Film Study - Coraline - Challenges Chart

 In Hurumanu 2 - Film studies, we watched an animation film created in 2009 called "Coraline". Before you proceed, I just wanna warn you that there are some spoilers ahead. If you don't care about it then you may continue to read below.

Here's a brief summary of what was the film is about:

It was about a pre-teen girl who has recently moved into Pink Palace Apartments. Boredom gets the best of her and she started exploring the place. She discovered an interesting small door passage that leads to a parallel world. It was an identical world except the world was something she would love. Her parents in that world weren't always busy and showed great affection for her. 

They cooked the good meals that she wanted to eat and even things that brought fun and colour to her dull boring life. However, as the film progressed, the world she thought that is wonderful and full of fun got twisted into a horrifying one. Where eventually the "Other Mother" revealed her true form. A beldam (witch) that traps children that live from the apartment over the centuries and take their souls by sewing buttons onto their eyes. If you wanna know what happened, I highly recommend you to watch the film. 

Anyways, in Film studies, we were tasked to either do Challenges charts of 2 lead characters of our choice or create a resume with again, the 2 lead characters of our choice. I chose Coraline and the black Cat.

Here's my work:

Fish Waste - Hurumanu 1

This week in Hurumanu 1 we were tasked to do research about our own interest topic that revolves around sustainability. I was working in a group and our chosen topic were Fish waste. On the slide below, it will give you a better understanding of what's it about. We also had to statistics about the data we collected from internet. It is also included on the slides below. Have a nice day and I hoped you like it. Bye~

Levinthal Emulations - ART

 In our Art lesson, we are focusing on David Levinthal's way of photography. David Levinthal is a photographer that uses mini figures to represent an idea like war scenes for example. We were tasked to make an emulation of his photographs. Emulation is kinda like imitating something but not exactly copying, just either making it better from the original or creating a piece that is kinda similar to it but with our own props. We took the time to do some photograph session outside using our mini figures. Here are the photographs I took. I didn a little bit of editing in it. I hope you like it.

It is 3 photographs of mini figures that looked like some couples. There's not really any special idea meaning behind it. We also needed to evaluate one of our photographs and check if we have included like rule of thirds, assymetry/symettry, focal points, and leading lines.  View my other post to know the definitions of those and what it is. Have a nice day! Bye!

Blood - Hurumanu 2 - Science

In Science, we began learning about human blood. We looked at what are the main types of blood, it's purpose, functions, and how it benefits our body. The study of blood is also known as "Hematology" in a scientific way. There are four main types of blood cells. They are the Red blood cells, White blood cells, Plasma, and Platelets. Before we look at the definitions and the functions of those blood, let's look at what are the important jobs of blood in the body.

Blood has many functions:

It carries oxygen from your lungs to your cells.

It carries carbon dioxide from your cells to your lungs.

It carries hormones from the glands around your body.

It regulates your temperature by moving heat around your body.

Definitions + Functions of types of blood:

• Red Blood Cells - Also known as RBC's or Erythrocyte. Red blood cells make up about 45% of your blood. It contains a chemical called "Hemoglobin". Hemoglobin is responsible for transporting oxygen around your body. 

• White Blood Cells - Also known as Leukocytes. It is responsible for fighting infection and disease around your body. It only increases if one individual person is fighting through infection or disease. Then it decreases when a person is perfectly healthy. 

• Plasma - Plasma is rather a straw-colored liquid. It transports carbon dioxide from your cells to your lungs, nutrients from the small intestine to your cells, and chemical messengers (called hormones) to your cells. It makes up about 54% of our blood.

• Platelets - Platelets are tiny fragments (pieces) of cells. It is responsible for making blood clot when you get a cut from your skin. That way, you don't lose a lot of blood.

Your blood is red, so why are your veins blue?

How wounds heal itself?

How does your immune system work?

