.MOV Film Festival

Our keywords that we are using is change, kindness, realization, actions, and lessons. These keywords that we chose is like how changing your actions can make you realize that you don't need to steal and do bad things.  If you can do one simple thing that is nice you would feel good after. I would like you to try to do one act of kindness and see what reactions you get and when you do that it makes you feel happy.

Our message that we are trying to show is that you don't need to go and steal and do bad things to survive. You could just do one simple act of kindness and be rewarded. Basically that everyone can change there act by a simple act of kindness. If you can do a good deed that is awesome. We want you the reader/watcher to know that steeling is bad and that you shouldn't do that or any bad thing.

Our team had like a few challenges that we faced and conquered. One of them was getting our planned checked off. What happened was Micah who came to our team so we had to kinda rearrange our story and plan. Another problem was finding time to film and where. Luckily we were all able to meet up. The last problem we had was filming because we had to find how are we going to do this to make it look all real.

Proactive or Procrastination?

I'm more of a proactive person. I'm a proactive person because I like to get things done before the due date and not do it at the last minute. When I do things at the last minute, I struggle and slack because I don't have enough time.  To me it's better to be proactive than to procrastinate because you won't worry and you can just relax.

When I have free time I like to rest for awhile. When I'm done resting, I do my homework so I won't have to worry about it. Even if I want to play I still do my homework first. The work can be hard but fun at the same time. To help me be productive, I eat or listen to music. I usually do my work in the living room and some times it can be loud in there.

So, I can change my habits by going to my room instead because it's more quiet. The quietness can help me because I won't get distracted easily. It's a good place because no one will bother me and ask me things. It's also a place that relaxes me when I'm getting stressed out.

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.

Back To School

My favorite moment was coming back to school and meeting my friends. I get to see most of my friends in P.E.  I  also liked meeting new teachers. My favorite teacher is Mr. Muramaru because he's funny and he teaches my favorite class, P.E.  Also it's nice to move from one class to another instead of being in one class all day.  I like being at a new school, I never went to before.

My biggest challenge this year was going to a bigger school. I was nervous moving from Kapaa Elementary to Kapaa Middle school because this school is more bigger. Since I didn't know the school good I used the map to get around. It took awhile for me to know were my classes were. But now I know were my classes are I don't need to use the map.

This year I'm gonna be successful by doing all my work. I do my work after school. If I don't finish it in  time I do it after football practice. I stay up late till I finish my home work. I don't like home work but I do it to learn.