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Edenai: Bronze Award Part B - Film Review

What did I experience as an audience member?

As an audience member, I watched the film ‘Avengers: Endgame’. I experienced the excitement of all the avengers teaming up all over again after “infinity war”. Infinity war is a movie about an evil alien named ‘Thanos’ who is looking for the infinity stones so that he gets the power to wipe out 50% of all living creatures in the universe and the Avengers (a group of superheroes) are trying to stop him. 

Endgame blue ray CD:

What did I like best and why?

My two favourite scenes were the final battle and the part where they have to time travel to get all the infinity stones back. The reason why I loved the final battle was because it was cool seeing this avenger’s team that was not actually the avengers, but all the marvel characters together.

What do I think could have been done better? I think they should have thought of which of the avengers they were going to take out a bit more because some characters would be better for the part of the movie when they have the left-over avengers from “infinity war” and try to make something big out of it. Although, I did think that Spider-Man, Doctor Strange and some of the “Guardians” of the galaxy, were a good team even though they did not really know each other that well. There were some actors that I did not want to be blipped because I thought they could have done a better story if they switched the actors that were blipped.

What artforms were involved? The way they showed Hulk as not so aggressive anymore was very creative and gave a great amount of impact on how the audience viewed him. Also, a lot in the script and the camera movement was very intense and unexpected in a way. The fact that Hulk could not create the time machine, but Stark could, it showed the difference in intellect of the two completely different characters. One of my favourites scenes was when Thanos was attacking (around the end of the movie) and sent all of his weird four-legged creatures in to attack the Avengers and it was dark and even though that scene happens a lot in other movies, it really stood out from all of them because you did not know what was going to happen next or if Thanos would come in the tunnel with the creatures or later into the movie. The camera movement when the Thanos ships arrived, how they got the whole ship in the camera was good and the detail in Thano’s minions is very good and makes it look real even though I think they are puppets who control it electrically. Another art form is when Wanda is trying to destroy the soul stone so that Thanos does not get it, Thanos uses the time stone to get the soul stone back and the effect on him and his veins is always cool and never gets old.

Some other art forms are: Camera filming Special effects Acting Script writing Costumes and makeup

Me watching Endgame:

Me watching endgame while looking at camera:

Would I recommend it to others and why? I would recommend it to others because it has very good reviews and in my opinion, (and millions more) I think it is a nice way of showing that all the cool separate movies like ant-man, captain America, black panther etc., are all in the same universe of movies.

Here is a discussion I had with my advisor about the film:

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Aya: Bronze Award Part D - Arts Skill Share

MY PLAN

What art skill would you like to share and how am I going to do it?

I am going to show my siblings how to use an IPhone 6s to take photos of myself and others in the local area. I will show them how to crop and use filters on snapchat.

What practice or preparation are you going to do?

I will practice the basics of the phone. I will also try to learn some new skills as well.

I am going to need my phone, and the editing function on the phone,

I am going to decide what photos to take

10 mins me showing, 10 mins them doing

I am going to record her feedback

I am going to take photos of the workshop

Organise a time to do the workshop with my siblings

How are you going to make it fun and interesting?

The filters I’m going to show are the most exciting ones (exposure/colour tint/brilliance etc)

I will experiment with different shot types such as closeup wide shot and dutch angle.

I will let them have a go

What will success look like?

We will both like the pictures, the editing is perfect with good lighting.

Me showing my siblings how to take and edit photos using different filters and tools such as exposure, brilliance, and colour tint.

My siblings having a go at taking photos using different angles and editing them using the tools.

Here are the final photos:

MY REVIEW (audio recording)

FEEDBACK (audio recording)

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Aya: Bronze Award Part B - Film Review

What are you reviewing: 

I will be reviewing the latest movie that came out a few weeks ago called Fast and Furious directed by Justin Lin. I watched the film at home because we were in lockdown.

What did you like best and why?

To be honest I liked basically everything about the movie and all the action bits were my favourite part because they made me really excited to find out what would happen next. My favourite bit was where the main character was in a tower, and he pulled some bars down and the building collapsed. I got scared because I thought he had died but he hadn't. I liked how the actors stayed in character, and there was a lot of tension. 

What art-forms are involved: 

There was obviously lots of acting and good makeup effects to make everything look real. Lastly there were lots of cameras that were used because they needed to capture every angle of the actress where they were acting.

What do you think they could've done better: 

1: The ending could have been much better because all the characters just sat down and were celebrating that they had survived and it was boring. 

2: The movie could have been a bit longer

3: They could have made the beginning more clear, because the main character had a brother and I didn’t understand that the brother was against him.

Would you recommend it to others:

Yea definitely. And only because I know my friends love action movies and all the tension there is so this would be the perfect movie for them and I know they would love it just as much I did.

What have other people said about it: 

I've heard that this movie is a very interesting one and it's great for people who love action movies. However, on IMDB which is a movie database, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5433138/  it has been rated 5.5/10 which means it isn’t so popular!

