English II Over the shoulder shot (OTS)

WALT - "Analyse how film aspects show meaning"

This marks my last DLO for the Film/Visual Language topic. I fairly enjoyed doing this one, I was kinda confused but I got the hang of what the OTS Shot meant later on when making this. I hope that In the future I'll be able to understand how the OTS Shot works more in the future.

English II Dutch Tilt

WALT -  "Analyse how film aspects show meaning"

This marks the third DLO I've done for the topic of Film/Visual Language, Honestly, I kinda enjoyed doing the dutch tilt because it's such an interesting shot to me. The fact that once you keep seeing this shot in movies, you'll always know if somethings going to happen and what's likely to happen.

English II Product Design

WALT - "Analyse how film aspects show meaning"

This marks the second DLO I've done for our topic on Film/Visual Language study this time for the second one I picked product design. doing this one made me realize how similar they are to just props.

Reflection II Wananga

About my book - The book I've read over the last past weeks is book 4 of the Alex Rider Graphic Novel series whilst waiting for Book 6 as I've read book 5.

Book 4 - Book 4 starts us off with Alex going on a vacation with one of his friends and their family. During their stay at the island where their vacation is at. The hotel sets on fire injuring Alex's friend's dad. Before the hotel set up in flames, Alex had seen an old enemy that he'd seen in book 1. this led him to investigate which lead him to find a number ringing it and hearing the name of a famous person and the voice of that person.

Alex then sets out to try and exposes the famous singer for trying to kill his friend's father.
Throughout the story, we find out that the friend's father was a journalist who was doing a topic on a famous person whose name is Cray.

Cray throughout the world is known as famous singers and the creator of a new console which has higher graphics than any other current console in their world. 
After being picked to try out the console after Alex steals a ticket to sneak into a show that Cray was hosting, Alex sneaks into this big building where we get to see a conversation between a man and Cray. Cray was using the man for information in turn the man would get 2 million dollars for the information he gave Gray. During that part of the book, Cray tells the man his money is in a big class case which on a stall is a case that has his money. When the man opens the case he finds out that it's empty after he opens the case a window-like door closes his exit from exiting from the class case a second later 2 million quarters begin to pour down on the man likely killing him. As Cray kills anyone who gets in his way or has valuable information that he can not let people walk away knowing about.

This the part that I've just passed and I'm currently still continuing the book. So far I'm really enjoying the series and cant wait to read book 6. 

DLO II English II Point-Of-View

WALT - "Analyse how film aspects show meaning" 

In English, we recently finished doing creative wiring. And have now moved onto Film/Visual Language Study. For the start of this topic, we had to make a DLO on one of the film aspects we were given, for this I picked Point - Of - View.

Theme Guide II English II Film Study

In English, we've been doing a few workshops about themes, costumes, angles and lighting. There are twp groups each group takes a turn, but when one group is up for workshop the other is doing independent work. This is my independent work. I feel proud of this knowing we had limited time to get it done.

Workshop 4 Lighting and Colour II English

Link to our today's workshop

Link

Warm Lights - Orange, yellow, red tinge, Feelings - Cosy, Warm, Welcome

Cold Lights - Blue, Green, White, Feelings - Grey, Clean, Sterile

Bright light - Obvious, Feeling happy, Energetic

Dull Light - Faded, muted, Feeling - Boring, Lonely, Sad, Tiresome

Natural Light - Sun, Reflections, Moon, Stars, Lightning, Fire

Artificial Light - Light Bulbs, Screens, LED's, Man-made sources of light, Electricity

Colour Palette - All the colours used in that shot E.g District - Natual greens, Blacks, Browns

Key Words - Atmosphere - The mood or feeling of a place. Mood - Feeling. Location - a place where something is set.

Scene Name - District 12
What is happening? - Katniss is running through town to go hunting in the woods

Techniques - Cold Light, Lots of greenery, Dull light, Natural light, Sunlight, Clouds

Effect on the viewer - Cold, Not where you want to be, Back in time, Old fashioned, Lots of poverty, Outdated materials, Live closers to the land

Directors Purpose ( Pick a theme) Rich v Poor - Who was more privilege, power & opportunities -They don't have the privilege of technology - No artificial sources of light. 