Environmental Sustainability Keywords

Hello today in our Hurumanu 1 lesson, we looked at environmental sustainability keywords that relate to environmental sustainability. We were tasked to drag and match the words to its definition. Also to color code it red, orange, or green. Green: Improving environmental sustainability. Orange: Environmental sustainability is balanced (no better, no worse). Red: Environmental sustainability is getting worse. 

Making our own hand demo

Hi. This week we began making our own hand demo in Hurumanu 1 (Science + English). Our main learning topic in Science is the human body and its structures and how it works. Such as bones, muscles, organs, and so on. This week we focus on the hands. Firstly, let's learn how to do our hands work?

Our hands can move because there are lots of parts that work together to make it move. They are Bones, Joints, Muscles, Tendons, and Ligaments. 

• Bones in the hand - There are 3 bones in each finger and two in the thumb There are 5 bones in the palm- leading to each finger. Bones provide structure and support.

• Joints in the hand - It's where two bones meet is called a "joint". Joints allow movement between bones.

• Ligaments in the hand - Ligaments attach bones together. They allow movement in certain directions only.

• Tendons in the hand - Tendons attach bone to muscle. Long tendons run from the tip of our fingers down to our muscles.

• Muscles in the hand - There are NO muscles in our fingers. Only in our palm and forearm. The muscles then move our fingers by contracting and relaxing. As the muscle contracts, it pulls on the Tendon, making our finger curl down.

Three Aspects of Sustainability

This week in Hurumanu 1 we are learning the three aspects of sustainability. The three aspects of sustainability are Social, Environmental, and Economical sustainability. Here is the definition of the three aspects of sustainability and as well as sustainable development.

The three aspects of sustainability

• Environmental Sustainability - ensuring the future generation's needs are are accessible when it comes to natural recourses that can be found in the environment. We can, by using renewable resources instead of non-renewable ones.

• Social Sustainability - Creating equality of access to resources regardless of who they are between social groups. Knowing the impacts of business and knowing how to manage it. As well as identifying the positive and negative effects on people and the economy.

• Economic Sustainability - Is all about using and taking recourses wisely that we need in a sensible amount that would be still accessible in the future with future generations. 

• Sustainable Development - the ability to meet the needs of future generations without compromising. In order to do that, we shouldn't take advantage of the available resources on this planet and only take the necessary.

Camera Shots, Angles and Movements Techniques

This week in English film studies, we began learning different types of camera techniques in shots, angles, and movements that are used in films. Proceed down below to view what are those different types of techniques.

English Film Language

Hi, in one of my new hurumanu subjects which is English, we are learning about films and all the other aspects that have to do with it such as visual & sound techniques and so on. For the first week of this subject, we were tasked to make our own language of film dictionary. Here's the link to our task.

English Language Film 

Body Language

It is used in the film to show communication between characters through their movements, pose, and facial expressions to give an understanding of what is happening in the film. It could be as simple as smiling which shows the character is feeling happy.

Costumes

It is used to describe the characteristics of a character in the story or what their roles are or the weather in the show. For example, the characters might wear some warm slacks or jackets to show that the weather is cold and chilly.

Hairstyles

It is used to show the character’s traits and characteristics or could also represent what their roles are just like costumes. For example, a character might have some spiky dyed hair which often represents gangsters. 

Make-Up

It is also used to show or describe the character’s traits or characteristics. Make-up usually makes an actor’s visual appearance more appealing to others or to match up to their character’s attributes. Often, make-ups are often applied to women to show the typical “feminine” sides. 

Colour

It is used to set up the mood in the show. For example, a blue colour tends to set up the mood into sadness, or an emotional state.

Lighting

It’s used to set up the attention of the audience to a certain thing such as spotlights. It also sets the mood of the scene. It makes the scene better because it would have great lighting in it.

Props  

It’s used to make a scene more realistic or could show some traits of a character. For example, a character might be described as some sort of fairy. She would have some fairy wings as props. 

Settings

Settings is another word for background or surroundings. A setting might change based on the progress of the story. 

