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Monday, 29 July 2019

Who Inspires You?

I personally am inspired by Brendon Urie, Dodie Clark, and Carrie Hope Fletcher. Both are people I aspire to be, both in talent and in personality. Dodie is a very soft singer, who can be powerful when necessary, she is very kind and shows that through both her singing and other vlog type videos. Brendon (the lead singer, and only current member, of Panic at the Disco) is a hyper, kind, accepting guy with a hell of a voice. His range stretches to four octaves, in a mainly tenor voice. Carrie is a musical theatre performer who recently came off of doing Heathers. She inspires me because of her resilience. An example of this is when she was freshly cast as Veronica, the main character of Heathers, she was hit with a ton of backlash because of her weight. As someone who struggles with my body image, her ability to bounce back after that is very inspiring.

Friday, 26 July 2019

I Don't Really Care 'Bout What They Say

Imma come back like a boomerang! That's right, 10Hh has been doing work surrounding boomerangs. It may sound kinda strange but it makes sense I swear. 
In class, we have been talking about Aboriginal culture and their history. A piece of that culture is their boomerangs. I did a whole project on them. You can see that here: Aboriginal Art!


Above is my own boomerang that I designed and painted. I didn't actually know what to do so I ended up creating small flower-like things using dots. In theory, I was meant to create a story with them, using symbols and icons. Buuut, with my poor painting and drawing skills, that really wasn't exactly an option. So instead I did this. Dots were a big part of their art, so it works anyway.

 Above and below are videos of us throwing the boomerangs. The whole point of this part of the topic was to apply what we had learnt to a physical object. I assume the throwing part was just for fun. And fun it was! I only threw mine once and I don't think there is a video of that but I got a ton of things of other people! Chyna ended throwing mine and losing it. Twice. But we found it so it was chill.

Wednesday, 24 July 2019

That Time That Place

Welcome back to drama 2019. Are you ready for another semester? No? Me either! Unlike last semester, our main goal is to create a film and a stage performance using the script of Ken Mizusawa's 'That Time. That Place.'

The story follows Mel, a young woman who refuses to live in the present and put the past behind her. We watch as the unexplained disappearance of a boy during highschool continues to preoccupy her. Unable to move on, she decides to investigate the case to find meaning in what has happened, only to find herself falling even further into the realm of memory and half-remembered moments.

To prepare for this, we have spent the last two lessons doing a script read and creating a painting that is very important to the story. Said painting isn't really described in much detail, leaving much for the reader/director to imagine. Mel described it in the script as "It was all abstract, big, with flying colours everywhere. Real amazing!" While chorus 2 says "In one corner of the painting, there was this figure in silhouette - a body - with this chalk outline around it like in a crime scene."


So, with that in mind, we got to work. We started with an idea in mind, a reference for our abstract art, pictures to the side. And let me tell you, creating an abstract piece of work isn't the easiest thing ever. Especially when no one in our 7 person Drama class is a Picasso level artist. Luckily, 'abstract' could be a bunch of lines on a canvas and called trees.
Before we even painted anything, we needed to talk colours. In the quotes mentioned above, Mel mentions flying colours. We, as actors, interpreted this as bright, bubbly colours. But we didn't have much paint. So we worked with what we got. We ended up with purple, a light green and blue, pink, yellow, white, and black. Cool. Now we gotta paint. We thought about how the painting was meant to be more uplifting than sad and said, hey, what if we did upwards strokes. While we strayed from that a little, it totally worked out. At the moment I'm writing this, the painting looks like a bus seat cover. But I guess that's what we're going for. Next step is to add the silhouette and start the process of... acting?

Monday, 22 July 2019

IMO

Diversity and what it means to me. Okay. Cool. To me, diversity is a state of difference. Where everyone is included and treated equally, no matter who they are or what they look like. This is important because regardless of our backgrounds or appearances, we are all just human, you know? I already knew that people were fighting for diversity but through the year I've learnt about what people are actually doing to fight and the different points of views of said people.

Monday, 1 July 2019

When Will My Reflection Show Who I Am Insiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide


1. Where is your focal point? Why did you choose it and decide to put it where it is?
I would say my focal point is my title/titles. I chose this as it really tells the reader what they're getting themselves into and to put it at the top the way it is to create some asymmetrical balance.
2. How are your shapes and lines leading you to your focal point?
I'm not entirely sure how to describe it. I'd say with the way I've layered my shadows and my text boxes. With the shadows, I used contrasting colours to really make the title pop. Or at least I tried.
3. Why did you choose the colours you did?
They're our school colours! Blues and yellows are perfect to describe a Hornby High experience.
4. Does your text reflect the hierarchy rule? How?I believe it does. My main title (Auahatanga) is the biggest, in a pretty bold font, while my subheading (The "Logical" Side Of Creativity) is in a smaller, yet still large, font. Meanwhile, my body text is the smallest! If I remember correctly, that follows the hierarchy rule.
5. How does your page link with the other members in your group?

From what I know, our colour palettes are the same, hopefully linking them in a successful way.
6. Based on the start of the term, where would you now rate yourself on the solo levels? Why?
I would say I'm now at a 3 or a 4. This choice was based on the way I took what I knew and applied it as well as I could, creating my thumbnail sketches but considering I haven't been blogging my process unless instructed otherwise, I may fall back onto a 3.