Photos, everywhere!!

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Hey there, today I’m here to talk to you all about …. drum roll please! Photos! Today is all about a school project I did on how to take amazing photos. For this project we were tasked to take some photos and personalize them by bringing these photos to life with our own little touches. We were also told to take a photo walk with a theme. For example, all of my photos have a circle in the photo some where. However, that a topic that I’m addressing in my next blog post: snapshot!

Our assignment was to take an every day object and make it interesting by adding these personalizations. The photos that I took can be seen above. I used markup which is a feature that I have when I go to edit my photos. I simply added faces to my pictures and added a speech bubble. Tell me which photo you liked best in the comments below!

Emoji’s!

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Who doesn’t love emoji’s? I certainly do. Hi guys, it nice to talk again. Today I want to show you a few things I’ve made out of emoji’s, for this weeks challenge. I decided that I would make a few quizzes out of emoji’s. can you solve them? If you can make sure to comment below!

Question 1:

If 🤦‍♂️ times 💇‍♀️= 20

And 🙇‍♂️+🤦‍♂️=10

what would 💇‍♀️ be if 🙇‍♂️ was 6?

Question 2:

👘👘+🎩=18

🎩+🎩=28

👘+👟=22

👟👟+🎩🎩🎩+👘=?

Question 3:

👬+🧥=16

🧵+🦈=12

👬+🦈=10

👬+👬=14

🦈+🐾=?

Extra quiz ( not in emoji’s)

Chose a number between 1-10

Double it

Add ten

Half it

Take away the number you started with

Is your new number 5?

(If you did not get 5 you did the math wrong)

Week 5!!

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Hi there! We are getting into the start of week five and I was thrilled when I heard that there was an option to do a book review! As you probably guessed , that’s what I’m going to be talking about today!

My current favourite book is one called “The Devil’s Workshop” (TDW) by Alex Grecian. Alex Grecian is the author of “the Yard” (TY) which is a bestselling novel and also happens to be the prequel of “the Devils Workshop”. You don’t actually need to read TY before TDW though because it makes sense whether or not you read TY. I read TDW first which then introduced me to TY.

The Devils workshop is set about one year after Jack the Ripper’s rein and is about what would happen if Jack the Ripper was actually caught, but not by the police. Instead he was caught by an origination who believes in a different kind of justice which involves the criminal being put through what their victims felt. In this sense Jack the Ripper was caught and was tortured for about a year. This story started when that very organization planned to “move” 4 convicts to an their place of retribution. This is where they are holding Jack the Ripper captive. Their plan goes awry and ends with 4 convicts on the loose. The police get involved to try and capture these villains. One of the main detectives on the case, Detective Day Walter, is families with one of the convicts because he was the first criminal Day caught. Consequently, this convict knows where Day lives and now he is trying to catch all 4 criminals before one of them kills his pregnant wife.

If you enjoy murder mysteries or you are interested the third book is the harvest man:

I would give this book a 5/5. I think that the author does a great job with using words in a way that keeps the readers on their toes and keeps the pages turning. It really depicts Jack the Ripper as this crazy and dangerous criminal and I think that that was incredible. He also managed to write the book while changing to different perspectives and still keeping the book on track and relevant. This is an amazing book that I highly recommend but I would like to warn readers that some of the details in the book are a bit gruesome so this book is for a mature audience. Please keep this in mind if you would like to read the book. If you do read it please leave a comment down below on what you thought about the book. I will close with a poem from the book:

 

Push me down and shut my box,

And twist my arm about.

And listen to my merry tune.

I’ll soon be coming out.

 

Push me down again, dear Childe,

I’m safely hid away.

But I’m not gone; it wont be long

Till Jack comes out to play.

-Rupert Winthrop, “Jack In the Box,” from

London Town Rhymes for the Nursery (1893)

Oregon add!

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Hi guys, here again to talk to you and today i want to talk to you about the ads i made for and Oregon business. My class went to Oregon on a school trip and we each had to interview a business with the groups we were divided into. I was in a group with Kira, Jude, Thomas, and Ben. We interviewed Clarks Restaurant. It is a great place and the food there is spot on, I recommend it to anyone that loves burgers, or milkshakes, and even if you don’t i still think its a treat to try.

