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.

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.

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.

Profile Project Progress

For the Profile Project that we are doing in G.T. class we had to choose one of our older relatives out of all three of our partners family. My partners and I chose my grandfather, Papa Jim Drake, for our project. We chose him because one of my partners grandparents aren't on this island and my other partners grandparents were to busy and weren't able to get with us.

We interviewed him at his house and shot many B-Rolls of him and his family members. We also went to the beach to show how he spends his little time with his family members when they can. Our project is about how Papa Jim encourages his family and shows how much he loves his family. The hard part about this was the shots and how we had to get up close and then medium shots and then the wide.

During this project we had the hardest time trying to get with each other because we all had something to do after school. I think one thing that my partners and I could've done better was work as a better team by helping each other more than usual. Lately we just did our rough cut critique on our videos and these were our critique scores from our class for audio, visuals, story, and the quality of the video.

To improve the video we will be reshooting a lot of the B-Rolls, fix and re-due the voice-overs, and make the video make more sense by making everything in the right order and make everything together with the story. Hopefully everything will be awesome and interesting to the viewers, but I know in my head and soul that WE CAN DO IT!

Practice Story Reflection

In G.T. class we had to make a interview story for our next project. We just did a practice interview story for us to get to know how to interview people. Our new project is to interview someone of our elder relatives that has an interesting life for an story for the Hiki No. The project is called " Elder Words of Wisdom "

During our practice story, my team, Sydney Nice, Wailana Makepa, and I did a wonderful time working as a team. With teamwork we were able to reach the goal and finish on time. We all had our own jobs to work on. One of us was the editor, one was working on the transcription template, and the other one was also working on the transcript. We all helped each other when one needed help.

On The last day to work on it we all worked together and had all of our ideas put together. We all had positive ideas on our partners idea which made us work together as a team. We had all of us with headphones, listening to the video and all gave our ideas to each other and made the video great. All of the ideas worked well together.

We also recorded the narraters voice for the voiceovers and put the B-Roll into the video. Everything worked really well together. The B-Roll looked awesome, the way Sydney and Wailana were filming me dance and how their ideas for my dancing worked with my interview. After putting the B-Roll, the narrater's voice, and everything to make it awesome, we went through it over and over and over and over again making little touches to it. After that process we turned it in just on time. We watched it with the class and everyone thought it was really cool. We did great!

All About Me

Aloha! Here is a quick description of me and what I do in my life.

My name is Kaylynn Drake and I live on the island Kauai, Hawaii. I am a student at kapa'a middle school and is in a program called Gifted and Talented or G.T. G.T. is a program for talented students who is really good with technology.

Although I like science, I think I'm starting to enjoy my english an language arts class. We do a lot of class reading, and ALOT of writing. This last class project that we just finished doing a story of something that we remember doing.

When I'm not at school and not on the computer at home, I am either hanging out with my friends or at dance practice. I love to dance hip-hop with my dance team called Excel Dance Studio. We have been in many dance competitions around the world. This year is my 4th year dancing and competing with Excel. My first year competing, we went to New york and competed in the Nextstar competition. Then in my second year, we went on a long journey to Bologna, Italy and did many tours around Italy. In 2013 we went to Anaheim California for a dance competition in the Disney Land resort. There were more than 1600 different dance groups that we had to go against but we made it to the top 30. So far Excel Dance studio made a lot of trophies. This year, 2014, we are heading on another long journey to Barcelona, Spain. Hope we succeed another year.