Music reflection

I enjoyed music last term because I had the opportunity to try learning how to play instruments the piano and guitar. I learnt that there are many different vocal skills people can use like tenor, falsetto, soprano etc. Unfortunately I did not get to perform as I had an appointment with the doctor, though I was excited to because the song I was singing was a really nice song. I do love music and love to listen and sing in my own time, but I don't think it is something I want to do in school and further on. No I wont be continuing this class, but I've had fun learning all about it and will keep music as a little hobby of mine. 

Language features

 Listing - when you list 3 or more things. (e.g) "Wave shut me off from the world, from the birds in the sky, the children on the beach, my mother on the shore."

Simile - relating one thing to another by using "as" or "like". 

Metaphor - Comparison from saying something is something else. "green silence."

Personification - Giving a non-living object/thing human-like features

Dialogue - a conversation between people or an individual. 

Emotive language - words used to generate an emotion the reader. 

Allusions - indirect references to something else. 

Yellow Brick Road

 

Witi Ihimaera is from Gisborne and was the first Maori to publish both a book of short stories and a novel. Hes had five books of his adapted into films. 

When I hear "Yellow Brick Road" I think of a road made of brick, rich people driveways. Or "The Wizard Of Oz".

Matiu thinks because Wellington is more wealthier then Waituhi, that is why his dad moved them for the money. 

The difference between the two places is that Waituhi has more Maoris and Wellington has more Pakehas.  

Matius dad told Uncle Same that he wants to start a new life, and give his kids a better upbringing because he knows what its like to grow up with nothing. 

Matiu starts off by being excited of moving, but then as they get there he slowly becomes nervous, as to if they could or would ever go back. 

Witi Ihimaera used "Yellow Brick Road" also known from the book "The Wizard Of Oz", as a way of saying this is their journey and to keep going, soon they'll be there, "follow, follow, follow". 

The voice

There are many different types of voices in music, there is soprano mainly females that sing with a higher pitch, tenor could be a low female voice or male voice, falsetto is a male singing really high and there's also bass which is very very low voice sung by boys.  

Acapella music is sung by peoples voices no instruments nothing but their voices. 

With performing or singing warming up your vocals is very helpful. It not only stretches out your vocal chords but it should help with your whole body your face, chest stomach and it should help with your breathing aswell. 

Vocal range is how low someone can go with their voice and how high they can go. 5 good examples are Mariah carey five-octave range and has the ability to reach beyond the 7th-octive. 

A fewe celebs vocal range- 

Ariana Grande, D3 - B5 - E7, Ariana is a light soprano 

Miley Cryus can be a soprano but her voice is slightly thicker so technically she is a mezzo-soprano.

What does music mean to me?

So far the only performance i've ever done is the moana production that happened recently during the holidays. Ive always had a thing with music, its just something I listen to or enjoy when I need to breathe. For me I can listen to any type of song that fits my mood, one day I could be listening to RnB, then switch onto some pop, or rap, reggae, maybe not hard metal. Im a fan of destinys child, their songs just hit the spot. Sons of Zion is another good group I tend to listen to from time to time, and L.A.B love their music aswell. In music I just want to build up my conifdence as a singer, and I also want to learn how to play some instruments mainly the guitar. Ive always loved music, but sharing it with others is something im not too sure about. I chose music just to see where I can go with it.

The Real One

In English,  we had to make a short film similar to the court scene in Merchant of Venice. My group decided to make a film about a love triangle. The characters were Jack, Sam, Amy and Lia. We tied our love triangle to Bassanio, Antonio and Portia, as Jack, Sam and Lia. In our film there is a 3 friend-group friendship (Jack,Sam and Amy). These friends make a promise to each other which is to never break their friendship no matter what, so this "promise" they make is the "promise" that was made to Shylock. As they get older Jack meets a new girl (Lia) who he instantly falls for, little does he know his close friend Sam happens to meet the same girl who he becomes interested in. Although Lia had the just met the two of them, her heart beats faster around Jack, so the two love birds grow closer. Watching from afar Amy and Sam both get jealous, Amy has always had a soft spot for Jack, so Amy and Sam plan something to split them up. This "plan" of theirs is what tieing to Shylock's "revenge", so of course just like Shylock their "plan" doesn't work out and Jack and Lia have a happy ending.

As you can see we tried our best to use different film techniques, 2 of the techniques we used were birds eye view and medium close up. When we shot the birds eye view we tried getting the views to see that Sam and Amy are about to plan something with their phones. During the scene where they make a "promise" we used a medium close up, so that the viewers can see that they a comfortable and close friends hanging out. 

Making this film was really challenging, especially because most of us weren't that confident with the whole acting thing, but glad everything came together in the end, next time we should think carefully about who should do what role. If I were to do this again, I would put effort into to planning, because we struggled a lot with what to do next, if our plan was structured better maybe it would've been less stressful.

(movie publishing soon) 

Happy broadcast

In social studies we have been looking at a cool website happy broadcast (take a look). Here's a few of the many interesting things I found. I think despite how nasty we've been to the sea, and our environment, most of us are trying to help, and change the world for the better. I like how Paris is aiming for more green, and that Spain is thinking about not only the bears but at the same time thinking about climate change, and how that affects some animals. As days past we are slowly damaging the earth, but if we do the little things like putting rubbish in the right bins, picking up litter if we see it, using recyclable items, and more, then maybe the world can change.