The Lorax

Text title: The Lorax

Text type: Film Narrative

Text creator: Dr Seuss

Text purpose: To inform us that we always need to respect our environment for our future generations. If we don't respect our environment bad things will happen to us, for example, if you cut all the trees in the world we won't have any more oxygen like we have now. 

Date: 29th March 2012

In the whose interest in this text? The people who are willing to watch this movie is the people that are 12 people under. This can help them understand the future generation that they will have. 

A statement that includes the text- The image in the Lorax trailer, directed by Dr Suess, suggest future, success, and the generation that the world will have.

The evidence- There are many positive reviews about this movie such as "there's little scary stuff, and the pro-environmental message is a positive one."

The explanation/justification- I believe that this movie is for kids that need understanding about our world and theirs.

Film study

This week in film study we have 2 choose 1 task to do. The first task that was given to us was to select two lead characters and create a challenges chart. Then the second one was Create a resume for the 2 lead characters. I chose to do the first task because I found it easier to do, and more enjoyable. The 2 lead characters that I did was the other wybie and the other mother. They are both in the other world which was nicer in the real world. 

What am I learning? We are learning how is a Character developed in a film.

How does this work show my learning? This shows my learning by Explaining how a character is portrayed using a specific example from the text.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning? What I'm wondering as a result of this learning is to learn more about how a character is portrayed. 

Addiction on the mind & Body- Alcohol

During the past several weeks in health, our teacher gave us a lot of various topics that we can choose to do. My friend and I decided to do Addiction on the mind & body (alcohol).  Once we have finished deciding what topic to do the second task that we now need to do is choose five questions that we then answer later. My friend and I task were to answer that five question and explain them to how to improve it. Afterwards, once we have finished answering the five-question our last task was to create an activity or make something that you can present.

5 BIG questions	Tick when completed
Why is it harmful?	✅
What needs to change?	✅
Who can or can’t drink alcohol?	✅
How do you become an alcoholic?	✅
How do we minimise harm?	✅

Strategies	What the strategies are	What areas of wellbeing the strategy will improve and how	Short term and/or long term
Strategy 1	Drink water or other non-alcohol drinks between alcoholic drinks or just drink non-alcoholic drinks in general.	Taha hinengaro, Taha wairua, Taha whanau and Taha tinana	Long term
Strategy 2	Avoid high percentage of drinks cause this means they have more alcohol in them.	Taha hinengaro, Taha wairua, Taha whanau and Taha tinana	Long term
Strategy 3	Eat some food before and while drinking, to slow your drinking pace and slow the absorption of alcohol.	Taha hinengaro, Taha wairua, Taha whanau and Taha tinana	Long term

We present our topic by using visme and creating art about it. We chose to do visme and art because we think that it will look good when we present it. I'm sure that I have worked really well with a classmate, I am really happy with the presentation that we have made.

Here it is:

Made withVisme

Film Study, 2020, Freytags Pyramid

This Friday in Film study, our teacher gave us 2 tasks that we can choose from. The first task that we have to do was using Venngage we have to create a timeline of key plot points that occurred in the visual text. At each point give a brief explanation of what happens and how that affected the direction of the story. The second task that was given to us is to create a Freytag's pyramid to show the progress of the plot of our visual text.  I chose to make a Freytag's pyramid because I found that easier to do. 

 

What am I wondering? I am wondering to analyse the plot of a film. 

How does this work show my learning? This shows my learning by explaining how the film plot is constructed to engage a viewer using technical language. 

What am I wondering as a result of this learning? For the result of this learning, I am wondering to learn more about Freytag's Pyramid. 

Music Sexxxy paragraph

On Tuesday for Inside and out, our task was to make a constructed paragraph that shows how does music enhance the story. I made a sexxxy paragraph explaining it works. 

Here is my paragraph: 

In Coraline, a lot of different techniques were used in the film. One of them is music, music was used effectively to describe the feeling and the character. This is shown by the opening scene of Coraline which had major chords and average tempo to generate calm dynamics. These make the audience feel relaxed and comfy. The purpose of this is to present who created the film, this works well with the background music and the name that was recorded. The sound reminds me of peaceful music.

Blog about my experience dissecting the heart

What have we been learning? For the past few days in science, we have been learning what is a circulatory system and also how to dissect a heart. We are doing this to learn how does a heart work and their function are. 

Why are we dissecting heart? We are dissecting the heart so that we can learn all those labels and functions that we have learnt.   

What are the parts of the heart? Did you see them?

Atrium - The atrium is the upper chamber of the heart that receives blood.

Ventricle - The ventricle is responsible for pumping the blood away from the heart.

Valves - The purpose of the valves is to move the blood around the body.

