9English-Advertising Poster

9Tech-Creativity

I think that creativity is done with all sorts of factors to motivate you and keep you at your goal.

This is a good demonstration as it shows what different techniques you can use while being creative and never giving up.

This is a good demonstration on creativity because it shows what characteristics are required to be creative.

My design process: I think this is a good design process as it has all the steps that I would take when making up a design or practical.

9Drama-Create & Sell

In drama we had to make up a type of elixir that we could convince people to invest and buy it for their use. My group of two had made an energy elixir that is a 4 star health rated drink with no caffeine and loads of energy.
How can I sell my elixir to the Carmen road academy cafe?
I can advertise my product and be honest with what is inside it.
How can I get it past the healthy kids committee?
I can make sure the elixir has a high health rating and not much caffeine and/or sugar.
The price is really good as it is a 550ml bottle for $3.

Slogan:Get boosted all the energy for less!

9Music-Performing Arts in business

Backstage Careers/Roles:

Makeup artists

Cameraman

Director

Special Effects

Pyrotechnics

Costume designer

Choreographer

Lighting

Writer

Wardrobe Designers

Background Vocalists

Singers

Musicians

Dancers

Animatronics

Acrobats

A Pyrotechnician is a job to lead all the onstage production of fire and sparks, etc. The pyrotechnician makes all the scenes look better and more thrilling and exciting. The wage for a pyrotechnician varies depending on the show and employer. They can earn anywhere between $100 to over $2000 for a single show! Pyrotechnics is also in charge of some lights and smoke on stage.

9English-Entrepreneur

Steve Jobs is world-wide known entrepreneur who had troubles starting up his company Apple. 

He started up his company with Steve Wozniak in 1976. 

Their company made electronic products starting with the first mac's then moving up from there.

The challenges they had faced were Steve's early life when he was always a prankster due to being bored and his teacher needed to bribe him to actually learn. Wozniak had lots of background knowledge about computers and computer chips which obviously helped them succeed. Sadly Steve Jobs had passed away in 2011 so this affected the company quite dramatically as he was the main source of their product ideas.

9SocialStudies-Fair trading act

What is the Fair Trading Act?   How does it affect me?

Questions

1. What is the Fair Trading Act? The fair trading act exists to to promote fair competition. This means that it lets the consumer know what rights they have if they think that something might be wrong in a business. Businesses and Consumers can take their own legal actions under this act and make a decision through it.
2. What is the commerce commission’s goal? The commerce commission's goal is to let consumers be confident and comfortable with the accuracy of the information when they make a choice.
3. Who besides the commission is responsible for the act and can take their own legal action? Businesses and consumers can take their own legal act under the fair trading act.
4. Who are the two types of groups the act applies to? Consumers and businesses is what this act is aimed at.

Understand your compliance obligations

1. What do the acts apply to? The acts applies to all aspects of the promotion and sale of goods and services.
2. Does it only apply if you intend to deceive?  Explain? It is not relevant that if a business chooses to deceive but if the conduct is likely to deceive.
3. Whose ‘shoes’ must the business put themselves into?The must put themselves in the shoes of their customers.
4. What is the commission empowered to do? The commission is empowered to take enforcement action.

Reporting a business

1. If you need to report a business, how do you do this? You can report a business by going to this link(http://www.comcom.govt.nz/the-commission/making-a-complaint/) and filling in a report form or by calling 0800 943 600. Make sure you read the rights and info about reporting a business.

Know your Rights

http://www.comcom.govt.nz/fair-trading/know-your-rights/

It is important to know your rights as a consumer so you can file a legal complaint and know how to do so. The act is there to help you if you need to know about fair trading and help you understand what you should be getting out of your side of a deal. If you think that something might not be fair and you know about your rights it will be easy and direct rather than not knowing and missing out on a fair trade. Make sure you know your rights to always get a fair deal!

9Math-Reflection/Geometry

Geometry

The main thing we covered was that angles in a full circle equal 360 degrees, angles in a semi circle equal 180 degrees etc. Also we learnt other facts about angles and the history of geometry. A new theorem I found out was the Pythagoras theory. I found that M.C Escher and The Egyptians are similar as they both used some form of a picture to express some thinking or way to do things in maths/geometry. One of my strengths in this unit was that I already know quite a bit about angles so it helped with doing all the work.

Link to Level 3 Geogebra:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-jqNhNcBnBCOvn4b8Y4RLLN9Coetxbv_Xbc8Uq5lhsA/edit
Link to Level 4 Geogebra:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1szpRLs6FB9kyX5QeYSTA1iFIVAE7lr86yXoexLEfE_o/edit
Link to Level 5 Geogebra:
https://docs.google.com/a/hornby.school.nz/document/d/1e9yLLkSX7N48anato_aH3yJWnHL27xGutc1SOpq1HIY/edit?usp=drive_web
Link to History of geometry:
https://docs.google.com/a/hornby.school.nz/presentation/d/1f22XEexEdgIKsrW5jnK8KUVl7SX3RO1dvY5JUqt6Riw/edit?usp=drive_web
Link To Angles of geometry
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QnEwHiMJubc91kHdyb17VAmXc0dtVKQQkozqyGkhb1g/edit

