Potato Tools!

 

 In Biology, we have been learning all about the early hominin species. Today we had a try at making tools from different eras. We used potatoes to do this. I think they turned out amazing.

Film Analyses

 The Lorax - Unless scene. 

Brainstorm: In this scene we see all of the animals and wildlife leaving the empty treeless field looking sad and disappointed. We then see the Lorax fly away into the sky looking extremely sad.

Lighting: Natural, dim, cold, lighting used to show a sad cold place. Bright light beamed down to the Lorax as he floated into the sky.

Colours: Colour pallet - dark blues, browns, grays. Colour used to create a cold, dark, sad atmosphere.

Film analysis.

 Brainstorm: A fox was trying to buy a jumbo pop for his son from an elephant worker and the elephant said no. A bunny police officer then stepped in and paid for the jumbo pop and took it to the fox and his son.

Techniques:

 Colour:  Bright lighthearted scene, amid at children so it has bright colors. 

Lighting: Warm, natural, bright, daytime, hot sunny day, Fox and bunny in the spotlight - everyone else in the shadow.

Camera: High and low angles were used - the elephant is taller, the elephant feels bigger, the elephant is more superior, not meant to like the elephant as he is bigger and meaner. Elephant uses an angry tone while speaking. low angle from the foxs POV and high angle from the elephant's POV.

S- Statement - In the popsicle scene, low-angle shots are used to show the imbalance of power between the characters.

E - Evidence - We see this when the elephant is talking to the fox. The low-angle shot is used to show how much bigger and stronger the elephant is compared to the fox.

X - Audience - This makes the audience feel bad for the fox because he doesn't get served because he is not an elephant and because he is small. 

X - director - The purpose of this is to introduce the idea of stereotyping to the viewer. appearing large and rough the elephant shopkeeper refused service because he is a fox. Strengthening is the elephant's quote "go back to your side of town". 

X - other technique - Combined with the use of low-angle shots, we see the differences in the characters rather than the similarities. The high-angle point of view makes the fox seem even smaller than elephants towering over him.

Y - Your link/real-life link - Issues like this where people are judged on their size, race, or religion are not isolated to this film. In the real world, we tackle ongoing issues of discrimination in every country even in 2021.

Sweet tooth - Ending scene.

Brainstorm: In this clip you see a younger hybrid boy sitting alone in a dark room and then a whole lot of other hybrids come up to him and welcome him with a hug.

Techniques -

Colour: Dark color palette , Sad scene

Lighting: Cold, Natural light, Light shines on the hybrids when they come out of the shadows, light was streaming in from cracks in the celing to show poor conditons.

Camera: Wide angle used to show the group of hybrids standing together as one. Low angle Pov used to see how the deer hybrid sees the group walking towards him.

Music: 

Analizing film.

 Brainstorm: The two were talking. she told him to go away because he didn't belong there.

The seeds of the sacred tree choose him. 

Techniques -

 Lighting - was artificial, bright - dim. The plants that they touched and the ground they walked on lit up, the background was dim, cold. 

Colour palette - Neon, green, blue, purple. Colors used to show the extreme difference between earth and where they are. 

Camera - shots - angles - movement- focus. Tilt shot used to show the seeds (POV). Conversation - mid shots, shows bodies and the distance between them. Close-up on seeds,  shows how they moved. 

S - Statment - In the scene ' seeds of the sacred tree', Lighting was effectively used to create an otherworldly experience of Pandora.

E - Evidence - Artificial bright light is seen as the figures run on and touch things in the environment. The rest of their surroundings remained dark against these flashes of cold neon light.

X - Explanation - Audience - This makes the audience feel amazed and envious of the natural and unearthly qualities of the planet.

X - Explanation - Director - The director did this to make the viewer feel like they have been transported to another world, where new and exciting plants exist. 

X Explanation - Other techniques - Coinciding with this is the use of a neon color palette. The blues, greens, and purples become vibrant and unworldly when combined with the artificially bright lights caused by movement.

Y - Your Link - The lighting and color are juxtaposed to that which we experience in the real world on earth. Like earth, it has trees, plants, and native people but we see them vastly different from us because of the bright artificial neon lighting. 