Dialogue

It’s a conversation or some sort of between two characters or more in a story. It is usually plotted in films and movies.

Sound Effects

Sound effects make a film more interesting. It creates a mood for the scene. It also creates suspense. 

Music  

Music is also used to create a mood in a scene and would probably make a better understanding for the audience. For example, the scene might be romantic, they could play romantic music in the background.

Silence

Silence is usually used to hook the audience’s attention and could also create some serious mood.

Symbols  

Symbols are usually used to create an idea of what’s happening in the story or like metaphors. For example, in a film, a man might give flowers to the woman as a symbol of his affection for her.

Special FX

Special effects are used in movies to make something artificial look realistic. With these, it makes the films believable and appealing to the audience, especially if it is some mythical creatures such as large wolves, vampires, and so on.

Bye! Have a nice day!

My lovely photo-montage collage artwork!

Hello! This week in Art, we moved on making our own photo-montage collage art. The photomontage style of art is a montage constructed from photographic images The previous one was made on paper. This time around, we are having a go in making our own photomontage collage digitally. we were tasked to make a couple so here's mine. I made 3 in total. I hope you like it!

Photomontage 1:

This was my first attempt at making a photomontage collage digitally. The idea I had in my head was to make it as a desert theme. As you can see, on the right side, I made that person's arm turn into some macarons because it sorta fit in from the wrist. The ice cream cone that the figure was holding ended up looking like Hello Kitty because of the cherry representing it as the bow. The hand that is holding the White cat signifies that it is getting served that is why the angle of that arm is a bit higher than the left one. Speaking of the left side, the ice cream cone that the figure was holding contained a cute round bunny. At the top of the bunny, there is a sunflower plant growing in its head. Having the orange wing butterfly hanging on it just adds to the idea that it is an actual plant and is pollinating the sunflower. At last, the background is just some deserts that relate to the main object.

Photomontage 2:

This is my second photomontage collage art. The theme of this artwork is lemons. I started it off with some anime guy, eventually covered it's faced with a large lemon and added some details to it by pasting some small lemons both sides to represent the ears. I noticed the t-shirt were kinda empty so I pasted some lemons that have some green leaves on it to the shirt to give it some design. With all of those details, it turned out to be a lemon figure. Although it didn't have any facial structures, the hands, neck and body were enough to consider it as a person. The figure is on a pose that makes both of their fists crumbled up into a ball as a sign of cheer. As the whole thing is mostly just yellow, it represents the enthusiasm and energy that the colour yellow brings out. As well as the Sunflower on the bottom left corner.

Photomontage 3:

Lastly, this was the third photomontage collage artwork. Firstly, I took a photo of one of the k-pop idol that I adore. I cut the picture and edited the background. But before I moved on to the background, I edited a white shadow at the back of the person to make it more like 3d. Now for the background, I gathered some aesthetic peach themed pictures from the internet and just sorta paste them all over the place. You can also see some of the repetitive images on the background somewhere. I only used about 8 different images and put it all together to turn into an aesthetic background. As you probably noticed, I also put some of the pictures into a different angle. It turned out pretty well. For the finishing touch, I decided to add some flower crown to the person. 

If I have to choose out of these 3 masterpieces of which one I like the most, I would probably choose Photomontage 3, it's because I put a lot of effort and hard work into this one, especially the background and the white shadow of the figure. Therefore, I am proud of all of my finished product artwork.

I hope you liked my art and have a nice day everyone! Bye~!

Hurumanu 5: Summary & Reflection

Hello! This week is the end of our current Hurumanu subject and next week we will be moving on to the next rotation. In this blog post, I am just reflecting on the previous things we've done in this Hurumanu subject, (Hurumanu 5 Science & Maths). One of the things that we have done in this rotation is Geometry and Algebra. We were taught a different variety of things relating to geometry/algebra and as well as Science in the combine. For the past 13 weeks in this Hurumanu, I don't really have a favourite part that I liked. Not because it was bad or boring or anything. It's just Maths isn't the subject I would be enthusiastic to learn about. However, for the most part, on the Science side. I think I enjoyed some of the experiments we did. What could make this Hurumanu better maybe is to explain a bit further on the new topic we are learning for a better understanding for some of the students but other than that, I think this Hurumanu wasn't too bad.

