English Film Aspects

My film aspect explained...

5 aspects for English research…

• Close up.

A close-up shot is a shot taken of a subject or object at close
range that shows greater detail. The shot is tightly framed and is
most often used to frame a character's face in such a way that it fills the
screen and dominates the scene

• Dolly shot.

A tracking shot is any shot where the camera follows backward, forward or
moves alongside  the subject being recorded. In cinematography, the term
refers to a shot in which the camera is mounted on a camera dolly that is then
placed on rails like a railroad track, Now-a-days people use body cams, that
also
tracks a person or and object.

• Focus.

Deep focus is a style or technique of cinematography and staging
with great depth of field, using relatively wide-angle lenses and small
lens apertures to render in sharp focus near and distant planes simultaneously.
A deep-focus shot includes foreground, middle-ground, and extreme-
background
objects, all in focus. 

• Lighting.

The definition of high key lighting is a style of lighting for film, television, or
photography that reduces the lighting ratio in the scene. In the first days of film,
this was done to deal with high contrast, but now it's used by filmmakers to
adjust
the mood and tone of a scene.

• Point of view.

A point of view shot, also known as POV shot, first-person shot or a
subjective camera is a short film scene that shows what a character is looking at. 

           

Difference between the treaties...

When was the treaty signed?

New Zealand:
Signed in 1840.

Scottish:
Treaty was signed 1707.

New Zealand were not invited to vote for there independence.
Scottish people were invited to vote for there Independence.

The Waitangi treaty was signed about 179 years ago, but others were signed around 300 years ago.
In 2019 a second Scottish Independence referendum has been approved and Scotland will get to vote again.

Who was the treaty between?
Maori.
English.

Positives:
-Protections from British.
-Partnership.
-Participation.

Negatives:
-British tried taking over.
-Musket wars.
-Alcoholic/Drunk behavior.
 

Music blog

1. What is Composition ? Making completely new things
2. What style of composition have you chosen and why ? My group and i did a horror movie composition.
3. What ideas do you have so far and what do you need to work on ? My group and i came up with an idea of a scary chasing scene, but all we need to do now is edit the video properly.

A Trip To Australia

Trip to Sydney Australia, along with My Mum, Ara Brothers, Sione, Tyler, Jack, and my Nana, Metua. 

We were at a beach for about 4 hours, as we were packing up our stuff to leave, mum realised something was missing. She then realised her purse wasn’t beside her tattooed ankle. My brothers and I didn’t know if it had been stolen or sitting melting like ice cream in the heated car, but mum said “I brought it, i know i brought it out”. So we started our outrages hunt. Well we were hunting i realised Nena disappeared but i didn’t know whether to look for the purse that had our passports, or look for Nena. Suddenly I realised she said she was going to the bathroom, so I continued with the search. Mum said “whoever finds my purse gets a prize”. As soon as my brothers and I heard that we went from and outrages search to a OUTRAGES! search.

Mum, sure felt the urge of tears. As my brother, Tyley was searching and searching he couldn’t find anything, not a single clue, then suddenly mum dropped to her knees, my brother’s and I thought she had found her wallet, and at the same time we thought she was crying, but we analysed her face, and she was laughing at nothing at all, knowing deep down she was stressed.

My brothers wouldn’t stop throwing and lifting things. Digging up the boiling hot sand, with their bare hands, pushing and shoving each other into one another making a fool out of themselves. Mum couldn’t be bothered stopping them. Having to worry about one thing is easy, but when worrying about 4 boys who act like monkeys then you just don’t bother. 

As the search continued for what felt like a century, mum almost got to the point where she almost gave up. As the sun was falling behind ocean waves, mum said to us, “Just forget it, i don’t wanna spend another hour looking for it”.  Suddenly I heard a indistinctive voice, along with the voice emerged a lady that looked to be well over her 50’s, with black-ish blonde-ish hair, wrinkled face, and flowered dress, with black slippers. That lady happened to have my mom's purse with a brown melted ice cream dripping, and that lady also happens to be my nena. The whole time my brothers and I were searching, my nena had the purse the whole, even when she went to the bathroom. Mum was happy, and relieved that her purse was in safe hands. Since mum couldn’t give the prize to anyone, mum thought it would be fair to split the prize and buy all of us a delicious caramel chocolate ice cream.

"Movies are better than books"

Reasons why...

Movie:

-Easier than reading a book.
-Movies show you there emotions instead of you reading 4 different sentences about it.
-Watching a movie takes about 1 to 2 hours to watch.
-Gives you a proper imagination.

Books:

-Takes longer to read.
-You end up losing interest.
-It has to much paragraphs to read.
-Leaves out to much important information.

