Language of Film - Visual and Sound Techniques

1. Body Language -  The characters uses this to show their feelings and emotions for other characters that are in the film using their body. It's like understanding what they feel without them telling you anything or by understanding them by how they act.

2. Costumes - This is used to match or express the character's feelings, personality or who they really are.

3. Hairstyles -  Same as the Costumes, this is also used to match or express the character's feelings, personality or who they really are. They might not act like who they really are in person but they might find their clothes or hair a way to be able express the real them. 

4. Make-up - Used to transform or change how they look to be able to match their character or to make them look a bit different. 

5. Colour - This mainly used to set a mood of a scene or what the character is feeling. As for example, blue, basically sending a message that the scene or the character is sad. 

6. Lighting - This is also used to set the mood of a scene or the character. It is also used to make something important stand out or maybe to point out something. 

7. Props - The equipment that are used by the character or that are used for the scene. The equipment that you need or are seen in the background. To make the scene look much cleaner and better.

8. Settings - This is the place that your character needs to go to, to be able send the feeling or message that scene is trying to deliver. The specific place the film scene is happening on.

9. Dialogue - Used to either introduce the plot twist or something new about the character.  

10. Sound Effects - Something that is used to create a certain mood for the audience or different sounds used to make the scene much more interesting.

11. Music - Same as the Sound Effects, something that could also be used to change the scene's mood, different types of songs used to make the scene much more interesting and exciting. 

12. Silence - This is often used to make the audience feel a certain way. Mostly used to attract the audience to pay more attention on what's happening in the scene.

13. Symbols - This is often a type of object suggesting new ideas to make the scene more interesting. 

14. Special FX - This effect is mostly used for important scenes. Adding more details to the scene to make it look more realistic.

What am I learning? 

We are currently learning about different Visual and Sound Techniques that are used in Movies and Films etc. These ones that are listed down are the ones that are the most common and used.

How does this work show my learning?

This work shows my learning and understanding about this topic. I wrote down the different meanings of these techniques and researched about it to make sure that those meanings are the actual meaning of those words.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning?

My only wonder for this topic is that which one of these are the most used one and why?

Why are there no more Plastic bags? - Textile

Hi guys, this blog post contains the research that I made for Textile.

Why are there no more use of Plastic bags in New Zealand?

The Ministry of the Environment banned the use of Plastic bags in New Zealand from the 1st of July 2020. The purpose of the ban is to help reduce the amount of plastic in the Environment, keeping the Environment clean and healthy. 

We want to reduce the use of Plastic bags because they pollute our land and water. The other reason why we want to get rid of them is because they could take decades to decompose. 

What are some Alternatives that we could use instead of Plastic Bags?

There might be more that you could find but here are the best options. Paper bags that could be recycled. Reusable Plastic bags, the ones that don't take too long to break down. Cotton bags, Compostable bags, and Jute bags.

How can Plastic bags affect Climate Change?

Sunlight heats would cause the Plastic bags to release powerful greenhouse gases. As our Climate Changes, the planet would get hotter and hotter, that means that Plastic would break down into more Methane and Ethylene. This would increase the damage to our Environment such as Air Pollution, Wildfires and a lot more. 

Algebra in Science - Maths

We have been doing Maths / Hurumanu 5 for 13 weeks now and it's actually our last week doing this. All the different topics that we have been doing is Symmetry, Rotation, Reflection, Algebraic Expression, and etc.

Here is an evidence of the work that we have done on our latest topic. We had to use a Basketball and a Netball and figure out how long it took to pass the ball from one side to the other. Here is the slide that we made:

I think that this Hurumanu was really fun. Mr Carter was a really funny teacher but at the same time, you can learn a lot from him. The topics that he teaches was really interesting as well. If I don't understand something, he makes sure to explain it to me until I get it.

Wonderings - Why are there so many Languages?

Wonderings

Why are there so many Languages?

The main reason why there are so many Languages has to do with the time distance. Groups of people that knows how to speak a certain language might get separated by distance, if that happens, they have to learn and develop a new language. After a long time of being separated and meeting new people, they end up speaking two different languages and might develop more.


What are the most spoken Languages?

The first one was Mandarin Chinese with 1.1 billion speakers. The second one is English with 983 million speakers. Both of these languages mostly have the same amount of speakers which is crazy.

Lemon Power

Hi guys!

This blog post is going to be about something that we did in Science.

Voltage -  Voltage is the energy that electrons get from a power supply. Voltage is used to make electrical components work, like light bulbs.

Current -  The rate of flow of electrical charge across a point.

Aim: To create Voltage out of a lemon.

Method: 
- Roll the lemon out so the inside is liquidy.
- Stick pieces of zinc and copper into the lemon.
- Connect the lemon up to a voltmeter.

Results:
This one got one voltage and the one with the whole group in it go 2.4 voltage.

Discussion:
When we rolled it and made the inside liquidy and released all the acidic charged particles. When the
acidic charged particles keeps on moving around, it created a current. When you connect more lemons together, the more acidic it will get.

Conclusion:
I found this experiment really cool because I didn't think that a lemon could produce that much voltage. When the lemon was all by itself, it only produced 1 voltage. But when the whole class came together, the voltage was up to 2.5 which was equivalent to two batteries.

Making a String Bag - Textile

Hi guys, for today's blog post, I'm going to be showing you guys the String Bag that I made. We started to make this last week and it was pretty easy because I already made one when I was a year 7. 

Here is how it turned out:

Photo montage - Art

For the first two weeks in arts, we have been focusing on making a Photo montage. Photo montage is made out of a lot of photos that is cut and glued in a solid piece of paper.

Here is the Montage that I made during the first week:

The photo is tilted.