Journal Entry 1
1. How is the research going?
My research is going very well, everybody has done their part of their research. Now we are able to make our imovie video.
2. What do you know about imovie? What other multimedia possibilities have you considered for your presentation?
In my CST/IST project 1, i was in charge of making an imovie, so here is what i know about it so far.
In an imovie, you can add videos, text, animations, and audio. I no everyother multimedia presentations have this, but the imovie has more cool stuff.
There are other multimedia possibilities like powerpoint, and moviemaker.
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STEP 3:
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ANALYSE COMPOSITIONAL MEANINGS
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Write up your Compositional analysis in your Edublog
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At least one paragraph about how these techniques help bring across the message of the book
Where something is placed within a text conveys a certain value. In Western society we read form left to right and up to down. Therefore Left is privileged over Right and Top over Bottom. However when two pages are involved (as in a newspaper) then the dominant side becomes Right.
On the double page spread 4 there is only a small amount of writing, it says” They came by water”. The writing is placed on the bottom left hand corner, it is also where the water is, i believe that that are trying to over exaggerate the Britain’s coming by sea.
The most important and noticeable picture in the pages is the ship, because they also over exaggerate the ship to show that there is heaps of people to come and kill a few aboriginals. Also because the ship is huge its easier to spot.
For the framing part of my pages, there isn’t anything.
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STEP 2:
- ANALYSE INTERACTIVE MEANINGS
- Write up your Interactive analysis in your Edublog
- At least one paragraph about how these techniques help bring across the message of the book
When we look at visual texts like picture books or advertisements we are often just watching what is happening (offer) but sometimes a figure is looking directly at us demanding some kind of involvement or response (demand).
In the picture book “The Rabbits” there are plenty of demand and offer photos. An example on an offer is on the double page spread 4, when the white Britain’s charging into the aboriginal land to takeover. An example of a demand is on the double page spread 11, when the aboriginals are explaining what the Britain;s did to them, the are demanding you to look at what the Britain’s did.
An example of a angle shot is on the double page spread 11,when the aboriginals are explaining what the Britain”s did to them, the are demanding you to look at what the Britain’s did. The camera is very low which is called a Low angle. They take a low angle shot to explain how the aboriginals were powerful. Another example of a camera shot is a high angle, it is hen the shot was taken from a high point. It symbolises happiness and in the Britain’s situation is also showing how much the Britain’s stole.
The colors are bright and strong because now their is happiness for the white rabbits.
On the double page spread 8, a war against the aboriginals and the Britain’s is shown, so there is some evidence of illumination, they show this to show the viewers what the aboriginals suffered. The background is very dark, the colors are black and brown, thiis mainly symolises death and war.
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In your chosen ‘Double Page Spread’ in The Rabbits you must analyse it using all three visual frameworks
1. Read The Rabbits and on your edublog answer: What is its message?
The message of the book called “The rabbits”is showing us how the white Britain’s came to Australia and took over the aboriginals land, food, animals, spirituality and children.
STEP 1:
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ANALYSE REPRESENTATIONAL MEANINGS
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Write up your Representational analysis in your Edublog
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At least one paragraph about how these techniques help bring across the message of the book.
When we read a text that is not linear, like a picture book double spread or a web page, what attracts our eye and the direction of our gaze – our reading path is determined by:
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Our interest (what we are looking for)
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the design of the text.
The relationship between the rabbits in the double sided page 4 is that the rabbits are presented as white Britain’s, the Britain’s relationship is a strong bond and the Britain’s want to demolish the aboriginal spirit and people .The Britain’s are running into the aboriginals land with commitment to wipe them out. There are plenty of vectors in this page, and the main one is the ship, is swivels around to the other page, and on the other page there are Britain’s invading with bows and hooks, so the vector on this page shows us the main things we need to look at. It helps bring out the message because when they put he vectors in purposely, we think to ourselves and feel sorry for them. To try and bring out a message it doesn’t always have to be text, as you can see the images explains more about the aboriginals. A picture tells a thousand of words, this means there are plenty of thinking to be done if you want to get the real expanded meaning. There are also vectors between the rabbits, that vector attracts or eyes on that picture. The vector is a hat from a rabbit, it is there to attract more attention on that particular picture. There are gazes on the clouds, ground, and shadows. There is a sign in the picture with the rabbits, one of the rabbits are holding a hook/gun, meaning that they are coming into the aboriginak territory and marking it as theirs. The smaller symbols symboloise where they come from, like a British flag, compass, to know where they are going and plenty more.
When we open the double page spread our eye automatically look at the ship. The writers chose to have the ship as a main vector and meaning. The white rabbits represents the white Britain’s and the black rabbits represents the aboriginals. The colors of the ship and the rabbits are
black, gold and red which symbolises , confidence, courage, vitality, Death, earth, and stability.
READING & UNDERSTANDING The Rabbits
1.What is the message
The message of the book called “The rabbits” shows how the white Britians came to Australia and took over the aboriginals land, food, animals, spirituality and children.
