Film Study - Visual And Sound Techniques

 BRAINSTORMING - 

CROSSWORD

What does music mean to me?

 Have you studied music before? 

I have taken music as a subject as soon as it became available to me last year for the first semester then I choose it as a subject again as one of my options for the first semester this year. 

What type of music do you enjoy listening to and why? 

I don't have a specific type of music that I listen to but I prefer musicians and bands that emphasize instruments and the bass and song which feature instrumentals or an instrument solo rather than the main focus on vocals.

Name 3 bands/singers you enjoy listening to and why?

The main band i can think of currently is muse as they are masters of their instruments and are very creative when putting together songs and bringing elements and sections of the song together. Their songs are always unique and fun to listen to. 

What would you like to learn in music this term? 

I would like to learn more about deciphering pieces of music and what makes a good piece of music that is enjoyable to listen to and unique to us and the meaning behind it, then how we can create music ourselves. 

Why did you choose music? 

I chose music to 

Greta Thunberg + The Greta Effect

 

Boat Racing

We decided to do something different rather than working through our scipads, for the past weeks we have been working on designing and creating our own wind yachts so that we can race them, calculate the speed and see how forces work when we use a wind blower, we also went over aerodynamics and how we can improve the speed. 

AIM - Our goal was to create a yacht that would be pushed a reasonable distance when pushed using a leaf blower. 

METHOD - 

1 - Design on paper the base and the sails of the yacht and keeping in mind aerodynamics and how we can make the yacht as fast as possible. 

2 - Gather the materials that you need to create the yacht - 
Plastic bag 
Cart/with wheels
Bamboo stick 
Tape 
Scissors 
Popsicle sticks 
Skewers 
Leaf Blower (Wind source) 

3 - Put together your yacht using the materials that you have available (We used the plastic bag for the sails and the skewers and bamboo stick for the framework, The popsicle sticks to make a sloped surface so that the air could fly past easier) 

4 - Using a measuring tape and a stopwatch, line up your yacht and turn on the leaf blower aiming it at the sails and measure the speed and the distance it traveled. 

5 - Using the results from the race, calculate the speed. 

RESULTS - 

Miah = 2.6m(Distance) 13.6s(Time) 0.191m/s(Speed) 
Kade = 4.2m(distance) 6.4s(Time) 0.656m/s(Speed)
Jayden = 1.7m(Distance) 7.3s(Time) 0.233m/s(Speed)
Ranit = 1m(Distance) 4s(Time) 0.25m/s(Speed)
Aili = 4.5m(Distance)7.3s(Time) 0.616m/s(Speed) 

CONCLUSION - 

The fastest yacht that we raced was Kade's yacht which raced at a speed of 0.656m/s closely followed up by Aili's team with a speed of 0.616m/s. This was due to the size of their sails being less aerodynamic, with bigger sails more of the wind tat was produced by the leaf blower got caught in the sail, accelerating the yacht forward at a higher speed. Opposed to tat mias yact travelled at te lowes speed because te sail was smaller meaning it caught less of te wind to accelerate it forward and oppose te oter forces at play, wic was te weight force, support force and te friction force.  

Matariki

The past few weeks have been filled with fun, learning, and creativity,  all connecting to our topic of Matariki. There are 2 parts to our assessment and I found the research task to be the hardest as it took the longest and most dedication and effort to complete.  Although I enjoyed both of the tasks working on keyboard skills and learning new pieces, all of which had a stars theme to tie into our main topic matariki was my favorite part of the assessment, followed up closely by the research task as I learned a whole lot about the celebration of Matariki, About the stars, and what they represent in Maori culture, And traditions in Maori culture around Matariki. I have been more focused recently on completing my slideshow about the Matariki research to the best it can be and although I think if I had more time there is always room to improve I'm still happy with the output. Here is my slideshow