Perspective

In Tech Arts we have been working on taking perspective pictures and editing them, my group consists of Olivia, Emily, Yuxi, Rachel and myself. Everytime we come into a class we watch a movie to help give ideas for that session, it helps alot in my opinion.

A few of the photos that we have taken are like, rotating a picture of someone hanging from monkeybars but looking like they're hanging from a blade of grass or something when you rotate it. Another was when it looked like I was picking up a tiny Olivia and dropping her again.




This is an example of the holding a tiny person, it's actually very simple. All you have to do is have someone far away and someone closer then line them up! You can even try this at home. :D

But not only did we do pictures, but we also did short clips. Some of these were like, Olivia running along my arm, jumping from my head to my hand and being dropped into a bag.

If you want to see some cool examples of perspective videos, just give this link a click! (It'll take you to a youtube video of Zach King, a perspective video viner.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cii2JFHGpEk

We're perfect young ladies!

As you would have seen from my previous post, Riverlea Theatre is a big part of my week, and I'm not just talking about the 4-5 class. I attend classes on Tuesdays from 5-6 with the tutor Robert Alderton and other girls from ages 12-15. In this class we have been working on our own Stagecraft Showcase for this month.

Our Showcase includes songs from many different musicals, not all sweet and soft.
The order our songs run in are:

Perfect Young Ladies

 The Boyfriend

Cats (The Naming of Cats.)

My Favorite Things

Do Re Mi

My group have greatly enjoyed the time we've spent practising our Showcase and can't wait for  the performances. Yet again, tickets are only $15 and we hope to see you there! It'll be a great night!

The Wizard of Oz has come to town!

Everybody knows the iconic story about Dorothy Gale from Kansas and her journey throughout Oz or has seen the movie. So why stop at only having seen the movie or read the book? For the past term and a half, I have been working with a group of nearly 25 children aged from 9-11. We have been developing a shortened version of 'The Wizard of Oz.'

We have been practising every Tuesday and I'm proud to say that the kids are doing  very well! The big event that we have been practising for is coming up soon and you can just feel how nervous and excited the kiddies are. Our performances (taking place at Riverlea Theatre) are going to be in September. (So this month!) Tickets are only $15 and the proceeds raised are going to the fund to help Riverlea Theatre buy back it's land! (Will be posting soon about this.) I'll be able to give the exact dates by next week Wednesday though :D

Here's a picture of our lovely Riverlea Theatre!

The children are very eager to continue practising and always arrive with such enthusiasm, that I'm always blown away! I love working with them and being able to be part of their final Stagecraft show is just amazing. I hope some of you might consider coming along and having a laugh with us!

When you look  at this picture what does it make you think? In class we have been doing surrealism artwork, here's an example.

I'd love some comments :D

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Good morning my lovelies!
Soooo, today I'm going to write a post about something interesting! Yayyy. *crowd starts applauding* Quiet please, quiet. We need to get started :3 *crowd goes silent*

This post is going to be about... Hauraki Experience 2015 *throws little pieces of toast into the air like confetti* It's so exciting :D

Well, as you would know from my last post, I went to Hauraki Experience in the holidays and during that time I managed to become a Warrant Officer Class 2 for a day, this meant I was addressed as Sergeant Major and had a whole lot of authority. But along with this authority came the fact I had to take a Navigation class, most of the other people in this class who were listening at first did not respect me or listen when I wanted them quiet. I showed them that even though I'm small, I am also loud.

After them having quietened down, I started the "lesson." I had chosen to do a class on Nav. (Navigation.) I chose to centre  the lesson around 'Parts of a compass.' We started with seeing what they already knew about a compass and what they didn't. Kind of like how a teacher will give you a test at the beginning of a new strand of work to see what you already know. We had a quiz and everyone did well. (Picture of a compass diagram below.)

