My Visual Poem

Above is my finished Visual Poem! Please watch and enjoy!

This past week, we had to turn in another video that we created in G.T. class, but this time, instead of having groups, we made this project individually The project video is supposed to be a visual poem. My poem video is about entertainment such as dancing, singing, acting, ad watching things. It is called " Show-Time. " The visual film of the poem impacts the the video because it gives the viewer more information, like if they don't understand the poem.

The special effects in my video helps the video go from good to great by giving more interest into the video and gives better transitions in between films to the next. Also it gives a cooler mood to the viewer, especially with the effects that relate to entertainment.

I am satisfied with my finish product. I love the way that I got to successfully put everything together without help and it worked out great. I think if I had a little more time getting more b-roll or films for my visual, then it would of been " off the hook! "

Following is my Visual Poem Plan. Where I planned out everything.

Finished News Story

This passed project in G.T. we had just finished and turned in was for either a porfile or a news story video. My teammates and I decided that we wanted to do a profile story about someone, and chose to do it on me and my family, The Drake Ohana. The people who have contributed in the project are of coarse, my group, Hailey Gokan, Leslie Acoba, and Sydney Nice, then of course my family who were in the video, Emmsley-James Drake, Michael-Alan Drake, and Mike Drake.

The final of the video turned out great! My team and I all agree that we really enjoyed the video and also filming everything. Although there were some little bites here and there that weren't as perfect, it was still really good.

When we had to show it to the whole class, the audience had to give some feedback and critique the video. The critiques were all true and were really halpful for our upcoming projects for the future. Some of them were: " there could be more sequencing... " and  " great job love the natural sounds and b-roll shots... " To the right is the results for teh best overall video in our class.


  To the left is a screenshot of the vote results! Our video is the T4: Drake Fire Knife Tradition.

Real World Report

Here are students from Kawaikini, 

a K-5 Hawaiian immersion school and took home

first place in the singing portion of the competition.

The story that I read about that is a world wide report is of Hawaii and how children are keeping our culture alive. Kids of Kauai, Hawaii were able to compete in the Mokihana children's/youth music competition. The K-5 children from the Kanuikapono school were honored by respecting and honoring the last Queen of Hawaii, Queen Liliokalani. Although they just won 2nd place, the practices and the love that the kids put into their music for the queen paid off. Kumu Pua Kamealoha Gomes was thankful for the kids for keeping and knowing their hawaiian culture. Many of the parents of the children were also thankful that their children are bringing back the hawaiian languages in the songs, learning them in school and enjoy seeing it continue. Many elders were also pleased to see them to because when they were younger they learned it to and are just so grateful to have the next generations to lead the way for the culture and traditons to stay alive.

The issue is that when Liliokalani was reined Queen she was forced to let go of our traditions and culture such as languages. Because of that a lot of natives were challenging the people from the America, the american people stepped down and let us keep it. But it never left, it stayed in their hearts. Becuase of that many elders taught their children and grandchildren the cultures, then that generation taught the next and so on and so forth. So now we come to the present day. We are now teaching the generations such as the Kanuikapono school to keep the culure ALIVE!

Many people should start to care becuase this is our culture and it talks about the past. when I was born I was raised to entertain by dancing my traditional dances like hula and tahitian. many people don't realize that its not just entertainment, its ways that we honor our hawaiian gods like Pele- goddess of wind, lightning and volcanoes, Kāmohoaliʻi- god of sharks, and Hi'iaka- goddess of the hula and the daughter of Haumea. So the more that I see the generations learning and honoring the gods the more I am grateful. Please understand that we, hawaiians want to keep our culure and traditions.

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Lessons Learned

So far for our Hiki No project about the Drake Ohana, the most intresting part of the project to me was the work that we've got with the different angles and how we are able to work together as a team.

I think the biggest road block our team have had that we have handled so far was the schedules that we have after school. It took a long time to diside what day, time, and where we were going to do my brothers interview, because when I was available, then the other people in my group werent available that day, but then we just got it settled and everything worked out perfectly.

I think the most valuble part of filmaking is to be ready and prepared for anything such as camera not working right, mic. isnt working, mistakes of shooting and any mistakes of anything. The filmaking process would be at its best if we all look at the small things before shooting anything because the small things can make a BIG error for the video.

HikiNo Behind the Scenes

For my groups project idea, we are planning to do a profile story about the Drake Ohana, Mike Drake, Michael-Alan Drake, Emmsley-James Drake, and Kaylynn Drake( me and my family) about how and why we do fire knife dancing. The story is about us passing down the Samoan tradition and culture from generation to the other.

When the camera isn't rolling we will be discussing more things about how we should set the other shots for the other camera shots. There is no time for wasting time.

To help my team I can give options that I think would make the video even more better, I can help set up the cameras, and just see if they want me to do anything for them. The more we encourage and be there for each other, the more we will be come more of a team. Teamwork is everything!

The Expirement

Hey guys! In my G.T. class last week we had an assignment to explore one of apps that we have on the class computers. Its called Photoshop. We had to make up anything we wanted to do without any rules and information on how to use photoshop but it had to be appropriate.

Instead of just doing one project in Photoshop, I did three. Two of them were from what I new already and the other one was an animation that was tought to us by our teacher because he wanted to teach us a new way to explore Photoshop. On my first project I made a blend of four different photos into one photo. Then I grabbed another photo from the internet and then touched it up in photoshop. Finally I put the two photos together and filled in the rest of the page to make it better. This is my first finished project form Photoshop below to the right:

Back To School

Hey guys! It's been a while since I've got to post stuff. Well, as you know now, I just got back into school at Kapa'a Middle School again and I am in my last year there. So far, my favorite moment in the beginning week of school would be meeting my new classmates that transferred from their school before coming. I made a lot of cool new friends.

My biggest challenge so far has been getting used to the new class schedule. I think the the D.O.E. (Department Of Education) changed the bell/ class schedule because the teachers need more time to teach the students and give them the lessons they need to get a higher and better test scores.

This year, the way that I can be successful for this school year would to become a better community contributor and an complex thinker. I feel these options could help because then I could learn from not only my mistakes but my classmates mistakes by being an effective communicator and I can involve into solving problems.