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.

My Visual Poem

My poem is about sunsets and how beautiful they are.  I think I choose the right topic for my poem because I did a very well job on it. All the photos and videos were good for the visual poem and all the shots I got matched with the words. My visuals have a huge impact on my poem because all the visuals are of the sun setting and the clouds moving through. My imagery changed my whole poem because if I didn't have the pictures or videos my poem would be so boring and plain.

 
The overall effects on my visual poem impacted my poem well because the way they just fit into the video was great. The special effects change the mood of the whole poem because it fade a lot and has a transition into a different photo and that make it more soothing. When you have effects then it makes it more meaningful by showing that the audience can be conferable watching it. Other then the shots just changing with no effect. The audience probably feels better when the shots fade then when they are switching so stiffly.


Am I satisfied with my finished product? Yes I believe I did a very good job. I think my product was great it was finished with many different photos and videos. I had enough shots to cover all the audio which is good, I also showed visuals that matched the actual topic. This project was fairly easy for me especially because it was a one person project; my last project we had to be in a team and that didn't work as good as I thought is was going to be.

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.

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.