9Tech-Balacing Toy Timeline

I am going to make a balancing toy for my Dad. This is the process I did when making my balancing toy( In order of time I did it in over a period of 12 weeks so far):

Week 1 Health & Safety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPPciVYVLIQ
Week 2 Health & Safety

Week 3: Starting up my project I began by cutting my balance to the scale required by using a hack saw. The size I cut it into was 80cm by 50cm by 5cm.
Week 4: After doing this I began cleaning up my work with a file and sand paper then used some engineers blue to cut my balance straight.
Week 5: Once I finished cutting up my balance I moved onto planning what design my balance would look like.
Week 6: I then glued on the design onto the actual balance then cut it with the band saw. Once I finished cutting it out I filed the sharp edges down then started my base.
Week 7: I cut out the base in the size of 100cm by 20cm by 5cm. Once I finished the cutting I cleaned it up by using a file and sandpaper to make it shiny.
Week 8: Next I drilled in 4 holes in my base to show where the screws and the two metal poles would go in. The next day we had a lesson on planning what our wire designs would look like and I made 3 scale designs on what I think I will be doing for the final product.
Week 9: Later I began cutting the small bar that was required to put on the balance for it to actually balance! When that was finished I cut out the rods and got ready to weld both of the parts, my balance and base.
Week 10: http://baltoy.blogspot.co.nz/2017/05/welding-for-first-time.html  Welding went really well and I did not make any major mistakes while doing it, It was also quite fun melting the brazing rod into the metal as it looked all gooey!
Week 11: I filed down the weld marks and cleaned it up to make it look less lumpy
Week 12: I planned how my wire would work out and learned how to spray paint and how to cut the wood in the woodwork shop.
Week 13: Currently here I am starting to make my wire design and I think I only need about 4-6 lessons to finish my product.

9English-Reading Log

Date:15/5/17
Text type:

Title:the invention of hugo cabret
Author:Brian Selznick
Publisher:Scholastic
Year of Publication:2007


What is the text about?After losing his Dad and Uncle, a boy named Hugo finds an automaton and wonders at what it does and represents.
Where/when is it set?It takes place in 1931
Who are the characters? The characters in this book are Hugo, The station inspector, Hugo's father, Hugo's uncle,Isabelle,Monsieur Fredrick,Papa Georges.Madame Jeanne 
Did I like this text?Yes I quite enjoyed this text as it left me wondering what the automaton did at the end of the first part. The story also had good characters and scenes put into it.

Choose one of these questions to answer:

Describe an important character in the text? What makes this character important? 
Hugo is a major character in the story as he is the one who discovered the automaton and figured out what it meant and what it did. If he was not in the story the story line would change dramatically as he brought back Papa Georges' past and helped him remember it and not be sad about it.

9English-Camera Reference Sheet

This is what I have been working on in English Hope you enjoy!

Establishing Shot-It is generally a long or extreme-long shot at the beginning of a scene indicating where, and sometimes when, the remainder of the scene takes place. Establishing shots were more common during the classical era of film making than they are now.

Extreme Long Shot-A 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).

Long Shot-Definition: Long Shot. LONG SHOT: In film, a view of a scene that is shot from a considerable distance, so that people appear as indistinct shapes.

Mid Shot-a shot taken at a medium distance.

Close Up-very near shot of a character or subject.

Extreme Close Up-Really close view of the character or subject (e.g eyes only).

POV shot-A point of view shot (also known as POV shot, First-person shot or a subjective camera) is a short film scene that shows what a character (the subject) is looking at (represented through the camera). ... The technique of POV is one of the foundations of film editing.

Over the shoulder shot-in film or video, an over the shoulder shot (also over shoulder, ab tu, OTS, or third-person shot) is a shot of someone or something taken from the perspective or camera angle from the shoulder of another person.

Bird’s Eye View-a general view from above.

Low Angle-In cinematography, a low-angle shot, is a shot from a camera angle positioned low on the vertical axis, anywhere below the eye line, looking up. Sometimes, it is even directly below the subject's feet. Psychologically, the effect of the low-angle shot is that it makes the subject look strong and powerful.

High Angle-A high-angle shot is a cinematic technique where the camera looks down on the subject from a high angle and the point of focus often gets "swallowed up." High-angle shots can make the subject seem vulnerable or powerless when applied with the correct mood, setting, and effects.

Tracking-A tracking shot is any shot where the camera moves alongside the object(s) it is recording. In cinematography, the term refers to a shotin which the camera is mounted on a camera dolly that is then placed on rails – like a railroad track. The camera is then pushed along the track while the image is being filmed.

Panning-verb (used without object), panned, panning. 1. 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 or allow the film to record a panorama : to pan from one end of the playing field to the other during the opening of the football game.

Zoom-Zooming in film making and television production refers to the technique of changing the focal length of a zoom lens (and hence the angle of view) during a shot – this technique is also called a zoom. ... Combined with a dolly camera move it is possible to create the dolly zoom effect.

Fade-Fade is when the object slowly disappears/fades away.

Wipe-A wipe is a type of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.

Scenes with the following:
Establishing Shot and Extreme Closeup=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBBswc47Y_M
Diagetic Classical music and a voiceover=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Y6NPahlDE
A single sequence longer than 5 min with no cutting=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QijbOCvunfU