Finished News Story

My story was about Henry Panui and how he balances his business with his family and his passion and love for surfing. Henry Panui owns the Magic Carpet Care company that he started himself and operates it himself. Thank you to all the people who took time out of their schedules to let us film them, Henry Panui, his wife Kerry Panui and his sister Daphane Panui and my mom who drove us everywhere to get stuff filmed. Also all my team members Leilia, Daileen and Jasmine.

Our final didn't turn out as good as I would've hoped, I think my team and I could have done a lot better and were capable of an a lot better project. We had a great story and really good interviews, but we didn't get very much b-roll or put it together very well. We all had very different schedules so it was really hard to schedule a time when we could all get together and get stuff done. We turned it in but I know that my team and I were capable of a much better story.

        

We got mostly two's from the class and a couple threes and ones. I agree with what the class voted, I voted a two also. I think we got a two because it wasn't put together very well and it was mostly just interviews and very little b-roll. I learned a lot from this project and I know that next time I have a project like this I won't make the same mistakes.

Real World Report

In 2002 Sabrina Allen, who was four years old, was kidnapped by her un-legal mother. After a week trip to see her, her mother brought her to Tiaxcala, Mexico. Sabrina wasn't allowed to go to school and was rarely ever allowed to leave the tiny apartment she lived in. Her dad never gave up on trying to find her, but Sabrina Allen, who went by another name of Fair, was taught be her mom, Dara Llorens, to dislike her dad. She is afraid to see him but is going to therapy for many of the problems she has faced in the past few weeks and will be reunited with her dad very soon.

I think it is such a good thing that she was found and that people never stopped looking and that they never stopped caring. I also think that she should just see her dad no matter how resentful she is. This will show her that he that he truly does cares for her.

I think we should all are about this because yes it s just one person that we don't know but if it were happening to someone you knew you would care. I also think we should care because it is very important that we help people who are going through this type of thing the best we can.

I got my story from http://6abc.com/news/what-missing-girl-sabrina-allens-life-was-like-in-mexico-/335417/

Lessons Learned

I think that the most interesting part of our project is the story, I think our story is really going to help people who need help balancing time.  I know that our story is going to help people understand that it is easy to balance what you love to do and what you do for work.  Our story explains how Henry Panui balances his work and what he loves to do, which is surfing.  He goes surfing everyday but also surfs everyday and takes care of his family.  I really hope our story reaches out to other people and helps them learn and know how to balance their work with their passion.

My group and I haven't faced just one roadblock but we have faced multiple road blocks, in fact we are still facing some right now.  Our first roadblock was that we decided on a person but then found out that someone did our person last year so we had to think of a whole new one.  Once we decided and then finished our pitch sheet we had to start filming our interviews we couldn't decide on a date or a time to meet.  We all have very different schedules or some of us could 't get a ride.  When we finally would find a date all of us could film the people we would have to film wouldn't be able to make it.

I think the most valuable part of the filmmaking process is making sure that we have three amazing interviews.  I also think that having good b-roll is very important.  My team and I had very good interviews but we didn't have that much b-roll and that is very important.