Street Art

Why do we look at street art?

• To discover what it is or how it is different from other arts.

Why do we stop when we see it? 

• We stop because we’re interested in seeing arts that blow our mind.

What is our reaction? *

• Majority of people get amazed and overwhelmed by seeing this beautiful street art.

Does it relate to its surroundings in a noticeable way?

• Yes, it is noticeable because of how big street art is, but some are  not maybe.

Why do we need and use visuals around us?

• Because It is an effective way to to pass information because the human mind processes things in images

What are examples of common visual symbols in our environment?

• Heart symbol: this represents love, compassion and health.

• Dove symbol: this represents peace, love, and calm.

• Raven symbol: this represents death and doom.

• Tree symbol: this represents growth, nature, stability, and eternal life.

• Owl symbol: this represents wisdom and intelligence.

• Dragon symbol: this represents power, wisdom, strength, and mysticism.

• Butterfly symbol: this represents rebirth, beauty, and transformation.

• Dog symbol: this represents loyalty, protection, and companionship.

• Lion symbol: this represents courage, leadership, and royalty.

• Fox symbol: this represents slyness and cleverness

https://venngage.com/blog/symbols-and-meanings/

I chose this because the right side of the picture has 2 wolves facing each other, if you look harder, you can actually see 4 wolves faces in the drawing.

Writing an exposition ~ESOL~

Dogs in National Parks

Title of exposition: Protect the Abel Tasman National Park.

I: Many dog owners have been carrying their pet dogs in Abel Tasman National Park. Where you can swim and run around, and many of their pet dogs like to ruin the areas of the park by peeing, leaving their dog waste, and digging holes around.

A: If the dog owners continue having their dogs ruining the park, many visitors will complain about it. What's worse is that dog urine gets in the water that people swim in and they don’t know that they’re already swimming with dog urines. It is nasty to say.

C: What we can do to prevent dogs from coming into the park, we can put signs that say “Dogs are prohibited”, and have a guard to check if there’s dogs coming to the park. We can also build or make a dog area somewhere in the area of the park where they can play and stay.

Hunger Game Symbols

Essay Writing Hunger Games Practice

Brainstorm: 

Katniss

- Emotionally and physically stronger.

- More powerful and popular - everyone knows who she is now

- Beginning - caring for her sister, shy, quiet, good in hunting/archery, shows caring and selfless when she volunteers for Prim in the reaping, values family.

- Middle - when she enters the games - determined, cautious - runs away and hides, smart, doesn't kill unless she has too, still see she is caring and look after others, doesn't want to use her skills to hunt others, she watches people die - her reactions are big forms an alliance with Peeta which make them favourites and her popular in the Capitol, more cunning - no longer oblivious to the influence of the Capitol - we see when she forms alliance with Peeta.

- End - angry, powerful - has power over the Capitol because she was going to end the games with no victor, intimidating.

Theme link to -

Hope & Rebellion - starts by following the Capitol's rules but by the end she stops and rebels against them.

Rich vs Poor - not a good choice.

Propaganda - she goes against the propaganda of the Capitol - they are fighting for glory, the Capitol is superior, the games are a good thing.

Struggle for power - in the games she was powerless, eventually she gains the power through rebellion.

Thesis Statement:

In Gary Ross's film, The Hunger Games, one way that Katniss changed was by gaining power and influence in the Capitol. This is shown through her struggles with the themes of hope and rebellion.

Paragraph 1 - Describe her at beginning in detail - clothes, make up, family, values, characteristics. 

Sentence linking to theme - has no hope at start.

Paragraph 2 - Describe change at middle in detail, link to theme.

Hunger Games Character Challenges Chart

What am I learning?

To understand how characters are developed in a film.

How does this work show my learning?

Making a chart and explaining how the characters are portrayed by using specific examples from the text.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning?

I am wondering how long does it take to develop a character in a film.

Matariki Inquiry

What went well and why?

I think the research went well because I got some information about the Matariki and the holidays.

What didn't go so well?

I didn't finished the poster in time.

If you were to do this again what would you do differently and why?

Make the poster look more fine.

Hunger Games - How does Music enhance the story?

Keywords - Major, Minor, Tempo, Dynamics, Diegetic sound.

Chords

Major - Upbeat, happy music tone.

Minor - Sad tone.

Tempo

Fast - Energetic, intense, gain interest.

Slow -  Bored, lazy, lethargic.

Dynamics 

Loud - Energy, intense, rising action.

Quiet - Background, make you focus / listen, build tension.

Diegetic Sound

Sounds that happen naturally e.g footstep.

Non-Diegetic Sound 

Sounds added to a scene-music.                                      

Soundtrack 01 - Minor chord, slow, quiet first then loud.

What scene - Opening scene

Techniques - Minor chord - tired slow tempo, gained volume - builds intensity, non-diegetic, foreshadowing, interested.

Director's purpose - Build emotion / atmosphere.

Soundtrack 02 - Minor chord, build intensity, slow, emotional.e

What scene - Reaping scene - music starts as Katniss walks to the stage.

Techniques - Minor chords, slow tempo, dynamics - gains volume then drops then builds.

Audience feel - Emotional, eery, ominous, melancholic.

Director's purpose - foreshadowing sadness, Katniss has just volunteered, will most likely eliminated.

Lets us feel Katniss emotions on personal level.

Soundtrack 03 - Minor chord, build emotion at beginning, build tension at ending,  slow tempo to medium, quite then loud, sad tone.

What scene - Rue's death - rue is killed, Katniss prepares her body - surrounding by flowers, salutes the TV camera.

Techniques - Minor chords - slow to medium tempo, dynamics - build to forte with Katniss's emotion.

Audience feel - Katniss's grief, sorrow, misery, anger, at the unfair death of her friend.

Director's purpose - Make us feel Katniss's emotion - more intense than if we heard her scream, makes us notice more - uses music to tell us the pain she feels.