Now, to show some of our learning we've learnt in this subject, we were tasked to make a DLO showing our understanding in one of the things that we were taught of. For the past few weeks, we were taught the basic of Algebra. We learnt about Algebraic equation. Now in this DLO, we have to show a little bit of the science side. For the science part, I did Botany. I'm just gonna show you how to put your plant growth rate into an equation. At the beginning of the slide, I'm just showing each by step on how to solve an Algebraic Expression. I hope you like it and learnt something new! Bye! 

Hurumanu 5: Lemon Batteries 🍋

 Aim: To produce an electrical current using lemons.

Equipment:

• Copper electrode

• Zinc electrode

• Copper wire

• Lemon

• Voltmeter

Methods:

1. Roll your lemon onto the table, softening the inside.
2. Push in the Copper electrode and Zinc electrode onto the Lemon.
3. Get your Voltmeter, plugged in the negative and positive wire to their proper placement.
4. Clip the negative wire to the Zinc electrode.l
5. Clip the positive wire to the Copper electrode.

In the Voltmeter, there it will show how much the volts the Lemon produce.

Here are some pictures of the experiment:

In my groups' lemons, it only produced 1 volt. I wasn't expecting a lot from this so I guess it was fine. We also attempt to connect a couple of lemons together to see how much volts it would produce. It produced about 5 volts all together. 

Have a great day and bye!

Hurumanu 6: Political Party

This week we continued on to look at politics. This week and the couple following weeks, we are focusing on creating our own political parties in groups. We needed to include the name of the party, slogan, logo, policies, and manifesto. The people in my group were Skyler, Shiela, Rieya, and Janel. This week we manage to finished some things. Our party leader is Rieya. 

Our party is called the "Constellation Party". Why the Constellation is a group of visible stars, we as individuals represent the stars, because every star is different from each other, although we are all different, we are like a constellation because we are all together and we will fight together as one in order to make New Zealand a better place, where they can look up at us and be inspired, with that, we, New Zealanders are a constellation.

Relating to that, our slogan for our party is "Our individualities can create a constellation". The main colour of our party is Purple. We chose the colour “Purple” because purple is the colour that represents New Zealand’s dignity, pride, nobility, ambition and power. Using this, we can show that we have the ability to show the world that New Zealand can represent these strengths.

Today we created our team logo as well as our party policies and have started on our Manifesto. Our policies and manifesto aren't clear at the moment but our focus next week is to get it done. Also the party leader speech.

Hurumanu 6: Voting Guide Poster

Last week in Hurumanu 6, we began looking at political parties/leaders around the country. In relating to that, we also learned how to vote. If you don't know how yet. Here's a guided poster I made to explain briefly the process you have to go through in order to vote for your candidates. When voting, you are given 2 votes. One for a party and an electorate chair of your town.

Hope you get a better understanding of the voting system.

 Hope you like my poster and have a nice day bye!

Art: The Collage Art Of Photomontage

Hello! This semester in Art we began looking at Photomontage. One of the well-known artists who started this kind of photography art is Hannah Höch. A female artist who invented this kind of photography art with some meanings behind it. Mostly about the equal rights for women. But when she started this collage art she was inspired by Pablo Picasso's collage art and started kind of her own one. But anyways, we were provided with some random pictures and it was up to us to use our creativity to create a photomontage. Here are the things I've come up with. I hope you like it.

It's mostly about statue faces with some cropped out facial features in the other pictures and stick it. There's no special meaning behind this photomontage of mine. But If I have to put a meaning behind it it's probably about how history can be affected by today's society. Especially with the statues. I guess you could say it kinda relates to some drag-queens these days. The second picture on the top right, the one who is wearing some yellow boots, it kinda relates to how people can be insecure about their appearance I guess. Hope you like it and have a great day!

