Practice Profile Story

Before we did our real "Words of Wisdom" project we did a practice video so we knew what to do when we have to do the real thing. My teams practice story was about volleyball with Keegan and Kuumomi. I was the main subject on this practice story because I play on a volleyball team and our story was on volleyball. I think we could've filmed better b-roll because a lot of it was blurry and un focused. I think the overall story of it was pretty good.

Profile Project Progress

Recently now my team and I are working on a Words of Wisdom project where we interview someone older than us that can share some words of wisdom. We are interviewing Mr. Relacion a 7th grade English teacher at Kapaa Middle School. We filmed during school for the interview, b-roll, and voiceovers. We are doing this project because we wanted to show everyone what it takes to be an awesome teacher like Mr. Relacion.

We filmed b-roll for our project to visually show what Mr. Relacion does. B-roll is used to hide the narration or interview cuts and to visually show or explain what the person being interviewed is talking about. Also B-roll is a way of easily showing what their talking about so the audience can relate to the story better. Also for our project we had one person narrate the story so we had to film and record voiceovers. Voice overs introduce the person and tell part of the story in the beginning, middle, and end.

I think our team could of worked better by splitting up the work more evenly and also taking turns doing each job. Keegan Kessler Kuumomi Thompson are my partners for this project and over all I think we work pretty good together. Telling by the critique above I think we should work more on the visuals of the story the most and try make the audio, story, and quality a little better.

Our team can improve from good to great by filming more B-roll and making sure it in focus so its clear. Also we could film better voice overs because the voice overs I did weren't clear enough. In the end I believe our team will have a really great story to share and project.

Composition Techniques

The main four composition techniques are Rule of thirds, Framing, Unusual Angles, and Leading Lines. Rule of thirds is when you have your main subject on One third of your shot to have a more interesting view of your subject. Framing is when you frame your main subject to draw more attention to it and it also blocks off other parts of image with some of the scene. An unusual angle speaks for itself, its basically a shot with a more interesting angle to draw more attention. Leading Lines are when there are lines leading to the main subject. Loren Weiner Arianna White
                                      

  

                                                                             

Three Shot Sequences

In Kapa'a Middle school GT program we learned about sequencing . Sequencing is a visual way of showing an action with three shot types. Each shot type has interesting angles and perspectives. Also each shot type must relate to same thing as the the other two shots so the sequence makes sense.My video shows the action of drinking water, I did this with my partners Loren Weiner Arianna White

All About Me

Hello world I'm Lani, I'm a 6th grade student at Kapa'a Middle School in the GT program. I went to Kamehameha Pre-school, St. Catherines for Kindergarten and 1st grade, and Wilcox elementary for grades 2-5. I love to surf and I play volleyball on Nakoa 14's. Im very energetic and I also Like traveling. Iv'e been to Mexico, Canada, Germany, and Portugal. My favorite food is LAMB CHOPS, my favorite color is blue and purple, my favorite animal are puppy's, and also uhhhhh...... oh ya and my favorite clothing brand are Abercrombie.

My best friends are Kayyyyylene, Asha, Kailee, Dylan, Hershel, Wailana, and Kaya. I like to surf at Pinetrees, Wailua, Kitchens, Rock Quarries, Kealia, and Kalapaki. I like to have fun and Im good at eating food. Some people may say I'm crazy, weird, or insane but in the end I'm ALL OF THEM. Come and tell everyone to check out my blog and follow my adventures!

I would like to become a professional surfer and or professional volleyball player. I would like to either go to Stanford University for college or U.H.  Manoa. When I grow up I would like to live on north shore Kauai but I would like to travel a lot and take a world trip. Ok thanks for reading my all about me!

Spherical Panoramas

These are my 2 examples of Spherical Panoramas that I made in my GT class. I first learned about what Spherical meant so I used Spherical. hyperlink to help. I used Photoshop on the computer, adobe photoshop, digital cameras, and also cameraw to edit the photos. I took pictures with a 15-20% overlap each photo and then put the photos into a 360 degree circle.

Polar Panoramas

These are my Two finished Polar Panoramas that I created in G.T. First I had to learn about the process of making a Polar Panorama with using Steps to a Polar Panorama. Then I chose a good location to take my pictures with a 10-15% overlap each photo. I went into photoshop and merged all my photos together and resized the merged photos into a square image. The next thing I did was rotate the image 180 degrees and then applied the Polar coordinates.

After creating my Polar Panorama world I learned about the Quick Selection Tool . With a picture of myself I used the quick selection tool to cut out the back round. I refined the edges to and resized the cut out of me so it would fit into my world. I put the layer into my world and then added a shadow to make it look more realistic and interesting.