Recount about the film festival

Waking up knowing that I already given my permission slip made me feel confident for the fact that I was all organised such as my school uniform for school, I decided to get dropped off because the weather wasn't so fine, furthermore I was running late. I told my mum if she could drop me off to school because it would be faster for me to arrive to school for the Manaiakalani film festival.

Just arriving to school made me think about the Manaiakalani film festival, meanwhile time was going fast but I still had to wait until it was 11:30. While time was passing by I decided to ask my friends if the Manaiakalani film festival was good last year since I didn't go to the the ‘one last year’. Some reason I felt really intense because I knew that we would be arriving to the film festival in seconds.

Knowing that it was nearly a 11:30, our teacher told our class to line up in two lines, boys line, and girls line. Just walking outside seeing 4 buses passing by our school made me no that it was time to walk over near to the buses. This meant that we had just arrived near to the bus. We walked onto the bus, finding spaces to sit. I decided to sit with Mao on the bus.

Later that moment we sat down and watched the other classes join the bus with our class which was class 3.

As soon as we arrived at sylvia park we were looking at all these other schools arrive for the Manaiakalani film festival. Meanwhile we had to hope out of the buses and walk over to the synonymous. Firstly we hopped out of the bus, then walk into the enter, entrance. We had then got a instruction saying go to the movies entrance door. This meant that we had arrived to the synonymous just on time.

Going into the door where the movie took place. we started watching all sorts of clips of each class doing our own class movies, but there was a twist to it there we people to introduce their movie, there explained parts of the movies but not exactly all of it.

As soon as they started their first movie made me feel like my time has come all the way to this moment.

My favourite part of the film festival was the bowl cut because, there was just so much entertaining and furthermore there was just a lot of joy into the movie that they had made.

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How to make a celtic knot

The first step for making a celtic knot is to research the patterns that you want to draw onto you peace of paper. For your celtic knot you will then need to select three people in a group so you can each have your own pattern in you celtic knots to represent that you were part of the group, meanwhile when you have then decided the pattern that you want to do for your celtic knot you will then want to decide where you want your design to go.

Once you have thought about what pattern you want to do for your celtic knot,

you will then want to start sketching your pattern inside your celtic knot. You would want to draw your pattern carefully so that it looks like you have contributed in the group sensibly. when you're doing your celtic knot you  would want to discuss with your group what kind of patterns that you think suits you and your group.

Having your discussion with your group you would want to go over your patterns or designing with vivid, this will help you because you would have a great out line of vivid… you would want to make sure that the vivid is black. Going over your patterns with vived you would want to make sure you choose colors that at least match with your group, at this point you would want to start discussing about what each other will do in their celtic knot.

If you have finally decided doing your colors… you would want to previously want to color in your celtic knot with  (pastels). You would want to do this for the fact that the colors will combine or stand out more clearly....this means that you will have to go over your celtic knot with just the colors that you think suits your celtic knot.

Finally, once you have done doing your coloring in you will need to combine all 3 of you celtic knots together. Then once you have combined them together you will have a beautiful celtic knot...

Reading about kowhaiwhai

What is Kowhaiwhai?

Kowhaiwhai are beautiful painted design patterns. At first, kowhaiwhai patterns can be viewed as decoration only, but closer examination shows that they involve sophisticated mathematical precision.  These patterns include symmetry, rotation, reflection and translation.

The koru or pitau is the most basic design element of kowhaiwhai. These are curving stalks with bulbs at one end. They bear a striking resemblance to the young shoot of a native fern.

After the koru or pitau, the next main motif or pattern of kowhaiwhai is the crescent or kape. This  is characterised by a line of evenly placed white circles on the outer edge of the crescent.

The koru or pitau and the kape, are all that make up the list of basic kowhaiwhai motifs. However when used in various combinations these two patterns can create many varying designs of incredible depth.

1. Why does it say that kowhaiwhai are more than just decoration?

Because each pattern has a meaning and its not just simple they have

beautiful painted designs that are used to make kowhaiwhai.

2. Describe the two main patterns of kowhaiwhai?

A koru is a spiral shape that is used in kowhaiwhai and koru

can be used over and over on each kowhaiwhai.

An Artform

Stories that explain the origin of kowhaiwhai all say that it is an art form secondary in importance to  woodcarving (whakairo) and tattooing (ta moko). When kowhaiwhai is compared to wood-carving and tattooing, there are several contrasts.  Apart from the obvious differences of how they are created, kowhaiwhai is seen as something more temporary. It is not seen as having  lasting value, so requires no special ritual and no formal training. It is considered to be a common (noa) activity and so therefore, can be carried out by anyone.

The colours red, black and white are often the only colours that appear in kowhaiwhai patterns. Red was obtained by mixing red ochre with shark-liver oil.  Black paint was made by mixing shark oil with powdered charcoal. For white paint, taioma or pipeclay was burned then pulverised and mixed with oil.

3. Why is kowhaiwhai seen as less important than whakairo and ta moko?

Because its compared to tattooing and wood carving so they are

technically compared as a whakairo and moko as more important.

4. Do you think whakairo and ta moko was carried out by anyone?

Yes because there are also other people that also do kowhaiwhai

for their own places in New zealand.

Origins

One oral account from Ngati Kahungunu, traces the origin of both wood-carving and kowhaiwhai. It tells us that:

When Whiro, Haepuru and Haematua climbed up to the second heaven to obtain carvings for their house, they were told by one of the gods that the art of decorating houses with wood carvings had already been taken away by their younger brothers. Whiro and his two friends complained to the god that they could not go begging to their younger brothers for the art, so the god showed them how to embellish a house with painted designs.

Whiro and the others then descended and adorned their own house with painted designs.( Best (1982:287-8…)

5. Why couldn't Whiro, Haepuru and Haemata get carvings for their house?

6a. sophisticated

Look at these words in the article and see if you can work out their meaning from the context. Then look up and write down the definition from the dictionary

Precision:          Being exactly the same and a curate

Resemblance    A state of resemblance of being alike

Motif                  A decoration or pattern                

Secondary        Means that you are less important than.

Temporary        lasting for a long period of time

Pulverised         reduced to fine particles

Obtained           something         

Embellished       make something or make it attractive

Adorn                 make something more beautiful or attractive

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