Here is a discussion I had with my tutor about the film:

Image Credit:  

Description: Español: The Fast and the Furious 4 Author: Nottedeluce

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Edenai: Bronze Award Part D - Arts Skill Share

Plan:

What art skill would you like to share?

A skill that I would like to share is Audio recording. I have been participating in a workshop the past 7-8 weeks and I have been learning how to record the vibration of water or surfaces e.g., metal. I have been recording myself telling a story of objects in Two Temple Place that I thought was significant. One example of a story that recorded was about a figure of a lion in the middle of a heater. I talked about its meaning and why it was made the way it was. The skill that I would like to share is audio recording using ‘REAPER’.

How am I going to do it?

I will be using the app ‘REAPER’ to edit and record myself and the vibrations or sounds that other objects make. I’m going to show my mum the various items in ‘REAPER’

What practice or preparation are you going to do?

At the sound workshop it was fun to throw the hydrophone into the water and listen to the sound waves that are being recorded by our water microphone (the hydrophone). This was practice for the real recording that we are going to do. But it wasn’t just practice, it was also collecting sounds to use in our recordings.

I will have the laptop charged and rehearse what I will say.

How are you going to make it fun and interesting?

There is a website called ‘BBC sound mixture’ which has loads of interesting sounds like when I did my recording about the lion on the heat railing, I had a recording of a lion roaring in the background. It was and will be very fun to listen to the different sounds that the BBC has recorded and edit them so that they fit perfectly with the recording of me talking about the lion.

What will success look like?

I think that success will look like a ready recording with another bar of recording which was originally separate but must be relevant to the topic. It must also be edited right so that there are no ‘Uhm’ in the speech. The volume must be correctly balanced and the recording from the BBC must not overpower the speech. Also having my mum understand and know how to use ‘Reaper’ in the end.

This is me doing my demonstration:

This is the Reaper software:

My Review:

What went well?

We did a very good edit with the audio and the are no ‘Uhms’ in the speech. We found sound from the BBC sounds mixture that are related to the thing that I am talking about. We used a wolf howling, a fire roaring, and the sound of birds in a forest to say that the wolf is wild.

Did everything go to plan?

Everything went to plan, and we also got to make it better more detailed sounds to set the scene

What would I do differently?

I could probably redo the audio recording of myself so that its clearer because you can’t do everything just by editing

Feed back from my mum:

“It is user friendly and it’s easy enough to use and create audio. Also, with the basics, you can do more than just have a recording, but you can edit it and add a lot more. It has fun using the software and learning all about sounds recordings and editing with Edenai”

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Edenai Bronze Award - Part A - Take Part

Describe what arts activity you are going to take part in: I am going to take part in a 12 week workshop that focuses on audio recording and recording of objects and sound waves from surfaces and even sometimes in water. The workshop is at Two Temple Place.

Inside of Two Temple Place:

Recording sounds outside:

Recording stories we had written about objects in the house: 

What did you learn? I learnt how to record myself with a microphone and how to edit it the sound recording with the ‘REAPER’ software. We learnt how to record sounds and voices so that we can put them together when it comes to using ‘REAPER’. 

I learnt that the owner of Two Temple Place used to be the richest man in the whole world and that Two Temple Place, which is four times the size of a normal house, was only his study.

List at least three things you enjoyed: I enjoyed taking the hydrophone and the other microphone that records surfaces and going to the beach to record underwater sounds. I enjoyed having a tour of the building and finding all those secret cupboards where the owner used to keep his money in. I enjoyed finding sounds in the ‘BBC sound mixture’

Using the hydrophone:

My Reaper work from The Two Temple Place workshop:

Describe what arts skills you improved on:

I really improved my knowledge on microphones and how to use ‘REAPER’ software to edit my sound recordings. I found out that you can press ‘s’ to ‘split’ the track and you can also press the square on the top left so that when your delete a bit of the track, the other two bits glue to each other but without the square, they stay apart. 

For example, I have made a recording of me talking about a very interesting marble fireplace, and how the dog was standing proud on top of the fireplace:

Here is one of my final peices:

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Edenai: Bronze Award Part C - Arts Inpiration

Philip Reeve - Lucca Comics & Games 2016.jpg  - credit: Niccolò Caranti 

My Arts Inspiration is:

Phillip Reeve the Author of the books: mortal engines; predator’s gold and infernal devices (these are all the ones that I know of).

Why they Inspire me:

He inspires me because his writing is very expressive, and he has been given lots of awards for his books. He uses a lot of techniques like show not tell or cliff hangers and vivid verbs and his books and writing are unique. They also have all these very good plots e.g., mortal engines are where this girl called Hester has an uncomfortable past and meets this bot called Tom that lives in London, but London and all the other cities have turned into a city with wheels, traction cities they call it in the book. So, these two 17-year-old teens are having adventures and fighting these traction city wars. And they also made a movie about it. And all the other books that he wrote are great and have their own plot like Predator’s gold is still based on the girl Hester, an 18 yar old girl, that is now in Predator’s gold. All the books are different. Like how the mortal engines series is set 3,00 years in the future.

