Drama Gender roles in musicals!

Today in drama we watched grease and that got us thinking about gender roles in musicals compared to recent musicals like mean girls. In grease, the boys are expected to be tough, race cars, and smoke like in the scene where sandy and Danny meet at high school. Danny is pressured by the members of his gang, The T birds to act tough and careless. Whereas girls are expected to be Polite, gentle, and wear dresses.  In mean girls, the idea of LGBTQ+ is more accepted, as two of the main characters are gay. Boys are free to be who they want to be, and girls are free to have their own fashion and personality.

Camera shots, Angles, and movements

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

How does this work show my learning? This work shows my learning by listing all the shots I have learned the definition of and shows that I have learned some camera shots, camera angles, and camera movements. What am I wondering as a result of this learning? This learning has left me wondering what other shots are used to make films and why they would choose to use them. 

Language of film, Camera Shots, Angles, and movement. 

Camera Shots	Camera Angles	Camera Movements
Extreme close-up, Close up, Medium close-up, Medium shot, Medium Long shot, Long (Wide) shot, Extreme Long shot, Birds eye view.	Low Angle, High angle, Eye-level, Dutch Tilt, Pont of view, Over the shoulder	Pan, Tilt, Tracking, Mise En Scene

Extreme Close-up, Close-Up, Medium Close-Up, Medium Shot, Medium Long Shot, Long (wide) Shot, Extreme Long-Shot, Low Angle, High Angle, Eye Level, Birds Eye View, Dutch Tilt, Pan, Tilt, Tracking, Point of View, Over the shoulder, Mise En Scene

Extreme Close-up	Close-up	Medium Close-up
Medium Shot	Medium Long Shot	Long (Wide) shot
Extreme Long Shot	Low Angle	High Angle

Eye Level	Bird’s eye view	Dutch tilt
Pan  panning means swiveling a camera horizontally from one spot. This movement is similar to a person turning their head from left to right.	Tilt  Tilting is where the camera stays in one spot but moves up and down. Tilting is similar to someone raising or lowering their head to look up or down	Tracking  Tracking is any shot where the camera follows at any angle the subject being filmed
Point of view	Over the shoulder	Mise En Scene  It is everything put into a scene including music, camera shots/angles.

Language of film dictionary!

What am I learning? During this hurumanu, I am currently learning to define the language of film using visual and sound techniques. How does this work show my learning? This work shows my learning by displaying what I have researched and learned about the definitions of each of these words. What am I wondering as a result of this learning? Something that this activity has left me wondering is if there is any more words that I could add to my dictionar

Language Of Film Dictionary!

Body Language- Body language is a type of nonverbal communication, in which physical

behavior is used to express information and emotions. 

Hairstyles-  Hairstyles in films can reflect on the character’s personal appearance and personality. 

Costume-  Costumes are used in films to create a story or a background for a character. It can also show off their personality and style. For example in pirates of the Caribbean Captain jack sparrows costume shows that he is a pirate and is not well kept so it says that he is a scavenger and gets into a lot of trouble.  

Makeup-  Makeup is used in films to change an actor’s facial features and give the characters a more distinctive look. 

Colour-  Colour is used in films to set the mood of a film. For example, red is used to denote passion, danger, or power. 

Lighting-  Lighting creates an atmosphere and a sense of meaning for the audience. Lighting also tells the audience where to look. 

Props- Props help enhance the performance and make the scene look more authentic and it helps the actors get into character and can create more of a story. For example in harry potter the wands give more of a story as the wand is part of the deathly hallows and harry and Voldemorts wands are connected. 

Settings- The setting is the time and place of the story. The setting helps tell the story and can change throughout the movie. 

Dialogue- Dialogue it the script of what each character is saying throughout the film. The dialogue helps give the audience a feel of who the character is and helps move the plot along. 

Sound effects- Soundeffects are where you create an artificial wound to enhance the sounds that are created in the film. 

Music- Music in film is played over a scene to make it more dramatic and give the audience a sense of what is happening or what’s going to happen.

Silence-  Silence is a gap in a scene where there is no music playing over the top of the scene. This is used to create an intense emotional tone. 

Symbols-  Symbols are something that can pop up several times during a film that can represent something else entirely which could add to the plot. 

Special FX-  Special effects are illusions or visual tricks to create imaginative events in a story or virtual world.

My Strengths!

Today as part of our wananga activities we had to look at our strengths. Our task was to color in the blocks that each had a different strength inside with a description of what it means to have that strength. The strengths included Love, Perseverance, Prudence, Social Intelligence, Teamwork, Zest, Love of learning, Perspective, Self Regulation, Spiritually, Appreciation of beauty, Creativity, Fairness, Gratitude, Hope, Humour, Kindness, Bravery, Curiosity, Forgiveness, Honesty, Humility, Judgment, and Leadership. Out of all of those strengths we had to choose five, My five strengths were bravery, curiosity, Humility, Love of learning, and self-regulation. After choosing all of the five strengths we had to create a poster explaining what strengths we choose and a description of each of the strengths. For the final activity, I chose to create my poster on Piktochart which is a great tool for creating presentations and posters! Here is what I created.

Heroes Vs Villains Poster!

Today I was focused on my Hurumanu 5 work, Power to the people Heroes vs villains. Our task was to create a poster About a hero and a villain of our choice.  I did the same ones as I did for my timeline, Nelson Mandela and Adolf Hitler! For my poster, I used the app Canva which was a cool app and something that I would recommend to others and would use again. On my poster, I added photos, points, and achievements that I wrote about on my timeline that I had created. Here is what I have created!