I would rather sit through a 2 hour movie rather than reading a 20 day book.

Movies are better. Movies give more information about whats going on in the movie, and it shows you what the character is feeling rather than you visualising it, where as books takes you about 4 minutes to tell you what the character is feeling, and i know some people may find it hard to visualise and read at the same time, and what the character is doing. Some movies can be boring, but for me books bore me a lot, and its not because i'm not a good reader its because, it takes me about a few weeks to finish a book, if not a whole month.

Some people rather spend there sunny days inside there house or outside on their front yard reading rather than watching a 2 hour movie. When finished watching a 2 hour movie you get choices like playing games, playing outside, watching another movie, or take a nap, or hang with friends. Reading a book takes up most of your daily fun time, but not all people spend there days reading books, some people have a time where they stop reading to do something else. I wouldn't watch any movie, i would watch action or adventure movies, because they are more interesting, and more violent.

Reading action books makes me wanna stop reading, here's my point. When a book is describing what happens in the fight scene you try to visualise whats happening, lets use this for an example. 'The ninja suddenly rose from the shadows, as he had a fearless face he sliced his opponent into 2 slices of pizza, as his body fell apart like a twig snapping from a tree'. You would have to visualise what the scene would look like, and at the same time visualise his emotion. In a movie you wouldn't have to read that, because you would already be looking and listening to what it would be like. You would see a ninja popping out from the shadows with his sliver blade killing his enemy with a loud 'he yah', and a part like that from a movie would make you say things like. "WOW!" or "HOLY DAMN" and other things you say when seeing scenes like that.

My point is that movies give you facial expressions you wouldn't get from reading a book, and books give you a facial expression that you wouldn't be surprised you had.

Team sports are better than individual sports...

Plan:

Reasons for team sports.
*Make things easier.
*Things are more fun with people.
*More intense.

Reasons for not choosing individual.
*Its boring working alone.
*Its more pressure.
*Hard to concentrate.
*It gets more challenging.

Introduction:
Team sports are much more fun than individual sports. Here's why.

Your opinion could be different, but mine individually is team sports, why? Because my favourite sport is a team sport and that is rugby. I know it maybe dangerous but i can think of quite a few individual sports that are way more dangerous than rugby. Sports such as Boxing, MMA, and also Wrestling, and there are many more i could think of.

Imagine having your first ever golf game, and you have never played in front of a crowed before, how would you feel. For me in my opinion, i would be shaking, have goosebumps, and feeling nervous. But remember that is how i would feel. Having your first game as a team in a huge stadium, will you be nervous, and not because their are people watching, only because of the other team.

Lets talk more about individual sports. Individual sports can be a bit tough on most people, but when your someone whose played your whole life it would be easier for you. Imagine dancing and i don't mean hip hop break dancing, i mean  under those lights with an opponent and then suddenly BAM! your lying down facing the stadium ceiling. You could've had critical damage such as concussions, death, and many more. Some people may not care about what happens to them, but it could cost there life. Some people may still think, 'its just a sport' 'Oh those are the consequences'. Well i don't care, consequence or not i still rather team sport.

Now time for explaining why i chose team sports.
Well team sports is a sport i have been playing since i was 11 years old, and it has been my dream to play on a stadium field. Team sports are much fun to play, you get to meet new people, for instants when you join a club you meet new friends and you meet a whole new team. Team sports such as dodge ball are fun, the fun parts about it is when you have to race towards the ball, and when you have to be the first team to eliminate every single play in the opposite team. I'm not saying everyone loves dodge ball, but i'm saying when you get the hang of it, it becomes really fun. Not just one person can play, a whole lot of yous can play, your friends, your family, and many more.

Math trick

Think of a number between 1-10.
Add 2.
Multiply by 2.
Subtract 2.
Divide 2.
Subtract your original number.
Your answer is..........

The South island is better than the North island.

I agree, here are my points.

North island may have better roads than the South island, but the weather in the South island is better than the North island.

When its winter, the South island rain some days but are mostly cold everyday. In the North island it is cold and rainy basically everyday. Why would you wanna be staying inside on rainy days? When you can go out with your friends and do other cool things that does not involve rain, no matter if its cold, you could still wear a jacket or a jersey, and still enjoy your day out. Here is a question i would like you to answer.

Would you rather a Cold and rainy day or a Cold day? You decide which one is better.

South island have hot days but not as hot as North island weather, sometimes in the summer it would get really hot for the North island. Yes you will get hot days in the South island but not as hot as what you will get in the North island. For instance in the North island there weather stays hot from Morning to Night. South island weather will either be cold from Morning to Night, or it will either be Hot in the Morning but cold in the Night. But of course people will spend there hot days in the beach but, where would you spend a hot night at? Exactly there will be no where to sleep, yes you will have your bed to sleep in, but what i mean is there is no cold places to sleep, unless you sleep outside or have a Fan, or air conditioner. Well if you had a pool that would be extremely over board, you would wake a up with wrinkly fingers and toes, who would want that?

