Movie Trailer Critique

Hey guys, its been a couple weeks since I've been blogging, hope everyone had a wonderful winter. Before the winter break, in class we were assigned another project. It was a movie trailer. We were in groups of four, my teammates were Maya Clark, Aedan Betts, and Seth Kostelecky. We had an idea that our movie would be about overcoming your fears, since the movie audience would most likely be first graders. Our movie is called " Getting Over It." Although we had some ups and downs with contributing all of our ideas as one, we still was able to finish it and we all agreed that it was ok. It was all about teamwork.

The project requirements were to have the finished trailer to be at least one and a half to two minute long, five scenes in the trailer with the actors, voice-acting scripts for the voice overs, and text layovers for the title and other words in the trailer. We also needed effects in the trailer to make the viewers more interested in the movie so that they would like to watch it. The effects were to make the different angles in the shots we took and take them from good to GREAT! We also had another project that was involved in the movie trailer which was to make a movie poster to sell out the movie. Each person in my team had to come up of their own poster and then we had to vote on the best one. My movie poster didn't win though, but to me I think it looks pretty good. To the right is my movie poster that I created.

After we all agreed that our movie trailer was able to be sent to our teacher for our critique session, the whole class watched it and voted for the best trailer in the class. Based on the results of the critique session, I agree with the votes because our trailer wasn't the best but we did our best cooperating with each other so that we were able to finish and turn in our finished movie trailer. In the process of finishing our project, my team and I learned that with teamwork, cooperation, and with everyone all in it together, we finished everything on time. We did our best!
To the left, is the critique polls from my class.

Book Art Project

In the first quarter of the school year we were assigned to make a book art project. This book art idea came from Isaac Salazar, the person who created book art. The process of making the art is to fold each page of the book into the shape or word you want. Because this project is supposed to be apart of visual literacy, we were to come up of a two to four letter word. My word was " pray."We printed paper with the word on it and had lines on it to show where we had to fold the paper to and the shape of the fold we were to do. Every time we created a fold we had to mark where we left off so that we don't skip or redo a line. When we first started it became a little confusing but after a while I got used to it. 

For my book, I had to fold sixty-four pages for "p,"  thirty-five pages for "r," sixty pages for "a," and forty-eight pages for "y," but to finish the entire word in the book, I had to fold two hundred and seven pages. I chose this word because if I keep this book, I can remember to always pray and talk to god everyday. The font of my word, carter one, relates to my word because the font looks kind of inspirational, so I chose it. My intent of the project was to inspire, move, and to motivate others especially myself.

When I finished my book art project, I thought it came out pretty good. I liked it, it was pretty ok. I think the only thing I would do differently is to choose a different word so that I could be more challenged, with the word that I already had, it was a little to easy. If I were to do this project again, I think the word that I would like to do would either be " dance," or a word that has more than five letters. The book that I would create the word in would be like a dancing book with cool moves or any book that has to do and relate with the word I will be using. Doing this project was really fun and I would recommend it to all art classes or for free time project at home or even at school.

Below is my finished book art project and the process of creating my word!

Proactive or Procrastination?

To me I believe that I am proactive. I think that I am proactive because when we are in teams for new projects in my yearbook class and there is a group that is falling behind, I take charge and help them go through their situations. I also am energetic, and driven into working hard and learning new things.

The level of my productivity relates to my amount of free time because on most of my free time I would be working and studying for quizes and also I would use it to practice on things in school and also for other activities that I am active in.

I think that if I could change my work habits it would be to work even harder on my free time and when others are not looking, because I know that even though I am productive, it still isn't enough. I would change it by taking my free time ability a little higher.

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.