Profile Project Progress

In  our project My team has Cambria, One, Charlotte and me in it. We interviewed Cambria's mother , Jessica on what it is like to be a nurse. She works at Wilcox Memorial Hospital in the babies section and works with people that are pregnant and planning to have babies at the hospital.We wanted to interview her because we thought it was inspiring that she went through four years of college to get to where she is today while raising kids and being a single mother. She has worked for the hospital for 3 in a half years and enjoys what she does.

Our B-Roll was a little difficult because we had to go to all the stops required in our video in one day. This could have been easier if we had planned it a little better but we made it work and got it all done. With B-Roll it is extremely important that the B-Roll has at least some connection to the interview and story you are trying to portray. So we went to the Kauai Community College and filmed because we had talked to Jessica about how she got through college so we made a connection that way. We also filmed her walking into the hospital building and her hanging out with her daughter to get an inside perspective. The voice overs we filmed at lunch in the news cast room with our mic that helped the story make sense and make the story flow more at ease.

Our team has worked pretty well this time around and got things done. We have all (I personally think)  have worked equally as hard as one other. I was working on the template drawings while One and Charlotte were working on writing out what Jessica had said during the interview. Cambria was also working on the template and we worked together and communicated way better and got a lot of things done. Our first time around we ran out of time and made a failure but this time I am proud of what has been done.All that is left to do is the editing.

The Editing didn't go to great because we didn't finish it all all and need to focus more on what we are portraying as our story line. We are failing right now with the maturity level of our film and need to step it up a little with our skills we have in the limited editing time. For our rough cut I was exited at first because I thought we had a decent video when we first showed the video to the class but as people started to laugh and I saw what was our B-Roll footage I realized how badly it really was.

Practice Story Reflection

In our newest assignment we had to make a video for Hiki No. We made ours about  me and what I wanted to be when I grow up. I want to be an Actress or a directors assistant. So that is what we talked about for our practice video. The final project I think we will be interviewing Cambria's grandfather or someone else when the time comes.

I think we did a good job filming and coming up with the questions but we should have worked harder on teamwork with editing and prepared ourselves with more time to edit. In the filming we filmed me going into the G.T room.  We also filmed me being in the KMS morning news cast filming studio. Me, Charlotte, One and Cambria I think overall worked well together with the filming parts of the project. We made sure I wasn't looking at the camera and that the camera was at just the right angle.

On the other hand, We needed to have way better time management and correlation of ideas and focussing.The next time we do a video project I will definitely not want this to happen again and so I will try to prepare our team for better time skills and focus more so we don't have to rush to the end trying to edit as quickly as possible on Final Cut Pro. Our over all completion I think turned out pretty good but we need to focus more on the editing part of the video so we won't ever be late on a project again. I have definitely learned from this project and plan on success with our final project! I am very exited about the up coming filming for Hiki No. 

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All About Me

Hello people of the internet!

 My name is Imani Belt and this is my first time being in a digital media class as well as having a blog.I go to school at Kapa'a Middle School and I am currently in 8th grade. I have attended Kapa'a Middle School for almost 3 years and have had a lot of fun making friends.

The classes I have most enjoyed taking throughout the years, are art and G.T ( Gifted and Talented program for digital media.) I like taking G.T because you get to learn cool techniques on Photoshop and explore new things almost every project that comes abroad. In art it is also very fun because you get to draw and learn about new Artists and what they are known for and what they have drawn.

I also enjoy the program K.P.A.C (Kauai Performing Art Center) in which we are in plays and act. Another thing that is fun for me is traveling to see my family in California, Arizona, and Oregon. When I grow up I want to be an actress un movies and t.v shows. If that fails I want to be a directors assistant. Please enjoy my blog and have a fun time on the information super highway. Stay fabulous.