Charcoal Work

Working through charcoal has been fun but messy, so far I have done two pieces of charcoal work I also used soft pastels or chalk to put more colour into the artworks.

For this specific piece I have used a pacific flower. The colours I have used for this piece of work is red, yellow and orange to make the fiery part of the artwork and I used different blues and light and dark green to create a ocean like colour. 

This represents fire and water, it is as if fire and water going at each others throats. My understanding of the two colours is your sad and depressing moments and your angry and frustration moments and to me the flower represents the thing that keeps you calm, no matter what like the thing that keeps you moving and 

Art

This year I will be focussing on Spiritual and Cultural as my kaupapa.

I have chosen this theme because it shows my cultural background and spiritual beliefs. 

The media I will work with is paint and design.

the two artists I have chose from 1.1 is Shane Cotton and Sofia Minson from list one, Roy Lichtenstein and Vincent Van Gogh from list two.

The artist I am interested in for my kaupapa is Franc Marz.

Essay On Short Film Aiga

The short film Aiga has shown a variety of film aspects.The film aspects used in this short film was extreme close up, long shot, Two shot and lastly the type of music that was playing in the background of the scene where the boy is sad.

Extreme close up was used efficiently when the sister hugged her brother. The reason for this is that you can see the shocked facial expression he was making and in the background his sister was pouring her eyes out. The director did this to show the depression the sister has when she suddenly found out the mum died. This linked back to the brother being shocked  and the close up of his face. The director used this film aspect to show the audience that the boy is confused on what is going on.

However not only was the extreme long shot used but also they used long shot. This is demonstrated when the boy is slouching on the couch. The reason for this is that the boy is feeling depressed because of the death of his mum. The long shot is shown when the boy is sitting on the couch and the camera is quite far but not as far from the boy and there is other people around him. The director used this film aspect to give the audience a bit of depression around how th boy is feeling and all his emotions around the bad news that had happened.

Two shot was used effectively. A example of the two shot would be in the scene where the sister of the boy is hugging him. The explanation for this would be because the mother recently passed and the girl was hugging her brother because of the pain and sadness inside he heart that is when the perfect two shot was taken. The director did this to show the audience that something bad has just happened.

The type of music that was playing had a very good but sad meaning to it. A example of this would be when it was the mum’s funeral there was a low and sad type of music that was in that exact scene. The explanation for this is that by how the music is it shows that the mum has suddenly past away. I think the director did this to give a depressed feeling to the audience.

In conclusion all these film aspects had there high and lows. 

From extreme close up and long shots to two shot and the type of music used through the scene where the boy is depressed. Now knowing that the director probably wanted to tell people to appreciate others while they are still there.

Planning and Structuring Ideas for a Risk or Challenge

Have you ever abseiled before well on one bright sunny day on Project K the instructors informed the group that we were going to do abseiling, in that moment I was saying to myself that it’s not that big of a deal. I was basically telling them I have done it before. In my head though I had those thoughts like it will be a piece of cake and eh it’s not that hard and eh it’s not that scary.

Until the instructors explained to the group we were doing down a huge rock wall I was a bit frightened and I was worried than I might end up falling and hurting myself, all that time I was scared straight out of my socks not knowing what to do.

All the fear felt like a huge rock was thrown on top of me and all the anger inside of my body I felt like I wanted to punch someone or something. Then one of the mentors that came with Kat told be to breath in and out  because she said it might make all the fear and anger disappear, and she was absolutely right it went away. Until one pair that came up because they just went said that there is a little bit of rock then about a few meters down it was completely mid-air, suddenly all the fear returned.

Once it was my turn I took all the fear and shoved it down inside me and took all the courage and used it to go down. Once I was clicked on to the rope it felt like I was sitting on a invisible chair that was attached to the rock wall and I was off a cliff. Once I started going down I felt like I could just jump of and fly or teleport but I couldn’t.

Once I was down felt like a whole heap of relief was lifted of my shoulders and I was free but at the same time I actually wanted to go again knowing that I can just shove the fear down and get the courage to try it again I also felt very happy and proud of myself.

In the end I realised that you can do anything If you believe in yourself and you could do anything if you put your mind to it. I have also learned that I can be more than I think and do more than I think.

Movies are better than books

Gather Ideas:

1. Enjoy great acting
2. Watch a story in less time
3. Shows you better
4. Movies leave stuff out
5. More personal
6. Use your imagination

Organise Ideas:

1. Shows you better
2. Watch a story in less time
3. Use your imagination
4. Movies leave stuff out

Team sports are better than individual sports

Gather Ideas: In Team Sports you:

1. Helping each other 
2. Work together 
3. Using a strategy to help out each other

Organise ideas:

1. Help each other 
2. Work as a team
3. Using your team's strengths and weaknesses to get to a certain point.

People in this world may have different opinions on team sports and individual sports, some of those opinions may be positive or negative. In team sports you help each other, Work s a team and use the team's strengths and weaknesses to get to a certain point and  through this I am going to discuss that team sports is better that individual sports. 

In team sports helping each other out is a great thing to do going from passing the ball to helping them feel better when they make a mistake in the game. In many team sports team members help each other out with anything probably not everything but most things, an example of this could be when one team member needs help with the game because they may not get a certain part of a strategy but helping them by explaining it to them will make it better. That's why helping people in the team is a great thing.

Not only is helping each other a great thing but working as a team  is another even better. Working as a team might be similar to helping each other except you are working as a team to be better at the sport or to possibly win the game, for example working as a team to get better at the sport is a good thing because with the help of your team you are becoming a better person.

Even though working as a team is good using strengths and weaknesses is good to. What I mean by using strengths and weaknesses is that your team would make a plan to put you in a certain point according to your strengths and weaknesses. One example of this could be that say you are playing netball the team or coach putted you is GS because your good at shooting but your speed isn't very good.

The South Island is better than the North Island

Gather Information:

1. In the North island there is more traffic than in the south island
2. There is more land in the South Island than the North Island
3. Canterbury is better than North land
4.  

Organise Information:

1. In the North island there is more traffic than in the south island
2. Canterbury is better than North Land
3. There is more land in the South Island than the North Island

The South Island is better than the North Island part of this is true and the other part may be false in your own personal opinion, but I mostly know that the south Island is better for many reasons. Firstly it's better because of the less amount of traffic, the Canterbury team is better than North Land team  and lastly there is more land in the South Island.

The traffic can be a bit of a bore when you are heading to work, school, or going to visit your friends you never know how long you will be in traffic for. In the North Island You could be in traffic a lot especially if you live in Auckland, sometimes this could happen in the mornings or anytime during the day or night. This is the reason why the South Island is better because in some places there might not even be traffic at all.

Some people that live in the Canterbury region support their team some people might not. People in the South Island might even have said that Canterbury is better than North Land. The reason people say these things may because of all the tries they score compared to the North land team etc, both of the teams are great in there own way because of those long and hard training hours the had to get to where they are now.