Camera techniques - Definition

Welcome back to another blog. This week blog is related to my definition of the language of film work. This time this one is a definition of each camera techniques and what they are used for, this is going to be shown in a slide:

Language of film

Welcome back to another blog. This week this blog is about our hurumanu class inside and out. This is the new hurumanu that we have started on for this term. This hurumanu is mixed with science and film study, this work is a definition for the language of film: 

Body language: Used to show the feeling of the characters

Costumes: To show the personality of the character through clothing

Hairstyles: Same with the costumes it is to show the personality of the character by what is on their head

Make-up: To make the actor look similar to the character

Colour: To make the stage to match the mood of the scene, for example, blue is sad and red is mad

Lighting: Also to set the mood and make the main part more visible

Props: Equipment that the actor can interact with for the scene

Settings: To get the stories more advance and to describe the areas

Dialogue: To either progress a plot or to show something new about the character (talking in the scene)

Sound effects: Made to create a mood for the audience

Music: Also to set a mood or a scene by sound

Silence: Made to create a serious area or in acting

Symbols: Mostly an object, used to recommend new ideas

Special FX: To create a realistic view of the movie

What am I learning? I'm learning to define the language of film using visual & sound techniques.

How does this work show my learning? This shows that I can identify each of the Subjects and I know what they mean

What am I wondering as a result of this learning? I'm wondering if there is more meaning to these topics

Samoan Language week

This week is Samoan language week so my wananga class have been looking at different topics about Samoan and its culture. The topic I chose was art/tattoo.

What interested you about this topic? Well, the reason why I chose art was because of how every design that's on the mats or wherever the design it's on it has each meaning.

3 key ideas I have learnt about this topic: 

1. Only tattoo designs can be work by Samoans

2. It is disrespectful if you display their symbols and design

3. The design means many things

Why is this significant to the people of Samoa? The tattoo and designs of the Samoa islands represent community, power, respect, honour and is a mark of pride that can only be worn by Samoans. 

How does this topic compare to New Zealand's equivalent?

Samoans design has more detail in them than what Maori arts, but Maori arts have more creativity in them. They are both beautiful designs hand both have meaning in their arts.

Environmental Sustainability

Environmental sustainability is a rate of renewable resource harvest, pollution creation, and non-renewable resource that can be continued. If they cannot be continued indefinitely then they are not sustainable (cannot be reused over again). So here is a google drawing of environmental sustainability:

Lockdown

During quarantine, I had done a lot of things and had mostly chilled.  The best part of the lockdown was that I could sleep in, baking, spending time with family and going for walks. The worst thing about the lockdown is that we had to wake up early for video calls, all day with my little brother and doing school work.

During lockdown for fitness, my family and I went for bike walks every day and I worked on my skills for netball and volley. My family and I would play soccer games or handball, we would sometimes bike to go check on my great grandparents.

This is the cake I made for my great grandfather

Quarantine baking

Today I decided to make a chocolate cake for my great grandad, he has been asking me to make him a cake so I did. This cake is a two-layered cake, kit kat around it and buttercream icing. This didn't take this long and was super easy. Here is the result:

After baking the two cakes I levelled them so the will be flat.  Once the two cakes are levelled I use the icing and put a little bit on one half spread it then place the other side upside down on top.

    Then I started decorating, chopped up some kit last and sprinkled them around.

I used the recipe from Edmonds cookery book "Chocolate cake pg 48"
Now here is the recipe:


175g butter softened
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
3 eggs
1/2 cup cocoa
2 cups standard flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 cup milk

1. Preheat oven to 180c. Grease a 22cm deep round cake tin and line base with baking paper.
2. Cream butter, sugar and vanilla essence until light and fluffy. Add the eggs at a time, beating well after each addition,
3. Sift cocoa, flour and baking powder together and add to the creamed mixture alternately with the milk. Pour mixture into the prepared tin.
4. Bake for 45-55 min or until the cake springs back when lightly touched. Leave in the tin for 10min before turning out onto a wire rack to cool.
5. When cold ice with chocolate buttercream icing or dust icing sugar.

Chocolate buttercream icing:

2 cups icing sugar
2 Tbsp cocoa
115g butter softened
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1-2 Tbsp milk

1. Sift icing sugar and cocoa.
2. Cream the butter with half of the icing sugar, the vanilla and the milk. Beat until smooth and then gradually beat in the remaining icing sugar to give a good spreading consistency.

1¾ ¾ ¾ ¾

Smartie cookies

This whole time in quarantine I have been baking a lot. So when my cooking teacher had given a task to do a practical at home I was glad that I had a reason to bake. So we get to choose what to bake (something simple) then take photos through the process and then blog it. Today for cooking I made chewy chocolate chip biscuits because they are super simple to make, in the photos you will see chocolate chips coloured they are smarties because they were the only tiny chocolate made for cookies. To show you what I did I am going to present in a slide, so here is how I made these amazing cookies:




Here is the recipe and the method for the cookies that I made:

10 min cooking time
serves: 30
Prep time: 20 min

Ingredients:
200g butter
1 cup white sugar
1 cup soft brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla essence
3 cups flour
pinch of salt
1 tsp baking powder
2 cups chocolate chips (or smarties)

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180°
2. Melt butter, and both sugars and cream them together
3. Beat in the eggs and the vanilla essence
4. Now fold the dry ingredients in
5. Roll the dough in medium-sized balls
6. Put them on a well-greased tray
7. Bake them for 8-10 min
8. Let them chill for 1 min
9. Then enjoy