Words of Wisdom

In my Pd.2 G.T class, my team and I created an interview story about our teammates Grandmothers experiences with alcohol. We chose this story because it will really teach someone what alcohol can do to your life and why you shouldn't try it. How we created this video was first we interviewed her at her house in kapaa. When we were importing our interview the power went out so we had lost all of our footage, so we had to interview her a second time. After we interviewed her, we filmed some B-roll of her working in her garden and feeding her pets.We had some difficulties filming B-roll because it was kind of raining and she lives next to a highway so it was loud. 

Our words of wisdom is important is because it shows people what happens when you get addicted to alcohol. Also it is a really inspiring video to watch. Hearing her story was amazing because most people wont admit it to anyone or even lets us film them. To see more videos like this Click Here

Five Tips For Maintaining a Clean Room

   In the first semester, My team created a five tips video for our Pd.2 G.T class. Our topic was Maintaing a clean room. The five steps were make your bed daily, Pick everything off the floor, get ride of any unneeded items, Put all clean clothes away, and vacuum your room daily. When we were filming this project we use the three shot sequence to make our video more interesting. What my team could of done better was worked together more and reshot the part were it went unfocused. Another thing we could of done better was the voice overs because they seemed all of the place.  

Practice Profile Story

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We chose this story to show the world how our teammate Isabella Kotsol became a tennis player and how it affected her future life. Our team chose this story because it shows want a great sport tennis is and how it affected Isabellas life and future goals. Isabella was that best person to chose because she has so much energy and she knew exactly what to talk about to make our interview flow. Our video was good for our first time making one but now we know whats good and whats perfect. To see more videos like this click the link under this video.

Profile Project Progress

In my G.T media class me and some of my class mates are making a documentary called "Elders words of Wisdom". Our interviewee is Tigerlillys grandmother Annie and she's talking about her experiences of being and alcoholic and her journey of becoming sober. This interview took place at her house.She explains the difficulties of getting and being sober. We decided to interview her because we thought her story would inspire teens not to start drinking at a young age or inspire adult that are alcoholics to go get help.

The technical parts of B-roll was finding all of the right angles for our shots and to make sure the camera wasn't moving while we were filming. Another thing was that we had to make sure that we used different composition techniques so that our video wouldn't be boring.The Technical parts of our voice-overs were finding a quiet spot in our class so that we wouldn't have background noise. Another part was making sure that we could sign our a camera to film it because we were a little behind on filming our interview and B-Roll.

What my team can do to work better together is communicate better and let each other work on the project. Our team has been working together good in some parts of the project. Other parts not so much because we all have different ideas and expectations for the video. But other than that our group has been working together pretty good

My G.T class critiqued our rough cut of our project.Our team didn't do very good because we ran out of time when we were editing it. Our audio levels were all over the place, our B-roll sounds were still up so your could hear us talking in the background and finally our interview was about 4 mins over time. If my teams works hard i think we could make our video go from good to great.

Composition Techniques

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There are many Composition Techniques you can use to make your image or video interesting. However, there are four main techniques Rule of Thirds, Framing, Unusual Angles, and Leading Lines.

 Rule of Thirds are when the subject of the image is placed a to the right or left not the center, I have used this technique in many of the pictures me and my friends take and in videos for my Pd.2 G.T. class. The next technique is Framing. Framing is when there is a natural frame around the main focal point of the image, this technique is good for pictures where the main focal point of the image is important.

Unusual Angles is my favorite technique, it makes your video or pictures really interesting because it shows the subject in various angles like upwards, downwards or diagonal.The final main technique is leading lines. Leading Lines is when something natural is leading your eyes to the main subject. For example if the subject were next to a fence and the photographer took the picture against the fence, the fence would lead the viewers eyes to the subject.

Three Shot Sequences

  
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Sequencing is very useful in videos to make them interesting. I have use sequencing in many of my videos for my period 2 G.T. Class. This video was a practice video we made so that we could learn about all three shots Wide, Medium, Close up. How we use sequencing was first we filmed Tigerlilly walking up to the door in a wide shot. Then, we filmed her pushing on the door in a medium shot going strait to a close up of her walking into the bathroom.

Practice Story Reflection

In my G.T. class we made a interview video about one of our teammates and what they do. My team Interviewed our team member Isabella Kotsol about her experience in tennis. This video went very well. Getting all the footage was fun because we got to use these really amazing cameras that made the shot look so clear. Filming the B-roll was probably my favorite part because we got to film her in action.

How we created our video was first, we recorded our interview with her, Our questions we asked her were both detailed and straight forward. After we were done interviewing we headed back to class to upload the videos to one of our teammates computer. That next day we started filming our B-roll for the video. When that was done we started editing our footage in Final Cut Pro. It kind of took use a while to edit because we wanted to make it perfect.

 My team worked really hard on this project. In my team was Isabella Kotsol the interviewee, Tigerlilly Zietz the camera girl and Angelie Kaden the interviewer. Making this video in my team was easy. The only hard part about making it was that we only had one period to film the footage and one period to edit it, so we all had to work together and take turns editing the footage.We ended up turning in our video late because by the tim the bell rang, our video was still exporting to our computer.