Pages

Monday, February 28, 2022

Art Description Stuff

 Write your kaupapa as a three sentence explanation’

What is it?

It's primarily based on animals. It is specifically based around the factors of predators and predation. In broad it is based on environmental protection.

How are you going to use images to explore it?

Because birds can me captured in an image as can most other animals.

Why have you chosen those images?

Because it's a lot easier than some other thing.

Monday, August 2, 2021

Ethos, Pathos, and Logos

 Ethos, Pathos, and logos are language features that help convince an audience of a point. They can be used to help subtly force someone to agree with a given point using their own emotions against them. Due to their convincing capabilities they are a good fix for advertising and persuasive writing.

Ethos uses someone's trust of somebody else to convince them of something they may not have cared about. For example who would you listen to? A man off the streets saying the world is flat or an Astronomer that says its round. Likely the Astronomer because he is more credible and trustworthy. 

Pathos uses someone's empathy, sympathy, and other feelings to get them to agree. It uses things like a puppy that survived when nobody thought it would as fuel for their argument. if you watched a program about how sad life is at the pound for dogs you would most likely want to go and get a dog from the pound. Like in this paragraph a the tragic tale of a cute faced dog will convince some people.

Logos is the use of logic and reason to convince people, mainly through facts and statistics. "Studies show that...," is a form of logos used in reports, "studies show that drinking water is a great way to stay hydrated". It uses convincing facts, even skipping out on some of the negative ones, to create a sense of trustworthiness. For example a phone company may say 'it has a great camera' but will skip out on 'it has a terrible battery life'. You may then go and buy the phone knowing about the camera and not the battery.

All three language features are a good way to get people on your side of the argument. You should think about who benefits from your agreement or purchase, is it you or the company. Tip of advice, if something seems too good to be true then you should make sure you know all the reasons behind the advertising.

(If you were convinced by this blog post you have been duped)

Friday, June 4, 2021

Friday 'Flection....

 Well whoopty doo, I am doing something called a reflection.... I've done it before but it was probably forgotten.

Text title: Inbox
Text type: Gmail
Text creator: Google
Critical Literacy Question: Who is real in the text?
Date: 28-05-2021

The images in Inbox suggest that it is a online platform that is used for global communication. The creator of Inbox, Google, has made it a reliable resource connected to other apps it has made. The people in Inbox are all real people and most of them will be talkable to IRL.

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Subversion in Surrealist Art

For art we were to look at a different kind of art, subversion done by a surrealist artist named Giorgio De Chirico. Starting off we have a thumbnail sketch of a painting of his:
The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street, 1914
The idea behind this painting seems to be around kidnapping and other shady immoral things that happen the the shadows of normal life. The wagon in the picture is hidden in the shadows and the darkness makes it hard to see what's inside the wagon. The shaded out girl and ominous shadow on the road add another aspect to the thought of kidnappings. The painting contains a lot of dark colors and tones making the painting seem more darkened and spooky. The supposed time setting of the painting is dusk just before it becomes night, perfect time for things to go bad.

In comparison to Tracey Tawhiao the painting shows a similar sense of something being covered up. Both their art seems to talk about the things that aren't completely moral but nobody cares on the larger side of the equation. For Tracey the larger side of the equation is the large of people that only know English. For Chirico it is more towards the fact that if someone does get kidnapped only family and friends will care if they are or aren't found.

Friday, May 7, 2021

Bird Drawing

 Progressing forward in art we now have to take and draw photographs that are in theme with our theme. My theme is birds

The drawing is unfinished so I will talk more about it when it is.

Monday, May 3, 2021

Enbarkment Towards The Watching Of Peter Rabbit 2

 I traveled the great distance to the cinema to embark on the wonderful adventure of Peter Rabbit 2. What I picked up is that selling things and then stealing them back is a good way to make money. The popcorn was highly tasty with a great cinema style butter flavor and the fellow, but snuck in, M&Ms were equally as tasty but both were depleted before the end of the film. A film I would highly recommend for the aspiring thief as that is a big part of the plot. It is superior to the original film due to it's increase in the harmment of oblivious, braindead, McGregor style humans.

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

A Podcast About Film Aspects

In English we are learning how to analyse how film aspects costume, motifs, symbolism, and insert shots show meaning. I will know I have done this when, I can explain why and how costume, motifs, symbolism, and the insert shot are used to show meaning in film.
We are learning this because this is applicable in certain jobs and aspects of other tasks. Jobs like directors need to know about it to flair up the film and actors need it to ensure that they themselves can create the desired effect.

With the culmination of all the past things I've learned I have a relatively good grasp of the film topic.