Pulmonary Artery - The right ventricle artery which pumps oxygen to the lungs.

The two-part of the heart that we did not see is the vein and the atrium because it got cut off. 

Did you enjoy the dissection? Why/ Why not? I did enjoy the dissection because I've learnt a lot of different things that I did not know yet. 

     

How does lighting & Colour enhance the story?

 How does lighting & Colour' enhance the story?

In this scene, we see that the bug changes the colour of the surroundings by having different colours to their body, the orange lamp that is on the left side of the wall also made the room change colour by the orange lighting. Medium shot and the medium-long shot was used in this picture, for the lighting it is very cold and for the colour is very bright. In this picture, the effect for the viewer is having a clear vision to look at. The director chose this location because it brings bright colour in the film to compare the real world to the other world. 

We see in this second picture that the colour is different from the other world. The colour that we see in this picture is very warm, it has white surrounding blending with a yellow cupboard that looks like the sun is very bright out side. What is happening in this picture is that Coraline is talking about the secret door that she had found, but know on believe her yet.  Her mum and dad are really busy doing work, every night Coraline go to the secret door that she has found. That is when she meets her other mother and other father, in the other world her parents are really nice to her, she always gets what she wants. 

  

This is the scene where Coraline refuses to put the button on her eyes, that’s when she had realised that her other mother from the other world is really scary. The lighting is very cold because the colour that they used in the movie to make this scene is bright purple followed by the red drawers at the background.

What am I learning? I am learning how to describe the lighting and the colour of the movie.

 

How does this work show my learning? This shows my learning by learning how to describe colour and lighting.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning? For the result of this learning, I am wondering how other colour work for the other movie.

What makes a good leader?

This week for our wananga year 9, leaders, our task was to make a blog post about the video that we had made last week. The video that we had made last week was about what makes a good leader. We first wrote some of the words that we know what a good qualities leader have. Once we have finish writing, our second task was to record our self to present what qualities does a good leader have.

Then after that, we made a video that we combined all together. The people that were in the video are Vann, Axle, Christian and I. 

Here is the video that we had made: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c3wRTX5G126RnpPMMBmsttqE6UGbwlYN/view?ts=5f9888db

      

 

(Sexxxy Paragraph) Camera angle and Camera shots

This time on Social study our task was to make a Sexxy paragraph by choosing 4 picture from Coraline scene. I have chosen 4 pictures that are from the scene, once we have finished choosing 4 picture the next thing that we need to do is write a Sexxxy Paragraph. 

Here is the sexxxy paragraph that I have made:

Photos:	Camera Angle:
	S: In Coraline, point of view was used effectively to show the theme of “Looks can be deceiving”. E: For example, this shot we are introduced to Coraline. Point of view and dutch tilt is used to show where the character was standing, looking under a table. X: This made us understand that Coraline is looking for something variable. X: The director did this to show that if its something special is missing doesn’t get tired finding it because soon you will be able to find it. X: Coinciding with the camera angle ( which is the point of view and dutch tilt ) this made the movie better to watch because it feels like that you are in virtual reality. Y: This aspect can be compared to Charlie ( the cat) which found the mouse that was hiding the lost button when Coraline and Beldam where playing hide and seek.
	S: In Coraline, Medium close up was used effectively to show the theme of “Be careful what you wish for”. E: This is demonstrated by medium close-up and close-up where Coraline was standing up beside her other mother. X: This made the audience a little bit creep out because of Coraline who is standing right beside her other mother. It’s a little bit scary because you don’t know what the other mother will do next to Coraline. X: This was done to make us feel nervous and build anxiety in our body. But no need to worry because everything will be alright at the end. X: This work well with the music and the colours that blend with the characters, making the scene more creepy. Y: This scene reminds me of always be thankful for what you have because someday you will probably regret the choice that you thought it was good.
	S: In Coraline close-up was used effectively to show the theme of “Be grateful with what you have”. E: We see this when using the close up to show that Coraline is standing in the door getting attention from his dad (Charlie Jones). X: This makes us understand that Coraline wants attention from his dad who is doing a lot of works, you can tell this because of his eye. X: This was done to tell us to always care of other people that just need a little attention and not ignoring them when they need you. X: Combined with this is the fact that it makes the scene sadder because of the music and that Coraline looks depressed in the background. Y: This aspect can be compared to the other world where his dad is more playful but has evil feelings at the end.
	S: In Coraline medium shot and the medium-long shot was used effectively to show the theme of “Don’t judge the book by its cover”. E: We see this when the dad is trying to talk to Mel jones but the mother doesn’t really care. X: This makes the audience think that her mother doesn’t really like her husband so she just ignores him. X: The purpose of this is to show everyone that even when you are busy doing work make sure to not ignore others. X: Coinciding with this is the fact that her mother looks angry at Coraline and Charlie jones. Y: This aspect can be compared to the other mother which is really kind to Coraline and the other father, but the only bad thing is that she is bad when you don’t follow instruction. Like when she said “Put this button if you want to be in our family”.

