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ESOL - Trip to Willow Bank Wildlife Reserve

Trip to Willow Bank

At 23rd of May we went to a zoo called Willow Bank with our ESOL teacher. We studied the the native birds and found out what they do for living and what they eat. We learnt about the biggest birds and eagles in the world that went extinct long time ago. And then we had a look at the animals that we haven't seen and then we looked for the information about them.

We took off to the Willow Bank at the start of morning tea with the rest of the class using a private van. When we finally got to the zoo the first thing I did was eat the rest of my food that I was just eating before we rode the private van and then took pictures. We didn't go inside the Willow Bank because we were waiting for our ESOL teacher. 

And then when we finally went inside the Willow Bank the first animal we had a look at was the kunekune pigs there were also hungry chickens following us around. Then we went to see the next animal which was the horse, donkey and the others and we weren't just looking at the animals, we were also feeding them. There were a lot of interesting animals in the zoo and most of them were very friendly to the other animals and the humans.

When we were done going around the Willow Bank we had lunch which what I was waiting for the most. When we were going back to the cafe, the teacher told us that we could go around the Willow Bank again and have a look at the animals that we haven't seen yet. Unfortunately we didn't get to see all the animals in the zoo because it was almost time to go back to the school otherwise we would make it there in time.

Eye Dissection: Eye: 3 things i've learnt

The first thing I have learnt about the eye is that I learnt the every important parts of the eye and the things that makes us see things and the thing that sends the images to our brain. 

The second thing I didn't know was that I didn't know that the white part of the eye was almost hard as a marble. 

The last thing I learnt that I didn't know was that the pupil can make the hole part of the eye bigger or smaller.

Calculate squares on a grid

In Maths I learnt how to calculate the squares on a grid in different ways, there are 6 methods on how to calculate the outside squares on a grid and I will be showing you 2 of them. I learnt that the letters in maths are numbers and they are called algebra.

This is what I did to work out how many outside squares there are on a 10 by 10 grid using the first method:
I knew that there were ten squares on each four sides so all I had to do was simply add the tens on each sides all together then take away the 4 since the corners has doubled squares.

2nd method:
There are 10 squares on one side and I can't do tens again because it will double the squares on the corners so I will just add 2 nines on each sides. And then I will add ten on the last side, I will take away two because there are doubled squares on the corners so it will be '10+9+9+8=36' which is n+(n-1)+(n-1)+(n-2) = 36 in mathematical

Coraline: SEXXXY - The lawyer

-Night
-Other world
-Other wybie
-Can't talk
-Mother & Coraline went into the house to see the mouse circus
-POV - other mother wants him to smile
-Wybie is unhappy

-Warm light
-High angle, makes the subject vulnerable (Wybie) & the POV dominant (other mother)
-Dark colours but bright because Coraline doesn't know this yet.
-Facial expression, -sad, because his mouth has gone down and his eyebrows are arched in fear.

In the film Coraline high angle shots are used effectively to establish a characters position of power. This is demonstrated in the scene where Coraline and Wybie return from visiting their neighbours. A high angle shot from the POV of the other mother looking down the stairs towards Wybie makes him look vulnerable. This makes us understand that the other mother has all the power and might not be as kind as Coraline thinks at this point. The purpose of this is to show a character who is unhappy in the 'other' world and foreshadow the horrific turn of events later in the story. Combined with the use of facial expressions, Wybies mouth is frowning and his eyebrows are arched in fear, the idea of being vulnerable is enhanced. This aspepct can be compared to Coralines battle with the other mother at the end of the film where we see the true evil nature of the Beldam.

Coraline: Camera techniques

Extreme close up:

The ECU (also known as XCU) gets right in and shows extreme detail. You would normally need a specific reason to get this close. It is too close to show general reactions or emotion except in very dramatic scenes.

Close up:
A close-up or closeup in filmmaking, television production, still photography, and the comic strip medium is a type of shot that tightly frames a person or object.

Medium Close up:The medium closeup is half way between a mid shot and aclose up. This shot shows the face more clearly, without getting uncomfortably close.

Medium Shot:

In a movie a medium shot, mid shot (MS), or waist shot is a camera angle shot from a medium distance.

Medium Long Shot:Also known as a three-quarters shot. Frames the whole subject from the knees up. An intermediate shot between the long shot and the medium shot.

Long Shot:In film, a view of a scene that is shot from a considerable distance, so that people appear as indistinct shapes. An extreme long shot is a view from an even greater distance, in which people appear as small dots in the landscape if at all (eg. a shot of New York's skyline).

Extreme Long Shot:
A view of a scene that is shot from a considerable distance, so that people appear as indistinct shapes.

Low Angle:
Low angle is when you look like you're lying on the ground and when the things around you is bigger.

High Angle:
High angle is when things from below are shorter/smaller than you and it is a technique where the camera looks down on the subject from a high angle.

Eye level:
used as an establishing shot to set the location of a scene in films, they can also capture action or objects that may be obscured by other figures on a ground-level view.

Birds eye View:
Bird's eye view is defined as a view from above as though you were a bird looking down on someone or something

Dutch tilt:
A Dutch tilt is a camera shot in which the camera angle is deliberately slanted to one side.

Pan:
to photograph or televise while rotating a camera on its vertical or horizontal axis in order to keep a moving person or object in view.

Tilt:
Tilting is a cinematographic technique in which the camera stays in a fixed position but rotates up/down in a vertical plane.

Tracking:
A tracking shot is any shot where the camera follows backward, forward or moves alongside the subject being recorded.

Point of View:
A point of view shot is a short film scene that shows what a character is looking at.

Over the shoulder:
an over the shoulder shot is a shot of someone or something taken from the perspective or camera angle from the shoulder of another person.

Mise En Scene:
Mise-en-scène is an expression used to describe the design aspect of a film production:


What am I learning:
to learn different type of shots

How does this show my learning:
By showing the definitions of the shots

What am I wondering as a result of this learning:
How many more shots are there

Coraline - Analyse

What am I learning?
I am learning to analyse the plot of the films

How does this show my learning?
This shows my learning by showing that I can analyse a film

What am I wondering as a result of this learning?
I am wondering if my pyramid does really look like a pyramid