2. Make a list of some visual techniques that you think help create these meanings.
Eg: Colour, participants, setting
There nare plenty of technniques in visual art that create plenty of different meanings, and here are a few:
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Gaze
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Colours
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participants
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settings
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Patterns
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Texture
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Waves
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Shapes
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Sizes
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Roughness
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Smoothness
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Softness
3. Discuss what you think colours represent in this book.
I think the colour has a symbol for each.
For example:
Red symbolizes: action, confidence, courage, vitality
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Pink symbolizes: love, beauty
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Brown symbolizes: earth, order, convention
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Orange symbolizes: vitality with endurance
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Gold symbolizes: Wealth, prosperity, wisdom
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Yellow symbolizes: wisdom, joy, happiness, intellectual energy
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Green symbolizes: life, nature, fertility, well being
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Blue symbolizes: youth, spirituality, truth, peace
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Purple symbolizes: Royalty, magic, mystery
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Indigo symbolizes: intuition, meditation, deep contemplation
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White symbolizes: Purity, Cleanliness
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Black symbolizes: Death, earth, stability
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Gray symbolizes: Sorrow, security, maturity
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Information gotten from [http://www.crystal-cure.com/color-meanings.html]
Group Meeting 7
26th Feburary
Present:
Jason Chammas
Charles Coorey
Peter Diana
Justin Nacua
Absent:
George Thomas
We accomplished everything from last meeting.
The last we had our group meeting, we needed to complete the cverletter and hand in the draft preamble. Peter and Charles had completed the cover letter and Justin Nacua handed in the draft preamble. Our group got mostly B’s and C’s and there was plenty to fix for the real preamble, so Jason and George had completed and sent it in on wordpress. Jason and george fixed up the website to make it look more presentable, this group meeting took 10 minutes.
Jason Chammas, Supplemantry Material
2. Find your own poem and analyse, place it in your supplementary page on your wordpress.
Black Land Whiteman’s Land
We gave you everything?
Alcohol
Disease
Racial abuse
Half casts
Homelessness
Sadness
Stolen children
Broken families
Poverty
You gave us all we could take
Land
Are you not our wealth givers?
Everywhere a black footprint
Everywhere a block in Toorak
Everywhere a white millionaire
On black land
This poem called “Black Land Whiteman’s Land” is about the Aboriginals not getting enough as the white people are, who’s lands is it realy? Why can the white people walk on our land?What did you realy give us? Was it land? You gave us all we can take. I can understand now how you gave us everything. Thanks for sadness, piverty and disease.(This all coming from an Aboriginal point of view)
This is supported by a nuber of techniques throughout the poem.
The poet sets this out purposely to show that he/she is speaking from both Aboriginals and white Australians point of view. Also the poet uses retorical questions throughout the poem, which allows the reader to think and question themselves. For example, in the opening line the poet states the retorical question ”We gave you everything?” sycastically as an Aboriginal, but cleary shows the way he/she feels on how Australians would approach or their attitudes about the Aboriginal cultures. The poet is trying to send a message to the white Australians saying ” you gave us everything, but realy the only thing you gave are thing that made our lives more frustrating, difficult and it destroyed us”. This will be good for my supplemantry material to show how the white people treated the Aborigonals by giving the them diseases, poverty, alcahol and sadness.
Another technique the poet uses is that she speaks for all Aborigonals, using words like, us and we which allows the reader to experience a deeper and personal understanding. The writer speaks on behalf of her community and the way they feel about this situation, cleary showing the reader a broader example of their thoughts and the way the Australian society comes across to them. This material can be used as a supplementary material as the poet speaks on behalf of the Aborigonals and gives the poem a depper meaning and understanding of whats going on.
Inconclusion some Aborigonals died from what the white Australians gave them, such as disease and poverty, but only very few died. The white people had no way to take over this land and until this year no one has said sorry the the Aborigonals for what theyve done in the past. The writer speaks on behalf of her community and the way they feel about this situation, cleary showing the reader a broader example of their thoughts and the way the australian society comes across to them.
Individual Supplementary Assessment
1. Complete the following poetry analysis and discuss why it is an important piece of supplementary material. Submit your analysis online. This poem cannot be used as part of your submitted supplementary material on your wordpress.We Are Going by Oodgeroo Noonuccal
They came in to the little town
A semi-naked band subdued and silent
All that remained of their tribe.
They came here to the place of their old bora ground
Where now the many white men hurry about like ants.
Notice of the estate agent reads: ‘Rubbish May Be Tipped Here’.
Now it half covers the traces of the old bora ring.
‘We are as strangers here now, but the white tribe are the strangers.
We belong here, we are of the old ways.
We are the corroboreeand the bora ground,
We are the old ceremonies, the laws of the elders.
We are the wonder tales of Dream Time, the tribal legends told.
We are the past, the hunts and the laughing games, the wandering camp fires.
We are the lightening bolt over Gaphembah Hill
Quick and terrible,
And the Thunderer after him, that loud fellow.
We are the quiet daybreak paling the dark lagoon.
We are the shadow-ghosts creeping back as the camp fires burn low.
We are nature and the past, all the old ways
Gone now and scattered.
The scrubs are gone, the hunting and the laughter.