Scene 'The hide and clap scene'

Brain storm: In the 'Hide and clap scene', the lady heard a noise in the basment and went to check it out. She ended up falling down the basment stairs and getting stuck down there.

Solo research.

 

1. What are the songs you have chosen to perform? 1 step forward, 3 steps back by Olivia Rodrigo.

2. Why did you choose this material? It fits my range and it's a beautiful song.

3. Who wrote and performed the pieces? Olivia Rodrigo.

4. What is the song about? A rocky relationship

5. What will be challenging about your piece? Nothing.

What I knew and what I've learnt.

 What I know about Anne Frank - She was a young Jewish girl in hiding during the war against Germany. A woman named Miep Gies was hiding her. She wrote a diary about her experiences hiding during the war. Unfortunately, she didn't survive the war as she was found and killed by Nazi soldiers. I knew her diary was later made into a book for people to read and learn about what she went through.

What I learned about Anne Frank - Anne Franks full name was Annelies Marie Frank. She was born on June 12th 1929 and died in Feburay/March 1945. Her diary was about her family's 2 years of hiding during the german war. After Annes sister, Margot was taken to a force labour camp the franks dicided to go into hiding. The date was July 6th 1942. They hid in the backroom office of the Otto Frank's food-products bussines and with the help of their no-jewish friends who brought them food. After a while the Frank family was transported to Westerbork, a transit camp in the Netherlands. From there to Auschwitz on September 3, 1944. Anne and Margot were transferred to Bergen-Belsen the following month. It was established by the Dutch government that both Anne and Margot died in a typhus epidemic in March 1945.

What I know about the diary of Anne Frank - The diary of Anne Frank was Anne Franks diary that she wrote her experences in while she was in hiding with her family during the war. 

What I learned about the diary of Anne Frank - The diary of Anne Frank was writen in dutch. Anne started writing in 1942 and she was writing to a imaginary friend. After Anne passed and the war had ended Annes father found her diary. The book was puplished on June 12th 1947 and has been puplished in over 60 different languages. 

What I know about the Holocaust - I know that the Holocaust took place during the war. It was a plan to kill off all Jewish people. The Holocaust happened between 1933 and 1945. I know that very few people survied. I know that gas chamber were used to kill Jewish people. I know that they were starved and used for work before they were killed. I know that the condions that Jewish people were kept in was disgusting. 

What I learned about the Holocaust - I learned that the total number of Nazi concentration camps that existed at one point in time is at least 1,000, although these did not all exist at the same time.The holocaust was a mass murder of millions of European Jews (as well as millions of others, includi.ng Romani people, the intellectually disabled, dissidents and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community.

What I know about Miep Gies - I know that Miep Gies helped hide that Franks during the Holocaust. 

What I leanred about Miep Gies - Miep Gies was a dutch citizen that helped hid the franks family and 4 other dutch Jews from the nazis. She was born on Febuary 15th 1909 and died on January 11th 2010.

The freedom writers.

 The freedom writes.

For the last three periods in English, we have been watching a movie called freedom writers. It is an amazing move about a teacher putting in a major effort to help a classroom of troubled students find their potential. In the beginning, all the students in the class hated each other. there was a war between races and gangs, so none of them wanted to be anywhere near each other and were constantly fighting. Miss G set up activitys so the students could all see that in most ways they are the same and are living the same lives just on different sides. The teacher, Miss G was working two extra jobs to make a bit of extra money to buy her student the resources they needed to succeed, she had to buy her own resources because the school would not give her students the books or resources they needed to learn because they simply didn't believe in them. But Miss G believed that these kids could do great things. 

Miss G brought all of her student's diaries, for them to write about their lives and talk about what they have been through. She gave them the option to let her read the books so she could get a better understanding of what the kids were really going through. All of her students left the diaries for her to read.

The students started with learning about the holocaust as none of them knew what it was. Miss G and the class raised the money for the class to be able to go to a holocaust museum, where they all learned very important things. They then went on to read the diary of Anne Frank. The diary of Anne Frank was inspiring to the students. A lot of them saw the lady who hid Anne Frank a hero. 

All of the students wanted to meet the lady who hid Anne Frank. So they fundrased and wrote her leaters.