Real World Report

The story I decided to choose from Google World News was "At Least 32 die in Stampede During Indian Religous Festival". In Patna, India 32 people are dead and some are severly hurt. The deaths were caused by a wild stampede that was caused by a rumor that proclaimed there was an electrical wire that fell on some people during the festival. The festival was a celebration of marking the pride of good over evil.

I think that this article was really interesting it indicated a lot of details that were appealing to me. This piece brought my attention because I think that people should be more careful and that they don't need to over exaggerate; it informed me with these really nice fine points in the styory abut how 32 people were killed by this huge stampede that was just because of an electrical wire. I think it was really unfortunate for the other people because they didn't have enough running ability to out run the faster people.

We should care about this because 32 people are dead because of one little tragedy. Maybe, we could learn from this mistake and calm down if something bad happens to someone or something. I also think we should care about this because the people in India seem to over exaggerate things and I think we can help them learn how to keep calm and stay relaxed. i believe that if we can teach them how to stay under control thery wil thank us and we'll be proud that we made a change in something. Finally, we should just care about how people around the world are dying and how we should show our peace and care about the people around us and not only ourselves, that is why we should care.

Lessons Learned

In my opinion the most interesting part of the project would have to be all of the editing and seeing how you can improve. When you see your progress and all the improvement that you have made and when you see that it turns out really good and it's perfect because you put all your hard work into the profile or news story, you have this incredible feeling that you know you did your best. I think that when you get ideas from everyone else on your team it helps not only you learn more, but it actually helps the whole team learn more things even if you don't realize it. To make sure you have the best work you keep brainstorming with ideas that just pop up and use them while your teammates help pitch in with their ideas too.

I think the biggest roadblock my team, Lani, Meleana, Ashley, and I dealt with is working together a lot of us had some disagreements, but thankfully we all finally got on the same page and helped each other. I also think that the understatement could've been improved so that the teams that weren't familiar could have been introduced to the project more. Another problem is the time limit we had, I think that it should've been a little more time, but I understand that the crew from Hiki No wanted the videos in by a certain time.

I believe the most valuable part about film making is working together with your team and cooperating to make the best work you can make. I think that working together is the most valuable thing in film making because you learn valuable things from other people not only from yourself. You get these totally new ideas and you get this perfect project that can't possibly get any better but, then you see that it can get better and that it's not perfect you keep adding and adding so that it looks amazing and when you import it into the Mr. Sanderls' folder you get that feeling that you did the best you could do.

Hiki No Behind The Scenes

It's me again, so this week for GT, all of the students will be working  on a really important project that will....wait for it.....BE AIRED ON LIVE TELEVISION. I know it's kind of exciting that some of our work will be showed live on TV from the statewide news cast of Hawaii called Hiki No. It's a great chance for us, the GT students of Kapaa Middle school, to show what we can do and really prove that "KMS is the BEST".

For a couple of weeks we have been choosing our partners and getting together as a group and deciding if we want to do a profile story or a news story. If we choose to do a profile we will have to get together as a group and choose who we are doing it on and schedule an appointment with that person, so that we know when they are available and when they are not. If we decide to go the other way and do a news story we'll have to see what we are going to report it about. My team and I have already discussed that we are going to do a profile story and it's going to be about our art teacher, Mrs. Sanderl.

After deciding who the team was for this project we got to work; the team is Ashley, Meleana, Lani, and me. We figured that a artist tat is also a teacher at a middle school would be a great story, but we also found out that a lot of people look up to her and that she inspires many people in school and out of school even us the GT students of Kapaa Middle School.

The Experiment

Hey guys! On the 3rd and 4th week of school the GT class has  been working in photoshop creating and making whatever they want. We're labeling this project "The Experiment", because we are experimenting on different things in photoshop seeing what we can do in the program and we are challenging ourselves to try and do the impossible.

Some things I absolutely loved about the photoshop project "The Experiment" was that we got to do what ever we want and just mess around with our artistic side to see what we can and can't do. I liked that we can work with some music on, have fun while doing it, and make artistic creations in photoshop. Some oh so wrong problems were that we didn't have enough time to work on the project, but we still have a couple more days left to create something fun, magical, and creative.

Back to School

Hey guys it's Talia, so I just got back to school on the 4th and I am so excited to be meeting new people and learning new things. I'm also kind of nervous because it's a whole new year and I don't really know a lot of things about my new grade. Even though I am kind of nervous and shaky I think that I can get pass this school year exactly how I did last year but better. I'm currently in 7th grade this year, just turned 12, and am very excited I am still in the GT program this year an I'm hoping to do a lot of fun projects this year.

Well, I think that my most exciting class so far is Art, I am in love with art, so far4 we have done a spinning wheel project and soon will add on to that.Also, we have had the chance to write our name on the front page of our sketchbook which is called the, Name page. I am so very excited for the new and fun ideas that my teacher, Mrs. Sandel, will come up with this year.

Metamorphosis Animation

Our recent project from G.T. is called Metamorphosis. For this project my team and I, Maddie, Kasiah, and Lani had to work together to accomplish taking different animation types and creating a really interesting, creative, and artistic story. We had to make the story understandable and it had to have a purpose this project required to engage the viewers and create a visual of what our purpose was. The team and I basically used two animation types, stop- motion and claymation.

Our focus statement was "Titans Transform Goddess" we chose this focus statement because our story was about how the very well known goddess, Artemis, gets attacked by the ferocious titans and turns into a little harmless puppy and she goes on this amazing and adventurous journey to the Oracle of Delphi so that Delphi can turn her back into the brave and determined goddess she once was. This proclaims to the viewers that even though tough times come in and out you have to believe in yourself and find a way to do what you think is right.

I think that the whole project overall was pretty good it was an interesting experience for all of the students in G.T. I am really proud of my team because we had some rough times but we worked together and got through with them. this project was really fun it taught us the different animation types we could use through different activities in school or at ghome or wherever as long as you have access to a computer.

Words of Wisdom

Mr. Sanderl, my teacher, gave all GT students an assignment which is called, "Words of Wisdom" which meant that we had to think of a relative that was related to us that could tell us some inspiring words.

To succeed in this project my team and I had to work together and focus on accomplishing the assignment; we had to make an excellent piece that would blow Mr. Sanderl's mind. We brain stormed on who we should be the person that would tell us words of wisdom. We all had a difficult time on who we should do the project on.

Our "Words of Wisdom" is important because it explains on why we should follow our dreams and try to achieve the things we do in life. It tells us to not give up on something you want to do. I think that our words of wisdom is excellent, inspiring, and very helpful to people around the world that have a dream they want to exceed in.