The eagle is gone, the emu and the kangaroo are gone from this place.
The bora ring is gone.
The corroboree is gone.
And we are going.’
WE ARE GOING
The poem ‘We Are Going’ is about the forced disconnection between the Aboriginals and the white Australians. The white people have taken away the Aboriginals land and their bora ring, (The bora ring is a religious and a cultural symbol in the Aboriginal society) which as a result has the Aboriginal traditions and cultural cermonies have been taken away. The poet states they that were part of the dreamtime, signifying that they are a piece of the past and feel as though their real selves dont exist in the present time, as though their beliefs and customs are not worthy of appreciation or acknowledgment.
This poem mainly talks about the disconnection the the white Australians and Aboriginals. Certain sections of this poem hold significant information which could most definitely be used as an important piece of supplementary material. This is supported by a number of techniques shown throughout the poem, ‘We Are Going’.
The whole poem is set out as a metaphor because it gives us a deeper perspective of the aboriginals, and by writing a metaphor as the whole poem gives us a deeper meaning. For example “we are of the old days”. The poet also gives us a detailed description of what they were going through. They were very angry, upset, frustrated and annoyed because there religion, culture, animals, home and life were taken away from them. It can be used as an important piece of supplementary material as it broadens the aboriginal culture in experience.
This poem proves to be an important piece of supplementary piece of material as it explains the emotions of Aboriginals and the way they felt. This is evident in the simile “white man hurry about like ants”. I can use this as additional material to show evidence of the feelings of the aboriginal tribes.
Another reason why this poem is an important piece of supplementary piece of material is that it shows the deep feelings of Aboriginals were going through. Aboriginals were trying to make a clear statement on how they felt on the situation. This is shown through the technique of repetition, “The eagle is gone/The bora ring is gone/The corroboree is gone”. This clearly shows that bit by bit a piece of their land and soul metaphorically was taken away from them and now must leave themselves.
Inconclusion, the Aboriginals had no choice but to leave their old life (past) and start are new life (future) which they were not familiar with or were not sure of what to do and how to live.
2. Find your own poem and analyse, place it in your supplementary page on your wordpress.
Black Land Whiteman’s Land
We gave you everything?
Alcohol
Disease
Racial abuse
Half casts
Homelessness
Sadness
Stolen children
Broken families
Poverty
You gave us all we could take
Land
Are you not our wealth givers?
Everywhere a black footprint
Everywhere a block in Toorak
Everywhere a white millionaire
On black land
This poem called “Black Land Whiteman’s Land” is about the Aboriginals not getting enough as the white people are, who’s lands is it realy? Why can the white people walk on our land?What did you realy give us? Was it land? You gave us all we can take. I can understand now how you gave us everything. Thanks for sadness, piverty and disease.(This all coming from an Aboriginal point of view)
This is supported by a nuber of techniques throughout the poem.
The poet sets this out purposely to show that he/she is speaking from both Aboriginals and white Australians point of view. Also the poet uses retorical questions throughout the poem, which allows the reader to think and question themselves. For example, in the opening line the poet states the retorical question ”We gave you everything?” sycastically as an Aboriginal, but cleary shows the way he/she feels on how Australians would approach or their attitudes about the Aboriginal cultures. The poet is trying to send a message to the white Australians saying ” you gave us everything, but realy the only thing you gave are thing that made our lives more frustrating, difficult and it destroyed us”. This will be good for my supplemantry material to show how the white people treated the Aborigonals by giving the them diseases, poverty, alcahol and sadness.
Another technique the poet uses is that she speaks for all Aborigonals, using words like, us and we which allows the reader to experience a deeper and personal understanding. The writer speaks on behalf of her community and the way they feel about this situation, cleary showing the reader a broader example of their thoughts and the way the Australian society comes across to them. This material can be used as a supplementary material as the poet speaks on behalf of the Aborigonals and gives the poem a depper meaning and understanding of whats going on.
Inconclusion some Aborigonals died from what the white Australians gave them, such as disease and poverty, but only very few died. The white people had no way to take over this land and until this year no one has said sorry the the Aborigonals for what theyve done in the past. The writer speaks on behalf of her community and the way they feel about this situation, cleary showing the reader a broader example of their thoughts and the way the australian society comes across to them.
Group meeting 6
26th Feburary
Present:
Jason Chammas
Charles Coorey
George Thomas
Peter Diana
Absent:
Justin Nacua
We accomplished everything from last meeting.
Our group are discussing and preparing on the aboriginal pass, present, and the future, WHY? It is because Darryl Melham is coming to our school and asking questions about aboriginals, we got to be prepared.
Group Meeting 5
22th Feburary.
Present:
Jason Chammas
Charles Coorey
George Thomas
Peter Diana
Absent: Justin Nacua
We accomplished everything from last meeting.
Our group meeting today went for 3 minutes and we were discussing about what we need to finish such as:
We hope to finish off our coverletter and check if theirs any mistakes or spelling errors by next thursday, also hope to send in the preamble final draft by thursday. Each student in the group must complete their individual assesment on poetry over the weekened.