Would You Rather - Activity Twelve ( Autumn Learning Journey)

 Kia Ora Readers!

Today I begun the Autumn Learning Journey I choose to do one of the Autumn Learning Journey activity. This years Autumn Learning Journey's theme was music which was another reason why I choose to do one of the activities because I know quite a lot about music and want to know more. For today's task I choose to do activity twelve, it was a would you rather question I had to answer in a blog post. The question was: would you rather have no rhythm or only be able to sing off key. It was quite tricky to  think of a answer but after lots of thinking I managed to get my answer. 

I didn't just want a boring blog post about a would you rather question so I thought creatively and  made a powtoon answering the question. Powtoon is a website you can use to share your learning such as making a: presentation, add, video, etc. You can also use different characters and layouts to make it more appealing. Here is the link to the website if you would like to try it out: Powtoon.

 As I begun the powtoon I made sure that I had a appealing first scene so that readers would want to watch the video and not click off. Once I finished making the powtoon presentation I included music and made sure everything was how I wanted it to be. After that I exported the video and watched it to make sure there weren't any mistakes and then put the presentation on this blog post. I hope you enjoy.

Here is the presentation/video :

Making Music For Finding Dory ( Counting The Beat)

 Kia Ora Readers!

For the final week in counting the beat if we have been trying to create our own music. Mr Mitchell firstly  showed the class some examples of music and asked us if we would share it with a friend, the songs were Just Loose it and Hey Jude. Personally I wouldn't really share the songs  to my friends because  the first song "Just loose it" lyrics was to fast and hard to understand and  the other song "Hey Jude" was to calming for me. After we listened to the songs we watched the scene of the truck falling from Finding Dory without any music or sounds.  Then Mr Mitchell asked the class how we felt about it, I said " I felt as if I needed to add music to the scene." Next we watched  the scene with a  song different to the original scene, most of us thought it didn't suit the scene. Finally we watched it with the original sound, we all agreed it  was definitely better than the other versions and suits the scene very well.  

After  we finished watching all the videos, Mr Mitchell  told us we needed to finish all our hurumanu tasks and showed him them blogged to start the task. Then Mr Mitchell begun explaining the task, the task was to find or create a song/beat to the scene of the truck falling from Finding Dory. The websites we could choose from to make the music was either  Sound Nation or SoundTrap and then use Kapwing to overlap the music to the video. I choose to use Sound Nation to create the music. I created a account on the website I made a empty draft then started adding beats and sounds to create the moment of the truck falling. At first I just included random sounds and beats but then I added effects and changed the volume for each beat to the music. I also checked to see if the video and music would go together every time I changed anything about the music.

Once I completed my music I put the video on a empty template then included the audio. I fixed any mistakes that stopped the music from sounding any different then published the video and watched it to see who it would be with the music. My music for the video was the genre of percussion and woodwind. The feeling of my music is excitement and fear I tried putting it together to explain the scene in music and emotions. The hardest part about this task was making the music suit the scene because I had to change it around a lot and I didn't want to use the same beats all the time. The easiest part was overlapping the music to the scene because I just needed to do two steps to do so. 

Have you made your own music before or tried doing anything similar to what I've done? 

Here is my overlapped music to the scene:

Content made on Kapwing

Music through the Decades

 Hey Readers!

For the past few weeks in "Counting the Beat " we having being learning about famous singers and music. In this weeks lesson we focused on the change in music throughout the decades. My class watched a video about how the music has changed which included people singing. After we watched the video we had to get into no more then a group of four. My group which was Venice, Amanda and me.  Then make a presentation about the change in decades between 1900 to 2010, they all had to have a slide. In each slide it had to have the genre that was popular or new, a famous singer from that decade,  the clothing that was popular in the decade, a iconic item,  a famous song and a re released song ( if you could find one). 

I then made a google slide and sent it to Venice and Amanda. Next we begun adding the information and facts. At first we got a bit confused but then we read what we needed to include in the slide and got the hang of it. Once we finished all the slides and checked if all the videos worked. We  also made the slide show have a specific theme, for example: my group theme was pastel colours and adding shade to the images etc. 

Here is the video we watched :

 

Here is the amazing slide my group and I created:

What is your favourite song and when was it released?

Violin 🎻 (Counting The Beat)

Salam (Hello) Readers!

