine what parts of his normal life we should have filmed. Once we figured out the B-roll we needed we signed out a camera and got right to work. we got seven different sets of b-roll, when it was time to film the voice overs we were still trying to finish our transcription templet. The second time we had time to do it we went straight to work and got if done. We used lavalier microphones because we wanted to get the sound as good as we can, we used these micraphones on our voice overs and interview.

Our team had difficulties and hard times but I think we can finish this. If our team had tried hard to work together and split all the work evenly then I think we could have more done by now. All of us were stressing out more and more but the only reason that was is because we are racing the clock and trying to finish before our due date. This team had ups and downs but right now I don't think we are behind I think we are in the middle. My team can get through this project.

Our teams rough cut was turned in and also critiqued by my teacher and class, now I know what I have to work on an get done. Nahela, Makena, Kalani, and I have some things we have to work on. One thing our team has to work on is getting more B-roll to cover the green screen in the beginning and end. Another thing is we have to make less cuts & jumps in the interview. Most importantly we need to make the video shorter because out video was supposed to be 3 min to 3min and 30 sec but our video was 5 minutes almost 6. We need to fix out video project.

All about me

I am Jasmine Laplante And this is my blog. I was born in September 11, 2001 on Hawaii (the Big Island) and raised on Kauai, I an 12 year old and in 6th grade. I have one older sibling, half my family lives in Canada and the other half lives on The big Island (Hawaii). I have always loved where I live, Kauai is a beautiful place.

I have been going to school since I was two years old. Before I came to Kapaa Middle School for 6th grade I attended Kapaa Elementary School. I was in this school although kindergarden to 5th grade. In this school I loved math and got great grades every year. Kapaa Elementary was a fun place to lean and hang out but now I'm in Kapaa Middle school its still fun here I'm glad I'm here because I can lean more and push my self to gain more information.

In my free time I love to spend time with me friends and family, it shows them I care. My family loves the beach we go to the beach all the time, they love to hang out, swim, and bodyboard. When I'm with my friends we always go to Kealia or Ho'opi'i Falls, we usually spend our weekends with each other. My friends and family spend time together all the time and we never wast a minute of our lives. We live life to the fullest and love doing it. I am Jasmine Laplante and this is all about me.

Practice Story Reflection

In my G.T. class we were making practice videos so we could get ready for our real project. This practice project included interviews the interviews were about a class mate that loved to do something or was good at something. My team was made up of four sixth grades Makena Kahananui, Nahele Keale, and Kalani Young and Me Jasmine Laplante. We also needed B-Roll because our story was Nahele likes exercising we get footage of Nahele doing jumping jacks and squats ect. Nahele tried her best in her B-Roll and interview.

Our team had a hard time working together but we had lots of fun. Our team lost our interview footage the first time so we were behind but we were determined to get it done. My team was feeling like we were going to get disqualified but we still worked as hard as we could. Two of us worked on our transcription templet and the other two were working on the video in FCPX. I think that we did a good job working together but we got through it.

At the end my group tried our hardest in the last 10 minutes. We didn't think that we could make it or even finish the transcription templet. All of us were nervous but we finished the templet and the video, with only 2 minutes left we imported it but the importing took 5 extra minutes. So our team got disqualified. My team was talking and we are happy that we finished even though we got disqualified it was still a fun project. this was only a practice story we still have our real one to come more fun.