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In the past two weeks I was unable to work with the children due to their spring break and their own unavailability. However, in the meantime I have mapped out my website and created the template I want to use. All that’s left is to scan their work and display it properly. 

In the next two weeks, I hope to continue working with them and getting finalized drafts. There will be a lot of changes to the tutoring program I am working with, so I am hoping to work with even more children. I am hoping the transition will be smooth. So far the hurdles and hiccups I’ve faced is the lack of working with them for the past two weeks. It has technically pushed me back, and this is not something I was hoping to rush as I want to give the children adequate time to produce quality work. However, I’m planning to see how the changes in the program go and see where to go from there. 

TO REITERATE: I'm planning to produce a 30-min documentary film.

Hello, I'm finally here to update my blog! I meant to do this last week, but didn't... I was struggling to wrap my head around this project and what I'll be doing this semester.

I think I'm a little crazy for taking this on. Sometimes it feels like too much, but I certainly won't be quitting.

My first reality check was trying to populate the workback plan. It was a necessary step, but so difficult. I had to come back to it a few times to get it sorted out. I always feel like I'm overlooking something when I'm planning out a project, and I've never tried to produce something of this magnitude before. But I sat down with my workback plan again tonight and finally have it in good shape. Coming back to it has helped me process what I'll need to do, and I feel pretty certain now that I'm not forgetting anything. I also recreated my workback plan in Notion, because I don't think I'll be able to stay on track if I only look at it on Google Sheets. (The formatting... the lack of color-coding and other viewing modes... Nah, homie, I can't. TwT) I also gave myself dates to complete things by. I know I can work to a deadline, and now I have a ton of them. Isn't that fantastic!

Anyway, I'm really happy with my organization on this project now that I have all my tasks thought out, written down, and with dates. The tricky part now will be keeping the Google Sheet updated according to the Notion.

Right now I have a bunch of tasks marked as "in progress." There's so much I need to do in the next two weeks, mostly making lists of people and Instagram accounts to reach out to. I already follow a lot of accounts but I have not created a master list for myself to keep track of them all. Once I have my list, I can start drafting up messages to send to them, asking if they might want to participate in my doc, or could put me in connection with people who would. I'm kind of worried that I don't have much to show for myself, a presence, or a reason why they should trust me, that kind of thing. But I'll try it anyway.

I also need to draft emails/ send texts/ make phone calls to people I know, who said in one way or another that they might be able to lend a voice to my project. Cast out a bunch of lines and see if I get any bites. 🎣

Another thing is, I want to find videos on YouTube and Vimeo of the ʻOnipaʻa Peace March that happened a couple weeks ago. I wasn't able to go myself, but I'd really like to incorporate footage of it into my film. Maybe someone would be willing to let me use a few of their shots. If not a person, maybe one of the local news outlets. I also need to do some research. I have a playlist of some news clips about the Red Hill water crisis from when I made my 5-minute piece about it in Fall '22. But there have been updates since then, and I need to collect even more. I'm not 100% sure what or how much I'll do with it yet. But my creative process is 'collect all the stuff, look at and absorb it all, ???, get vision, create the vision'... so step one is gathering more things. :)

Also want to find more PDFs. Last semester, I found some studies and national news articles about Red Hill, pollution by the Navy/ issues similar to what's happening here, but my research topic was persuasion, so I spent the vast majority of my time on that. There's definitely more out there, and I want to find it because I'm thinking of using scans/ screenshots in my film.

Oh, and I'm planning to request titles from ʻUluʻulu by 2.16. Gonna try my absolute best to stay on top of the deadlines I've set for myself. LONG POST: FINITO!!!

Mahalo,

Deliverable: I've been working on editing my interview videos for this week and next week. I am also been working on the IG carousel for each interviewee. I have made a schedule for myself to edit 1-2 videos per week so I can get it reviewed by Sharla and post it the following week. In the meantime, I have been posting motivational type content on my IG makeyourmove.cm

Internship: This past week, I've been creating promotional items for events happening on campus such as Alejandro's Food Truck for Taco Day. We were able to promote the event and give out 100 tacos free to HonCC students. Since creating reels and interactive posts for students on my internship's IG honcc_sld, there has been an increase of accounts insights reached within the past 30 days (2.7K non followers).

University of Hawai’i - West Oahu Spring 2018 Commencement Ceremony

Saturday, May 5, 2018: Just when we all thought we would get rained out today, mother nature cooperated this morning to shed some sunshine on the graduating class of Spring 2018. I was blessed with the opportunity to take pictures of the commencement ceremony on behalf of the Academy of Creative Media. (Thank you @shanaoka!) Being able to witness my fellow ACM classmates receive their diplomas today was very inspiring, and it makes the light at the end of the tunnel shine just a little brighter for me. I’m very enthusiastic for my remaining two (or three) semesters at West Oahu knowing that my turn is just around the corner. 

Congratulations to all of our Academy of Creative Media Graduates! (Pictured: Hadji Corpuz @hadjidesigns, Ben Gilbert, Mandy Quitog @mandyquitog, Mengdi Cui, Jaylina Feliza Abuy @jayabuy311, Analyn Delos Santos, Adriene Labrador, and Kevin Bechayda)

Moments before receiving their Bachelor of Applied Science in Creative Media diplomas. (Pictured: Ben Gilbert, Analyn Delos Santos, Jaylina Feliza Abuy @jayabuy311, Mandy Quitog @mandyquitog, Mengdi Cui, and Hadji Corpuz @hadjidesigns)