English - Workshop - Essay Planning

 Shooting the apple - Hope and Rebellion

Techniques: Music/Lighting/Colour: Angles/Shots/Movement: Costumes 

- Diagetic sound

- Katniss - dark, dim, artifical - grey, black blues - matches peers 

- Senica - vibrant, bright,-colour variety - pink - more privile god / individuals

- Costume - Katniss - training suit, tributes all look the same

- Capitol - individual - all different, over the top, extravagant 

- Close-ups - See the reactions, Katniss - pensive, shocked

- High angle - once Katniss shoots the apple, makes her weak and vulnerable.

- Atmosphere - tension, Katniss comes out as the stand out, someone to watch out for.

Change of Rules - Struggle for power

Techniques: Music/Lighting/Colour: Angles/Shots/Movement: Costumes 

- Music - minor, slow, dramatic - building tension, emotional, intensity as music gets louder

- Lighting/colour - bright, natural, worn, green, black, greys, shadowed - rising of the sun - new day - new victor

- Costume - not important

- Angles/shots/movement - High Angle - Senica has power according to camera but the dialogue "stop" contradicts that.

Close ups - emphasise emotions - defiance, stubborn of Katniss - struggle for power

- Katniss won't let them have one victor

- Peeta won't let them change him.

- Atmosphere - happy because Katniss + Peeta took back control, if they died, then they dies by their own terms, didn't lose their humanity

English - Character Strengths

Katniss: 

Creativity - Katniss used crearivity in the gaames when she made a trap in the woods and ended up carching some food for dinner.

Judgement - Katniss used judement at the start of the movie in District 12 when she chose to be the tribute instead of her little sister.

Bravery -  Katniss used bravery when she climbed the tree to cut down the bee hive.

Peeta:

Creativity - Peeta used creativity when he was in the games by making hiself camouflage in the rocks and grass

Love - Peeta used love against Katniss in the cave when he kissed Katniss.

Bravery - Peeta used bravery when we told everyone that he liked Katniss.

Haymitch:

Judgement  - Haymitch used judgement towards the start of the movie when he said to Katniss and Peeta "im not gonna bother helping yous because yous are gonna die".

Perspective - Haymitch used perspective when Peeta said that we should pretend that they were a couple and haymitch said that is a good idea

Leadership - Haymitch used leadership when he was telling Peeta and Katniss what to do for the games to survive and win the games.

English - Workshop#5 - Music

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

Dynamics - volume - how bad or quiet it is

Key - major - happy sound, minor - sad 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 + District 11 riots.

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

- colour / lighting - white flowers, natural lighting, greens stands out

Symbol - innocent + pure n- rue never killed anyone, kind, compassionate, victim
Shots / angles - medium close-ups - Rue + Katniss-see their emotions + facial expressions, anguish

                        - high angle - weak + vulnerable - Rue is an innocent + blameless victim

- Effect on viewers - atmosphere of remorse/ intense sadness, as the volume increase 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 + anger towards the game makers - you will 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 Rues 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 roller coaster that Katniss is feeling. Like the music, Katniss moves slowly and methodically to cover Rues body in white flowers as she finishes, the music builds in volume, showing the increasing intensity of her anger and grief towards the Capitol. This makes us understand the pain experienced by the familys of the tributes when they are killed each year. This was done to enable the viewer to feel the characters emotions. This worked well with the use of white flowers to symbolise Rues innocence + purity and the high angle shot making her weak + vulnerable. Combined with the music we are shown that Rue is a victim of the creualty of the Capitol.

English - Costumes

 1. The Reaping Scene - District 12

- The children of the district have gathered together for the reaping to select the tributes.

- Boys - Shirts - buttoned / collars, shorts, pants, whites, colourless, faded, dull, overwashed.

- Girls - Dresses, shirt and shirt.

- Best clothes, probably only warn once a year, wornout colourless, faded.

Viewer - we feel sorry for the people, they seem powerless, they live in poor conditions.

Director purpose - show us how bad their conditions are, wants us to see them as weak, unprepared, hopeless.

Other techniques - high angle with the faded colours makes them seem weak, vulnerable, helpless.

2. The Capitol - arriving in the city.

- Katness and Peeta have arrived by train in the Capitol.

- The clothes are extragant!

- colourful, vibrant.

- Accesories - hats / earings / make - up / wigs / shoes / bags / dogs.

- New - like only warn once "fashionable" access to good quality fabrics, patterns.

Viewer Effect - makes them seem higher ranks, privelleged, relaxed, we don't like them - attitude of entittlement, clueless.