Other techniques - Costumes, Greys/Blacks - Coal Miners, Black shoes - less dirt

Name Scene - Train station at the capitol 

What is happening - Capitol citizens are waiting for the tributes to arrive

Techniques - Lighting- Cold, Bright, Artificial- Electricity, Colour palette- Colourful, Vibrant, Vivid Costumes and what/grey modern walls

Effect on the viewer - Modern, Sets the mood- Excited for the tributes

Directors Purpose - Rich v Poor- Power, privilege, & Opportunity - They have access to technology - Trains, the station, better sewing technology because the costumes are better. Not Poverty in Capitol - They don't have to work, Privilege of being able to go and watch the tributes arrive

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In the scene at the train station, lighting and colour are used substantially to show the theme of 'rich vs poor' in this case, rich means the privileges given to those in the Capitol. This is demonstrated through the use of bright, cold, artificial lighting and a modern colour palette of whites and greys for the buildings and vibrant pinks and blues for the clothing This makes the audience feel like the location is modern and the citizens are excited for the tributes to arrive. The purpose of this was to show that the Capitol has the privilege of technology - They have electricity, trains and access to better clothing. This worked well with the use of costumes. The costumes of the Capitol are unique, exquisite and exotic which shows they have more variety and sewing technology than those of people in the district. This can be juxtaposed to the conditions in District 12 where there is no electrify and the colours and lighting are more natural.

Reflection II Art

 For the last past 2 - 3 weeks, we've been working on stencilling in Art. Our first step was to find a shape anyway, and draw it down and then cut it out to make our stencil. we then had to paint on our stencil and make it pop.
For this, I used two symbols from one of the games I play.
One was based on the class White Mage, which is a class which bases its self on healing.
The other one I used was a tank Symbol, this class is called Gunbreaked and of course it mainly about attacking.

I picked the White Mage symbol because It's the class I play
And I picked the Gunbreaker symbol because one of the characters who follow you in your journey is a Gunbreaker.

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Subject Matter	Form	Composition / Space	Content /  Meaning
What is the subject matter of your stencil? A Mickey Mouse? Gumboots? Kowhaiwhai? My subject matter is a pair of symbols that gives off a name. The one on the left is Called GunBreaker, and the one on the right is called White Mage. These symbols are symbols of a class from a game called FFXIV Gunbreaker is a tank while White Mage is a healer.	Does your colour set a mood or structure the picture space? Not really using colour (Used Black and Whites)	What is the chief interest of your painting? The stencil shape? The negative space? The Stencil’s themselves as I know the meaning around them.	Does your stencil express any values or ideas?  My symbols represent a class, The round symbol with the circle in the middle is the healing class White mage. While the symbol that seems mirrored is the tank class GunBreaker.
Is your stencil subject matter a symbol? A logo? A portrait? Something else? A symbol	Are the colours related in bold contrasts or gradual transitions (blends)? No colours used	Stencils are quite flat. Have you used overlap to create space? No I didn’t. overlap	Is the meaning of your stencil changed by the way you paint it?  repeating the stencil shape? Nope
Have combined your stencil with other imagery? For e.g., used it in a landscape? No, but I’ve added texture to the ground and my image.	Does your painting use a variety of applications of paint? Have you used Impasto or flat painting? A wash, stippling or drybrush?  Used stippling with a brush to give the work texture.	Tone and Colour contrast create space. Do your colours react against each other? Move forward or backwards in space? Not really because I only used the shades of Black and White.	How does repeating a stencil symbol change its meaning? Does it have more emphasis or less?  Didn’t repeat or overlap
Does your subject matter change? Is the painting more about the colour, form, texture, and space than the stencil subject matter? Still about the stencil	What kind of texture does your painting have? Were you able to control this effect? A rough kind of texture. Yes I was able to, before I did my final work, I did a single piece of only the Gun Breaker symbol with the same texture in the background to see the results.	Does the repeated placement of your stencil create any focal points or leading lines? Nope	How does the colour used change the meaning of the stencil? For e.g.,if a Batman symbol is painted in pink colour?  The original Symbols are all in black, I just changed it to white but it still gives off the same reasoning

Image of the final thing
The two small pictures are my trials and the big thing is my final with both of the symbols put together.

