Profile Project Progress

In our Digital Media class, Isabella, Jasmine, Angelie, and I are making a documentary about "Words of Wisdom". We interviewed my grandmother, Annie Brown as she talked about being an alcoholic and how she became sober after many years of confusion. The interview takes place at her house, in Kapaa, in her backyard. Annie explains how alcohol had affected her life, and how going to AA meetings has helped her overcome alcoholism. Annie now lives alone with her chickens who lay her fresh eggs everyday, her dog, her cat, her two guinea pigs and her two birds. She is a wonderful and sober grandmother to me and all her other grandchildren. She enjoys going to the beach, spending time with her family, cooking and making art! The documentary explains her life after getting sober and all the benefits from it. Annie is living an alcohol-free life and loving it at the same time!

The technical parts about shooting our b-roll was making sure the camera doesn't move or shake while we are filming. We also had to make sure the shot was within the rule of thirds at all times and that we used composition techniques. In addition, we made sure that our lighting was always natural and great! We also had to keep the camera always in focus! When doing voiceovers you have to make sure that the speaker, which was me, was speaking clearly, loudly and naturally with out messing up. I wasn't allowed to stutter on my words or make any mistakes. Making this video was challenging yet very fun at the same time!

Our team worked together very good, however, my team could work together better by always staying on task! We can also switch jobs more often. It always seemed like one person would always have the same job, every time we filmed. The first time we imported our interview film, it was imported incorrectly and we lost all of the footage, so we had to film the interview again. We learned a lesson, now we know that we always have to check if our footage imported. Sometimes it was difficult because everyone had different ideas and plans for our video, so we had to work together to include everyone's ideas into the video. Overall, we believe that our group worked together very well, which made our video very successful. 

How our group will go from good to great is editing a lot and making our video perfect! We will work together and take turns editing and putting in our voice overs and b-roll. We will make sure our audio is stable through out the whole video and that there is absolutely no camera movement. We can also improve our video by watching and re-watching and re-watching it until we are for sure that there are no mistakes in our final video.

This is our critique from our rough-cut video!

Practice Story Reflection

In my Digital Media class we made a practice interview video in Final Cut Pro. We interviewed one person in our group and filmed B-roll to go along with the video. We interviewed a student who has played tennis all of her life, Isabella Kotsol. The interview went very smoothly with no flaws. The b-roll footage was also extremely successful as well and we got a bunch of shots of the interviewee hitting the tennis ball with the tennis racket; she hit the balls high and low which made our video very interesting because it showed how much experience she has had in tennis. When we were done filming we went back to class and imported all of the footage onto a computer. 

We made a transcript that presented what questions were asked in the interview and exactly, word for word, how the interviewee answered the questions. The transcript paper also had a transition section where we wrote what the narrator will say in the film to connect each scene together. I was the narrator of our film and we had about 5 different times where it would be my voice in the back ground and some b-roll would be playing on the screen. It was pretty easy to shoot my voice because all I had to do was talk into the microphone on the top of my computer. 

The most difficult part was editing because we only had one class period to do it. We all had to work together and take turns editing, cutting and stitching the video together. We put the b-roll footage and and had to put the audio of my voice into the film and finally our video was complete. It was a little stressful to edit everything and turn it into the server folder on time. We were three minutes late because by the time the bell rang, our video was still exporting into the server folder. However, since our team demonstrated a great amount of team work, we believe that our video turned out very good!

All About Me

Hey! Here's a little interesting information All ABOUT ME!

My full name is Tigerlilly Kahealani Zietz. I was born on February 10, 2000! I'm 13 years old and I live in paradise! I was born and raised on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. I love to be with my friends and family. I have one dog named Moku and a guinea pig named Lola. I have 5 siblings and many uncles aunties. My family is very big and we all love to surf and be in the ocean! My youngest sibling is two years old and my oldest is 23. I have a step-mom who married my Daddy when I was 5; they are still together! I have 5 grand parents. My Mom's parents live in California in Sacramento and they are still married. My Dad's parents got married, had 3 children and years later, got a divorce. My Dad's Dad remarried and have six children! My Dad's Mom never remarried and has many animals. She has birds, bunnies, one cat and one dog! She is the nicest and coolest Grandma ever!

I would like to be a chef when I grow up, go to Le Cordon Blue Culinary College and move to San Francisco with my really good friend! Once I get into Kapa'a High School I plan to take Spanish 1, ACCP Core, and Art 1! I believe in living life to the fullest!. 

I love to laugh and have as much fun as I can. I believe that a day without laughter is truly, a day waisted! I love to travel. I have been to many states and have even been out of the country! I don't have many hobbies, but I guess you could say that I like to go to the beach. However I like to go to the snow too. I am a very lucky girl to live in Hawaii! Now you know some things about me!