Finished News Story

Hello readers, my team members were Meagan, Lucy, and Ethan. We did a profile story on Ethan's mom. She designs and creates her own bikinis and has her own company it is called "CG Bikinis". Ethan and Meagan brought home a classroom camera home to do the filming. We all worked together to edit the story. 

When we finished the final we wished we had more time but we learned that we have to work together. We all know we could have worked together, finished successfully, and done better. Although we can not go back and time and fix it next time we are gonna do the best! I was happy that we finished on time. We are also happy we didn't get disqualified.

Looking back at the critique results I do agree on the scores we got we definitely could have tried harder.

Lessons Learned

Hey readers, The most interesting thing about are Hiki NO project is that we are doing our interview on a Bikini Maker. This is probably going to be the first time someone int he history of Hiki No does a profile story on that. This will have to be an appropriate story. The biggest roadblock are team had to go through was being able to schedule a time for when we can all as a team work together outside of school. Lately only one person has been going outside of school to get the interviews done and all the b-roll. I think the most valuable part of the film making process is getting all the interviews done because with no interviews there is no story.


Even though this is my second year im still able to learn from mistakes. I can still work hard and try my best to give the all my effort. Hiki No no can be kind of challenging because of how much time we have it goes by in one blink. This is a good thing to because in life no matter what job you have there's going to be rushing and trying to get things finished on time. Im learning from Hiki No to get things finished on time and not to procrastinate.

Hiki No Behind The Scenes

So for the first big project in g.t. were going to be put in a group of four. This project is also by Hiki No. We could choose to do two different kinds of videos a News Story about your island or you can do a interview video on anybody on Kauai. We chose to do a video on are members mom who has  a passion of making swimwear. It sounds pretty easy but its harder than it seems we have a hard time communicating and have to work better on that. Another thing we have trouble with is the interview its kind of hard with everyones schedule and trying to fit in shooting b-roll. Besides that we got some nice shots and are hoping to make an excellent video for Hiki No. When the camera is not rolling we are working on are videos with Final Cut Pro or we are working on are Pitch Sheet to guide us for when the cameras is rolling.

One thing I do to help my team is make sure that whatever is not being worked on is what I like to work if theres nothing to do. This helps because there can be some little things that might be forgotten and its not good to have things missing. Another thing I like do do is figure out what everyones schedule is so I can figure out when we all have a day we can just work on our b-roll and interviews.

The Expirement

The experiment was definitely something the teacher has never asked me to do. Me and my class were to go on Photoshop. Their was absolutely no rules we could literally try anything we wanted to. At first, I didn't understand why we were doing this but then I got it. We did it because we could learn by trying out all the tools, the different effects, brushes, and everything else that photoshop provides. When we learn by trying it ourselves we get it better and learn from the mistakes that we made so that when we do have  a project were we have to go on photoshop we know what not to do.

What was good about it was that I got to try out some new things that I didn't use last year and got to see what they could be used to do. It seemed like something super easy to accomplish but it was actually pretty hard because their were no directions and I wasn't used to that I had try out everything and just hope whatever I ended up with it wouldn't be such a disaster. Overall, it was a pretty fun experiment that was helpful and the more we start using photoshop ill get it.

Back to School

Hello world, Summer Break was definitely a summer to remember. I went up to another island, I stayed their for three weeks. I got to see some of my good family and friends that I haven't seen ever since I was little. Each day was crazy we never had a day to rest. Me and my friends would go to all the secret beaches, a inside trampoline area, we went surfing at beach where my foot hit the coral.

Im very proud to be back in school and return as a G.T. student. This is my favorite class because we get to learn a hand full of technical things on gigantic mac computers, and get to put all of our creativity into each project that our teacher Mr.Sandrel gives us and a bonus is I get to sit by one of my best friends. The best memory I had since i'm back in school is when me and a big group of my friends went running onto the middle of the field. We screamed to the top of our lungs,  running and going crazy. I think people could hear us from a mile away.

The biggest challenge lately has been waking up early for school. Hearing my alarm is the worst part I just want to put it on silent and go back to bed. If only school started a little later id be a very happy person. Since that cant happened ill be looking forward to the next summer were I can get all the sleep I want. 

This next year of me being a 7th grader will be successful by me going to sleep early so Im able to wake up and eat a full breakfast so I can focus better in all of my classes without getting distracted. I've also learned some lessons from last year it is too always turn in all my assignments before they are due, listen to directions carefully without going ahead unless I know exactly what I'm supposed to be doing, and lastly is too have an extraordinary blast because once were finished with middle school we never come back.

Words of Wisdom

This third quarter in GT, we had a project that was going to be voted for a hiki no project it was called "Words of Wisdom". This was for schools all over Hawaii. We had to have a group of around 4 people. My group had to choose one person that you were related to who was elderly and has wisdom for kids and adults allover. In my group we chose my grandpa who is a Hawaiian Musician on the island of kauai.
  Are class was assigned to go out and interview my grandpa out of school and get shots of him playing his instrument and him working with his all his wires, Cd's, and fixing up his bag. During the Interview we had to have a rule of thirds shot so people would get their eyes caught there. This interview could obviously not be blurry at all so on our DSLR cameras we had to focus on me grandpa so that his eyes were crystal clear.
  My grandpas wisdom is important because he shows everyone to follow you dreams. You should never give up for anything you are working for. He also shares aloha through telling story when he was a child and from his relatives, especially when he is playing music he shares aloha, and loves putting smiles on peoples faces.

Five Tips for Turning Your Homework on Time

In class, we had to do a project on five tips and we could choose anything we wanted to. Me and my group chose 5 tips on how to turn in your homework on time. We had to go to one of our houses and film different shots of one of our team members working on her homework and turning off things that might distract her. We chose this topic because homework is something not all kids like doing. They rather be hanging out with friends, watching t.v., or going to the beach. So this was a great chance for us to to give out simple tips for getting your homework done without procrastinating. We could have done by communicating better on where we would film, who would take us where, so next time we do a project we would have to make sure to communicate and work together better.