Alexzandria

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 Hello My name is Alexzandria I am 12 years of age Interests: Dancing, having fun with friends, play computer games, drama and a bit of singing. I chose the Arts Based Class because I love the Performing Arts and because I want to learn more about art because I'm not really a big fan of drawing. Through my eyes, I see the world as a world that isn't perfect. `Life isn't fair` and everybody knows that. In this world there are a lot of different things that people know about and will find out about. The world is full of memories of good and bad people but that's just how the world works and someday the world will end but you'll never know what the future will hold....

THROUGH MY EYES (Art View) Through my eyes, I look at the world and I see a wonderful world. I see mountains and fields. The artist who inspired me was Vincent van Gogh because I knew that he put a lot of emotion in the style of his paintings. The reason why I chose this painting was because it gave me a sense about what the world actually looked like. I'm doing this painting because I think his artwork is very cool an unique.

THROUGH MY EYES (World View) Through my eyes, I see the world as a world that isn't perfect. `Life isn't fair` and everybody knows that. In this world there are a lot of different things that people know about and will find out about. The world is full of memories of good and bad people but that's just how the world works and someday the world will end but you'll never know what the future will hold....

Draw what you can SEE not what you **imagine** will be there
 * WALTS:**
 * I didn't do very well on my first portrait I did at the Art Gallery, but I feel I have improved by actually drawing what I can see not what I have imagined.**

Tone: Look for the light and dark areas Fill in your portrait using light and dark **texture** as opposed to lines Be brave - avoid pretty, dark is dark, light is light No outlines - do not draw the outline first - start with the eyes and work out Proportion: Use some tricks and good observation to complete a portrait with good proportion Pop Art: Use lines to transform your portrait into areas of distinct light or dark (pop art style)**Success Criteria** I was brave - I have completed four distinctly **different** works?
 * The light and dark areas on portraits have been very good and the eyes on my portrait look very real and they look great.**
 * I have been brave because I know when I look at the difference between my first and second time doing it, there was a huge difference and I have actually completed the four different works.**

Did I avoid lines and outlines?
 * In my first piece at the Art Gallery, I didn't avoid lines and outlines because I wasn't brve enough to actually avoid them.**

Is my work well proportioned?
 * Yes, my work is well proportioned like how the man at the Art Gallery said how the eyes aren't actually a whole circle, and where the eyes, the nose and the mouth go.**

Did I use texture well?
 * I did in some of the parts, I deliberately did lines in some parts because I didn't actually know how to do it but in the end I actually found out that I did know how to do it.**

Did I really take a risk and draw what I see, not what I expect or imagine to be there?
 * Yes, I think I took a risk because I made my painting look like it's actually looking at you :)**
 * Questions to challenge myself!**

If I was to choose a tiny bit of my work that I love - what would it be and why?**It would have been the hills that we did at our second trip to the Art Gallery, I liked it because the blending of the colours really stood out and really liked how it blended in and made it look really cool.**
 * //Why//** do I like or not like a particular work?**I don't like my first piece of art that I did at the Art Gallery because it wasn't how it was supposed to be, it was done like how I wanted it to look. I did like my second piece because it looked like the actual photograph not what I had pictured in my head.**
 * //Why//** did I enjoy or not enjoy a particular style?**I enjoyed doing the rough kind of looking style because I found that it actually looked better when you shaded it and that it looked more like a person than an imaginary one. I did not enjoy the Pop Art because you only had one choice and that it's there or isn't. I also didn't like it because if you had made a mistake with the white you couldn't change it because if you dyed it, it would still be seen.**

To be more brave and to not get myself distracted by others so then I can actually finish my work and not be so behind.
 * Next steps for myself?**


 * PE EVALUATION**

I have learnt to pass and to catch high and low balls.
 * What I've learnt in PE?**

My next step is to communicate with other team players and to not be scared of the ball when it comes to me.
 * Next Step:**

I am good at ripping people's tags in Rippa Rugby and not whining all the time like how I use to be.
 * What I'm good at?**

|| LEONARDO DA VINCI || FRIDA KAHLO || Alexzandria - use this link for your reading material []
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 * [[image:alex_art_work_3.JPG width="456" height="460"]] || VINCENT VAN GOGH
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Please write me a brief biography. List Van Gogh's major influences Explain why you have chosen his work to study Tell me what you have learnt from copying his work that you will try to bring into your own.





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WHAT I'VE LEARNT ........


 * About Integers and how important it is to know about it.
 * How to sketch and to draw what I see not what I've imagined.
 * More about Vincent van Gogh and about his Earlier and Later years.
 * Different Types of Artists
 * Ratios and how they can be useful in everyday life
 * What an exhibition is and how it's related to what wer'e doing in our classroom
 * The difference between Pop Art and the edgy kind of drawing.
 * More about what artists inspirations were.
 * How to create a wiki and how to upload pictures into my wiki
 * To know more about why Vincent van Gogh painted in the short, thick brushstrokes that he did.
 * How Vincent van Gogh died (from his own hands)
 * How Vincent van Gogh died (from his own hands)

20/08/10 WALT: To create a story using three pictures. media type="youtube" key="TXkPyi4CxIE" height="344" width="425" The film has to have a beginning, a middle and an end. A strong problem and resolution. A strong character who wants something.


 * MY MOVIE REVIEW**

Based on true events **//The Pursuit of Happyness//** (the incorrect spelling is explained in the film) follows Chris Gardner (**Will Smith**) as he struggles to achieve the American dream. Chris has everything going against him. His wife (**Thandie Newton**) left him and he's raising his 5 year old son alone, without any real income. As he is determined to provide for his son Christopher (**Jaden Smith**) Chris enters an unpaid internship program at a brokerage firm in hope of landing the one paid position available at the end of the training program. Sleeping in bathrooms homeless shelters, cruddy hotels when he's got the money to pay for a room. Chris never gives up on the idea he can land this job to give his son a better life.


 * //The Pursuit of Happyness//** leaves an important message of how if you want something you fight for it. Chris Gardner stood by that his whole life, that has been his life-long lesson to his 5 year old son. **//The Pursuit of Happyness//** reflects so much on so many people and that is the main thing to the purpose of making this film. **//The Pursuit of Happyness//**


 * //W.A.L.T: multiply fractions//**

multiply the bottom number (denominator) simplify the fraction (if needed)
 * //S.C://** multiply the top number (numerator)

Example: 2/3 x 2/5 = 4/15

1. 8/21 2. 5/8 3. 3/36

Code Cracker

1. 62 2. 18 3. 093


 * In Term 3 and 4 I've learnt a lot of things from **Movie Making** to **Kapa Haka.**
 * New cultures during Kapa Haka.
 * How to make a story using just a few pictures as inspiration
 * When writing a script you have to write every piece of action that the camera will see
 * Special effects - you can tell when a scene has used special effects and when one doesn't
 * I learnt how a narrative can be written - beginning, middle and end. Problem and Resolution.
 * Facial Expressions and letting go - Hip-Hop, Kapa Haka (pukana), acting in front of peers.
 * Film Making - camera techniques etc.
 * I learnt what a Boom Operator is - the person who holds the big microphone.
 * Script writing - every page is a minute of the movie.
 * I learnt how to do tricks using the poi, also learnt a popular new Maori song.
 * Learnt how our strengths and weaknesses and affect a big part of our learning especially the filming process.