Hey guys! So, school's been going on for about 5 weeks now I think, and within those weeks, every group in Media has started their First Quarter Projects! Kaycee and my First Quarter Project, for those of you who don't know, is about KIUC's goal of 50% renewable energy by 2023 for the island of Kauai, and how Solar Energy is the main way they are getting there. Originally, it was supposed to be just about two very large Solar Farms on Kauai, and how when completed Kauai will have the highest percentage of photovoltaic power of any utility in the U.S., but then we learned that the Solar Plants are the main ways that KIUC plans to achieve their goal of 50% renewable, and we decided that we can incorporate those two ideas together to make an even better news story! So far, I think we are going pretty well on our project. I mean, we are done with interviews (we got SIX!) and only have two left to transcribe, and we have some really good sound bytes! But on the negative side, I personally don't think the audio of our interview's is the best quality, and also, we still have lots of b-roll to shoot and collect.
Like I mentioned earlier, we are all done with our six interviews and have only two left to transcribe. I think this is pretty good, especially since we have had radios, argumentative writing, blogs, and other media responsibilities on top of everything we need to do for our project. We were fortunate to get an interview with Sharry Glass from Apollo Kauai, Mike Tresler (aka Lindey's dad!) from Grove Farms, Shelley Paik and Gregg Matsuo from KIUC, Ben Sullivan who is the County of Kauai Energy Coordinator, and Mayor Bernard Carvalho who is well... the MAYOR!! I think having all our interviews done and only two left to transcribe is a huge accomplishment because, well, it brings us one step closer to a finished project!
Another accomplishment is having great sound bytes. The people we interviewed said some great stuff, which is awesome because it will make it so much easier to write the script and for people to understand our story. Another plus is that I think we have lots of different perspective's. I mean, we kind of got the communities point of view when we interviewed Sharry Glass, we got KIUC's point of view, we got the point of view from Grove Farms, and we got an energy coordinators point of view and the mayors. Having all these different perspectives will give the story more depth and make it more interesting.
However, our Media Project does have a few downsides as well. First of all, I really don't think that the audio is the best :( For the first interview we had, after we played it back on the laptop, we heard a slight hissing noise so we changed the mikes, headphones and T2i Sound box, thinking one of those caused the audio to have a hiss. In the next two interviews, the first one had pretty good audio with all the new equipment, with just a slight bit of wind here or there (but you couldn't hear any hissing), but then the next morning, we used the exact same equipment and you couldn't hear any hissing through the headphones when filming or when you played it back on the T2i, but sure enough, when I uploaded the inter interviews to the computer and started to transcribe, there was a hissing noise!! Grrr!! I was SOOO mad! I still am mad! But I guess there's nothing I can really do about it and at least you can still hear them talking okay. Another downside is that we haven't collected that much b-roll. However, I do have some people to contact to get pictures of what we need and even video footage, and so I think between that and filming our own b-roll, we'll be good.
In conclusion, you can see that our project is going pretty well. Although the audio is not the best and we don't have that much b-roll (yet!), I think our project definitely has the potential to turn out really good! Wish us luck on completing our project!!
Like I mentioned earlier, we are all done with our six interviews and have only two left to transcribe. I think this is pretty good, especially since we have had radios, argumentative writing, blogs, and other media responsibilities on top of everything we need to do for our project. We were fortunate to get an interview with Sharry Glass from Apollo Kauai, Mike Tresler (aka Lindey's dad!) from Grove Farms, Shelley Paik and Gregg Matsuo from KIUC, Ben Sullivan who is the County of Kauai Energy Coordinator, and Mayor Bernard Carvalho who is well... the MAYOR!! I think having all our interviews done and only two left to transcribe is a huge accomplishment because, well, it brings us one step closer to a finished project!
Another accomplishment is having great sound bytes. The people we interviewed said some great stuff, which is awesome because it will make it so much easier to write the script and for people to understand our story. Another plus is that I think we have lots of different perspective's. I mean, we kind of got the communities point of view when we interviewed Sharry Glass, we got KIUC's point of view, we got the point of view from Grove Farms, and we got an energy coordinators point of view and the mayors. Having all these different perspectives will give the story more depth and make it more interesting.
However, our Media Project does have a few downsides as well. First of all, I really don't think that the audio is the best :( For the first interview we had, after we played it back on the laptop, we heard a slight hissing noise so we changed the mikes, headphones and T2i Sound box, thinking one of those caused the audio to have a hiss. In the next two interviews, the first one had pretty good audio with all the new equipment, with just a slight bit of wind here or there (but you couldn't hear any hissing), but then the next morning, we used the exact same equipment and you couldn't hear any hissing through the headphones when filming or when you played it back on the T2i, but sure enough, when I uploaded the inter interviews to the computer and started to transcribe, there was a hissing noise!! Grrr!! I was SOOO mad! I still am mad! But I guess there's nothing I can really do about it and at least you can still hear them talking okay. Another downside is that we haven't collected that much b-roll. However, I do have some people to contact to get pictures of what we need and even video footage, and so I think between that and filming our own b-roll, we'll be good.
In conclusion, you can see that our project is going pretty well. Although the audio is not the best and we don't have that much b-roll (yet!), I think our project definitely has the potential to turn out really good! Wish us luck on completing our project!!
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