'Another Hitachi Day' movie competition

This is our entry for the 'Another Hitachi Day' movie competition. It was put together by Joshua and other Year 8 students in our class: Toreka, Selena, Matthew T, Toko, Aidan and Joe (from Room 22).

They had to show how they would bring the outdoors inside. The students chose a beach scene with volleyball, swimming, surfing and sunbathing etc. They used green screen effects to recreate their scene. The top prize is $10,000 and the top 5 schools can win a heat pump for their school.

You can also watch it on Youtube on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yRFZn_SvJw

Please click on this link to vote for our entry: http://www.hitachiheatpumps.co.nz/

Follow these instructions to vote:

Once you are on the website, click on the competition page.

Go up to the top of the screen and click on the 'enter' tab.

Go to 'create new account'.

Your username can just be your first name (make sure that you can remember it).

Put in your email address.

Put in a password that you can remember.

Don't put in a YouTube URL - our school has already got a video entry.

For your 'entry type', just click on the third option which is ‘voting only’. 

Then click on 'create new account'. 

Once you have done this you should be automatically logged in. 

Next, go to the 'voting' tab up the top. 

Go down to 'schools' and click on it.

This will give you a list of all the entries. 

Scroll down and click on 'Pt England school'.

You may be asked to verify your account with a simple code or maths problem.

Click on 'vote'.

Log out when you are done if you use a shared computer.

You can go back to 'enter' and then 'log in' and vote again every hour. 

Voting ends next Sunday 3rd of June. 

This screen recording will also help you to vote if you get stuck. Thanks for voting!

Matthew - Comparing Matisse and Van Gogh

Our class teacher has asked our class to compare Vincent Van Goghs painting of ‘Sunflowers’ and Henri Matisse’s painting ‘La Musique’. Henri Matisse was a French artist who used a very different style of painting called Fauvism. Fauvism actually means ‘wild beast’ in French and that’s how Henri Matisse painted. Vincent Van Gogh became a famous artist when he died. When he was alive he was very sad and he even chopped his ear lobe off and sent it to his girlfriend.

When I observe Vincent Van Goghs painting ‘Sunflowers’ I can see that the flowers look rotten and have not been taken care of. The background colours look dull. Lots of yellows and browns have been used. Also some flowers have lost their petals. The colour yellow is meant to make you feel like dancing but the painting doesn’t express that emotion. I think that Vincent Van Gogh was painting how he felt.

As I carefully eye up the painting La Musique I think that there are lots and lots of bright colours and patterns. By looking at the background patterns I could tell that Henri Matisse was a happy man. There is a mixture of colours and he used lots of triangular shapes. What I really realised is he painted two ladies and no men and one of the ladies is holding a guitar and also there are heaps of contrasting colour.

To me I think that ‘Sunflowers’ and ‘La Musique’ have hardly any similarities between each other. Mostly because ‘Sunflowers’ colours are dull, meaningless and sad colours and ‘La Musique’ has bright colours and lots of contrast. But one similarity is that both of the paintings have included types of plants. Another is that they both used the same colour yellow in their patterns. From what I see I don’t think that there are any other similarities.

From what I have experienced I think I had a good time observing both paintings. Also I have learnt to look at things more carefully to see some really unoticable similarities.


by Matthew T