HELLOOO EVERYONE :)
well, let's see, it was a pretty busy, but successful day :) it all started off with all different alarms and wake up calls going off in our room around 545AM. It was more of a funny experience than a challenging one. We rushed out of our rooms and headed downstairs to the ballroom to receive our paper with the 16 word choices to choice from for SWEET SIXTEEN :) after all the negotiating, we all agreed and narrowed it down to the word "ABSORB" - we broke into our teams and each found a "story." it all started and everyone was off filming. it was pretty intimidating to be running around finding people to interview with hundreds of other kids trying to do the same thing. my team, Tyler, Me (meghan), and Robynn went to the mall across the street and waited for the stores to open until we found a subject... our way of ABSORB was how people are so ABSORBED into their jobs.. we found our subject at a ice cream factory, a austria couple owned it, and moved here to orlando just to open it up and give opportunities to their kids... its cool how everyone has a unique story :)
well, we went back to the editing area and everyone was at a good start... and fast forward... we all finished... running to the box to turn in our tape about one hour before deadline felt amazing :) we proudly waited for the other hawaii schools to finish and cheered them on as they turned it in :)
now, we're getting ready to sleep :)
that's all for now, bye everyone :)
-meghan cadaoas
HOLA EVERYONE!
good after non to some and good night to others! wow, today was a good experience since it was MY first sweet 16 competition. Everyone got up pretty easily yet tired. I was nervous not knowing to expect from myself and my team, Andrew and Keith. We were surprised to actually have a good story for our package. The word we chose as a team of broadcast was 'ABSORB'. As for my team and I we chose to do a package on 'ROOKIES' and what they want to gain from this convention and what influenced them to come. As a rookie myself, it was amazing how schools get along so easily. Everyone seemed like a big family in the ballroom. We weren't stressed out as much as we thought. Our time management skills were pretty good. We were the first team to finish our package so we decided to go get some good 'VIENNESE ICE CREAM' also known as GALLATO, with tyler(: it was funn. It took me a while to eat my ice cream but eventually I got full and andrew trannny ate my left overs. While we were eating, tyler filmed extra b-roll for his group package.
I'm proud of our school in getting the tape in on time. Everyone pumped after they had an hour of break to shower and rest, feeling fresh and clean. Overall we finished successfully with no stress, but with confidence. MAAAAAN, we just all can't wait for tomorrow and see what's goood. Goodnight everyone(:
LOVE YOUU!
-Ariel Alexis Redoble
alooooooha from florida !!!
hi mrs. sueoka and ben tran &all the mommies and daddies back home:)
we miss you all very very very very very very very much !
Anyways, today was a really hectic day. We woke up super early this morning and I guess I was still getting use to the time changes so I couldn't sleep much last night and that totally affected my day. I guess I was just super tired today. The competition was interesting though. We voted ABSORB as our topic because when we looked it up it seemed to have the biggest variety of definitions and angles. After our pitches we were sent off to do our stories. My group did the affects of media influencing people's style choice and how we ABSORB the media. That was our original angle, but during our interviews the story sort of molded into something else. We instead angled it to show how sometimes media affects us but after so long we develop our own styles. We had a lot of conflicts in our groups, or at least my group. It consisted of differences of opinions and working habbits, but in the end the package was completed, and we're still all friends. People make mistakes sometimes, we're bound to disagree or even fight but as long as in the end you remember that you were all friends in the beginning we can get over it. And our show was completed, 4 stories, and 2 PSA's all put together in our show and submitted about an hour before they even called time. And I'm so proud of everyone! We're all extremely tired and its been a long day but we're all excited about tomorrow and our separate competitions.
Well I guess that concludes the end of our day and this blog. Thank you for taking the time to keep up with what we're doing. God bless you all back home. Love yous<3
Katreina Gamil
p.s. MORE PICTURES WILL BE COMING SOON!
