My Visual Poem

           

For G.T. the class was given to do a visual poem. A visual poem is poetry that is shown by videos, pictures, or art. I chose to do my visual poem on memories because throughout life we make a lot of happy and sad memories so I thought to myself, why not make a poem about it? The visuals that I put into this video made an impact on my poem by showing and explaining to the audience what the poem really means. It also gives them a better vision on what the poem is mainly about.

The overall effects that I put into this video affect the overall meaning by showing them that memories are sentimental moments that can never be forgotten. The effects also give a more meaningful meaning to my poem. I put the effects to get the audience to feel the same way of the poem's mood, meaningful. This poem that I made was meant to actually relate to you and what memories you make throughout life.

I am somewhat satisfied with my final visual poem because it's not exactly what I thought it would turn out to be but it's close enough. I wished I used my time more wisely and get better footage. I should've started getting footage for my visual poem as soon as I had a thought about what I wanted for my visual poem. I also missed a couple of days of school, which got me behind but I'm happy with what I made with the time I had.   

Finished News Story

The HikiNo project that I did with my team for G.T. is about one of my teammates, Kaylynn Drake, and her family tradition of fireknife dancing.  Kaylynn is actually the first female on Kaua'i to fireknife dance going against Samoan tradition.  My team and I thought that Kaylynn and her family tradition was great to make a story out of. My teammates were Kaylynn Drake, Haley Gokan, and Sydney Nice. We got inverviews of Kaylynn Drake, Emmsley-James Drake (her older brother), and Michael-Alan Drake (her other older brother). We also got a really cool picture of Kaylynn and her brothers that were taken by Dennis Fujimoto. The team also took the time to go to two of Kaylynn's live shows and took some really cool videos and shots.

I think the final turned out to be a lot more interesting than I thought it would be. I definitely didn't think it would get the most votes. My team and I are proud of what we have made. It was a great experience to watch the final on HikiNo. This was my first time doing this and in the end I was part of the team who made the video that go to be on TV. Overall, my team and I worked very hard and that hard work paid off. I am proud and happy of my team most of all.

When my teams news story was critqued by our classmates, I was pretty suprised at the results. For my teams and I news story 31% of the class gave us a three and 69% of the class gave us a four. But in the end of the of the results ,  38% of the class voted for my teams news story; which got the most votes. So my teams news story ended up on being HikiNo!