My Humorous Monologue

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Our latest project that my GT class is working on is Comedy. We are making our own video on our joke. During this project, I have learned quite a few things. Some of those things are.... of course how to write a joke. I learned how to use IMovie a little better. And all about punchlines for your joke. I also learned a different grading criteria, and what is needed for each grade. Lastly, I learned how to import in IMovie and how to create different folders to be organized to know which is our folders that hold all are video clips and all of the things we need to edit.

In this project, I've learned a filming technique, called padding. Padding is basically the space between the start of your video and the space between the end of your video. It helps if you say "rolling" when you first click the button to start recording and you count to 3 in your head then say "action" so that the person your filming knows when to start speaking. At the end of the video, you would say "cut" a few seconds after their done speaking so they know you've ended the video. Padding you clips is crucial because if you don't wait a few seconds before and after your fiming, it can get cut off and you wont be able to hear the very begining and end of it. 

 

In this project there were weaknesess, strengths, and way to improve. Some places that I had a little trouble doing is filming with bad lighting, when I first filmed the lighting was a little dark. But, I did re-filmed with better lighting and it paid off! Another weakness is my time limit, I had to cut some parts out so it was more closer to the time limit. Since, I am a advanced student I knew how to do a lot more things than last year. Some of my strengths are adding my affects and the audio. Also, getting different filming angles so my video is a bit more appealing. Some ways that I could of improved is mabey some of my shaky shots. Overall, I think I did pretty good according to the class critique.

Finished News Story

Our story was about the new Safeway that is going to be built in the Hokulei Village across from the YMCA. The people who were contributed in our story was Loren Weiner, Jaesha Mata, Cara Griffin, and me. Two Maryl construction workers were also contributed in our story, As well as my dad, Curran Chang. Im very proud of my team and I because we accomplished our news story. Our news story was full with hard work and confidence. I also wanna thank my dad and the two other workers because without them our story would not be done.

Are final story turned out amazing! We had enough b-roll, good rule of thirds, and enough people to interview. I am happy with it because it looked very professional and well done. I am proud of my team and I because we were able to accomplish this fantabulous video. I think that are video was the best my team and I could do. We did a very good job!

 To conclude are critique results, we did very good. 18 people voted us as a 3 and 11 people voted us as a 4! That's great! I agree with are results because I think that my team did a terrific job and we put a lot of effort into the video. We defiantly deserved are results.

These are our final results for creating the HIKINO video.

The Experiment

In the beginning of the school year we had a photoshop assignment. It was an interesting and fun assignment. I liked it because I got to explore a lot. I decided to make an image of my name using different colors such as yellow and blue. Mr.Sanderl let us do whatever we wanted on the experiment.

We did it because we could get to know how photoshop works and also what we could do with it. There was some challenges that I faced through out the experiment. A challenge that I faced was figuring out how to make one side a different color. With my friends and other resources they taught me how to do it. It was a learning experience for me.

Something that was wrong about it was that it was my first time doing this assignment so I didn't know exactly what to do. So I did come to some hard times. Something right about it was that after doing it I learned everything about it. That way if we do this experiment again I will know what to do. It was something that I enjoyed and I would do it again.

Real World Report

On March 30th 2014 there was a noxious odor in Walmart on Kauai. Everybody in the store had to evacuate. The fire department came and searched the store. They couldn't find out the cause of the odor. There was an investigation that the odor was in one place at the entry of Walmart. They continued to search the store. Then they opened the store at 2:00pm on Sunday.


My opinion that surrounds the issue is that it was a very dangerous event. It caused harmful reactions to the people that were in Walmart. It caused eye and throat irritation. Luckily no one was caused by death. There was 9 people that had to attend the hospital.


We should care about it because it could've caused death. Their families don't want to loose a family member. Everyone survived luckily. So their families weren't hurt or sad. They all probably appreciate it.

HIKINO Behind the Scenes

My team and I just got done interviewing Jeff Griffin and some other workers that are involved in the new Safeway for our HIKINO project. The new Safeway is across from Cheifess Kamakahelei middle school. Me and my team are working very hard for this project. So far are interviews are going well. We hope that are video will get accepted from HIKINO.

When the camera is not rolling my team and I are either editing the video, double checking the videos, or discussing with each other. Luckily with all the technology we have, we are able to edit the video. When editing the video we can cut out voices and parts of the video that are not needed. When we double check the videos we make sure that we don't have to retake it. When we talk to each other we are planning are positions and sharing are ideas.

One thing that I can do to help my team is to be the interviewer. Most of the time some people on my team rather help with things other than asking questions. For me I enjoy being the interviewer because I love to read and I like to discuss with people. When I am interviewing the person I ask them questions like "how long do you think it would take?" and other questions about are topic. In conclusion my team and I are doing are best to get this video as perfect as we can to get it accepted into HIKINO.