Proactive or Procrastination?

After a long week of school I like to finish all of my homework right after school. The feeling of having all of my work done is relieving. There is no need for stress or being guilty while having a fun weekend. I learned from my mistakes last year because coming to class with no work done is not fun! I failed my teacher, my parents, and especially me. Knowing that I had time to finish it but was ignoring it till last minute was a bad habit. This year I have set a goal to get it done asap!

Being in a quiet, calm, steady environment helps me focus while doing home work and I get it done faster which gives me more time to have a fun weekend. Life is not about always Procrastinating and parting its about also being successful and a hard worker. If you dont get anything done in life then you will regret it later on in life and wish to live a fulfilled life.

Theres not that much I would change about my work habits because I get things done before theres time to enjoy my weekend. I had to change my work habits last year because I procrastinated a lot. Finally I set a goal to get everything done without wasting time. When i'm older I hope to have a successful job that will support me financially. In order to have a job like that you need to get everything done and set a good habit so people can count one you.

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.

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.

All About Me

     Hello, my name is Nahele Keale, I'm 12 yrs. old and was born on October, 1, 2001 at Castle Memorial Hospital on the Island of Oahu. I lived on Oahu for the first year of my life until I moved to the island of Kauai. My mom and dad didn't want to raise me on Oahu so we moved to a the beautiful, tropical, island of Kauai.

 

     I have no brothers or sisters but I do have 2 Australian Shepard's, 2 sheep and used to have around 50 or more chickens!  The chickens are all gone, but we may be getting more later. My mom is a nurse and my dad is working in Alaska.

I was in  Kapa'a Elementary from Kindergarten to the 5th grade.  This school was a great school with strict but nice teachers who taught me a lot. This is my first year in the G.T. Program as a 6th Grader in Kapaa Middle School.  I really enjoy this school and I don't ever plan on leaving. I'm either going to Kapaa or Kamemeha for High School. I heard a lot of good things about Kamehameha and hope too get in if I go.

   Once I am finished with high school I would like to go to a college where I can learn to become an archeologist. Ive been wanting to do this later on because it seems very interesting to dig up ancient artifacts, sculptures, skeletons of bodies and learn about their culture, there life, and how they died. Especially since it involves traveling which is also one of my dreams to do. Traveling is what everybody should do at a certain time in your life and try different food, languages, old buildings, and much more.

Profile Project Progress

Now, for a couple of weeks, we've been working on a project for Hiki No its called "  Elders words of wisdom ". We have a group of four and in the group we choose one of your group members elderly relative. We interviewed my grandfather on how he loves singing and playing hawaiian music and too spread aloha. My grandfather says to follow your dreams and do what you love. Me and my group worked together really well by splitting up the work so that none of us were left out.

  Interviewing someone with no b-roll or voice overs can be boring and wont catch your audience. B-roll is very important because whatever the topic that your interviewee is speaking about you can add clips of him/her showing instead of seeing that persons head and them talking. So a question that me and my group chose was what was one of his first instruments that he got and then he said he got an ukulele when he was 10 yrs. old. so for the B-Roll we got a wide, medium, to close up shot of him caring for his ukulele.

Voice overs are narrations that are said through out a interview or documentary. However, when there is a voice over you usually see some b-roll and don't see the person being interviewed. Me and my classmates learned that if you don't have enough b-roll then you can use the person narrator doing the voice overs. It wont be grabbing your audience as much though. If you were just to see a person talking in an interview with no images or B-Roll it will not the as interesting or grabbing as you wan tit to be.

There will always be enough room for improvement . In my class we got to critique all the videos in our class this gave everyone a chance too improve our interviews for our final cut. Our class will have a film festival where some parents, teachers, and workers at our school can see the interviews.

Practice Story Reflection

In the past few days of the Gifted & Talented Program, we have been practicing for a Hiki No project. We had a group of four people and I was the main subject, when we figured out what I was going to be interviewed about which was I like Exercising. We had a transcript paper that would guide the narrator. It was time to make A-roll, and B-roll. So for the A-roll we had me the interviewee, and the interviewer asked me questions what I like about exercising,  the questions were just like any other interview. Once me and my team were finished we started the B-Roll where we had to take footage of me exercising. So that you could see me exercising while I would be interviewed this would help grab our audiences attention.

Once we were finished with all the video work we imported everything to the computer. After that was finished we had too add some voice overs. So we had one member from our group go up to the computer and voice record her. Every class used Cut Pro to edit the video; use the blade tool to cut out footage that wasn't needed, add b-roll, and turn the video good to great. We didn't have much time we were we're goanna get disqualified.
 

We did not finish exactly but we did learn what we should and shouldn't do for the hiki no project. This was very helpful I got to know the camera, Final Cut Pro,  and the Lava Microphone. If we never did a practice story I think Id be really lost.