The Creation Of Richie's Video Essay

Making my video essay was really organized. What I did first was grabbed a piece of folder paper and wrote a first draft. After I made the draft, I read it to myself and timed how long I was reading. It was 2 minutes and 30 seconds long which was the perfect time. So then I grabbed the laptop and went to imovie. I only filmed it once and it turned out pretty good. So I had help moving it to my powerpoint and the added the music. I picked a song that matched my theme of the Air Force called "Learning To Fly" by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers. I tried to make it more interesting so I added the whole song to the whole powerpoint. After that my masterpiece was finally finished, and in my eyes it turned out really good.

Creating my hero PowerPoint

The weekend I had to create my powerpoint, I went camping so I only had one day to finish it. It was kind of hard finishing it in such a small amount of time. All in all, I still finished it. What happened when I was making it is I started with all the words first, then put the backgrounds. I had to do some research on my grandfather on the way through. I learned that he had a whole memorial dedicated to him and they fundraised over $500,000! Once I finished all of the details I added the backgrounds. My grandpa was the highest enlisted rank in the Air Force so I made my theme "Air Force". It ended up pretty cool if I was the judge. After the backgrounds went in I got on my Facebook and pulled over some pictures of him and arranged them in a decent way. Then I changed the color and font of all the words. Finally, I asked my mom to revise it. We changed a few things and finally saved it onto my flash drive.

My Hero

    My hero is my grandfather, Richard A. Gauvin.  He was a Chief Master Sergeant in the United States Air Force.  Which is the highest enlisted rank. He worked in a program in the Air Force called AMMO. What the AMMO's do is pack all the bombs and missiles on to the planes. Also, if you hadn't noticed, I was named after him! I chose my grandpa for my hero because he has served in the air force for over 20 years! I think it would be awesome if I grew up like him in the Air Force. He had passed away about a year before I was born, and since then there has been a memorial dedicated, websites made for him, and he is even remembered by staying at punchbowl memorial in Honolulu. Although we never met face to face I know he is my hero for all that he has done throughout his lifetime. My grandfather means so much to me, I would love to just tell him thank you for all the things he has done for me, my family, and our country.
       I think all heroes should be caring towards you and all other people. He or she should be a very generous person towards everyone. They should have done something great for you, your family, or even your country. Your hero should inspire you to do something important or successful for not only yourself, but helpful to others too. Heroes should be wise and fulfilling in their lifestyle. Also, a hero needs to be brave. A hero must be able to handle scary or stressful situations.
       My grandfather carries all of those traits. He cares for all other people. He inspired me to want to be in the Air Force. He is very brave. Plus, he served our country for over 20 years. I love my grandfather very much and hope I can be just like him someday. I hope I can serve my country, serve in the Air Force, and most importantly I want to make my grandfather proud to have me as his name sake, Richard Gauvin.

Secret Santa

    For Secret Santa I wish I could get the newest Foo Fighters CD. I don't remember the name, but it will say 2010 or 2011 on the back. The Foo Fighters are my favorite band. I only have their CD from 1999, but its so old. I mean the music is still good, but it leaves out do much of the new songs. If I had that I would listen to it like 24/7. If that is sold out the newest Smashing Pumkins album or Muse album would be awesome too.

    Also, I love starbucks so it would be pretty cool to have a gift card to starbucks.

    Thats what I wish to get for secret santa.

ISA's

ISA was pretty fun in my eyes. I had to do water. What that meant is I had to make sure nobody opened the top of the jug and if the jug got low I had to refill it. I was standing in the sun the whole time so it got really hot. The cool part was all the schools coming over. On the Waipahu and Kapolei team I knew people from my other schools. It was kind of like a reunion. Cleaning was terrible. The bathroom was disgusting. The food we got was pretty good though. We had teri burgers and chips. So all in all ISA's were pretty cool.