Monday, September 29, 2014

Real World Report


On Tuesday afternoon, a 19-20 year old man jumped into a white tiger's enclosure at the Delhi Zoo, located in Sundar Nagar South Delhi. Some eyewitnesses got photos and videos of the attack. After the tragedy the zoo was closed for the day. The man was identified later as Maqsood, he was a factor worker and a resident of central Delhi’s Anand Parbat. His parents claimed that their son was being treated for mental illness for the past two years. Horrified eyewitnesses screamed and threw sticks and stones at the tiger to try and stop him. The man was crouching against a wall with the tiger starring right in to his face. People at the zoo could hear screams coming from the enclosure and when they got there they could see the man in the tiger's mouth writhing badly in pain. By the time help got there he was already dead. His mom said "He told he he'd be back for dinner." But they were called that night and informed that there son was in the hospital and pronounced dead. 


My opinion is that this was a very tragic day, but I don't think it's the tigers fault because they don't know what to think, there just tigers. Also that the man made a very poor decision to go into that enclosure especially since it's a tiger's cage. I also think that the help should've come quicker, that they came really late was really strange to me. 
I think we should care about this because after this I hope nobody will try and do this. Also that if you do it's not a good choice and that you could die. Or you could get seriously injured. Some people think this would be cool, but it wouldn't be safe. Especially is you have a family or something.   





Monday, September 15, 2014

Lessons Learned

The most interesting part of our project so far is going out and filming our B-roll shots. First we got to go to the Kauai Marriott and film the luau festival that Kaylynn and her group put on. We got different shots of Kaylynn doing fire knife dancing which I think will make our project look even more awesome. Then we met up at the Kapahi park and filmed more B-roll of Kaylynn and her dad fire knife dancing but without the fire. We also went down to the Kapaa Beach Park and we got two more interviews of her two brothers and we also got some more B-roll of that.

I think our biggest roadblock that my team and I handled was making sure everyone could make it to the places we needed to be, to help us film and come up with interesting angles and techniques. We made it through that roadblock by scheduling and planning meets and times to meet. Even though one of our partners couldn't make it we still got the job done without any problems.

To me, I think the most valuable part of the filmmaking process is planning and teamwork. I would say planning because once you plan everything and know where you want to put things, then you could go out and do what you need to do and get the job done. Also I would say teamwork because you can't do the whole project by yourself, it's better to have extra people to helping you, it always makes the job easier. Also they can help you by telling you different ways of doing something which could then make your project better!

Friday, September 5, 2014

HikiNo Behind the Scenes



My team and I decided to do a profile story. Our project is on Kaylynn Drake and her family and how their tradition is fireknife dancing. So far we have filmed a bunch of b-roll of Kaylynn and her family fireknife dancing first without fire and secondly with fire at a Luau at the Marriott. We have also gotten two more interviews from her two older brothers who also do fireknife dancing. We asked them questions such "Do you think Kaylynn will be better than you when she is your age?" and "Are you enjoy watching her?".

When the camera is not rolling, we will plan on what to do when the camera is rolling. Also we will tell the interviewer what we were planning on doing next, anything else they want to add, and what b-roll we will do. Also we will ask everyone around the team to see if anyone has good ideas about good B-Roll shots and much more.

One thing I can do to help my team would be to be there and help plan things and be there to give more advice or maybe different camera angles or even how the interviewer is talking. Also to make sure if we have to schedule anything make sure to make sure everyone can make it first. I think that our video will turn out really awesome!