Passion Projects.

 For passion projects this year, I got together in a group with my friends; Kalim, Kayla, Lorelei, Tj & Kaleb. We had a goal to set up / produce a football tournament for the primary school next door. Our driving question was, “How do you set up a football tournament”. We had only just started working on it but then we were faced with the problem of the time limit. If we were to set up this tournament we would have needed more time than we had left which wasn’t going to work. We then had to come together as a group and review our options. After a little bit of discussion, we came to the conclusion that we are now going to work on creating a comedic football video where we have an expectation side then a reality side. Doing this it won't take very long to complete as all we have to do is a film and then edit the video so I think it will be able to be accomplished within the timeframe set. 

For this all we will need is, A football, a phone and we will need to record on the school field. 

Up until now, we haven't recorded anything but we have come up with a document full of different ideas and clips we can record. We will be presenting this through a comedic video. 

"My son's life has become dominated by gaming" Article

The article 

• Do you think this is common behavior for teenagers that game regularly?

No. Hostile behaviour like that isn't normal in gaming. 

• Do you think the advice given to the parent was good advice? Why/why not

I don't think that it is the best idea because there are other things that you can get him to do like find a new hobby. Professio0nal help seems a little excessive. 

• When do you think gaming changes from a healthy to an unhealthy hobby?

When it's a healthy hobby the kid is only spending a small amount of time gaming a day and not playing hostile games especially at the age of 14 as stated in this article. 

• Do you think screen time on social media or on gaming is more addictive?

I think there is more screen time on social media because most people use cellphones which are super practical and you are able to access social media at any time during the day. But also social media you can also get lost in a loop just scrolling through social media. 

Goal Setting, Mark Manson.

 Chapter 1:Why should we have a mixture of specific and general goals?

Specific goals give you something to work towards the entire time but having too many specific goals might make a person do anything within their will to complete it, Cheat, Hurt people, etc...

A general goal is a general idea of something someone wants to achieve so the goal might drift and become misleading.

A good mixture of specific goals and general goals are good because you can have a specific goal to become rich and that will get you excited to achieve that goal which will give you that dedication, but then you also need the general goal to get a supporting job to back that up.

Chapter 2: What do we need to align our goals with? Consider how these affect your goals.

You need to align your goals with your personal values. If you don't it's just a recipe for disaster. People look around and see others doing specific things, working on their goals and then they think that they need to be doing the same and think they will get the same outcome. Sometimes specific goals aren't cut out for specific people but people still try and it ruins their social life, has a bad influence on the area around them or they can become really self-centered, and then that's a whole entire problem in itself.

Film Aspects

Reflection 12/3/2021

 Text Title: Man City Fullback Cancelo Names Chelsea Winger Pulisic As Toughest Opponent 

Text Type: Informational 

Text Creator: Tribal Football

Text Purpose: Article

Date: Friday 12th March

What do the images suggest: 

The images in this article suggest that he is causing trouble because he is currently dribbling through the opposing team.

 

Why are we/ you reading this text?

I am reading this text because i love football and it is really relevant to my interests. it is also something to do with the team i support and it is gained one of the rival teams. 

In this article Joao Cancelo expressed his opinions and said that he finds Chelsea football player Christian Pulisic the most difficult player to verse.  He also said " He is a very skillful and quick player on the ball" which shows that Pulisic is good at controlling the game.

Reflection, 26th February

  Text Title:  Cinder

Text Type: Book text

Text creator: Marissa Meyer 

Text Purpose: Novel

Date: Friday, February 26th

What Genre does this book belong to? 

This book belongs to the novel section and is also a fictional story. I know this because in the story the main character is a cyborg with a metal hand and a metal foot. this character also has many brain features like being able to detect lies, download things straight to her brain which is rather fascinating to thing about. The main character has a companion named Iko which is a little android robot that can go retrieve, or take stuff away at request. From my knowledge i don't think anyone has any technology that is capable of doing activities like that all from voice activation whilst the robot being able to have proper conversations by free will. All of this seem very futuristic which makes it a fictional book.  

What is the text about? How do we know? 

From what we have read, the story is about a teenage cyborg girl who is the best android mechanic is the whole area but she has no interest in letting other people know she is only half human. This story's setting is very futuristic as there are android companions being there to help out. From what we have seen the people that live in the same town as this cyborg lady don't want their kids to go anywhere near her. In the end of the first chapter, its all about a kid who has "the plague" We have currently not found out what this plague is but Cinder (the main character) shut the door to her mechanic shop and sat quietly on the concrete floor not wanting to be heard so from this it suggests that the "Plague" is a scary terrible thing. 

WTE Sentences

 Simple Sentence:    Mr Heath is my favorite teacher 

The very short sentence:      Football is fun

The Power sentence:     Barcelona's comeback is something that will never be forgotten

 Red, White and blue:   Precision, Power and Confidence is what u need to have a good shot

Adverb Start:     Quickly, they dashed out of the store with the watermelon. 

Begin with a preposition:    In 2019, I brought my first proper scooter

The -ING Start:  Analyzing the ongoing play, he saw what he had to do to make a break through the back line

The -ED Start:     Thrilled to make the starting 11, the nerves were still starting to set in.

The Semi-Colon:   Pandas are very adorable creatures; its a shame their endangerment is getting worse 

The EM-Dash:   Frozen cokes - Very affordable - Perfect for hot days

The W-Sentence start:     When i get home, i'm going to go to the skate park

Explore the Subject:   Raymond Warner, who is known in the scooter community, has recently just brought Scooter Zone

Reflection 12th February

 Text Title:  Waitangi - What really happened

Text Type: Video

Text creator: Gavin Strawhan 

Text Purpose: Inform about treaty of Waitangi

Date: Friday, February 12th

What does the author of this text want us to know?

The author of this text is giving us an informative video series about the signing of the treaty of Waitangi and it gives us a detailed (not 100% accurate) but good view of what things were like and what would have been happening during this hard time period. The videos are in 7 parts and they are all segmented off into parts where there is a main problem in each of them.