Know your Place

 I made a Prezi for Social Studies class:
https://prezi.com/view/WUMH1XgnklyoYFqPNraT/

Reflection:

I feel like I've done a very sufficient job with my work; the pictures I've put in and the words I've written, it feels like an ample amount of effort.
Though I do feel like I could've added more.

Workshop #3 - Costumes

1. The Reaping Scene - District 12

- The children of the district have gathered together for the reaping to select the tributes.

- Boys - shirts, buttoned; collars, shorts, pants
            - colourless, white, faded, dull, over washed

- Girls - dressed, shirt & skirt

- Best clothes, probably only worn once a year, worn-out, colourless, faded

Viewer - we feel sorry for the people, they seem powerless, they live in poor conditions

Director's purpose - to show us how bad things are, how bad their conditions are, and how bad things have gotten, to see them as weak, unprepared; hopeless

Other techniques - high angle with the faded colours, makes them seem weak, vulnerable, helpless.

2. The Capitol - Arriving in the City

- Katniss and Peeta have arrived by train in the Capitol.

- Clothes are extravagant - over the top, colourful, vibrant, accessories; hats, earrings, make-up, wigs, shoes, bags, dogs.

- new - like only worn once, "fashionable", access to good quality fabrics, patterns

Viewer effect - makes them seem higher rank, privileged, relaxed, we don't like them - attitude of entitlement, clueless

Director's purpose - shows themes of imbalance of power, rich vs poor

Other techniques - setting is crowded, people are happy, buildings are modern, large and well-kept. Shows that Capitol is privileged.

3. The Countdown

- The tributes have just arrived in the arena and are waiting to start games.

    - Costumes - survival gear, brown and black; dark colours, jackets, pants, t-shirts
    - designed to look good, to be practical, light weight.

Viewer effect - the tributes look prepared, fit, athletic

Director's purpose - they're going to die, the outfits are just for the audience (the citizens of the Capitol) makes it seem more pageant like.

Other Technique - silence - worried/excited to see what happens, anxiety and tension, makes the audience focus.

Freytag's Pyramid for the Hunger Games

 

A Hunger Games (2012) Freytag's Pyramid I made for English class.

What am I learning?

I am learning about the Freytag's Pyramid and how it operates.

How does this show my learning?

This shows my attentiveness during class, but just because it was a movie, and I had nothing else to do.

What am I wondering as a result of this?

I am wondering about the rest of the series plot, despite the lack of motivation.

The Reaping Scene

What is happening in this clip?
Katniss volunteers as tribute in replacement for her sister when she is chosen. The people of the district give her the three-finger salute. Peeta is then chosen as the second tribute.

What theme does it link to?
Hope & Rebellion 
- The three-finger salute as a sign of respect. 
- Katniss volunteering, as a symbol of a district victor.

- Katniss as a symbol of rebellion for stepping in for her sister when she is taken as tribute.

Rich vs Poor

- Symbol: Effie Trinket

   - extreme make-up

   - wig and hat

   - overly colourful

   - flashy outfit 

   - proper accent

- Technology 

   - use of blood readers/scanners

   - projectors

- District 12 

   - in poverty

   - outfits for the Reaping are children's clothes reminiscent of the 1950's

   - colours are faded to white from washes and reusing

   - the village falls down around them

Angle/shots used:
- Wide Shot - When the crowd is shown 

- Over the Shoulder - Used multiple times

- Tracking Shots - Used multiple times

- Dutch Tilt - When Katniss gets on the stage

- Low Angle

- Close-Up - Used with multiple characters in different scenes

   - Effie - joyful and confident; excited, close-up on lips when reading names

   - Katniss - Panic when Primrose is reaped, shock when she stands with Effie.

   - Peeta - fear, panic, shock

- Shallow Focus - the background is blurry, the focus is clearer; shaky

   - Used when Primrose and Katniss hug; this forces the viewers to watch the character in focus

How does the viewer feel?
The viewers feel sorry for the tributes, like Primrose, since it was the first time she was reaped as tribute for the Hunger Games; for Katniss because she volunteered to save her sister from an assured demise.

We feel angry towards the Capitol for instituting the Hunger Games and the Reaping, and we also throw hate at Effie because she is annoying, stuck-up, clueless and much too giddy for a bleak situation.  

Why did the director do this?
We needed to be invested in the journey and suffering the characters face. We needed to be angry towards the Capitol so that we judge them and their decisions later.

Effie is also depicted as the symbol of people in the District, they are clueless because they don't see the suffering the people endure on a daily basis.

Additional others?

