Zephaniah's 2010

The Three Bears and their Mama

The Year 6's have worked very hard on their drama this term. Here is their final product. Not bad seeings as all the equipment used was brand new and the first time any of us had ever used imovie :-)

The Pirate

Captain Vanessa was a mean, cruel pirate. She thought she could have anything she wanted. One night Vanessa over heard two other pirates talking about a sword that makes you immortal, and where it was. The next morning she went searching for the sword at the super market. At last Vanessa found it but!!! The sword didn’t work. “That was all lies,” Vanessa said.

Zeph's Term 3 Reflection

The Dance of Anger

In Media Studies a couple of weeks ago we choreographed another fantastic music routine. We used an old song called 'We're Not Gonna Take It' which is very heavy metal......great for head banging!!
We had to show the emotion of 'Anger' and 'Frustration'. We feel that this worked out better than our last attempt with the 'Muse' song. This was also our first opportunity to have a play with our brand new video camera and tripod :-).

Cheesey Toasted Sandwich

Ingredients:
Bread, Butter, Cheese

Equipment:
Plate, Knife, Sandwich Press, Grater

Method:
First you turn on the cheese toaster.
Second you get two pieces of bread.
Spread butter onto the pieces of bread.
Sprinkle cheese in between the two pieces of bread.
Put the bread in the toaster and wait for it go brown and crispy.

A Bit Of Eclipse

During our dance time today we put together a dance routine to Miss G's favourite 'Muse' song. We worked together as a whole class and in groups. It was a lot of fun but a bit tough with the time constraints. Not polished at all but here is what we got done in an 45 minutes.

Our Mini Music Video

We had 30 minutes to practise our rhythm work. We used that time trying to work with the rhythm of a favourite song. We struggled a lot at first and didn't get it totally perfect, but we didn't do to badly! Here's one of the takes that we did......

Let's Rock 'n' Roll

This week for dance we learnt some Rock 'n' Roll moves from Miss G and then had to put them into a Rock 'n' Roll routine to the song 'Keep a-Knockin' by Little Richard. Here's what we came up with......

Old Poem

People are cold,
When they are old.

Floppy and sloppy,
Wrinkled and spotty.

Old people clean,
If they are keen.

Floppy and sloppy.
Wrinkled and spotty.

Our Lady Gaga Choreography

We have started this term doing some dance. We were given 15 minutes to choreograph a short routine to a snippet of Lady Gaga music. We had to ensure that we took careful notice of incorporating shape and timing. This is how we did.........

Palmerston North

On Friday me and my Papa and my big brother and his rugby team went to McDonald’s to eat.

My Papa said “who need’s to go to the toilet?”. The team went to the toilet and when they came back from the toilet my papa said to everyone “hop in the van let’s go now".

It was a long drive to Palmerston North. The team stayed at a motel. We stayed for four day’s. They lost the finals to Bay of Plenty.

After all game’s we went to have fish and chip’s because it was a Friday because it was Lent time. We went back to the motel and we had a meeting in the boy’s room. After that they all went to sleep at 9.00 o‘clock.

Yummy Bonbons Mmmmmmm

We had to film our whole movie in French. This was hard but helped us to show all that we have learnt so far this year, especially our movie making skills.

Our Skype Experience

In room 6 on Friday 5th June 2010 we had an experience with Skyping. All the students sat on the mat, watching the electronic whiteboard, except for Dorothy and Siliva who were representing room 6 on the webcam.

At first we couldn’t see Mr Ballew because his webcam wasn’t working for us, but suddenly it appeared. The class all greeted Mr Ballew from Seattle, Washington, USA. The presenters then asked our questions which we wanted answered because we needed information on how to film something backwards.

Room 6 are now going to use the information that Mr Ballew kindly gave us and try to attempt to make our own movie that looks backwards.
Agnes – This experience was fun, because we got to talk to someone from the other side of the world.

Lavinia – I felt scared because I thought we would have to postpone it again because his webcam wasn’t working.

Siliva – At first when I sat on the chair I felt really nervous talking to Mr Ballew on the webcam.

Phoenix – We had a wonderful experience with Mr Ballew from America.

Angelica – I felt excited because it was my first time skyping with my class.

Robertanna – I felt happy because our questions were answered to make our movie.

Nita – I felt happy because Mr Ballew was compassionate and gave us great answers.

Ofa – It felt quite unexpected for me to hear from someone from a different city.

Zephaniah – I felt excited when he contacted us for the first time through email.

Macjeva – It was cool listening to his voice because he has a different accent.

Daniel – I felt excited because he was telling us information of how to film backwards.

Emmanuel – I felt very shocked because it was my first time seeing someone from the other side of the world on a webcam.

A’Leina – Mr Ballew was patient with the webcam to work for us to see him.

Dorothy – I was shocked when Miss G emailed him because he might not have emailed back……..but he did.

Anasitasia – I was surprised that we actually could film backwards…….I didn’t think that you could, but you can.

Ilaisaane – I felt happy because he got in contact with us.

Sia – I felt disappointed at first because the webcam wasn’t working and then it appeared infront of us.

Miss G – I enjoyed seeing all the students getting the answers to their questions. Mr Ballew was very helpful and hopefully we can now make OUR movie.

The Marley News

We are really pleased that we finished our first live footage movie. We hope you enjoy our News Report.

The Presentation



The Reflection

The Shocked Emotion

We had to show the emotion of being shocked, through our photo and our voice.

The Cyber Crew's First Movie

 

During our Media Studies time we have learnt about how to edit our movies. We worked together in our group and came up with our script that we read about St. Pius X School.