What they make and do and how (why not include an example of their work):

He is the author of the books: mortal engines; infernal devices and predator’s gold and other books that are not part of the real story but with the same characters and the same world. He does mostly Science fiction. He uses a lot of techniques when describing the appearance of someone or something and he likes to describe the smells or looks and tastes from his experience or if he ate the food before. To describe, he uses words like: bitter; sweet; uncomfortable taste.

What do others think about their work?: Well, a lot of people adore his books and think he is a great Author and he has been given countless awards for most sold book of the year and things. He is pretty famous but not so famous that people in school talk about him but he is still a very good author.

“Mortal engines Reviews”

On Rotten tomatoes it got “26%”

On Metacritic it got “44%”

On IMDb it got “6.1/10”

“Predator’s gold”

On Goodreads it got “4/5”

“Infernal devices” does not have reviews yet.

Picture of “Infernal devices”

Picture of “A Darkling Plain”

What I like about their work:

What I like about their work is that he uses all these great techniques e.g.: show not tell; cliff hangers. But also, the way when he is trying to change the scene from one place to another is very cool because he uses words e.g., meanwhile. I also like that he spends a lot of time describing the scene. Like when someone punches, he does not say he punched him, he describes the gesture e.g. “he threw his up to the warm skin of his face, making a red mark knocking him down on the ground”  

What I have found out about their career / technique:

Phillip Reeve has been given the Guardian Children’s book prize. He is the Author of the best-selling, award winning first book of the mortal engine’s series. Philip Reeve published his first mortal engines book in the 6th November of 2001. He was born on the 28th February 1966 and is still alive making more of his good books. His books are normally science fiction. He speaks English and started from 2001 and is still making books.

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Syon: Bronze Award Part B - Be The Audience

What did I experience as an audience member? 

I watched the film JoJo Rabbit at home. The film is about a 10 year old German boy called Hitler, and he was sent to a Hitler training camp. He gets injured so gets sent back home and then finds a Jewish person in his house. He has to learn to get a long with them. I experienced a range of emotions such as laughter, sadness and sympathy. 

This is a short clip from the film

What did I like best and why?

I liked when it shows JoJo’s mother hung dead in the middle of the street  because it really shows the emotion and the sadness and sympathy very well. I liked the way it was filmed slowly, to create a feeling of unease. The first part you only see the mothers shoes, which is the only thing you see throughout, and then it shows the body. It made me realise these things actually happened in real life - it made me think about those who did loose lives in the war.  I really like the style of the director of the movie (Taika Waititi) which is quite comical.

What do I think could have been done better?

I think that if it had more funny bits it would be funny. I think that if Britain won the war instead of changing it to Germany winning the war it would be a bit more true.

Me watching JoJo Rabbit

What art forms were involved:

Directing, Choreography, Acting, filming, writing and animation

Would I recommend it to others and why? 

I would recommend it to people who find WW2 interesting and people who enjoy comedy movies and enjoy Taika Waititi. 

Here is a recorded discussion about the film with me and my tutor:

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Ailyn: Bronze Award Part D - Arts Skill Share

My Plan:

What art skill would you like to share?

Video editing with text and music and photo animation. For example filters effects and animations. The first thing I will be showing my mum is how to add text to a video and what animation you want it to be in. The second thing I will show my mum is how to add effects and filters to the video. The final thing I will show my mum is how to animate the photos in the video. By animate I mean the way the photo will bounce or pop in.

How am I going to do it?

I am going to do it by showing my mum different apps of which we will be using. The apps I will be using are Capcut, Funimate and Prequel. I will teach her how to use the features so at the end she can make her own edited video with the features and music she would like to use.

What practice or preparation are you going to do?

I will be showing my mum the app and telling her what it is about and what she can do on it so she is prepared to use it. I will also be preparing the photos, videos and other resources I will need for the editing.

How are you going to make it fun and interesting?

I will make it fun and interesting by letting my mum play and explore with the features so she can have a bit of fun and start getting into it. I will also make it interesting by showing her some previous edited videos i have made so she can see how interesting i find editing.

What will success look like?

My mum will like editing and enjoy her editing experience. She will be able to edit in the ways I taught her.

My Arts Skill Share:

The final video we made:

My Review:

My mum enjoyed editing and would like to do it again. She has successfully made an edit and used a lot of the tools. Although the edit is not professional it is amazing for a starter. “I enjoyed it and would like to do it again”. Next time I would show my mum an example so she knows what it should look like. I think on the whole everything went to plan.

What went well?

Something that went well is that my mum used lots of different tools and effects to make the edit. Another thing is that she asked me questions which shows that she was interested and engaged in the work she was doing.

What would I do differently?

Something I would do differently is give my mum a set of tools to use so it would be easier for her to use the software and she wouldn’t be confused by all the things happening at once.

Overall everything turned out like it should’ve and my mum enjoyed it