The Movie Masters

Kia ora, in Te Ngahere we have started movie making. The first thing we had to learn was 4 different types of  shots known as the establishing shot(which will show you where the scene will be taken), long shot which shows a little bit more of the situation, medium shot which gives you detail of the subject and finally the close up which shows you the character  object and what happens. Before we start  making our movies we had to create a mini video using the 4 shots shown above. The 4 shot movie that my group made was about a boy who kicks a ball at another boys head. I think my group did a good job because it included all the shots, was good quality and was quite funny but maybe next time we could keep the camera still. I think this could help me for making movies in the future because I could use these shots in my movie.

Have you created a movie?

below are a series of photos from the four shot movie I created.

  Lights, Camera, Marble

Kia Ora, If you don’t know me my name is Boston and I’m a year 7 student who attends Paihia School. On the last day of term 2 Te Ngahere did a rerun of the great marble challenge ( the great marble challenge is where we have to create a ramp for a marble to roll down and if you get the most points you get a prize) where we could either adjust or remake our ramps from last time, my groups ramp was remade because our last one was unstable. I think this was hard because we had  2-3 days to re-create our ramps, gladly the next ramp we made was really  good, but when we finished that I found making the instructions easy.

Do you like creating things?

 A Good Sponge.

Kia ora yesterday(01/06/21) the year 7’s made apple sponge at tech. Making the sponge looked complicated but in reality it was really easy. So the first step to making the sponge was peeling and cutting the apple then putting the apples in a pot with ⅓ of a cup of water, next put the pot on the element at high and wait. While you’re waiting for the apples to cook you can make the sponge by putting 4 tablespoons of butter, wait for half of the butter to melt and then put 4 tablespoon of flour, half of ¾ of baking soda in and mix till white but don’t over mix. When white put in vanilla essence then an egg and mix the other half of ¾ of baking soda in the bowl. The mixture should look like paste. When done put the cooked apples in a glass bowl and dribble mixture over the top and put in oven at 200 degrees and wait till cooked. When we were making this I found it difficult mixing the batter without stopping for ages, I found it easy cooking the apples because all I did was peeled, cut and boiled them and it tasted amazing. 

Have you ever made a sponge?

 How Smart.

Yesterday(25/05/21) we did a task called smart relationships and we did this so we are safe online with what we’re doing and who we are talking to. This is a very important task because it could help with things like social media and I just want children like me to be safe on social media. This will help me in the future because I now know to change my social media status to private so only my friends can see it and try and play with people that I know and not people that are strangers. When we were doing this I found it hard to figure out the main points of the video we watched, also I found it not too hard to remember what I was supposed to write.

Do you have your social media on private?

 The Amazing Bake

In Te Ngahere the year 7s were doing cooking at tech again but this time we made a potato bake. The potato bake we made had a lot of ingredients like potato obviously, salt, bacon, veggies and cheese sauce. The first thing to do when you're making potato bake is boil the potatoes in water with salt then cut up your veggies and meat. When the potatoes are done put them in a big bowl and hack at them with a knife, I think when we made our potatoes they were 1 of the best because they were soft all throughout the potato. After that is done you will have to make the cheese sauce but I figured out that was not to hard, so all you have to do is put butter in a pot and wait for it to melt and then add 4 tablespoons of white flour into it, when that is done you have to mix it and put in 1 and a half cups of milk slowly then it will start to thicken so you would have to mix it continuously until thick then add cheese and do the same thing again and after 1 to 5 mins your cheese sauce will be done. Then put the cheese sauce on the potatoes and that’s a potato bake.  What I found hard this time was not over cooking the potatoes. But I found cutting the veggies a lot easier than cooking the potatoes.

Have you cooked potato bake before?

 My Google Fish.

In class we have been making sea creatures on Google drawing to explore what other tools were on Google drawing that we could use in the future, I think these newly explored tools can help me in the future with things like DLOs(digital learning objects) and animations. 

While we were doing this I made a jellyfish, dory, nemo and a goldfish with some seaweed on the side. When I made this I thought I made my fish very well by making different variants of fish but I think next time I maybe able to finish my drawing a little bit faster by doing it at home for an extra 5 minutes but besides that I found this task very entertaining and fun. 

What‘s your favorite fish?

What’s The Time?

Today(12/05/21) in class we did another task master but this one was about being a human timer but

first here are the rules, rule 1: sit in teams of 3 and number yourselves 1,2 and 3, rule 2: you cannot

communicate with your group. So here’s what you have to do to play, the person marked as number

1 will stand when they think it has been 1 minute, the person marked as number 2 will get on their

knees when they think it has been 90 seconds and the person numbered 3 had to clap continuously

when they think it had been 2 minutes.  We also did this task to see how well we can trust ourselves.

What I thought I did well was timing myself but I thought that I could have trusted myself a little bit

more.

What’s the most you’ve counted to?