Photography - Visual Arts

 Yesterday for arts we have been spending some time taking some pictures using some toys. We have a dinosaur and soldiers toys. Some of the photos that we take is outside, we use plants for their background so it will look like that it is in the forest. I also analyse my photography and find out what is the focal point, rule of thirds, leading lines and symmetry/asymmetry.  

Focal Point -  On my photography you can see that the focus is on the dinosaur so I will say that the focal point is the dinosaur figure.

Leading Line - I can't see any leading lines on the photo.

Symmetry/Asymmetry - For this photography I think there is not symmetry because none of the figure that we used didn't make any reflection or shadows.

Photography - Visual Arts

Last week we have been taking some photos using some of the soldiers figure. We take some pictures outside and inside the building, so we have a lot of different types of photography. After we take some pictures we choose of them and we did a little bit of summary about it. We answer some questions about that photography. We use the emulation matrix that our teacher gave to us to answer some question. Here are some of the photos that we have been taken last week. 

This is the summary that I did using the photo that I take.

Subject Matter	Form	Composition	Content/ Meaning
What do you see in the photograph? I can see the soldier with many pieces of woods around it and in the background.	Is your photograph in black and white or colour?  My photograph is black and white.	How have you used focal points and leading lines?  We used the army as the focal points and some of the wood is the leading lines.	What was your initial reaction to the photograph? At first I found it cool because the colour saying that this photograph was taken long time ago.
Does the photograph include subject matter you don’t want? No, because i like this photo so much.	Do your figures stand-out from their surroundings or are they hidden? The army is not that obvious because the colour of the photo is making it the same colour with the background of this image.	Do you use symmetry or asymmetry? Have you used the Rule of Thirds? I can't say that we used any of these things in my photography.	Does  your photography appear to be a real scene?  It is showing a war that happened a long time ago.	What were your i-pad camera settings?  We used a filter to make the photography be more realistic.
If you do have unwanted subject matter, how would you change the next reshoot?  I don’t like that there are a lot of woods and it makes the photography confusing so next time i will make the camera higher so there not alot of woods covering the soldier.	What is the direction of the light? Is the light strong or soft? Do you have cast shadows?  The light is soft because we used a different filter so it changes the lighting of the image.	Is there a shallow or deep space represented? Is your camera angle low or high?  We use a low angle to take this photography.	Does the photograph express an idea? Explain My photography is showing the idea of war after a long time.
	Do you use close-ups or distant views? We used a medium close up in my photography.

Market Day

Yesterday is the day that we have been waiting for, it's the day that we have been selling our own products. We have been preparing for this for almost 2 weeks since we started it on week 7. We have 5 members in our group and we all have a different role. 

Skyler - CEO

Janel - Production Manager

Christian - Financial Manager

And me - Marketing Manager

The product that we need to sell are needed to be cultural and sustainability. Our group decided to sell a Filipino dessert called banana cue. This food is made in deep fried banana coated with brown sugar. For presentation we put our product in a wooden boat with banana leaves on it so the banana won't stick. We had a hard time to prepare our container since it  is expensive and it didn't look like what thought it will be. 

The other things that we needed it easy to find but we still need to be responsible to spend our budget. We need to ask the exact money that our ingredients cost so we are not allowed to spend a lot of it. After we get the things that we need the money that we spend is 23.40 dollars. Not all the things that we need to on that because we bring that things that we have at home.

We also have a different things that we did during market day, me and christian is in charge of preparing the stall and putting the things that we need outside. We also helped each other to prepare the wooden boat with banana leaves because we need the banana leaves to get heat up and cut it. Janel and Skyler is the one who are doing the Banana Cue. They are preparing this in Home Economics room with the other group that are cooking.

Our products get sold out quite fast because we just have 25 products in total. That's why we sell it for 3 dollars because we are not be able to make a profit if we sell it for 2 dollars. We explained it to the costumer so they won't think that it is expensive. Today we did the last step that we need to do and that is solving, subtracting and adding all the money that we need to take away and to know our profit. After we solved it we know that our profit is 66 dollars. We are happy in this result because we thought that it will be more smaller than it. We enjoyed doing business kete and I am looking forward to do it again. 

 

Hands Skeleton

For our science topic we have been learning about skeleton. We also talked about how does hands are working and the different parts and bones that you have on your hand. There are 6 different things that you can see and you have on your hands. 

Tendons - This is the tissues that are attached on you muscle and helps you fingers to be able to move. 

Joints - The things that are helping your each bones to be attached and the things that are connecting the bones on you hands.

