Workshop #5: Music | English2021

Tempo - Speed of the Music - fast/ slow/ moderate

Dynamic - Volume - how loud or quiet it is

Key - Major - Happy sound, Minor - sad sound sound

Rues Death: How is music used to create atmosphere:  Depressing/ sad/ mournful

Minor, tempo - slow, dynamics - quiet, gets louder as Katniss raises her salute and District 11 riots.

- What happened - Rue is killed, Katniss tries to give her body the closest to a burial that she can. 

- Colour/ lighting - While flowers, natural lighting, greens, stands out ⟶ innocence and pure - Rue never killed anyone, kind, compassionate, victim.

- Shots/ angles - Medium close-ups - Rue and Katniss - see their emotion and facial expression - anguish 

- High angle - weak and vulnerable - Rue is an inoocent and blameless victim. 

🠂Effect on the viewer - the atmosphere of remorse/intense sadness, as the volume increases it builds the intensity of the emotions - we see emotions are contagious - hope.

Directors purpose: feel Katniss's emotions at that moment - remorse, anger, helplessness, acceptance, rebellion 

- Symbol of 3 finger salute is a sign of defiance and anger toward the game makers - you will not take my humanity, also a symbol of unification with those who have lost loved ones to the games.

Music is used to create an atmosphere of sorrow and remorse in Rue's death scene. In this scene we see Katniss dealing with the slaughter of her young friend Rue. For example, the tempo is slow, the dynamics are quiet and the key is minor to reflect the emotional rollercoaster that Katniss is feeling. Like the music, Katniss moves slowly and methodically to cover Rue's body in white flowers. As she finishes, the music build in volume, showing the increasing intensity of her anger and grief towards the Capitol. This makes us understand the pain experienced by the families of the tributes when they are killed each year. This was done to enable the viewers to feel the characters' emotions. This worked well with the use of white flowers to symbolize Rue's innocence and purity and the high angle shot making her weak and vulnerable. Combine with the music we are shown that Rue is a victim of the cruelty of the Capitol.  

Camera Techniques | English 2021

Hello everyone, in English we are looking at camera techniques. We have to search for different camera techniques and put some definitions of the camera technique.

What am I learning?

I'm learning the camera techniques that are used for filming. 

How does this work show my learning?

It shows the work that I have done and how much I learned about camera techniques.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning?

I am wondering how come some of the camera angles/shots/focus has the same meaning and how can you tell the difference from all of them.

My learning/slide:

Starfish Poem | Social studies

Hello everyone, in social studies we read a poem about a starfish. We have to blog about this and find more information behind the poem. Here is the poem about the starfish. 

THE  STARFISH  POEM

Once upon a time, there was a wise man 
who used to go to the ocean 
to do his writing. 
He had a habit of walking 
on the beach 
before he began his work. 
One day he was walking along 
the shore. 
As he looked down the beach, 
he saw a human 
figure moving like a dancer. 
He smiled to himself to think 
of someone who would 
dance to the day. 
So he began to walk faster 
to catch up. 
As he got closer, he saw 
that it was a young man 
and the young man wasn't dancing, 
but instead he was reaching 
down to the shore, 
picking up something 
and very gently throwing it 
into the ocean. 
As he got closer he called out, 
"Good morning! What are you doing?" 
The young man paused, 
looked up and replied, 
"Throwing starfish in the ocean." 
"I guess I should have asked, 
why are you throwing starfish in the ocean?" 
"The sun is up and the tide is going out. 
And if I don't throw them in they'll die." 
"But, young man, don't you realize that 
there are miles and miles of beach 
and starfish all along it. 
You can't possibly make a difference!" 
The young man listened politely. 
Then bent down, picked up another starfish 
and threw it into the sea, 
past the breaking waves and said- 
"It made a difference for that one."

Evidence: The message is that small actions can be big action. Even though not a lot of people do this, 1 person can change everything. The poem also explains to us that we need to help the ecosystem and this can have a big change on our planet. Even though it's a small action it still matters. You can make a change even though it's insignificant and small we can make a change.

 

News Paper Article | Social studies - Trashing the world

Hello everyone, in social studies we are working on the Great Pacific garbage patch. We are making a newspaper article about the great pacific garbage patch. The article is about the causes and information how we can help or where is the pacific garbage patch. Here is the newspaper article that I made. 

Name Acronym - 10 ESOL

 Hello everyone, in ESOL we are doing a acronym with our names. We did this activity so we can get to know each other more and also give our classroom with colours. Here is the acronym that I made with my name. 

I put these words in my names because it’s how they describe me.

I have to pick 2 letters that describe me. I pick artistic and imaginative.

Imaginative - I pick this because I love to imagine things so I can get out of the real world. This also helps me to do some work.

Artistic - I pick this because I like to do art and be creative with art. This helps me visual stuff and that’s why I like it.

Cyber safety

In this ICT we are learning about cyber safety. we played some games about it and these games us about keeping us safe from the internet. 

Cybersafety tells us to be careful in the virtual world and never share any private pieces of information about your life.

Examples of dangerous things on the internet are

• Cyberbullying
• hackers
• kidnappers 
• pedophiles 
• theft of identity/catfishing 
• scammers 
• offensive images
• invasion of  privacy

How will you know you're secure? You can make a more secure password like, make uppercase letters, put numbers in it, and put 8 special characters. 

 

 

Wananga - Niuean and Tokelau language week

 Hello everyone, today we are researching about Niuean and Tokelau language week, we have to know some simple phrases like a good morning, I didn't finish Tokelau so I have to do it next week, today I will show the slide I made for Niuean. 

By The River

So this reading we are learning to infer our reading. inferring means reading between the lines, I never heard it before but that's why we are learning it. inferring is like the author giving you the information about the story without really telling you like, for example. Daisy is a cow. "how many legs those cows have". So the author gives you information.

Here is the example or picture of the meaning of inferring.

 The assignment that we are given is we have to write inferring and the literal. The literal is like the information is already there. So the story that my group has been given is called "By The River" the story is about a girl who has been with frend with Chloe but they never hang out. so our teacher gave us 5 information of inferring and 5 literal. 

This subject is kinda fun to do because you have to find a lot of information and this make you challenge yourself and this makes you know the story very well, and I like things like this because this challenge me, but it was kinda frustrating because sometimes you won't find the answers thats why we are learning this kind of stuff.