English II Workshop 3

Workshop 3 - How are costumes used to enhance the story?

Where are these shots from? + What is happening

• Katniss, Effie, Gale, Peeta, D12 Citizens, Primrose, Peace-Keepers
• Beginning
• Costumes D12 - Poor clothing, grey, worn, dull, simple, limited, best clothes for the reaping scene,
• costumes reflect the setting
• Food Source

What themes are we exploring?

• Rich v Poor
• Capitol = Rich ones
• Effie

Describe the features of costume

• bright colours, more designed/fashionable, has makeup, jewellery

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In the reaping scene, Costumes are used effectively to show the theme of Rich v Poor.

We see this when the people of District 12 are waiting for someone to be chosen to represent their District. The lifestyle of District 12 is reflected in the clothes that they wear. These clothes are made of a limited material, they are dull and boring. This makes us understand that costumes represent the theme rich v poor, in the capitol and the Districts. There is a difference between the opportunity, power and privilege between District 12 and the Capitol. The director did this to make the audience understand how costumes can symbolise the inequality between the Capitol and the Districts. This symbolisms combined with a wide shot of the crowd in District 12 and an over the shoulder shot of Effie reveal the lack of opportunity in district 12 and the power of the capitol. This aspect can be contrasted to the character of Effie, she wears a bright pink outfit that has a lot of design behind it revealing the opportunities given to characters in the Capitol.

Reflection For Last Weeks PE II PE

Last week in PE the spots we had a play with was Netball, football and basketball.
I mainly focused on Netball as I had an understanding of the game because I played it back in primary school for winter sports.

I feel for teamwork in Netball was good, I was involved with everyone else and managed to have fun in Netball as when I was young and played it, it wasn't that fun because people were either taller than you or no one passed to you.
But I feel I did well in it.

I put myself in Level 4
because
I always have my PE gear and I'm always trying to get involved with others. and I'm making sure I'm always on task with my work.

Unwind II Part Three-Transit II English

In the course of the book, Connor and Risa get separated from Lev, who travels for a time with another character. Why do you Shusterman choose to split the narrative into two distinct threads? What do you think this achieves? How does this affect the evolution of the characters?
This has allowed Lev to get more book time and to also allow him to gain more character development because really at the start he was just a kid who thought of Risa and Connor as his kidnappers and his real and only goal at the time was to get freedom from them and get unwound, though that changed when he called Pastor Dan. After he's separated he meets with Cy-Fi meeting these characters give Lev character devolvement and more book time. this also, however, tells us what happens when someone who's alive gets a part of someone's brain or any part attached to them.

On p125 & p129 the novel touches on same-sex relationships. Has the attitude towards same-sex couples changed (for better or worse) in this futuristic society? Explain your response
Not really as in our day and age someplace accept same-sex marriage because there are some states in America which allow same-sex Marriage and this story is based in America, we also know it's illegal because Cy-Fi says he has two dads who were mmarried even though marriage was illegal for same-sex marriage. I'm guessing that mmarried is a type of secret form of marriage.

P130 begins our journey into understanding a little more about Cy-Fi. Through his character, what do you learn about the effects of unwinding on both the donor and receiver?
We learned that Cy-Fi had a part of someone else's brain attached to his brain. this effected him in many ways, the effect was that there were times when he'd just lose control of himself and start stealing things. Something which he'd never do but it was something that the kid who got unwound would do, the kid who got a half of his brain attached to Cy-Fi. We find this out when Cy-Fi steals from a shop but later on tells Lev to take to away from out of his site in case he changes his mind, indicating to the part of his brain that belonged to the other kid, he also talks about how he sees things about this kid.

What is the real reason Cy-Fi needs to get to Joplin, Mo? pg131
Like the answer above, a part of his brain isn't his, it's another kids brain. Cy-Fi needed to go to Joplin because that's the one place he keeps seeing/hearing so he assumes that the kid who's now a part of him used to live there or someone close to him lives there.

