Acrylic Portrait Painting | Passion Project

For the last few weeks, we have been creating and finishing the projects that we have chosen to create for our passion projects. Our teachers have given us choices on what we wanted to do, they have told us to choose what we are passionate about or are interested in doing. I chose to do Visual Art because I am quite interested in painting and other forms of art. This slide shows and explained what I did for my passion project.

Workshop 4 - Hunger Games | English

Atmosphere - feeling/mood set in scene.

Mood - the way we feel/emotional response.

Location - the area it is set.

1) District 12

What is happening - Katniss is jogging through the District.

Types of colour/lighting - cold colours (more grey undertones), dull colours (nothing stand out, blue/grey shades), natural colours (palette - greens, browns, grey, and black)

Lighting - cold, dull and natural.

Viewer effect (feel) - not welcoming, unpleasant, run-down, dirty, poor.

Directors Purpose - shows how unpleasant it is to live in the districts, underprivileged, good comparison for Capital.

Other techniques 

Setting - dirt roads, houses are derelict, Transport are old fashioned wagons, no electricity.

2) The Capitol

What is happening - The citizens of the Capitol are waiting for the arrival of the tributes.

Types of colour/lighting - cold colours (white undertones), bright artificial lighting (cold, white, artificial, bright), Colour Palette (setting - white/metallics, costumes - bright, vibrant, colourful)

Viewer effect (feel) - these people are privileged, they are celebrating, they are more advanced.

Directors purpose - makes us sympathise with the tributes, they have lots and the districts have none, don't like them because they seem over the top and arrogant.

Other Techniques

Costumes - rich, extravagant, flaunting, over the top.

Settings - rich, modern, technologically advanced, clean, new, and futuristic.

3) Control Room

What is happening - People are manipulating the arena via computer.

Types of colour/lighting - colour palette (blue, white, dark grey), cold shades (blue and white), clinical, bright - especially their white shirts, artificial light/colour - cyan/holographic.

Viewer effect (feel) - makes us feel they are smart but unsafe, scientific.

Directors purpose - make us feel like they are mindless drones, detached from reality.

Other techniques

Costume - white lab coats, feels like an experiment.

Settings - no clutter, lots of techs, only focused on one job.

Angles, Movements and Shots ( Hunger Games ) | English

Brainstorm

The Reaping Scene

• Katniss volunteers as tribute when her sister is chosen.
• The children/parents of the district give her the three-finger salute.
• Peeta is chosen as the male tribute.

Hope and Rebellion

3 finger salute - It is a big sign of respect for Katniss from the people of her district.

                       - Katniss is a symbol of hope for a district victor.

                       - Katniss is a symbol of rebellion because she stepped in for her sister when no one else                                 would.

                       

Brainstorm

Rich and Poor

Symbol of Richness - Effie Trinket, extreme, make-up, wig, hat, overly colourful and flashy clothing, proper accent.

Technology - use of blood readers/scanners, projectors.

Symbol of poverty - District 12, children clothing for the reaping are their "best clothes", dresses, collared-shirt, boys wear shorts or pants, the colour of clothing is very faded from washing and reusing.

The village is falling down around them.

Close-ups

Faces - Primrose when is reaped - terror, fear.

          - Effie - joyful, confident, excited - close-up of lips when reading names.

          - Katniss - panics when  Prim is reaped, shock when she stands with Effie.

          - Peta - fear,panic,shock.

Shallow focus

the people in the background are in shallow focus when Prim and Katniss hugged, This forces the viewers to watch the characters that are in focus. 

What the Viewer feels

Sorry for Primrose - it was her first time.

               Katniss - she volunteered, a selfless act.

Anger toward the capital for the reaping.

We consider Effie is annoying, too happy, stuck-up, clueless.

Directors Purpose

Need to be invested in their journey/suffering

Need to be angry at Capital so that we judge them and their decisions later.

Effie is depicted as a symbol of people in the District, they are clueless, they don't see the suffering.

