Lessons Learned

The most interesting part of our project was learning how to use final cut pro. I asked Shanden for help because it had complicated parts that I didn't know how to use. It was kind of confusing at first but later on it got easy.  Even though I had a hard time using final cut pro it was still fun because I learned something new.

The most valuable part of the film making process is to work together to film, edit and make our project.  It's important to work together as a team because you'll get more work done.  To me, our biggest roadblock was communicating because Neliza and Makena are 7th graders and me and Shanden are 6th graders.  Me and Shanden are quiet and it's our first year at Kapa'a Middle School.  By the end of the project me and Shanden felt like we were able to communicate with them more.

Hiki No Behind The Scenes

               

For this Hiki No project, we were told to get into teams of four. My team members were Neliza, Makena, Shanden, and me (Zephen).  Mr. Sanderl told us that we would be able to choose a profile or news story.  With the profile or news story, we were told to make a video on our topic. A profile story is were it's 2 minutes long and the news story is 3 minutes long. Out of our whole entire class our team was the only one to pick a news story.

We chose Coco Palms for our topic. We picked Coco Palms because it's a special place to Kauai. Our project went well. We had some struggles but we handled it.  The main struggle our team had was sticking to the due dates. For me, the hardest struggle was working with other people I didn't know.  Throughout the project, I started to get to know them better and I felt more confident to work with them.

When the camera wasn't rolling, our team discussed what we were going to do.  When we got off track one of us would tell the others to get back on track.  We tried our hardest to complete our project.

The Experiment

In the photoshop assignment, Mr. Sanderl let us try phototshop for the first time. He gave us no rules and no instructions. I think Mr. Sanderl  had us do it without any instructions because he wanted us to learn to ask someone if we don't know how to do it and become a self directed learner.

The good thing about this assignment was learning something new without instructions and thinking on your own. It was fun but hard at the same time. I didn't know how to do it but then I asked and then I knew how to do the basics of the photoshop. I wasn't an advance person on this assignment but at least I knew the basics of photoshop.