Zoe

Thursday, 6 August 2020

Waterloo Road Documentary 2020

Finished documentary for level 3 media studies.

Our brief was to create 4 - 8 minute documentary appealing to Hornby High School students and the wider Hornby community. I hope this documentary makes a difference and inspires change to Waterloo Rd to make it safer!

Tuesday, 28 July 2020

English

We are the tenants

With close reference to the text, discuss the poet’s use of imagery to describe the North.

The Poem 'We are the tenants' by Kapka Kassabova, uses imagery to describe the North Island of New Zealand. Kapka uses similes to show how they see the North in their eyes, especially in the first stanza. The simile; 'The people smile with missing teeth like hosts of a drunk party.' shows how they see the people in the north. Implying more negative connotations of the people of NZ. This simile however, shows how they view the North itself 'The hills are packed like cement,' which implies that they see the North as old and hard, looks like it's been there for centuries. Or possibly that the hills look man made. That New Zealand doesn't look as pristine as they had hoped. This simile linked with the metaphor 'cemeteries lush with centuries of flesh.' really enhances what they are describing the North to be; packed in tight, full, hard and old, giving it a more negative connotation.

Limestone

Explain how contrasts of ideas are important in the passage. Give details from the text to support your answer.

Limestone, by Fiona Farrell, contrasts two ideas that are important in this passage; The exceptions she come back to and the realties that are. A significant way Farrell shows the contrast on both of these key ideas is diction and figurative language.

"...that dream of primeval beaches scattered with driftwood, and dark forests, and plains"
- expectations
"That dream she knows to be corrupted by reality"
-Reality
"Legendary and beautiful from 30,0000 feet, shorn of their clutter of rusted cargo boats and effluents and chemic spills and millennia of quarrelsome human history."
- Human impact
"...we're all trying to paddle towards perfection but we don't know how to get there, so we squabble and fight." "all just trying to find happiness" - Understanding

threatened, burned, corrupted, arguing, cramped - negatives connotations - Reality

dream, perfection, primeval, happiness, settles and bulking herself in - Positive connotations - Expectations

FIRST:
Lament - is an expression of sadness. With close reference to the text, discuss the style used in the non-italicised section of the poem to convey this sadness.

In the poem Lament, one of the aspects of style is repetition, which effectively conveys the idea of sadness. The repetition of ‘it does not matter if…’ helps to show the idea of this person's grief and sadness. Saying things like; ‘It does not matter if’ ‘...I am happy,’ ‘if...I am sad,’ ‘if...he is gone,’. This use of repetition starts off each stanza of the poem, showing their sadness each and every time. Reminding the reader of their grief.

Personification and diction - choice of words - ‘ front door trembles like a lip.’ ‘windows poke out their tongues for a drop of water’ ‘trees keep their shadows tightly to themselves’ ‘ - very unique sayings, not something you would usually hear people saying or even written before. - shows us what their surroundings are in an almost gloomy tone. Making these objects seem sad themselves.

-Ran out of time.

Monday, 27 July 2020

Art - Level 3 - 2020

Week 10 Term 3

Plan for artboards two and three!

Week 9 Term 3

This is what I will be doing for the next few lessons; experimenting like this;

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Over the past week, I've been trying to take more photos to add to my artboard.

However, none of them is. good enough to put on my board; they all look like a pile of rubbish that doesn't resemble a bird at all. - I will upload some of these 'bad' pictures soon!

Week 8 Term 3

Over the last two weeks...

What my artboard looks like: Week 4, Term 3.

Ive put all my photos together to get a feel of what my art board is going to look like so far. My next steps are to edit the lighter photos in the centre to make them fit in more. You can see how I've put my work into series and sequences throughout this screenshot. Also the story of my folio too.

Then hopefully get some photos of chimney smoke to overlay on some of the albatrosses like this:

My New photos! Week 3, Term 3

Series and Sequences

On Mondays lesson we were told to cut up previous students art folios on paper and to make a line that makes sense to us explaining why we put it in the above order.

Me and my partner started off with two artworks with strong thick lines in pencil and paint, showing a lot of vibrant colours in a more Disney/circus style. Then we introduced a darker style montage, including a more realistic style of the circus and starts to introduce a puppet theme. In the next artwork we start to introduce more animals and pops of colour in the background which follow throughout the rest of the artwork in the folio. The next two art works are of a monkey entertaining a human and a elephant sick on the floor. Both artworks share the same style, colours and themes. The next artwork then leads into a different theme of comparing these two characters; the humans and the circus animals. this then leads into two more art works evolving on this theme; a human with curious Georges head juggling emotions, followed by a realistic monkey ring leader, wearing their hat. The final artwork shows the reversed reality; humans being caged and used as curious animals; implied on the tv, and a with what looks like to be as a badger sitting on a couch watching tv.