This week in counting the beat we have been learning about the violin. First we learnt about  sizes, there are lots of different sizes of violins some of them work differently then others. Next we learnt about the families which are Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass. We  got taught about parts of the violin,  some  parts are.. bow, turning pegs, finger board and end button. There are different types of violin like electric, next we watched some videos of talented people playing  violin such as Vanessa Mae .  

After that we got to feel, look and pass the violin around the class. For me the violin is ok I don't love it but I  like but the people who play are very talented. The way that Violin is played is very interesting to me because there are many ways of using Violin and playing. The reason why is because I don't really love the music that comes out of it. What is your favourite instrument and why? My favourite instrument is the piano because I love the sounds and the music you can make,I really want to learn how to play and have been for a while. 

Here is the slide we did our work off: 

Orchestra ( Counting the beat) 🎤

 Hey Readers! 

This week in counting the beat in hurumanu 2 we have been learning about orchestra, a orchestra is a group of stringed instruments. The first thing we did was look at different instrument family's  in orchestras the first instrument we learnt about was the woodwind, a woodwind is like a flute it blows wind and was originally made out of wood, the next instrument we learnt about was the brass, they are sort of like a trumpet but with a different shape, music is made from your lip vibrating onto the mouth piece and some other parts. The last type of instrument we learnt about was ... the percussion family. The percussion family include instruments similar to pianos such as.. xylophone, bass drum, snare drum etc. Then we watched a  you tube video of a orchestra  the video was this group of 1000 students, they did the orchestra during lock down and the music beautiful they played the song "Jupiter." Next we got to see some instruments in real life we got to feel them as well, they were instruments  that would be in a orchestra in person we got to see the violin, flute, recorder and some other instruments but I forgot their names. My favourite instrument I got to feel was the big flute because it was something new for me. Have you learnt about instruments before?

Here is the slide we did our work off:

Counting the beat

Hey Readers!

This term with my hurumanu class we have been learning about music and counting the beat. The first lesson we talked about types of music, where it can be found, and how music can be made. We got into groups of four  and wrote the answer to the questions on a piece of paper we got from Mr Mitchell. The next lesson we did was listening to different types of music. Something I want to learn about music is how to play an instrument because I don't know how to play any. What I learn't from these lesson is that you can make music with almost everything. 

Definition: 

Sounds, notes and beats that are put together to express ideas or emotions.

Types: 

Rock and roll, rap, country, hip hop, jazz, blues, lyrical, metal, heavy metal, classical, calm, pop, karaoke, electric, singing, soft.

Where can we find/hear/experience music?

• Spotify

• Public toilets

• Radio

• Social media

• Movies

• TV programmes

• Concerts

• CDs

• Speakers

• Youtube

What type of music do you like to make or listen to? 

• Dance music

• Sad music

• Hip hop

• Rap

What do you want to learn about/do in “Counting the Beat”?

• How to make different types of music

• How to play an instrument

• Learning about a range of instruments

• Different types of music

Activity 2: K-pop heroes

Hi readers this is another SLJ activity today I choose to do this kPop activity it says to :

If you would like to watch the cbs sunday morning video here is the link: CBS Sunday Morning Special about BTS. On a google slide I put what I like and think about BTS. 

If you don't know what Bts is it is a korean boy band. It is a K-pop band that does realllly good songs. And it has really good music videos for there songs,and they are really famous.

BTS also made their own stuffed toys, they are called BT21. there is also some BT21 keychains which is very convenient. I like how BTS expresses their  songs. What I found easy was adding all the info in the slide. What I found hard was finding new things to add.

    

you can skip this bit if you know what the summer learning journey is.

The summer learning journey is where you do  blogging you  do so you don't go down the summer slide. 

what is the summer slide?

The summer slide is what you go down during the long summer break

it makes you lose 1 month of reading and writing and lots more.

If you go down the summer slide it will take a long time for you too get back to your right level of your learning. So we do the Summer Learning Journey to keep up our right level of learning journey.

So this group of people decided to make the summer learning journey

and also you can call it SLJ it is short for Summer Learning Journey. So kids don't go down lots of levels in their learning it can also make kids go up in learning. 

So if you do the summer learning journey it might help you with your learning and make you learn something new. The foundents that participate in it is : Next foundation ,Wright family foundation, Hugo charitable trust, and Manaiakalani the hook from heaven.