Final Photomantages

These are two examples of my photomontages. We made these photomontages because we learned about David Hockney's wonderful art works. We had to take multiple pictures of a location in a couple perspectives and put them together to create "Joiners". My first one, on the left was one of our practice ones which was taken at my school of a trash can with an beautiful hall way with amazing trees in the background. The other photomontage that I made was of my brothers truck with the beautiful sky and his really cool stickers that he created and put on his truck. After taking the pictures I put my raw, unedited, photos in Adobe Camera Raw and edited them. Finally I put them together and organized them in a way that made sense in Photoshop.

Practice Profile Story

In my G.T. class we had to make a practice of our profile stories. We practiced with our teammates and chose one of us to interview of what they like to do. My partners and I, Sydney Nice and Wailana Makepa, chose to interview me dancing because of how much I really enjoy dancing.

The purpose of this practice profile story is to learn and get used to the way we have to do our official profile story which is the profile story about " Elder Words of Wisdom."

The video below shows my team's practice profile story. Please watch!

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!

Final Panoramas

Here are some of my final panoramas that I have created in my G.T. class. In the picture above is the panorama that I made out of school. In the panorama we have the light house in Lihue by the harbor. We also see the beautiful ocean and the mountains in the background. Below is a panorama that I made in my G.T. class. I took this panorama at my school, Kapa'a Middle School. For both of the panoramas, we had to take a 360 degree circle taking 10-15 vertical pictures. Then we went in adobe bridge and camera raw to edit the pictures. After that, we went into photoshop and merged all of the photos together which became these awesome and amazing panoramas.

Three Shot Sequences

Three shot sequences are shots of images that are in an order of sequencing with a long or a wide shot, a medium shot, and a close up or extreme close up shot. Many people use this technique, or skill, to grab interest to the viewer. It helps the viewer to understand what is going on. In all of the shots, they all have different angles when taken. The wide shot is the one that shows the setting, place, and the subject. The medium shot has the subject closer and shows what the subject is doing in a feeling that the viewer is right there. Lastly the close up or extreme close up shot is the closest shot of the three, it gives the viewer an even more feeling that it is right there and is about to touch the subject. Here are some examples of a three shot sequence.

Wide Shot

Medium Shot

Close up shot

Polar Panoramas

These are some of my examples of polar panoramas that I have created in my G.T. class.


In my G.T. class we had a project that was to make our own little worlds. It was called Polar Panoramas. To make this we had to first, choose a great spot to take pictures that had an interesting horizon line. Then, we had to make the horizon line straight and move in a 360 degree circle taking vertical shots with all pictures overlapped. After that we uploaded, edited, and organized photos in Adobe Bridge and Adobe Camera Raw. Then we started resizing and rotating the photos in a perfect square. After that, we flipped the photos upside down by going up to the menu options, image> image rotation> rotate 180 degree. Then the last step was to go up to the option menu and go filter> distort> Polar Coordinates & Edit! My little world looks so cool!

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!