What Am I learning? I am learning to define the language of film using visual & sounds techniques.

How does this show my learning? This shows my learning by Explaining how a camera shots, and sounds and visual techniques are used to help tell the story using the example from the text.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning?  For this result of my learning, I am wondering to learn more about another movie. 

CMM Drill Gauge

In metal, for the past few days, we have started making our project called drill gauge. We have been doing this project since halfway through the term of term 3. The site that we have start using for this is tinkercad. Tinkercad is a site that you can build 3D modeling programs that runs in a web browser. 

When we were making a drill gauge I have notice that in your first try making it there will be a lot of fail. But as you try and try again you will start to success the work or the plan you want to have.  

The first drill gauge that we made was made out of acrylic then after that we made the drill gauge out of alimunium. 

 

Here is the picture of the work that I have made. 

Film study 2020

When we have finished watching the movie we had a task that tells us about what work we need to do. We have to 2 tasks to choose from and those are,  The first task that we had to do is create a mind map that shows as many examples from our visual text of one of the themes listed. The second one is Write a theme guide booklet for a student to use whilst viewing. You have to explain how each theme is shown in the film and gives them times to stop and look, quotes and key moment to watch for.

The theme was... 

"Be careful what you wish for" 

"Looks can be deceiving" 

"Be grateful with what you have"

"Don't judge a book by its cover"

The theme that I chose is Looks can be deceiving, I had picked that because sometimes you don't really know if that person is kind or bad, we shall not judges quickly because sometimes they can help us in life.

 

What am I learning? What I'm learning is Analyse the ideas and themes of a film.

How does this work show my learning? This shows my learning by discussing the way a theme or idea is portrayed in the text.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning? What I'm wondering as a result of this learning is that I have taught you some things by just looking in 4 of the themes. 

 

Coralin, Film study

 For this task on inside and out, we have watched a movie called Coraline she is a little girl that found a secret door in the house they were living. When Caroline found out that there was a secret door in the house, she starts begging her mum for the key. When Caroline open the door there was a tunnel leading to her other parents. I have chosen 2 characters in the film and explain them to you in good detail. 

Here it is:

What am I learning? I am learning how to understand the characters developed in a film. 

How does this work show my learning? This shows my learning by explaining how a character portrayed using a specific example from the text. 

What am I wondering as a result of this learning? I am wondering to get a high mark.

Bones in the hands- Hurumanu 2

Last week in science we have been learning how do hands work, we made a hand to show you how it works. The hand has lots of parts which are Bones, Joints, Muscles, Tendons, and ligaments. These are all the parts that make your hand move. Bones is really helpful for us human because it helps us provide support. 

How do hands work? The movements of the hand are always started by the muscles in your forearm. Hands have a lot of things that help human beings one is we use our hand to write or hold something that is heavy or not. 

The human hand is made up of the wrist, palm, and fingers and has 27 bones, 27 joints, 34 muscles, and over 100 ligaments, and tendons, and many blood vessels and nerves.

Here is the demo that we did for our hand.

Film Study Dictionary.

4.09.20, Friday, Term 3

Body Language: 

Body Language is used in the film to convey meaning in a narrative context. It is also used to show how the image is moving and how different body expression can appear in different media. 

Costumes: 

Costumes are used to help actors transform into a new and believable character. 

Hairstyles: 

Hairstyles are almost related to costumes because it’s just the way of turning the person into a new character.

Make-up: 

Make-up is used in the film to enhance the actor’s personality or mood.

Colour: 

Colour is how they make the image colorful, dynamic, and beautiful. 

Lighting: 

Lighting is used in the film to create a visual effect meaning the audience knows where to look. 

Props:

 Props make it more realistic and interesting to watch. 

Settings: 

The setting is often used in the film to show and describe the surroundings.

Dialogue:  

Dialogue is used to make tell a spoken line by a character, it can also be used between real people and fictional characters.

Sound effects: 

Sound effects are used in the film to help deliver important messages. 

Music: 

Music helps people to understand the film and describe a continuous film. 

Silence: 

Silence is used to create a serious mood. 

Symbols: 

Symbols are used to recommend a new Design to do. 

Special FX:

 Special FX helps the creator to make better control.

What am I Learning? I am learning what is all the meaning of the words above.

How does this work show my learning? This shows my learning by knowing all the meaning of the words.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning? The result that I want for this learning is how to used all of the words above in a film.