Lessons Learned

In our project, we have a lot of interesting parts. The most exciting part is not only getting to work and use a camera, but to actually participate in editing the video. We all got to at least edit a part, some of us more than others.

Our teams roadblocks sometimes would be the schedule. One of us would try and check out a camera when all the others are busy or just simply don't want to go with the one checking out the camera. Also, if our interviewee says that one day an on-camera interview would be fine, but on the day of the interview, our interviewee might say, " Oh I'm sorry, I can't make it for your guys' interview".

A very important part of the project is to make sure that the camera is actually rolling, making sure that it level, making sure there's good audio and that the mic is hidden as much as possible, and that the camera is focused as possible. A tip to people with interviewee's with collared shirt, those shirt are great for mic clips, if interviewee has a normal T-shirt, than ask the interviewee to clip the mic under their shirt.

The Experiment

The photo of a Caterpillar you see is a picture I found and edited using a texture added to the Caterpillar called Cutout. In my opinion, this Cutout texture (painting texture ) represents that all living things just pop into life, just like this Caterpillar that has been painted into this picture of nature.Our Kapaa Middle School GT class began by using Photoshop so our teacher, Mr. Sanderl so he could make sure that everyone gets the Photoshop experience. The " Oh so right " things about the assignment is that a lot of non-experienced people get to experience and learn how to use Photoshop. But, the " Oh So Wrong " things about this assignment was that the new people would probably not produce such great quality work than the experienced student, so there might be a slight disadvantage to the new students to Photoshop and a great advantage to those who are indeed experienced in Photoshop.

Hiki No Behind the Scenes

My Hiki No group, Seth Kostelecky, Lilio Masi, Leleaka Anakalea and Noa Harrison are doing a news story , a story that effects everyone, on the 2014 Hurricane Season. So we plan to get at least 3 interviews and some B-Roll sequences to complete and make a quality final cut. Our progress report is that we got about one third of our project done, the interviews, all we need now is our B-Rolls, Voice Overs, and our Final Cut.

Usually when the camera is rolling, we'd try our best to get the best Rule of Thirds Shot, the best Audio, and we'd try our best to keep the camera as still and level as possible. But, When the camera's aren't rolling, we would do some rehearsals, planning, audio testing, setting up the tri-pod and the, finding good areas for B-Roll, editing videos, and cooperate as a team to schedule to check out cameras.

We all have our ups and downs, we have agreements and disagreements, But when we come to a disagreement we all argue at first then the agreeing parts comes into play. When we all come to an agreement we all have great ideas so as a team, we'd plan out how we will accomplish those ideas and we execute those particular plans.