Director Purpose - shows themes of imbalance of power + rich vs poor,

Other techniques - setting is crowded, people are happy, buildings are modern, big well kept. Shows that Capitol is privelleged.

3. The Countdown

- The tributes have just arrived in the arena and are waiting to start games.

- Costumes - Survival gear, browns, black, dark colours, jackets, pants, t-shirts, designed to looks good, to be practicle, light weight.

- Viewer Effect - the tributes look prepared, fit, athletic

- Directors Purpose - they are going to die, the outfits are just for the audience ( the capitol ) makes it seem more pagent like.

Other Techniques - silence - worried, excited to see what happens, anxious, builds tension, makes the audience focus.

English - Angles, Movements & Shots

What is happening in this clip

The Reaping Scene:

- Katniss volunteers as tribute when her sister is chosen.

- Teh children / parents of the district give her the 3 fingure salute.

- Peeta is chosen as the male tribute. 

What themes does it link to:

Hope and Rebellion - 3 finger slaute - it is a sign of respect for Katness from the people of her district.

- Katniss is a symbol oif hope for a district victor.

- Katniss is a symbol of rebellion because she steps in for her sister (a weaker character) when she is reaped.

Rich vs Poor - symbol - Effie Trinket - extreme make-up, wig, hat, overly colourful and flashy outfit, proper acdent.

- Technology use of blood readers / scanners, projectors. 

Poverty - District 12 - Children outfits for reaper are there best clothes, dresses, shirts - collared, boys - shorts or pants, colours of clothes are very faded from washes and reusing.

- The village is falling down around them.

Angles / shots used:

Close-Ups- faces - Primrose when is reaped - terror, fear

                             - Effie - Joyful, confident, excited - close of lips when reading names.

                             - Katniss - Panic when Prim is reaped, shock when she stands with Effie.

                             - Peeta - fear, panic, shock.

Shallow Focus - The people in the background are in shallow focus when Prim and Katness hug. This forces the viewer to watch the character in focus.

How does the viewer feel?

Viewer feels - Sorry for the tributes - Primrose - it was her first time

- Katniss - she volunteered - selfless act.

- Anger towards the Capitol for the reaping.

- We consider Effie is annoying, happy, stuck-up, clueless.

Why did the directer do this?

Director Purpose - Need to be invested in their journey / suffering

- need to be angry at Capitol so that we judge them and their decisions later.

- Effie is depicted as a symbol of the people in the District, they are clueless - do't see the suffering.

Music / Lighting / Colour:

Music - Starts as we move to picking the boys minor key, tempo - shower, dynamic, starts quiet then gets louder to build intesity, mood - tension, morose.

Lighting - Bright, grey, natural, cold, mood - sad, depressed.

Colour - Dull, cold, palette - grey, white, blue, faded, washed out.

Atmosphere - despair, sorry for the people, povert, run down.

Facial expression are dull, bland + sad matching the lighting + colour.

English - Themes and Idea's

Rich vs Poor - Some people have more money - Capitol 

- Money                                - Privelleges / Respect

- Food - variety                     - Resources

- Proper housing                   - Technology

- Medicines                           - Clothing / Makeup

- Transport                            - Childhoods

Hope + Rebellion - Hope is the belief that something will get better.

Rebellion - To fight against something, protest, uprise, usually against government.

Symbols of Hope - Katness, Melodic, Mocking, Jay, 3 finger salutte.

Struggle for Power - Currently the Capitol has power - President Snow.

- Katness becomes a rival for powerr - people look up to her for guidance, becomes a threat because Snow sees her as one.

'Hope, it is the thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous'. 

Fear - The people are afraid of rebelling because the last time they tried they failed and they were punished with the Hunger Games.

Little Hope - Becoming a victor

Dangerous Hope -  That the districts deserve to be treated better.

Power of Propaganda - Information, especially of a based or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or POV.

Messages being told - H's not worth rebelling.

                                  - The Capitol is the strongest.

                                  - Things are good the way they are.

Proaganda	Reality
Peace Keeper - People to keep peace and to help you	- Soldiers, violent, keep people in line. Look storm troopers.
Victor - Glorious, someone who wins, weathly, respected	- Violent, to win 23 others had to die, trauma.
Tribute - two brave young people - Its an honor	Sacrifice - It is a punish to the districts.

Rich vs Poor - people in the capitol vs people in the districts.

                      - Compare the opening shot in District 12 vs peta looking out the window at the capitol.

                      - District 12 - poor - houses - rundown, wooden

                                          - food - very little, see old man picking at bone.

                                          - clothing - 1 pair of good clothes, warn out, old colours are faded, grey/black -                                            easier to not show coal dust.

                      - Capitol - houses - large, concrete, metals, accents gold / silver.

