Proactive or Procrastination?

I am proactive person. To be proactive you take care of things right away and you don't come up with reasons or excuses not to do it. I would say I'm proactive because I do take care of things right away so I have free time afterwards. I don't come up with reasons not to do it. Even though tons of homework gets on my nerves, I still try my hardest to get it done, especially if its due on Monday and I have the whole weekend to work on it.

My level of productivity gives me a lot of free time, in school and after school. I have more free time after school though because I can get my homework done quickly. If I do that then I have time to do whatever, invite my neighbor over, jump on my trampoline or even go for a walk. In school I don't get that much free time because we are usually working right up to the bell. Only once in a while we get a few minutes of free time.

If there was a way to change something about how I work it would be, the neatness. I would change how neat I write because right now I don't like my handwriting. It makes my papers kind of messy but not that bad. To do that I will write a little slower and just focus on keeping it neat. Another thing I would change is how organized I am. I'm pretty organized, but I could do better. To do that I will just keep everything in order, neat and organized.

My Visual Poem

     NiceS VisualPoem from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo

My visual poem is about family. This visual poem makes an impact to me because family is everything. Family is what this world is made of. I think this poem topic is used quite a lot because it's a poem about family, everyone loves writing about their family's.

On most of my special effects I think it caused this poem to be more dramatic. Also that the overall meaning is good because it's about family. I also think the mood was set good because with the heavy low music in the background it kind of adds a dramatic tone to the story.

In the end I feel like my visual poem turned out pretty good, even though I don't have much video footage and that I have a lot of pictures, I still think it turned out really good. To improve or make my video better, I would try to get more B-Roll of my family actually doing family things. Like having fun together, or laughing and talking about life. Also in one part of my video it talks about a family being like a book and how if you find an ending you know their love is near, it shows a picture and it says 'and they lived happily ever after," I think that it didn't really match, also that I got it off the internet so it wasn't really mine. All together I still think I did pretty good on this project.

Finished News Story

                              Kapaa Middle School MEDIA

Our story was about the first female fire knife dancer on the island of Kauai. It was about her challenges and her success doing fire knife dancing throughout her life. The people who helped us through this would be, my team, Haley Gokan, Leslie Acoba, and Kaylynn Drake. The parents were also a big help. They got us to the places we needed to be and helped us come up with new ideas.

At the end, I think our final turned out really good, very detailed, also that it kept the watcher interested. I am really happy with our video because I think we worked our hardest on it to get it from good to great. I also think that we evenly worked on it to make it better, and to help give new ideas and steps to make it better.

Our critique results turned out really good, we had a lot of 4's and a few 3's but no 2's. Our critique results showed how we tried our hardest to make this story the best. I do agree with these results because they seem accurate to me, even though all the other videos were awesome. Also my opinion is that we were actually a really good team and we all worked good together.