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Friday 28 September 2018

John Britten Social Studies


  1. Go-kart is a type of open-wheel car. kiln a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying. Entrepreneur a promoter in the entertainment industry. Flair a special or instinctive aptitude or ability for doing something well. Melanoma a tumour of especially a malignant tumour associated with skin cancer. Posthumously after the death of the originator. Aerodynamics the properties of a solid object regarding the manner in which air flows around it. Honorary conferred as an honour without the usual requirements or functions. 
  2. Design plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings of a building, garment, or other object before it is made. The importance of design in today's society. ... Design can improve the way your business operates. An effective design is one that grabs the attention of the target audience, including current and prospective clients. Businesses that undervalue the importance of design may be missing important and enriching.
  3. Britten motorcycles, 

Tuesday 18 September 2018

Film Study (Setting to the film and plot)

  Understand the importance of setting
Importance of the Setting. Setting is the time and place where a scene occurs
It can help set the mood, influence the way characters behave.


                                          Dragon heart Plot
Disillusioned knight Bowen befriends Draco the last of the dragons
and the two begin scamming village folk as Bowen repeatedly
kills Draco for money. Bowen soon learns that Draco is the same dragon
who once saved his former student, now King Einon from death by giving
him a piece of his heart. Einon is now a merciless tyrant and Bowen is
compelled to stop him but the bond between king and dragon means if
one dies the other does as well.


Film Study (Visual and sound techniques)

 Sound techniquesSound techniques are like language techniques as they add variety to make objects come alive and help the reader to experience the situation and/or character as fully as possible. Techniques can include: alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm


  • Shots. Camera Shots: A camera shot is the amount of space that is seen in one shot or frame....
  • Camera Movement. Camera Movement: is something we interpret without thinking about it of Cinematic Techniques....
  • Camera Angles....
  • Editing....
  • Sound and Lighting....
  • Diegetic and Non-Diegetic sound.

Film Study (Camera techniques)

Language of film


Cinema uses shots shot sequences, scenes and dramatic sequences.
The language of cinema starts with the shot. In film and video a
shot is a series of still image frames that runs for an uninterrupted period of time.
Like a letter in written language the shot is the smallest piece of visual language.


     11 Camera Techniques in Film making
-Close up
When you take a photo close up
-Medium close up
Taking a photo close up but not as much
- Medium shot
Taking a photo the between far and close
- Mid Shot
Taking a photo in the middle of something
- Long wide shot
Where you take a photo from far
Extreme long shot
Form the head to the feet and showing the ground
Long angle shot
Head to waist but the camera is by your legs
High angle
Where you have your camera high
Eye level
Where your camera is at eye level
Over head
Where your camera is over your head

Monday 17 September 2018

Ryley Fair trading act

What is fair trading?
There are some basic principles that all fair trade goods must abide by. The production of these foods the most common being cocoa, coffee, bananas, tea, and sugar must be free of forced labour or poor working conditions for labourers.

Questions

  1. What is the Fair Trading Act? The Fair Trading Act 1986 is a statute of New Zealand. Its purpose is to encourage competition and to protect consumers/customers from misleading and deceptive conduct and unfair trade practices.
  2. What is the commerce commission’s goal? The Commerce Commission is a New Zealand government agency charged with enforcing legislation that promotes competition in the country's markets and prohibits misleading and deceptive conduct by traders. 
  3. Who besides the commission is responsible for the act and can take their own legal action?
What are the two groups the act applies to?
Businesses and the consumer.

Understand Your Compliance Obligations 

1. What do the acts apply to?
To anyone in trade including overseas that supply goods or services in land within New Zealand

2. Does it only apply if you intend to deceive?
I think yes because the act prevents any kind of false accusations or any misleading information.

3. Whose "shoes" must the business put themselves into?
 I think the business has to put themselves into the commerce commission's shoes because the commerce commission enforces the Fair Trading Act and to do that they must be in reach of the business

4. What is the commission empowered to do?
The commission enforces the Fair Trading Act preventing consumers to buy misleading products or buying it for a high price than it should be.