My draft one shows the Clarks restaurant with all the chairs stacked up because i thought it was a good photo and i wanted to incorporate it in my add somehow. It was rejected right away and my teacher told me that it doesn’t relate to the restaurant and doesn’t have a call to action. After getting that feedback i could actually see how the photo was not relevant so I agreed to change it. I also made a note that it was too dark and didn’t give the audience a great feeling because of that so i tried to get a brighter picture for draft 2

 

After draft one i decided to use the same photo in different lightings to try and see which one would be better for Clarks. As such i had to versions of draft 2 pictured to the left. I personally like the lighter one even though I think it looks to unnatural. The darker one kind of makes it look like someone died there and that’s not a vibe i want to give.

You can see above that my classmates seem to agree with me. For the class feedback i showed the darker one because i thought that that one would need critique and i wanted to see what my classmates thought. Their criticism was helpful in the sense that I knew that I shouldn’t use the darker ad.

For this draft i tried to fix up the lighter ad in draft 2 but i changed the photo. I think that this works better because you can read the writing a lot more than you could in draft 2.

Finally for this draft I changed the photo AGAIN. I tampered a little with the lighting to try to make it look better but I don’t know how well I like that. I think that if I might focus on the food more and put a picture of the food for the ad.

Be sure to leave a comment below and tell me which one you liked best!

Oregon field study

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Hi guys! It’s great to talk to you again, today I am here to talk to you about the time I went to Oregon! This was for a school trip so sadly it wasn’t a vacation but I still got to have a lot of fun. We had just finished reading “The Highest Tide” by Jim Lynch. This was perfect because during the trip we went to all of these amazing places that related and were talked about in the book.

During the trip we were all divided into groups and for each business that we visited, a group had to make an add for that business. This was just like the Deep cove business ads that we did. I was in a group with Thomas, Ben, Kira, and Jude. We were the first group to interview a business and we had Clark’s Restaurant. It was amazing! The food there tasted great and we were all satisfied afterwards. You can check the ad I made for them at my post, Oregon ads!

For me, the best thing on the trip was probably either the food, or the Highlife Adventures which is where we were basically zip lining from tree to tree. At the second to last line, their was a lake and you had the option of a hand drag, foot drag, butt soak, or full soak. The majority of my classmates did the full soak and a little more then half of those who did got stuck in the middle of the lake. Those who got stuck we decided to call “drowners”. The tourguide/instructor had to climb on the line to get the drowners out of the lake. I had originally planned to be boring and go for a hand drag because I didn’t have a change of cloths, but then the teachers said that we would go back to the campsite right after and I could change. So then I made a deal with Mathew so that if I did the full soak first, he would do it right after. So I did and I got soaked but Mathew on the other hand got stuck in the lake, joining the drowners, and got full drenched. After that we had to walk for a little ways to the last line where we crossed back to our classmates. Our teachers then said that we were running late and we couldn’t go back to the campsite so I had an uncomfortable time on the bus.

One of the best places we went to eat was probably John’s Incredible Pizza company simply because there was an arcade in the restaurant and it was a buffet. For the best tasting food, I would honestly have to say… Nisa’s Thai Kitchen. I think that it had great seasoning, the staff were nice and because I’m Asian and there was rice. I highly recommend the place and I’m sure everyone in my class agrees when I say the food there was superb.

Here are some awesome photos from the trip!

If you want to more more feel free to leave a comment below or check out some of the other blogs listed here. Thanks for reading and I hope to see you soon.

Advertising 101

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Hi there! Today I’m here to talk about things I learned when I made ads! We were doing a project in school where we interviewed a local business and made an add for them in groups that we were divided into. My group consisted of Mathew, Rhiann, and Anthony. Make sure you check out their blogs! We each made our own ad but we did the interview together. This was amazingly interesting because we also went to Pound and Grain which is a marketing agency. They basically make ads for other companies. If you want to know more about Pound and Grain make sure you stay tuned to my next blog posts. I learned 3 important types of advertising, Pathos, Logos, and Ethos. Pathos is when a add targets the audiences feelings to make the audience like the product emotionally. Logos is when you use logic to sell the audience. Whenever numbers are involved you know right away that the add is using Logos. Finally Ethos. Ethos is when you give credibility like saying a celebrity uses a certain product. An ad can have more than one of these 3 and in some cases all of them. Alright, lets get into it.