Bones - In your hands you have 3 smaller bones on your finger and and 2 on your thumb. You also had 5 bones on your palm. On your wrist you have 8 small bones.

Ligaments - This things is connected on your tissue that helping you muscles to make your fingers move.

Muscles - On you hands you just have 2 muscles. You have one on your thumb sides and another one on your pinky side.

Cartilage - This is protecting the ends of your bones so they won't be damage and rubbed on each other.

We also started our task which is doing this demonstration by a paper. We are making a hands that showing that different part of our hands. We used a paper a straw to to it and used a string as a tendons. It will also gonna make our paper hands to be able to move.

         

Coraline Notes - Hurumanu 2

Opening Scene 

What happened: A doll gets turned to a doll that look like Coraline. This is done by the other mother, we didn't see her face but we saw her hands.

Camera shots/angle: Close up - Showing the detail or process of the doll construction. No wide shots because we haven't seen the view of the whole room and didn't show the face of the other mother.    

Music: Scary, creepy suspenseful, has made-up words for lyrics sung by children. Classical sound-like a music box.

Color: Green, black, dark, old , aged, creamy, muted. Feels like this happened long time ago.

Lighting: Lamp,artificial, natural from the moon. Dull/dim - spooky feel. night time, dark.

Setting: Real World

What happened: The real house look like old and abandoned with faded pink color. The environment is dead and the weather is cold and wet.

Camera Shot/Angle: Wide Shots - we can see the whole view of the house in context. 

Music: Background music/noise and Diegetic sounds.

Color: Dark, muted, cloudy and faded. 

Lighting: Natural lighting that is reflecting from the clouds.

                                                               Character Comparison

Real World	Other World
Describe - Hard working, strict, cranky. They care about Coraline but they don't show it. They don't look healthy-pale skin.	Describe - Bright , energetic, friendlier, look like they have time for coraline, other father is waiting for Coraline, Other mother is cooking, Their more look like healthy and rosy skin.
Costume - Faded, baggy, casual,worn and lazy home clothes	Costume - bright colors, more fashionable, fancy, newer and fit better.
Lighting - Cold, dull, mix color of natural/artificial.	Lighting - Bright, artificial, saturated, warm - happy, relaxed, welcome feeling.
Colour - Pale, bone dry, fading. Coraline and the cat eyes is the only bright colors.	Colour - Everything is bright and colorful, eye catching, warm tones - better place than the real world and place you want to be. Coraline blends in better.
Music - Use diegetic sound no music.	Music - Happier Music - Dad playing the piano and other mother is always humming.

Character Comparison - Neighbors

Real World	Other World
Describe - Weird, eccentric, dismissive, crazy and they keep calling her Caroline even though she corrects them, talkative	Describe - The things Coraline didn't like about them changed, they call her Coraline, look younger, more appealing, more vibrant brighter color, more put together. Wybie can't talk.
Costume - old, worn, baggy, Mr. B in too small outfit not presentable.	Costume -
Lighting - Foggy, dull, cold, more natural than artificial, makes it feel like it's not a mice place.	Lighting -
Colour -  More color in the people but still dark, faded, unpleasant and still a lot of white/grey.	Colour -
Music - They has their own music. Mr. B ompah. Miss. Sprink  Forcible salsa/old fashioned.	Music -

Different Aspects of Sustainability

Today we have been talking about different types of sustainability. We have been learning about the definition of each of this topic. This work is showing the definition of each topic and the table below is showing the meaning of Equitable, Viable and bearable definition.

                                                   Three Aspects of sustainability

• Environmental Sustainability - This is all about using and having the living and natural resources in a right way. It means that we don’t want to have more resources than can be renewed.

• Social Sustainability - Having the things or resources that we are using right now are still able to be used in the future. Giving the next generation the chance to have the resources that we have now.

• Economics Sustainability - Using the resources with the rate that ensures the future generation so they can also use these resources.

• Sustainable Development - This means having the resources that meet the needs of the present without making the future generations know their own needs.

               

Definition	Meaning
Equitable	Resources are shared and provided equally between social groups.
Bearable	The environment must be used in a way that provides the ongoing economic needs.
Viable	Society’s use of the environment must not be destructive.

Today we have been learning about different things that are covered by environmental sustainability. We have been learning about different definition. Environmental Sustainability is all about different things in environment. Some of these things are nature and tree, and more about environment.

This task is showing the different things that are connected in environmental sustainability. This is also will help us to have an idea for our statistics project with this topic. I also highlighted them base of their definition key. The red is getting worse, orange is about the same and the green is getting better. 

