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.

Five Tips For...

In the second quarter of my school my G.T class needed to create a video called five tips for. My team was made up of Nahele, Makena, and me Jasmine. We chose to do five tips for doing your homework, we chose to do this because some students have a hard times getting there homework done on time because there always distracted on there phones or T.V. We also did this to show that if your try to do your homework it could be fun and if you do your homework right when you get home then you will have more free time later. I think we did a pretty good job but there are some things that we could have done better, if my team worked together better because you can see in the video example at the top that some where filmed somewhere else. This team was easy to work with and we make a good team but if we divided the work into equal amounts I think it would have been better. Over all this project was fun and successful. For more videos form my school G.T. class you can click HERE!!!

Practice Profile Story

Nahela, Makena, Kalani, and I worked together for our practice profile story. The purpose of this was to get ready for the real interview and to see what problems we might run into on the real profile story. I also think this was a good thing to do because when we did the real project it was easier to do then it was for the practice story. It really helped us for the finished project and we finished the real one first and it was clear but the only reason we finished properly and efficiently was because of the practice story. For our practice story we interviewed Nahele Keale. we chose her because she had a interesting story, the practice story was about Nahele Keale likes exercising. This was a very easy topic to work with and complete but we didn't finish it on time.

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.

Composition Techniques

Composition Techniques is a way to get very interesting shots and good pictures. There are many different techniques, but I think these four are the main ones rule of thirds, unusual angles, framing, and leading lines. The rule of thirds is a way to get a better looking shots, this is when you put your subject on a side of the camera shot (Top Right Corner). Unusual angles make your image shots much more interesting then a plain old shot angles, to get unusual angles you put your camera in a low places, high places, or any where that you don't usually put the camera (Bottom Right Corner). When you Frame your shots with natural resources it makes your pictures look nice and more interesting. To get framing shots is you place your subject in the middle of a frame (Top Left Corner). Leading lines is a way to make your images look very interesting, the way leading lines work is there are lines that lead your eyes straight to the main subject (Bottom Left Corner). This is what I think of composition techniques and what I think the mains techniques are.

Three Shot Sequences

Sequencing is a group of 3 shots or clips that are similar to each other. Sequencing has interesting angles and they are usually in a wide, medium, and close shots. Most people use this in videos so they don't have to take one long video of the same thing. This makes the different shots or clips more interesting. Sequencing is a very helpful technique because it can help you get nice and well shot pictures or videos. More information found here.

 

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.