South island is better because there maybe no good places like the North island but it has fresh and clean water running through the taps, and i know for sure there is no fresh water in North island you would find unless you buy bottle of water i know people may say the North island is better but, that is your opinion, and your choice to make.

...Science Work...

What is Pumice?

How does it form from Volcanoes?

What are its properties?

How is it like Hockey Pockey?

How did we make it, and get it foamy?

1. A very light and porous volcanic rock formed when a gas-rich froth of glassy lava solidifies rapidly.

2. The vesicles are actually gas bubbles that were trapped in the rock during the rapid cooling of a gas-rich frothy magma. The material cools so quickly that atoms in the melt are not able to arrange themselves into a crystalline structure. Thus,pumice is an amorphous volcanic glass known as a "mineraloid."

3. 

1. Composition. Pumice has a chemical composition similar to that of obsidian, or volcanic glass. ...

2. Density. Pumice is very lightweight. ...

3. Buoyancy. Pumice stones are so lightweight they will usually float on water for a time, before eventually sinking 

once becoming waterlogged. ...

4. Abrasivity. ...

5. Color.

4. It looks like Hockey Pockey because, when it gets hard, it looks like it, and when it is cooking and in its liquid form it looks different.

5. We made it foam by using Baking soda.

If you are wondering how we made Hockey Pockey, Well we used:

*Sugar.

*Golden Syrup.

*Baking soda.

*Spoon to stir.

Gymnastics

Today in gymnastics my friends and I were taking turns on the mini tramp. What we were trying to learn was landing a front flip/sum Assault, at first it was difficult for us as a team to learn one thing, but in the end we pulled through.

Here's a videos...

should zoos be shutdown...

All zoos should be shut down and release animals back to there natural habitat.

Animals should be able to live harmless from humans and predators.

I think they shouldn't shut down zoos because if they didn't have zoos all the animals would start to get extinct and we would not be able to see anymore of our favourite animals anymore. If zoos were to get shut down we would be killing our animals, and before you know it all animals will be wiped from the face of the earth making our earth boring. Releasing animals back into there natural habitat would be suicide for animals.

Zoos help keep animals safe and immunised so that they can reproduce more species and make sure they don't have/carry any diseases, so that animals can get released back into there natural habitat.
Zoos help keep soon to be extinct animals alive so that they can live longer instead of dying. Zoos help separate other animals from there predators, which makes other animals feel more safer than out in the wild.

It is much easier for animals to live in zoos rather than live out in the wild. My reasons are because animals have to gather there own food meaning elder animals leave there younger animals behind while they are out hunting, but in zoos they have people get them food, and have people who play with them and keep them company so they don't feel lonely.

English Language features

LANGUAGE FEATURES FOR RUGBY AND LEAGUE 

The language features used are: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration and onomatopoeia. Please write the language features after each sentence. Refer back to the definitions if you need to. Note: There may be more than one language feature for each number. 

1) The Hornby High rugby league team was a machine against Haeata.

Metaphor 

 2) However, one could be forgiven for thinking they were like a machine that had been left in the shed over the summer.

simile

 3) They coughed and choked like an old car, before the teamed changed into overdrive for the second half. 

Simile and a Metaphor

4) As the game went on, crashes, cracks and collisions were heard around the field. 

5) Haeata became a car wreck in the last quarter, with a total of 3 players yellow carded. Metaphor

6) Hornby went on a frenetic feeding frenzy in the last 15 minutes, amassing a very satisfying 20 points. Metaphor

7) Sonny was like a caped crusader scoring several scintillatingly stunning tries. Simile

8) The Hornby supporters clapped and cheered when he did. 

Onomatopoeia 

9) Lewis limped languidly off the field after halftime. 

Alliteration 

10) The rubber hits the road for the Hornby next week.

Metaphor

11) Corey is the king of Junior Rugby League coaching.

Metaphor

12) Haeata licked their wounds after the full-time whistle. 

Metaphor

13) The Hornby backs were like a fully firing flight squadron. 

Simile and Alliteration

14) The forwards were a fleet of tanks demolishing everything in their path. Metaphor

15) The junior league competition is shaping up to be a monster competition. Metaphor

16) The first round of the competition chuckled at critics who said it was going to be boring. Alliteration and 

17) The Hornby fields sighed with its growing pains.

18) Junior and Khan were like unstoppable machines. 

Simile 

19) Jaedon was a turbo-charged bulldozer on the field.