What is the significance of Connor holding in his anger around Roland Pg 147
During the book Risa and Connor find themselves in an unwinding shelter with children who were going to get unwound, one of them also happens to be Roland. During their stay, Risa talks to Connor about how whenever some is near Connor they start talking about someone who could take down Roland. Risa said that it was best if Connor keep his anger in check, because if his anger got the best of him in front of Roland then it would likely be a fight that wouldn't end till either Roland or Connor died.

Connor's anger and lack of impulse control is often a problem for him until he learns to control and channel his emotions. Do you ever feel like your impulses are stronger than your will? What strategies do you use to control your feelings? Do they work?
I must admit there are times when I get into fights with my brother due to the things he says and once he says it, it's an immediate reaction for me to snap back because some things he says I find offending even if they don't seem to be.I also guess I just snap back now is because of when I was younger our relationship was like tipping iceberg and back then I was really sensitive and words hurt a lot for me back then, so it's sort of like a protective mechanism for me to just snap back. Other than that I don't follow my impulses unless it means comforting my friends if they're sad.

Unwind II Connection Task II English

If you think the idea of anonymously giving away your baby is only real in science-fiction, you're wrong. Click on the link below to read about 'Baby Hatches' that are currently in use  in Europe (Predominantly in Germany) https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18585020

(Connection Task - Make a connection between this article and Unwinds Storking)


What is storking and what relation does it have to the article above? - In this article, it talks about how in Europe Mother or Possibly fathers are dropping their newborn baby's into a stainless steel hatch with a handle, inside are folded blankets for the baby, and a letter for parents who decided to change their mind and want the baby back and then just walking away leaving it behind, or mothers who secretly leave the baby in the hospital.
In Unwind there is a similarity to this... In Unwind dropping a baby off and leaving it is called Storking in Unwind, In Unwind you can't kill a child till it turns 13 so parents take to storking the child, so they have fewer responsibilities on their shoulder and that they have a second chance as they call it. To Stork, a child a Mother or Father would go to a neighbourhood and find a house and drop the baby off at the doorstep and run away. The people that are mostly targeted by storking are the rich people, the one's that have the money for the baby. However, if a parent is storking a baby and they get caught, they won't be left to run away, they'll be caught and told to take the baby back. However, if the family that got the baby on their doorstep doesn't want it, they can take it to a sate home which is basically an orphanage and a lifetime home.

In an state home the children will live there and help out the other children, once a child, of course, reaches 13 their ability to be unwound is available, but only if the state home feels that that child has reached their peak and has nothing left to improve, this is also done in state homes to give more room to new children who would come to the state home.

KorfBall II PE

Did you like Korfball?

I fairly enjoyed korfball, it, in my opinion, was fairly easy to understand and play so I didn't have any problems with it

Do you think you worked well with your teammates during Korfball

Did I work well with my team? I think I did well helping them out during the game, even if I didn't have to do much because most of the time the ball always reached the same people and the time I would get the ball and help out was when the ball came my way and no one in my team managed to reach it, but I'm pretty pleased with my helping during the game.

What could be better

I feel as though the teams could be a bit fairer as sometimes there's a team which just has a much larger advantage than the other team and it's pretty hard to play a game if the other team is always winning becuase of their high experince advantage.

Steak/Beef? sandwich

Last week for our practical on Thursday we made steak sandwichs but instead of steak we used beef, the bread was small buns with oats on them.

In my sandwich, I had mayo, Sauce, lettuce, beef (Chopped up) along with a bit of cheese

As always when we work in a kitchen in a group of 4 we must work together meaning we need to take turns doing something in the kitchen.

What I thought about our teamwork last week was good, we all got to do something, I grated some cheese, got the lettuce and dried some of the dishes and stuck the rest away.

The tasting of our food - I loved it, I don't really eat oated bread but I really enjoyed making and eating the sandwich as it had a different outcome I thought it would have.

For an instant, I couldn't really taste the oats which helped a lot and it also made the food better as I know even if I couldn't taste it I was still getting something good in me.

And overall I give the result of everything together including teamwork and food taste a 9

Benefits and disadvantages of money (Social studies)

In Social studies yesterday we started a topic based on money, we got into either a pair or a group and stuck in a bubble what is money and gave our idea's of what we thought money was, after we did that we were given a task to complete which gave us 2 choices 1 was to create a mindmap and show us what money is, it's uses and how it's changed over time and the second option was to make a T Chart and give the benefits and disadvantages of money, I did option 2.

