Practice Profile Story

Before doing our final "Words of Wisdom" interview story, we first did a practice profile story.  I was in a group of four with Jonnika Alumpe, Kirklyn Nishida and Mia Lopez.  The purpose of doing a practice story is to help us get ready for our final.  Some reasons that we did this was to practice planning our profile interview and get use to our new Canon cameras that the DOE granted our school.  We had to start planning all our interview shots and a three shot sequence for each cut that we do in our interview. If we don't do this then the interview will lack B-roll and will show every cut that we made in to the interview.

We choose Kirklyn for this interview because she had the best story that we could film at school.  For example we were going to interview Nika about why she like to play piano and how she got stated.  But we could not film her playing the piano at school without interrupting other classes such as the music room. So we did "Kirklyn Draws Anime".  We were able to quickly film this at school during class and had enough background information to write a good introduction.

Profile Project Progress

For our next project we are doing an interview of "Elder's Words of Wisdom".  We got into groups of three, my partners are Kirklyn Nishida and Jonnika Alumpe.  We are interviewing my father, Kenneth Kimura, for words of wisdom.  The interview took place at my grandma's house after school.  I was the interviewer and asked all the questions and Kirklyn was the camera man.  I asked questions like "What is your current profession?" and "How long did you work there?".  He believes that if you try your hardest at anything, you can succeed and feel good because that was the best you could do.

While interviewing Kenneth, we went through some difficult parts.  One thing was that we couldn't figure out if the small clip-on mic was working or not; so that took a good portion of out time trying to fix.  The cameras that we used were Canons which were High Def. and became really clear.  Zoomed in and used the mechanical focus to focus on his eyelashes,  when that is clear when you zoom out the background will be blurred out so its easier to focus on the main subject.

Next time I think our team can work better together by communicating more about when we are going to be filming.  If we do this than we all can go film together than just one or two people filming B-roll or interview. We will be able to work faster with more hands and accomplish more things.  I also think if we all work together on the storyboard we would have planed better then everyone would know how the interview is going to be.  This would make everyone able to edit the interview incited of one or two people because the other person does not know where to put anything.

I think that our team can improve our interview by add more B-roll first. In our rough cut there wasn't much B-roll added and there was noticeable cut in the interview. Also I think that if take some time editing and making the focus statement more understandable.  It was hard to understand because there was interview shots that talked about how he finished collage then it talked about how he loves soccer and fixing cars.  If its becomes more easier to understand then it can be more relatable to the audience.  Last I think if we redo the voice over narrations and make them more slower then the audience will be able to understand them better instead of wondering what they are.

These four pictures are from our class cirque of our Rough Cut.