Summery of Aaron Draplin

 Link to the video

Made a lot of designs of the letter A for a logo for a base company.

It is good to create a lot of one design to find out which one could be 'the one' you like most.

Put them on shirts/hats/pants to see if it worked with the outside world.

Passion Projects

 1. to make a fish tank for my large fish how to make a fish tank in acrylic plastic.

2. acrylic plastic, silicone glu
e, corking gun, craft knife, table saw, band saw.

3. wait for the silicone to dry then fill it with water to rinse it. it will look full of water and about 1-3 days.

4. putting one of my large fish in the tank, just showing it to class.

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The negative effects of discrimination on society

 The negative effects of discrimination on society

Theme for Close Viewing/Connections

Use Google to help you answer the following questions. Post your work on your blogs.

1. What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination? Prejudice is where you are negative to a certain type of person because of their race, sex, etc (e.g I don't like them because they are Asian and Asian people can't drive). Discrimination is where you don't like a certain group of people because of their race, sex, social groups, etc

2. Why does prejudice persist in society? It can make one feel less than others and stops trying to help themselves to get their selfesteem where it was before.

3. How do we see discrimination in The Freedom Writers? The head of department said that room 137 can't have the books that they require because they will trash them, but when ms Gruwell brought room 137 books of a story called Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo and Anne Franks diary.

4. List one specific historic/current example of EACH of these types of discrimination. Include specific details:

1. Racial: Colonisation is what happened in NZ when the English came and 'made fair trades' to the Māori for their land, then that made a written agreement for the Māori to 'keep their land'.

2. Religious: Holocaust/Genocide is where the Nazi's killed most of the Jews because they believed in something else.

3. Gender: in

4. Sexual orientation:

5. What is stereotyping?

6. What is one example of stereotyping?

7. What is Social Identity Theory?

Vitruvian Man

 Who created the Vitruvian man? Leonardo Da Vinci created the vitruvian man to try and connect man to nature, it is supposed to show that the human is proportionate to the natural world. To figure this out we can look at the many ways on how to do it. If you had a large piece of paper and put it on the ground then lied a person on it, marked where both of their longest finger ends it would be the same as their height. But this information could be wrong.

The steps on how you could figure out how to do it.

1. find a large enough piece of paper or whiteboard.

2. find some specimens that you could measure the arm span of. (make sure nothing is bias towards anyone.)

3. measure their arm span then their height. ( measure to the tip of their longest fingers, one side to another.)

4. record the measurements and do the progress all over again until you think you have enough information about the findings.

Graphs

 

Bar Graph

Is to compare things between other things. It is best to make changes when the total has gotten bigger than 10.

Pie Graph.

It is best to use the pie chart when you are looking at how much something or someone has. It is best to use this when you are measuring stuff in low quantities of around 5-7 if it is bigger than that use a bar graph or a line graph since the slices will be small and hard to read.

Scatter graph 

Uses dots to represent values for two different numeric variables. 

Column Graph.

A column graph is used for summarising data by height and specifies which quantities of data for each category. 

English Movie Thing.

 Deep Focus - everything in the image is sharp + clear

Shallow Focus - Focuses us on part of an image + blurs the rest 

- tells the viewer where their attention is needed

In the holocaust scene, shallow focus is used to show the time of tolerance. For instance, we see a picture being passed around the room until it reaches Jamel. The picture is a stereotype of an African American with big lips and has Jamel's name on it. When he receives  it, Jamel can be seen putting his hat back on and him shrinking into his seat. Shallow focus is used to bring our attention on the picture and its effect on Jamel. This makes us understand that the picture was used to bully and embarrass Jamel. the director did this to help us empathise with the characters and gain on insight into what their lives are like. This scene introduces the viewer to the theme of tolerance because we can see that currently the students do not respect each others cultures, beliefs of identities. This makes students like Jamel feel unsafe in class.

Angles - high/low - shows power/dominance.

4 Hobbits are hiding under a tree from the black rider. they are afraid seen on their faces

colour - pellet - green, black, grey, dark, nature/natural dull. feels cold and uninviting

tilt shot - from the rider to the hiding hobbits

close-ups - hobbit faces - scared, nervous, bugs crawling across the hobbits, shows how difficult it was to keep still and quiet.

three close-ups on parts of of the rider - the horses hooves pawing pawing the ground the horses muzzle/bridal with red eye and the rides feet hitting the ground.builds up suspense before we see the rider.

low angle - looking up at the rider shows hobbits cowering below, makes the rider look bigger intimidating and frighting.

 

Blog 2: Art

2: It adds depth and 3-Dimensional to the painting and I could refer to the artists picture plane, white space is known as positive space when there is primary objects occupying it. A positive and negative space can affect how good the artwork will come out.

3:  Colour can show if it is bright or if it's dull, warm or cool and it depends on what end of the colour spectrum they are. purity or strength of a colour also matters, if you put to much or to little it will affect how you wanted the outcome to be.