What did I learn about the benefits and Disadvantages of money?
Well For the benefits you can buy the stuff you really need, like Food, Clothes and BedWear and you also need it to pay for your rents.
And the disadvantages is that sometimes people will scam you for something you won't online for money, People will use lots of money on stuff they don't need leaving what they really need with no money meaning they'll have no money left to get what they really need as they used it for something else.

Money controls people it takes over people's lives, people think that all they need is money and that it can find happiness, I mean it makes you happy but not the right happy, the real happiness is finding your true love, money just makes you happy for a while but then it ends, like the true happiness love is lasting for more than the happiness you get form money.

Calculating squares on a grid.

In Math we were shown by our Math teacher a 10 by 10 grid. The grid wasn't really 10 by 10. What I mean by that is that each corner side you're counting twice when really it's only really meant to be counted once.

So the top is 10 and bottom is 10 and the sides are 8 as if the sides were 10, it would mean you were counting the sides twice.

So this is a little blog post about how to calculate the squares on a grid (10 by 10)

In First base we have to find out how much numbers are on the outline of the border of the grid, For a 10 by 10, it's 36.

So we have that down all we need to do is find an easy calculation for it.

A simple way to do it is
10 + 8 + 10 + 8 = 36
So 10 from the top and bottom and the two 8 at the sides, add them together to get 36.

If we covert the numbers algebra wise then the 10 would be the single n and the 8 would be the (n-2)
which Gives us our calculation like above but in letters and numbers.

n + (n - 2) + n + (n - 2) = 36

(Bonus)
That is simple algebra when it comes to time tables we use algebra like this
Normal - 4 x 8 + 4 = 36
Algebra - 4 (n - 2) + 4 = 36
Just doing the same before with the eight converting it into an (n - 2) and leaving the 4 as a 4.

(Can you think of any other ways of doing a grid finding the answer and converting it into algebra?)

Film study Essay practice (English)

In the film, Coraline Low angle shots are used effectively to establish how vulnerable a character looks from down below.
This is demonstrated in the scene where after Coraline had finished watching a show outside waiting was the other mother and other father.
A low angle shot from the POV of Coraline looking upwards towards the other mother and father as they look down on her making Coraline seem small and vulnerable.
This makes us understand that Coraline is powerless against the other mother and father and is an easy prey form the other mother's view.
The purpose of this is to show that a character is powerless towards the person above them and that they have 50/50 chance of either dying or living depending on the person personality (Person above them).

Essay for Film study Practice

-Night

-Other World

-Can't talk

-Mother and Coraline going into the house, just seen mouse circus

-Pov-Other mother, wants him to smile

-Wybie is unhappy

-Warm Light

-High angle, makes the subject vulnerable (Wybie) to the POV dominant (Other mother)

-Dark colours but bright because Coraline Coraline doesn't know this yet.

-Facial expression - Sad, Because his mouth is gone down and his eyebrows are arched in fear

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In the film, Coraline High angle shots are used effectively to establish a character's position of power.

This is demonstrated in the scene where Coraline and Wybie return from visiting their neighbours.

A high angle shot from the pov of the other mother looking down the stairs towards Wybie makes him look vulnerable. 

This makes us understand that the other mother has all the power and might not be as kind as Coraline thinks at this point.

The purpose of this is to show a character who unhappy in the 'other' world and foreshadow the horrific turn of events later in the story.

Combined with the use of facial expression, Wybies Mouth is frowning and his eyebrows are arched in fear, the idea of being vulnerable is enchanted. this aspect can be compared to Coraline's battle with the other mother at the end of the film where we see the true evil nature of the beldam.

SEXXXY Paragraph (Film Study)

Cards (Text Styles)

In Text styles after we made new used paper from paper its self, and coloured the paper, we made 4 cards (Other card has been sent off somewhere) we were given a plan to make our cards and we had to make 4 each, meaning we would have 4 in total by the end, I'm happy with how mine turned out the one I'm most proud of is my first one, the one that got sent off first, and the paper we made, we had to use on our cards.

In the end, I really liked how they turned out.