We have been doing some research about the topic that we choose for our sustainability subject. We are doing this as a group, we are doing this for almost 2 weeks and today is the last day that we are doing this because we are almost finished the term 3. After we've done our work we can have a free time. This presentation is showing some information about our topic which is " Fish Waste".

                          

                                         Sustainopoly

For the last few weeks of our school days, for our sustainability topic is all about making a project about this topic. So basically, we will spend the rest of our lessons working on this project. Our project is covering the whole topic of sustainability, we are doing our project as a different version of Monopoly. We decided to a game so we can let the other students to play with our game. Our project has a same rules and instruction with a monopoly. The only difference is the information with it is connected to the sustainability. We just copy the designs from the original game and just change the information form each of them. Our own version of monopoly is called "Sustainopoly". Also for our figurine icons we have different things that is all about sustainopoly. 

• Water droplet
• Tree
• Paw
• Heart

We also have a different color for our cards, some of these cards is related to each topic that is on them. In the card you will see the amount of points that you can get every time that you are doing the activity on the card. The maximum players for our game is 4  people. We also have some unsustainable cards. In this card you will see that unsustainable activities and the amount of points that we will loose. In this game the person who have the highest points is the winner. I hope you will enjoy playing our game. 

• Green for Land 

• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions (+500)

• Plant trees (+500)

• Affordable clean energy (+200)     

• Blue for Ocean 

• Reduce fish waste (+300)

• Plant additional coral reefs (+350)

• Clean out oil spillage (+500)

• Orange for Food

• Reduce waste production (+300)

• Responsible consumption and production (+400)

• Healthy foods (+500)

• Red for Social

• Gender equality (+400)

• Good health and well being (+500)

• Equal Opportunities (+450)

• Fundraiser for people with disabilities (+300)

• Yellow for Electricity and Power

• Use electricity only essential use (+400)

• Reduce excessive unnecessary use of electricity (+300)

• Turn off unnecessary use of light power (+200)

• Pink for Animals 

• Healthy and well care for animals (+450)

• Healthy diet consumption regarding animals (+300)

• Reducing the extinction of animals (+500)

• Purple for Air and Atmosphere 

• Reduce air pollution by developing objects that don’t require fossil fuels. 

• Reduce and eliminate fireplaces and wood stove burning. 

• Reduction to forest fires.

Language Of Film - Visual and Sound Techniques

1. Body Language - The character is using this to show their feelings and emotions for other characters in the film. 
2. Costumes - Used to match the actor's feeling to character's personalities.
3. Hairstyles - Same with the costumes it's usually used to show the audience what does the character's personalities like.
4. Make-up - To transform or change the actor's face and to match it with the character's face.
5. Colour - Using different colors to express the character's emotions. One of the example in red if the character is angry.
6.  Lighting - We are using this to have a better scene, also if the scene needed to be in the dark place or not.
7. Props - This is the things that we are using for the scene. The things that i need to hold or to have on your background.
8. Settings - This is where is the place that you need to go or the place where the movie scene is happening.
9. Dialogue - 
10. Sound Effects - Different sounds that are using to make the scene more attracting for the audience.
11. Music - Same with the sound effect this using to match the scene if it needed to be more scary or romantic.
12. Silence - This using to attract people and to make them wonder what is gonna happen next.
13. Symbols - To give the audience a hint what is the meaning of each scene. Make it more interesting for the audience.
14. Special FX - This the special types of effects that the important scene that are using.

What Am I Learning? 

We have been learning about different actions that you can see on the film. This things are the most common techniques that most of the actors need to have so they can fit on the characters personalities and look. 

How does this work show my learning?

I made this so i can show the meaning of this things and what is the purpose of it.

What am i wondering as a result of this learning? 

I'm wondering what is the most techniques that is common to us.

Language of Film Techniques

Yesterday we have been learning about different types and shots of a photo. We have two different choices to show our learning. We can create a visual dictionary or take a photo showing the different techniques and shots. To show my learning I choose to present it by taking a photo for each different shots. I did this with my two other friends so we just need to use one phone. For this task we need to divide the different techniques into 3 categories. My blog is showing the photo that we had taken and the meaning/example of each different shots.

What am I learning? We have been learning about different camera angles and techniques that are using in the film.

 How does this work show my learning? My work shows that I know the definition of it and the examples of different camera shots and angles.

What Am I wondering as a result of this learning? I am wondering what kind camera angle/shots/movements are common?