Lights, Camera, Action!!! Today for Talent Development we did some practice filming for the MADE awards. We practiced going smoothly, from side to side. Norton and I were partners so we had to work together to film Travis and Charlie  doing an interview with ten easy questions. Then we had to swap over so Travis and Charlie filmed Norton and I while we did an interview. After that we imported our footage to i-Movie and then we will edit it next week. I can't wait to crack on into our real filming for our advertisement of...Bella The Bully Proof Kid.

EXT and INT???

Do you know what a screenplay is? I didn't but now I do. Let me tell you about it. It's a very detailed piece of planning and we've been working on ours for the MADE awards for about an hour!  A screenplay is the writing of a movie.  It helps to detail where the scene is going to be filmed, what action is going to happen, and what is being said between characters.  We looked at a copy of "The Lion King" and we watched the opening scene and looked at the screenplay while watching - everything matched! We started on our screenplay for Bella the Bully-Proof Kid.  Here is a wee bit of it:

Title - “Bella the Bully-Proof Kid”

By - Norton, Rhylee, Charlie and Travis

Norton=  Luna

Charlie=Billy

Travis=BJ

SCENE 1

EXT Waihopai School

Three children are standing in a circle out in a school playground.  BJ looks mad, BILLY and LUNA looked terrified!  BJ is pushing at BILLY and LUNA.  The screen fades away as the title comes onto the screen. “ARE YOU BEING BULLIED?” 

I don't want to give our story away, but we are making good progress!  Do you know what "EXT" means? It means the location for filming that scene is outside.  If it said "INT" that would mean it was being filmed inside!

Bella the Bully Proof Kid.

"What is your commercial going to be about?'' My brain started to think hard. I had lots of great ideas but as I was just about to blabber the best one out and then... crack my brain went blank. Beside me I had my workbook, my lifesaver. I pulled it up to me and saw THE BULLY PROOF KID. 'Yes' I thought. Then Katie sent us to do a picture plan. 'I want to be the bully proof kid' I said. 'I want to be a school student' said Norton. 'Same' said Charlie. That meant that Travis has to play the part of the bully!  I'm the bully proof kid. Katie asked me what my name should be and I said Bob, but she said 'Thats a boys name.' 'Then how about Bobbina?' 'That's a bit random!' she said. 'How about Bella?' 'Perfect' she said. So I'm Bella the Bully Proof Kid.  We are planning out how our commercial will go, so I will keep you posted!

We went to the ................

Splash we heard the waves screaming as we were walking along the beach with cameras around our necks. We were taking photos for the MADE awards. We took lots of photos of forming waves and shells, then we tried jumping off sand dunes and getting action shots. Then we got sidetracked and had to go. We had fun. I took a really pretty photo  that I will show you next week. My mum drove the tiny group of four and she stayed at the beach with us.

Click Click Click!!!

UPDATING NEWS: 
Today for talent development Katie, Travis, Norton and I went around the car park to take some practise photos for the MADE awards. Our theme today was 'ordinary objects, extraordinary angles'. It was very fun. There was just simple objects everywhere and we had to try and capture the object from lots of different angles. Below are my five favourite photos. Click them to enlarge them.  Can you guess what they are of?

They are ranked from FAVOURITE to 5th FAVOURITE!


 

MADE Awards...

Today was the first day we got to do either Talent Development or Passion Time. I chose Talent Development with Katie and we're doing the MADE awards which is a national technology competition. Our group has only four children! We're doing a static image and a commercial entry. We are going to the Oreti beach  to take some static images. We spent some time today planning out our commercial, but, we still don't know what the product will be yet. We have got a timeframe worked out so that we keep on track.  I will keep you up to date with our progress next time. 

Queens Park

Today at Enrich we had an action packed day, Walking at Queens Park. It was awesome fun but also way to HOT.  At least it wasn't raining!  The whole point of the trip was because our focus or concept curriculum is "patterns" but I think some people forgot that the focus was patterns. We saw natural and man-made patterns at the bird aviary, We saw beauty, strength, order and survivability patterns everywhere in the park.  I saw a pattern on a tree stump that had recently been cut down.