Themes and Ideas ( Hunger Games ) | English

 

The power of propaganda	propaganda	reality
Fallen - 1 Tributes - 2	1 - People who die in the games. 1 - Takes away from the reality of the situation. 2 - two brave young people 2 - its an honour	1 - Teenagers who have been killed/murdered (violence) 2 - sacrifice, punishment to the districts

Rich vs Poor

People in the Capital vs people in the Districts.

Compare the opening shot in District 12 vs Peta looking out the window at the Capital.

District 12 - Very Poor, Houses are all made of wood and are rundown, food is very little, shows in the scene where an old man was picking meat of bone, they only have one pair of good clothing, all their other clothes are worn out, old, colours are faded, grey/black - easier to not show coal dust

Capital - houses and buildings are large, made of concrete, metals, accents of gold and silver, lots of food with a variety of choices, They don’t own or have the same things, they have more than enough/excess amount of food, clothing is fancy, suits, extravagant, “fashion”, extreme, excessive.

Hope and Rebellion

Conversation with President Snow and Senica Craine

“ a little hope is a good thing, a lot of hope is dangerous.”

Conversation between Hamich and Senica

“ give them something to root for, young love.”

Struggle for power - Katniss and Peta eat the berries, Death of Rue causes the riot in District 11

Power of Propaganda - Subtle, Hunger Games film strip.

Video Clip -’ I volunteer as tribute’

In this scene, Katniss is shown tributing in place of her sister that was chosen for the hunger games in the reaping.

Hitler's Anti-semitism / Anti-jew | Social Studies

Hello everyone! This past week in Social Studies, we have been learning about the holocaust, the great depression and we have now started on the topic of why Hitler despised the Jews ( anti-semitism )

 “The Jews were responsible for bringing negroes into the Rhineland with the ultimate idea of bastardising (lowering the quality of) the white race which they hate and thus lowering its cultural and political level so that the Jew might dominate.”

Hitler has said these things as to his belief that the white race is the most superior. His hatred and racism against the Jews have also led him to manipulate the public view of the Jewish race. He has manipulated the people into believing that the Jews are the ones to blame, the people believed these lies without having any knowledge or truthful information of how and what the Jewish race actually is.

DNA Extraction | Science

Hello everyone! this past week we have learned about DNA and have conducted an experiment, extracting DNA from kiwi fruit.

Aim:

- Our aim was to extract DNA from a Kiwi fruit.

Equipment:

- Water, Beakers, Sand, Spatula, Ethanol, Kiwi Fruit, Sandwich bag, Bunsen Burner, Heat Mat, Gauze Mat, Tripod, Test Tube, Dishwash Liquid, Glass Rod, Cloth.

Method:

Step 1 

( Result )

- Put the peeled kiwi fruit in the sandwich bag, add sand and water and mash it.

Step 2

- Pour the kiwi fruit through the cloth and collect the juice in a beaker.

Step 3

- Put water in a beaker and heat it up until it's warm.

Step 4

- pour the Kiwi fruit juice into a test tube with two drops of dishwashing liquid.

Step 5 

- Put the test tube in the beaker with warm water and let it rest.

Step 6

- pour the ethanol into the test tube and mix gently using a glass rod.

Step 7

- Wait until the DNA separates and collect using a spatula.

Discussion:

- We used a bit of dishwashing liquid with the crushed kiwi fruit to break down the walls and separate the cells of the kiwi fruit from each other. We then poured in the ethanol which separated the DNA from the kiwi fruit.

Hunter Swoop | English

Top Left corner

- Dark grey clouds cover the sky making it look like a thunderstorm is about to happen, a lonely mountain peak can be seen from the distance.

Top Right corner

- The bright sky covered in colourful clouds reflect the light of the glowing sun behind it.

Bottom

- Murky waters can be seen from the edge of the bridge, no life can be seen from the dark and unclear waters of the lake.

Middle 

- As I walk slowly toward the end of the bridge, I see a girl with long dark hair sitting alone, not a single sound can be heard apart from her breath, I ran and ran towards her and before I could get to the end, she looked me in the eye and jumped into the mirror-like lake, though unclear, still reflected a sight of green mountains so tall.