Draft 1:

For my first draft I decided to start by trying to set the mood. With the shape of a guitar in the middle that looks sort of like its glowing giving it a Pathos sort of feel. I was trying to send the message that the audience has an unlimited amount of potential if they went to this place. On this one I forgot to ad who I was advertising for and how to contact them.

Draft 2:

For this draft I used comic type lines to draw the audiences attention to the centre. The lines also give it more impact and doesn’t bore the audience to much. I would definitely try to stay away from blank spaces because it makes the ad look unfinished. This is one of the many things I would do differently.

Draft 3:

On this draft I changed the colour to give it a more cheerful feel but didn’t change anything else.

Draft 4:

I decided that I didn’t like the colour in draft 3 so I changed it back and added a guitar to the centre to give it more of a kick. I added a catch phrase so that you can really get what I’m trying to say. I have added the company logo and address so that you can access them. I also added some chains to sort of imply that you can really unlock your potential because it is currently hidden away. You may note that all 4 of these drafts are all drawn out. This is something I will go into more later but I would like to say that I would definitely not do this in the future if I were to do this again.

Draft 5, final:

This is where you can really see the difference. As you can see, I have digitalized everything and completely abandoned my original format. I used a catch phrase and tried to clean things up a little better than the other drafts. The logo is visible and so is the the address. You can see the name of the business I’m advertising for and everything is readable.

After looking at my work I have decided that for future reference, I will defiantly start digital because it s easier to revise that way. Honestly in my opinion, my first 4 drafts would probably be in the planning stage and my final draft would be like a first draft. I think that it took me a really long time to let go of what wouldn’t work. I will defiantly keep this in mind if I am to do this again. So, this now draws me close to the end of my little self reflection here. Please comment below and tell me which one you liked best and why. I’ll see you next time!

Pandas?( week 7)

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Week 7 was our choice so I decided to talk about my number 1 favourite animal: The Panda! I love pandas because they are really cute and they are black and white, which are my favourite colours (or shades if you want to be specific). Today I am going to tell you some interesting facts about the pandas in general however, I am going to focus on the giant panda. I will talk briefly about the red panda, to all of you out there who have chosen their favourite panda. Follow along to see if you learn something new and interesting!

What are pandas?

The first thing I want to talk about are what pandas actually are. This way we all start on the same page. Pandas are easily recognized by their black and white fur. They are essentially bears that are native to south central China. It’s diet consists over 99% of bamboo, even though its grouped as a carnivore. In the wild, giant Pandas will sometimes eat grasses and meats such as rodents. Their are few mountain ranges in central china and some neighbouring places that Giant Pandas will live in. Many are in zoos, since, pandas have been considered a vulnerable species.

Why do I like Pandas so much?

I love pandas because, they are amazingly cute and because of their colour. I have always liked white, because it can go with almost any other colour to make something pretty and its like a blank canvas. The black on a panda to me looks like its trying to colour the panda in but failed. I think that because of its colour, pandas have been used to sometimes symbolize zen, and ying and yang. The main reason that I like pandas though is because my mother gave me a panda stuffy as a Christmas present when I was 7. I still have it and although its a little worn out its in pretty good shape. I think that it was a great present and is still one of my favourites.

Red Pandas?

What’s the difference between a red Panda and a giant panda? Well, looking at them you can easily spot the difference. Red pandas are much, much, much smaller in size and look more like a ferret. They are also “red” although to me they look pretty orange. Red pandas, like giant pandas eat mainly bamboo, but it also eats eggs, birds, and insects. Red pandas were previously identified as a raccoon or bear (I personally agree a lot more with the Red Pandas, being raccoons.) Red Pandas are native to southwestern China and the eastern Himalayas. It is an endangered animal with a population of less than 10,000 adult animals. This is due to poaching, inbreeding depression and habitat loss.

 

Did you learn something new? Comment down below.

Comments

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Who am I?

megumib

Hello there, my name is Meg. I am a anime loving teen who has interests in art and theatre. I have been in pantos for about 3 years now and am STILL continuing. My hobbies tend to stay along the lines of drawing and singing. You can usually find me in my house reading, watching anime and just being overall lazy. I also absolutely love
PANADS!! If any of you all ever want to talk or have similar interests be sure to leave a comment and I will be happy to reply as soon as possible. Thank you and welcome to my blog!