8B Drama: Clowning Routines from YIS Arts on Vimeo.

In the last unit for Drama, our grade have performed one clowning routine with a partner (2-3) to little children to entertain/enjoy them. I had learned a lot about clowning and how hard it is to entertain people or act to the character also I didn’t know much about clowning history which I learned a lot.

Time line: Greek clowns –> Jesters (you see them a lot in the deck card) –> Shakespeare’s clowns –> Melodramatic clowns –> Circus clowns and there is White-Face clown (Its a man and he bosses around and act posh as it is reach, only clown to wear jewels), Auguste clown (causes trouble and wear baggy clothes), The Tramp or HOBO & Bag Lady (There is a male and a female, the male is more sad when a women is happy but they both clean up after messes) and Character clown (dress up as a police or any other which have a chrachter and is important roll as they fix problems)  –> TV/Movie’s clown (example, Mr.Bean)

The teacher didn’t record my partner and my clowning practice routine as I was sick for half day. The difference we made was to add a sketchbook to communicate which was hard task as I was mute and I need to be over emotion. My partner and I didn’t really practice much which made it boring and made a minus as there weren’t many reaction from the audience but we interact with them by sketchbook and my partner talking. The story line wasn’t clear when I re-saw the video.

The successful part was acting as character and show emotion but the bad part was not much interaction with the audience and not making them enjoyable, we made a few mistake which I want to fix.

Overall, the clown routine didn’t go well as I thought and if I get a chance, I want to practice more and be part of it.

For my mashup, I did music mapped video which was difficult to keep track and search roots but easy to do editing. I choose the song “New york, New york” by Frank Sinatra because elderly people to our age can enjoy. The most difficult thing in this project was to create as I need to make the timing right to the map and song but the design and planning was easy as I know the lyrics and the song. I had improved my work if I had put the pictures big and not to long as it is boring (in my own opinion).

Step 1- Planning (choose a song, plan, screen record the map that matches the song, put together even though it takes time, and in the end put a pictures that you keep making in photoshop):

Step 2- Making:

Step 3- Upload:

Before I choose this project, I need to choose three project (Consumer Mashup, Music Mapped Mashup, and Movie Trailer Mashup) and make a idea so I could be sure which I want to do and I was wondering for  a long time on what to make it as my final project. Consumer Mashup was hard as I need to make it entertaining as possible, if you make Music Mapped Mashup good enough than it won’t be boring, and finally Movie Trailer Mashup was hard to make mashup two movies to make connecting as possible.

Throughout this whole project, I found that the design cycle was helpful because I can see clearly what is the best to follow/guide to make a mashup. I had taken time to Investigate because I need to search what is a mashup/remix, what makes a good mashup, and what I want to do. I had search and looked at videos to gain ideas and see the point of view of ‘fair use’ and the diamond triangle. For the planning, it was a short time but hard because I need to listen to music and see the timing to the video and which section I want to show which failed later on as even though I followed the planning, it had went out of line and see that the song and video timing is different. I had planning one and planning 2 to show the difference. Creating was fun and used the whole time to create and use different sources to make my mashup, in the end I also used Photoshop for the pictures. Now, I am evaluating/reflection which takes time to my thinking with all my project.

There is type of history. Political history, Diplomatic history, Social history, Cultural history, Economic history, and Intellectual history (for more information). Historian connects those different type of history to find an answer which opens the world of light more but Historian needs to evidence to know what is the possible of the answer like for the activity my class and the other class did. We had to bring a object to represent ourselves and I have brought One direction album (dvd) “Take Me Home – Limited Edition Yearbook”, teddy bear since I was born, my old school uniform, and “Tales of Shakespeare” which was a book full of Shakespeare’s story. Than 5 people from my class need to describe what is the object is on a piece of paper and the other class needs to write a information of what they know about the object and maybe guess the person. My class did the same.

Long time ago, Historian needs to write down everything they know but didn’t know which dna’s it contains because science and technology wasn’t developed much. Nowadays, technology is developed and historians can record and save as well they can ask scientist to know what dna it is.

The project for this unit was to interview 3 different generation people which means grandpa’s friend, mum, and me than make a video showing what was the difference (maybe also the similarities). It was hard to find secondary pictures because they don’t have a picture when they were young so I concluded that I will search pictures for my mum and my generation and do a “draw my life” for my grandpa’s friend. While I was doing this project, my message was to show what was the difference and how lucky we are to be in this generation than before because life was hard at that time (example; world war II).