                                     - food - variety of choices, dont have the same things, more than enough - excess.

                                     - clothing - fancy, suits, extravagant, fashion, extreme, excess.

Hope and Rebellion - Conro president snow + Sencia Craine

                                 - A little hope quote

                                 - Conro between Hamich + Sencia

                                 - Give them something to root for, young love!

Struggle for power - Katniss + Peta eat the berries.

                               - Death of Rue = riot in District 11

Power of Propaganda - Subtle 

                                    - Hunger Games film strip.

What happened in the scenez:

- Peta and Prim Rose who are teenagers got chosen to go fight at the huger games.

- Prim Rose's sister wanted to go to the hunger games instead of her sister because she didn't want her little sister to go. 

- Effre Trinket was the woman to pick the boy and girl to go to the hunger games out of the big bowl full of names.

                       

English - Visual Dictonary

 What am I learning?

- In English I am learning to understand the language of film and camera techniques.

How does this work show my learning?

- The visual dictionary shows that I understand what each camera techniques is and what they do in film. 

What am I wondering as a result of this learning?

- I am wondering if there are many other camera techniques that I dont know about that I should know and understand what they do in film/

English - Film Study Crossword

 

What am I learning?

- In English I am learning about film using visual and sound techniques. We are identifying different types of sound and visual techniques. Why they are important, how they are used and what the definitions of these words means.  

How does this work show my learning?

- By creating the crossword puzzle shows that I know the definitions of key words related to visual and sound techniques. 

What am I wondering as a result of this learning?

- I am wondering what are some other key words that I don't know that I could find out and know their definitions. I am also wondering what are some other things that are important in visual and sound techniques.

English - Brainstorming Task (Homeschooling is better than traditional schooling)

 

English - The hunter swoop

 

  1. 1 sentence - top left hand corner:

- The dark blue pinkish sky is getting dark because of the sunset in the horizon.

2. 1 sentence - top right hand corner: 

- The dark black ginormous cliff head is dominating the landscape.

3. 1-2 descriptive sentences - bottom of the image:

- The sunset is dying down in the distance behind the short dark hills.

4. 1-2 descriptive sentences - middle of the image:

- My long skinny rope is dangling down in the air below the cliff head. The rope is slipping through my fingure tips and I am wondering if I am going to walk on my own two feet back home.

English - Brainstorming Task (The internet has ruined our ability to be bored)

 

English - Creative Writing Matrix (Random Wikipedia)

Random Wikipedia Article

1) Garret Barry (Piper) was born in 1837, during the great famine.

2) A disease caused him to loose his sight as a young child. 

3) Barry died in 1899, he was Irish and blind among the most famous players of the 19th century.

4) Barry was a popular and respected musician travelling his region to play at house dances.

5) Barry was raised on a farm in the townland of Kylea called 'Inagh Parish' on the shores of Cloonmackan Lough, in an area known as the Garden of Willows.

6) He inspired many later pipers such as Willie Clancy.

7) There is no record of him exists other than certification of his death as a 52 year old bachelor in 1999.

8) Its possible that Garret Barry travelled in Country Kerry in his younger years.

9) An old neighbour of the Barry family claimed that Garret Barry had received some torturing from a Kerry Piper. 

10) Garret Barry was obliged to learn poetic or musical skills in order to earn a living. 

English - The Hunters Swoop

 

  1. 1 sentence - top left hand corner:

- The small bright moon is lighting up the white clouds in the distance over the horizon

2. 1 sentence - top right hand corner: 

- The bright white clouds are spreaded out just above the water with a dark, blue sky hovering over the clouds in the distance.

3. 1-2 descriptive sentences - bottom of the image:

- The bottom of the grey rusted spaghetti can is sinking in the sparkling, clear, shallow blue water.  

4. 1-2 descriptive sentences - middle of the image:

- The poor lonely Guinea Pig is surrounded out of no-where inside a silver cold spaghetti can wondering how it is going to survive going home in the middle of heaven.  

English - Brainstorming Task (All teenagers should have after school jobs)

 

English - Brainstorming Task (Men are stronger than woman)

 

English - Brainstorming Task (Zoo's should be banned)

 

Social Studies - Greenpeace Slideshow

This week in Social Studies we have been learning about what Greenpeace is and what they do for the community. Then we had to create a slideshow to answer questions that we had been given. All of the questions were about Greenpeace and what they do for the community. Here is the slideshow that I have created. 

English - Brainstorming task (Plastic bags should be completely banned)

 

English - Brainstorming Task (Social media makes people less socially active)

 

English - Brainstorming Task (New Zealand should get rid of speed limits)