The week before the holidays were due to start I got some exciting news from my (HCCU) unit commander. This news was that my NZCF8 application for the 2015 Hauraki Experience, had been accepted and I was one of the 11 Cadets and NCOs (Non-Commissioned Officers)  going to this camp. It started on the 5th of July 2015 where over 90 Cadets including myself from Western Bay of Plenty (Tauranga) Rotorua District, Te Awamutu, Hamilton City, Opotiki, Taupo and Rangitikei Ruapehu Cadet Units set out to the Waiouru Army Camp to participate in Exercise Hauraki Experience. The Exercise is sponsored by the Hauraki Company and this year was setup on the 117th Birthday of the Hauraki Regiment for the Cadet Corps Units in the area.

We were exposed to the Army Culture from day one when we arrived at around 4 and were welcomed home at the Army Marae, with waiata and a haka. We then went on to setup our barracks. Females in one and Males in another, they had to upkeep the standard that we would find as a new recruit on basic training. Every morning we were woken up at 5.45am and had to carry out barrack routine prior to breakfast and an hour of drill. Some mornings and/or nights we would have fire drills, where we had to be out and formed up at the correct point with the correct items. (Covered shoes, fire blanket, scarf, gloves, beanie.)

Throughout the week the we went through a number of exercises under the direction of 15 Headquarters Staff and 7 Territorial Force Staff. Some of the exercises consisted of:
• 22 Marlin shoot to practice Marksmanship skills,
• A tour of the Museum where we also had to research small parts of the History of NZ, to present later as part of a competition.
• Navigation Theory Lesson where we put our skills into practice in a Practical Exercise
• Leaderless Task, giving opportunity to anyone to step forward and be a leader
• Familiarizations shoot at the Weapons Electronic Training Simulator firing the Steyr at the prone position
• PT session and Swim Test
• Drill Competition
• Barrack inspection

During the week we were exposed to all conditions from sun, rain, wind and of course the snow, but no matter what was thrown at the us, in my opinion everyone tried their best.

On the last day, we all performed a March out Parade and Haka in front of Lieutenant Colonel W. Banks, former 6th Hauraki Regiment Commanding Officer and founder of Hauraki Experience. He presented each of us with a Certificate of Participation and a number of Trophies and award to the Cadets who were lucky enough to earn any of these amazing awards such as Top Cadet of each Platoon, Top Shooter of Each Platoon, Most Improved from each Platoon, Top Shooter overall, Top Junior NCO, Top Senior NCO, Soldiers Choice Award, Top Platoon and Top Supreme Award.

I'm going to be writing separate posts about the different activities soon and will include some pictures.

Thanks for reading! :D

At school Post #1

This is my first post about something I've been doing at school this week.
Sorry to Mrs Hogg for not being at school today as I am unwell.

I've decided to write this post on Tech arts, at this moment I'm in Art for tech and we're focusing on WW1. All the students in Art, including myself are have all created a drawing. This drawing is of a place that has to do with WW1, it can be a place where battles went on eg. Gallipoli, Passchendaele etc. Or they can be places like hospitals, country side where children would have been evacuated or work places like farms and such. Your drawing had to include one main person which you would draw with help from a body from the 'Body Box.'

After you had finished your draft of this, you would move onto chalking it out on some large paper. If your chalked out version had been approved by Ms Miller then you were allowed to move onto painting. The painting all depended on which place you had chosen to draw, my own chosen place was Gallipoli. The colours that I had to use for my sky and the water reflections were all sunset, eg. reds, oranges, yellows and a little dark purple. Whereas people who chose Flanders field would have coloured it with dark shades for their sky.

I myself have just begun painting my hills/cliffs which are going to be mostly consisting of browns and some white. Below on the left is a picture of basically what my drawing looks like, minus colour and detail and on the right is the same drawing just with some basic colours to give you an idea of how it looks.

I just drew this version on Paint so it may look a little weird seeming as how hard it is to use Paint with a trackpad instead of a                                                 mouse.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed reading my post and there'll be another one to follow with something new that I did at school this week, maybe today, maybe tomorrow. *waves* Baiiiiii