Lessons Learned

The most interesting part about this project is probably the interviewing itself. This part is interesting because you get to learn something about the person even if you already know about them. But it is also pretty hard because you have to make sure the shot is perfect before you shoot anything. Another thing is editing. Editing is fun and exciting because your piecing together your artwork into one single, and beautiful piece. Plus it is really funny to see the bloopers that the camera recorded while filming.

The biggest road block our team handled were mostly small ones but there was one big problem. We had to import the interview by Tuesday morning but that meant we had to film on Monday. We were originally going to do my dad but he said he was busy at the last minute so I had to think of someone that contributed to my sister's science fair and was available. Then it struck me why don't I do the interview on someone who gave Ritikaa the idea of her science fair project, her ninth grade science teacher.

The most valuable part of our science fair project is the way you bring people into the story. This is the way you keep someone from switching the channel. You need to make the story visuals and audio COMPLETELY perfect. The visuals need to be clear bright and amazing. The audio need to be flowing flawlessly without any stuttering. The story need to make you fell attached to the story emotionally and has to make sense.  

Hiki No Behind The Scenes

Our story is about my sister Ritikaa Kumar. She was the only contributor in her school last year for her science fair. Her science fair project was about testing streams around kauai for pesticides. This got her tenth place in the district science fair. What my sister did to accomplish her goals and her struggles that she faced to attend the science fair.

When the camera is not at work it turns into a more intense work time. This is because behind the scenes we have to do things like transcribe, edit, fill out forms like the pitch sheet and the writing tools template. This part is also hard mostly because of the transcribing. For the transcribing we have to write down word for word what the interviewee is doing. The editing is hard because it has to be as clear as possible with out cutting out the crucial parts.

One thing I should do to make my team better is include everyone and give a job to everyone in our team. Two of us in our team were the only ones working while the other one didn't have anything to do. So to solve this problem we came up with a solution, since we all did our parts in the interview that one left out person will do the voiceover. We will also show him our finished work to see if he says it looks fine. Other than this our team is perfectly hard working, cooperative, responsible and we dont argue.