Metaphor

20) Vai was valiant, violently vicious, and very vigilant as he vanquished the opposition with a vengeance! 

Alliteration 

Finish off each word picture for each of the four seasons? Here is an example of one: Summer sounds like kids Splashing and yelling in the pool.

Spring looks like Blossom

Spring tastes like Fruit and honey

Spring smells like Dafitals 

Spring feels like Warm sun

Spring sounds like Birds chirping 

Summer looks like Bright

Summer tastes like Warm air

Summer smells like Burn

Summer feels like Hot

Summer sounds like splashing

Autumn looks like Snow of leaves

Autumn tastes like `air

Autumn smells like fresh

Autumn feels like leaves of snow

Autumn sounds like leaves flying around

Winter looks like SNow

Winter tastes like hot chocolate 

Winter smells like Freezing air

Winter feels like Chills down my spine

Winter sounds like water dripping

Music Blog

• Who is in your group? And what is each person doing? Ryan (Singing) , Tamati (Piano), Jireh (Guitar), and Manasa (Bass Guitar).
• What song have you chosen and why? One Love by Bob Marley, Because hes a inspiration.
• Add a link to the song you have chosen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdB-8eLEW8g
• What is the song about? The song is about one love. Coming together to love each other.
• Which part of the song will you start rehearsing first and why? Haven't decided.

Critical literacy (Salvation Army appeal).

Why has the author constructed the characters this way?
To show how the person is feeling in the picture.

What is the text about? Its about child health and the cost of heating and more.

How do we know?
Because it gives you facts about it, for example:
Each year children are hospitalized for medical conditions, related to poor housing, such as damp households.

Who would be most likely to read this text and why?
Adults, because it will show them how much children get sick and it also shows how many child sleep and live in bad households. For example damp and cold.

Art. (Blog Questions).

Does your design reflect your thumbnail sketches so far? Probably not.
Does your design reflect the feeling of your topic? I think.
Do you know where your leading lines are? Yeah.
Do you know what your focal point is? Yeah.

Macbeth Character stuff.

1. Why is he obsessed with killing Banquo? 2A: Mactbeth is obsessed with killing Banquo, Because Macbeth see's Banquo as a threat.
2. Has he completely lost it in the Banquet scene? 2A: Yes, because after killing Banquo he starts hallucinating because of Banquos ghost, and then he starts shouting. Lady Macbeth does not know that he has taken the life of Banquo, but she realize's that Macbeth has done something wrong, so what Lady Macbeth does is talk to Macbeth before he says something he's not supposed to say.
3. What last vestiges of humanity, conscience, nobility, bravery do we see? 3A: The type of "Conscience" we see in Macbeth is when Macbeth is deciding weather to KILL King Duncan or to let him live. We see bravery in Macbeth at the near beginning when they were going out to war against Ellon army and the bravery part in that scene was when Macbeth went face to face with the leader, and he was also a leader for King Duncan's Men/Army to victory.

English ...(critical literacy)...

What do the images suggest in Macbeth?
The images for Macbeth (Banquo's ghost) suggest guilt
and also hallucination.

Who is missing from the text?
In the movie outsiders there are no sign of black people throughout the movie.

What genre is this movie?
The genre for Macbeth is Tragedy.
The genre for Outsiders is Drama/crime film.

...Michael Mew...

Who is Michael Mew?

Michael Mew is are artist that produces art like leading lines and a collage artist.

Where is he from?

he grew up in the metropolis of Los Angeles when suburban living was altering American popular culture.

Performing arts

1. Who are we working with? Ryley, and also Manasa.

2. Which type of performing Arts are you doing? Silent movie.

3. What song/theme are you going to us and why? idek yet

4. What are you starting on first? Still thinking.

...Comedian...

Comedy's is something funny and something like making people laugh also known as a stand up comedy.

Video:

...Musical theatre...

Musical theatre is where singing  and dancing are involved in the  play.

Heres a little video.

Mime

Mime is basically just acting without talking and making things look like illusions.

Here's a video.

macbeth

Why are you reading this text? 

So that we understand the different kinds of plays and stories that Shakespeare made. 

What genre does this text belong to?

Tragedy. Tragedy meaning something like a great suffering and lot more horrible things

What kind of language use in the text?

Latin language type.

...The Royal family...

1. Who are the Royal family?

The Royal family is a dance crew that have a lot of great dancers 
including Parris Goebel.

2. What competitions have they been involved in/won?

They won in the varsity Crews division, in Las Vegas, which is meaning
they competed in the first time at HHI World hip-hop dance campion-
ship.

3. Which Famous singers have they danced with?


They have danced for:
Justin Bieber.
Rihanna.