Did you know that Katie slipped over in the sand dunes at Oreti Beach?
Today the MADE Awards group went to Oreti beach to take photos. We went in Rhylee's Mum's car. When we got there we walked around until someone found something to take photos of. We took photos of the sea, shells and the sand with drawings that we made. We drew smiley faces, our names and quotes like LOL. Then we got Katie to take a photo of me and Rhylee in two holes that were joined together. Then we went to the sand dunes and climbed all over them, but then Travis said "You do know there are better sand dunes down there." So we walked further down and took some more photos at the BIG sand dunes and then we played on them. (This is where Katie slipped over and when she did we all laughed and so did the two parent helpers). We all had a great time at Oreti Beach.

Photos are to come.  The cameras needed some time to dry out after a bit of drizzly weather this morning! They will come in next terms blog I promise.

MADE Awards Part 2

Today in the MADE Awards group we did a bit of a talk again about different camera angles.  Next, we went to the car park and took some photos. Katie said we had to take photos but we had to take them using all the different angles. We used birds eye view, long shot, worms eye view, mouse eye view and close up. Then we went to the other car park just beside Enrich. We were taking photos of flowers, trees and the lines across the ground.

When we came back to the Enrich parking lot Rhylee and I were taking photos of Bruce, Darryn's dog. When we came inside we imported the photos onto the laptops and watched what the others had taken photos of in a slide show. My favourite photos are Bruce in the car and the sun shining on a empty beer bottle because the bottles colour was reflecting on some stones and made them green.

Today we started our Talent Development/Passion time projects. I am in Katie's group which is the MADE Awards. To start with, we are going to go to Oreti Beach to take photos of the wild-life and plants as part of the static image category. 

Next, we are going to be making a commercial to enter the Year 4 -6 Commercial category.  One of our ideas is: The ROOM CLEANER 2013.
When your mum whines at you about cleaning your room you wait until she leaves and you move one of your photo frames and there is a button hidden there. You push the button and The Room Cleaner 2013 comes out and cleans your room in two seconds! So when you come out of your room and tell her that you have cleaned your room  she'll say: "No you haven't its only be two seconds." So she will walk into your room and will be stunned!