Who made the first 'photograph'?

It's the beginning of the 2nd Semester. For the options subject, I chose Art. It's specifically has something to do with Photography. In every 10 minutes start of the session, we are tasked to make a blogpost about in one of the 'Photography Research slides'. 

The picture above is the topic of what I'm blogging about. 

The person that made the first photograph in the world is Joseph Nicephore Niepce. Nicephore Niepce is a french man who invented the first photography and pioneer in that field. The process of him making the photograph was called 'Heliography' it basically meant 'sun' and graphein invented by him around 1822.

End of Life Referendum

Today we looked to the remaining topic in Hurumanu 6 which is the referendum about Ending of Life act law. End of life law is basically about having a choice to end their own individual life. However, it might sound like suicide but there are some points that say it's not. Here are the pros and cons of this law.

Pros:

- You have to be 18+ and is a terminal illness

- People do not need to suffer

- A free choice about your own life, method and date and time for taking the medication

- Hard decisions are taken away from loved ones

- You can change your mind at the last minute

- You aren't forced to do it if you don't want to

Cons:

- Some doctors might not want to 

- It's still suicide

- Is against other people's beliefs and religion/values

- Can maybe take advantage of it by injecting it to someone else out of hatred

- Your loved ones don't have a choice but to accept your own decision to end your life

- Doctors can be guilty after doing it 

If I were to vote in this. I would vote no, it's because they are going to die eventually in a matter of time. What's the point of taking the medication in advance. If the illness is unable to cure at all they could just take it and end their sufferings early but I say I'd probably just enjoy my last days while I'm still living instead of taking the medication. 

Cannabis Referendum 2020

This week in Hurumanu 6 we began looking onto two types of votes topics and they are Cannabis vote and End of life vote. We first looked at Cannabis Referendum. Cannabis is a type of drug that uses primarily for medical or recreational purposes.

The positives and negatives are...

Positive:
-More tax

-Know who's is growing + supplying

-Create more jobs

-Know what you're buying

-No fear of breaking the law
-Age restriction

Negative:

-Drugs use can cause you to do bad things 

-Still can't stop illegal selling

-Cant add tax growing

-Create drug addicts

-Damage mental health

If I had the choice to vote on this, I'd vote No. It's because having drugs legal can absolutely encourage people it's okay to do it. Sure it does have some age restriction on who can use it, but I think, for example, the father bought these and their child gets curious about what it is and tried it. If the prizes are too high for non-illegal selling, it could encourage people to purchase it in an illegal way. It could also of course affect your wellbeing and mental health.

 You can get addicted to it and couldn't stop yourself from using it even though there is a limited amount that an individual person can get it, you never know what's gonna happen. Not everyone follows the rules of the government and can rebel from it. Overall, It's just not a good thing.

Year 2020 Goal Setting (Term 3)

Hi! The term just started and we are working on our goals for the term. Here I am sharing them with you. Please click at the link down below to view it.

 Have a nice day =)

LINK

Orana Wildlife Park Field Trip!

Annyeonghaseyo! (Hello in Korean) On Monday, we went on a field trip to Orana Wildlife Park. We went there to learn a little bit more about the different types of animals. For me, It was a pretty exciting fun trip and I really enjoyed going there. Miss Bethany was our instructor and she taught us about the animals. The animals that probably stood out for me is the Kea. Kea is one of the native birds in New Zealand and it is very intelligent. 

Giraffe feeding was one of the unforgettable one. I was scared at first because I was terrified that the giraffe might bite my hands when I point the food to it. But luckily, Miss K helped me to feed the giraffe. There's even a video, where I filmed myself feeding the giraffe. The giraffe's tongue was a bit too strong so I let go of the food and Miss K feed it instead. 

Here's a video of us feeding the giraffe:

Here are some pictures during the field trip:

Thank you for reading my post and have an awesome day!