Grade8 Final Performance-1 from YIS Academics on Vimeo.

In PE, we have learned about ‘Martial Arts’. We have learned different techniques; example, Judo roll, kicking, punching, defence, and etc… For our topic, our teacher would choose who to be in a group of 5 peoples (4 team) and we need to make a dance forming with no fights which is similar to Brazilian marial arts ‘Capoeira‘.

8B Drama: Persuasive Speeches from YIS Arts on Vimeo.

At drama, we had learned about how to make a persuasive speech and how to drag people in the speech so there thoughts can be same as yours.

These are what we use to make the speech interesting:

- volume

- projection

- pitch

- pace

- pause

- emphasis

- inflection

We needed to pick a topic and make a persuasive speech (it can be anything) and make a plan. I had picked a topic which was “How badly can one harmful word change relations between people?” because even though it will be hard, I thought of maybe it will be a challenge for me and mostly it will be a reasonable topic.

Does copyright hinder or cultivate creativity?  At our new grade 8 technology project,we are learning about MASHUP or remix.

Fair Use Diamond

We are trying to answer the unit question by looking at variety of videos that made by different people and how it entertains us than we need to make our own creative mashup or remix but needs to be in copyright law and fair use.

In my opinion, Copyright cultivate creativity because some products or technology we use are maybe copyrighted and that make us think of idea growth; Disney is copyrighted but it makes it original. Copy and make it original make us look at bigger map of web and make us think more and go into the person’s video and see what is there point of view.  If the person who wants to copy something, if that person have followed the ‘copyright law’ than it’s fine because it not breaking the law.

Overall, I believe Copyright does not hinders creativity because if we don’t copy one idea and make it to our own way of thinking than maybe the product won’t come out or we have one thing that can be boring and can’t see the point of it. Copyright makes new invention.

Example of a mashup and a remix:

Original book cover

1. Appearances and deception are a common theme in literature, how does Hinton demonstrate this?

The 60′s fashion and point out the difference of Greasers (means; put grease or gel on hair)/Hoods and Socs (means; social). Hinton shows this by Ponyboy explanation of the greasers, in the first chapter there is a brief appearance of his gangs appearance that he explanation of greases on hair. On P.18, Ponyboy thoughts toward the Socs girls can show strongly while on P.44 shows the difference of Socs girls and greasers girls by meeting Cherry and Marcia.

2. Do narrators always tell the truth? Is Ponyboy a reliable narrator?

It depends on when the story sets and what is going around them but I can say that narrators tell the truth in some way if you imagine or think hard. Ponyboy is a reliable narrator because Hinton show the feeling of her friends who are both Socs and Greasers that she used part to put in story.

3. Is The Outsiders relevant to you? Can you relate to it? Why or why not?

‘ The Outsiders ‘ relevant to me because of the money that weigh you on which struggles me a lot. It doesn’t relates on me because I don’t have any money problem.

4. Should The Outsiders be taught in school? If so, at what grade level?

Yes, ‘The Outsiders’ should be taught in school because it’s something that relate to experience of life that can be how people need to accept something that happened/happens. The grade level should be G.8 because its where you are going to adapt more into ‘adult’ mind and sees thing in more ‘adult’ way.

5. Who is your favourite character and why? Who is your least favourite? Explain your choice.

I can’t choose  my favourite character between Johnny and Two-bit because I love how Johnny is someone is scared and emotional also deals a lot of things around him; example, abused and murdering Robert.  Two-bit is funny and can make you laugh but caring in inside that I love. My least favourite is Darry because it reminds me of parents ‘have a good grade’.

6. Which character impacts you the most? What emotions do you feel for that character? Does he/she remind you of someone else you know? Of yourself?

Dallas Winston impacts to me and connects to me the most because I like how he in the click of showing his emotion and  his true self; example, when Johnny died he showed he was empty that shows to how he can be rough and tough but when he feels like he lost and confused then he will set off. I feel sorry for him because he can be lonely and had a tough life, he didn’t show it and tell to people but the gangs seems to know he set off. Dallas doesn’t reminds me of someone.