Music

   - starts as we move to picking the boys: Minor key, tempo - slower, dynamic

   - starts quiet then gets louder to build tension: mood - tension

Lighting

   - bright, grey, neutral, cold

   - mood - sad, depressed

Colour

   - dull, cold, palette - grey, white, blue, faded, washed out

   - atmosphere - despair, you feel sorry for the people, poverty, run down

Facial Expressions

   - dull, bland, sad; matches the lighting and colour

Themes of the Hunger Games

 

This is a Coggle diagram of three themes from the Hunger Games movie.

What am I learning?

I am learning about the different themes that can play into the plot of the story, and into the background of the story.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning?

I am wondering about other aspects that could've been used as an example.

How does this work show my learning?

It shows that I am responsible enough to do my work.

Rich vs Poor

Rich vs Poor - The Capital vs District 12

District 12 - Poor

- houses; run down, wooden

- food; very little, people pick off food scraps from everything 

- clothing; 1 pair of good clothes, worn out and old, colours are faded, grey and black, covered in coal dust

The Capital - Rich

- houses; large, concrete, metal, accents and silver

- food; variety, more than enough, excess

- clothing; fancy suits, extravagant, fashion, overboard

Hope + Rebellion

President Snow + Senica Craine

    (A little hope is good, lots of it is dangerous.)

Hamich + Senica

   (Give them something to root for. Young love!)

Struggle for Power

Katniss + Peeta eat the berries.

Death of Rue = A riot in District 11

Power of Propaganda

Subtle - The Hunger Games film strip

https://youtu.be/v98Rh9qzmPs

- Katniss volunteers as Tribute for the Hunger Games; the first volunteer in District 12.

Visual Dictionary

 

Hitler's opinion on the Jewish

 Quotes, from his book, Mein Kampf (My Fight/Struggle):

"The Jews were responsible for bringing negroes into the Rhineland with the ultimate idea of bastardising (lowering the quality of) the white race which they hate, and thus lowering its cultural and political level so that the Jew might dominate."

This single quote, and the events in history that followed, Hitler believed that the Jewish brought problems into Germany, and that they brought in what he considered undesirables (blacks, and other Jews), thinking that they did this so that they'd bring Germany down and become the dominating race.

"The Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on end... spying on the unsuspicious German girl he plans to seduce... he wants to contaminate her blood and remove her from the bosom of her own people."

He thought that the Jewish were also planning on completely wiping out the German race by breeding with other Germans. Hitler became terrified of the thought that the Jewish were doing all of these on purpose, to wipe out the Germans by procreation, and remove all traces of pure German DNA.

Hitler then went on to become Chancellor of, and later, the Fuhrer of the now-infamous Nazi Germany. Many Jews were prosecuted and killed because of his racist and anti-Semitic beliefs and laws, causing the Holocaust.

DNA Extraction

Aim: To extract DNA from Kiwi fruit.

Equipment: water, beakers, sand, spatula, ethanol, Kiwi fruit, sandwich bag, bunsen burner, mat, tripod, test tube, glass rod, dishwash liquid, cloth

Method: 

1. Squish Kiwi fruit with sand and water and pour through cloth to collect juice in beaker.

2. Place beaker on bunsen burner kit to warm water, pour juice into test tube with 2 drops of dishwash, rest in warm water.

3. Add ethanol, watch the DNA separate and collect with spatula.

Pictures (not actually tho):

   

Germany's struggle in the Great Depression

 The Great Depression

1. Why was Germany hit the hardest during the depression?

Germany was solely to blame as the aggressor who had instigated World War One, and thus the Treaty of Versailles was tuned to the Allies' favour in punishing the Germans. They had to pay billions of dollars in reparations (for both wars, which was fully repaid in 2010, mind you), and their military reduced to a hundred thousand soldiers and less than 10 ships, while also completely removing all their military aircraft and artillery. Hyperinflation then came into the picture with the Great Depression, causing the country to print out amounts of money which became more worthless than a single piece of bread (i.e. a piece of bread could be worth almost a trillion deutschmarks (German money)). 

2. Explain what Germany had to agree to by signing the Treaty of Versailles?

Germany was blamed as the sole aggressor of WWI, despite Austria-Hungary having been the one to spark the conflict in the first place. They had to surrender all of their aircraft and artillery and their navy was reduced to 6 ships. Their military was reduced from a 6 million to 100 thousand soldiers, were not allowed to produce any artillery, aircraft, navy or weapons and they had to pay over billions of dollars for reparations. Even their commercial trading was crippled, their merchant fleet reduced to a tenths.

3. How was NZ affected by the depression?

New Zealand was affected as hard as every other country did. Their exports fell by 45 percent in two years, national income crashed by 40 percent by three years. As summarised as it can be, New Zealand suffered as much of a bad time as every country. 

Sources: 

https://www.britannica.com/place/Germany/The-Treaty-of-Versailles

https://www.history.com/news/treaty-of-versailles-world-war-ii-german-guilt-effects

https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/history-economic/page-7