Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Year 9 Activities - Waiwera 2013

It's the second day of the Year 9 activities and today the lucky students from Tamaki College had a great time at the Waiwera hot pools.


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Waiwera 2013, a set on Flickr.

Here they are on the slide....

Monday, December 9, 2013

Year 9 Activities - Rainbows End 2013

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Rainbows End 2013, a set on Flickr.

Year 9 students had a lot of fun at Rainbows End today, on the first day of the end of year, Year 9 Activities. It was a beautiful day and the students tried out ALL the rides in the park.


Sunday, December 8, 2013

Cross Country 2013

It was a beautiful afternoon on Monday when the whole of Years 9 and 10 walked over to the Point England reserve for the annual cross country. Everyone took part and had a good time, whether they ran or walked, and the points were added up.


Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Film Festival 2013 - Doctor Who

We tried a lot of things for the first time for this years' film festival entry from TCTV.
Here is our final movie -
Doctor Who and the Case of the Temporal Phase Reversal.




Here is the process that we went through this year...

We had a meeting of the story team and wrote a script.
Here is a link to a copy of the script. we also used this to collect resource material links and planning lists.
We then decided what was going to be filmed when and in what order.
Here is a link to the shooting plan. This was a very useful step as it organised what we could film together at one time.

The sets that we built for the film were fun to make. Here are some pictures of students putting the sets and set pieces together.













For the first time this year, we held auditions for the main role of the Doctor in our film. All the students were emailed and the auditions were held using the partially built set piece.

Falaniko


Kelly


Levi


Vinsen


Our original plan was for the whole team to sing the Doctor Who theme music for the title. We recorded it all on garage band using lots of separate tracks for the different sounds.
After listening to the final outcome, we decided that it was a little bit too "scary" and decided not to use it on the final film.
Here it is..... see what you think...


Film Festival 2013 - The Threesome

Level 2 Media Studies.
This year our focus was on our genre, Film Noir, and students had to design, plan, script and storyboard a short film. They had to use the conventions of Film Noir, such as low lighting, shadows, a femme fatale and a mystery.


 

Film Festival 2013 - The Shadow's Kiss of Lipstick

Level 3 Media Studies.
This year our focus was on our genre, Film Noir, and students had to design, plan, script and storyboard a short film. They had to use the conventions of Film Noir, such as low lighting, shadows, a femme fatale and a mystery.



Film Festival 2013 - Remember Me

Level 2 Media Studies.
This year our focus was on our genre, Film Noir, and students had to design, plan, script and storyboard a short film. They had to use the conventions of Film Noir, such as low lighting, shadows, a femme fatale and a mystery.


Film Festival 2013 - Double Sided

Level 2 Media Studies.
This year our focus was on our genre, Film Noir, and students had to design, plan, script and storyboard a short film. They had to use the conventions of Film Noir, such as low lighting, shadows, a femme fatale and a mystery.



Film Festival 2013 - The Tamaki Way

Level 1 Media Studies
This year we focussed on promoting our fantastic college as the school of choice for Y9's next year. The task was to create a one-minute TV promo and the ideas were fun!


Film Festival 2013 - The Realization

Level 1 Media Studies
This year we focussed on promoting our fantastic college as the school of choice for Y9's next year. The task was to create a one-minute TV promo and the ideas were fun!


Film Festival 2013 - Netbooks at Tamaki College

Level 1 Media Studies
This year we focussed on promoting our fantastic college as the school of choice for Y9's next year. The task was to create a one-minute TV promo and the ideas were fun!


Thursday, November 7, 2013

Prize Giving 2013

We had a great start to the week here at Tamaki College, as it was our annual prize giving on Monday evening. The auditorium was packed with students, friends and family members ready to celebrate the great achievements of the students this year.
We were honoured to have Jay Laga'aia with us as the guest speaker for the night, where he had everyone laughing at his stories.
Entertainment for the night was provided by the students, with a lot of the music being written by them too.

The National Anthem





Jay Laga'aia





Seta, Siale and Joshua





John, Francis and Fiu





Esther and JJ


Unique Freak

10TJp were fortunate enough to be able to participate in a programme called Unique Freak.
This was run by Petia and Caroline,during the time that we spent with Petia and Caroline 10TJP has experienced and learnt a lot of new things that some of us may not have known before about ourselves and each other also about one others cultures,talents,Personalities and much more.


The first couple of days that we spent with them, Petia told us about things that go on and what will happen in the group and also things that we would learn a part of the group which was called Unique Freak.


The next thing we looked at was ourselves and we had to choose quotes that applied to each person.
We also explained our dreams and explored how we will achieve our dreams,this was called our gaming planning but it was on our dreams.


So far 10TJp has had lots of fun,at the end of our time we went to Sky City Fortuna Restaurant for our break up lunch, following that we all went to the top of the Sky Tower. It was loads of fun.

10TJp would like to thank and acknowledge Peria,Caroline,Ms George and Barbara for giving us the opportunity to be apart of this programme.

by Mano....



Thursday, October 24, 2013

The Pacific Achievers Project

Here is the link to the Pacific Achievers Project, in which a group of our Year 10 students produced a movie about an ex student of Tamaki College and how well she is doing.

Click on the link and read all about the competition. Scroll down to read about the Tamaki College entry.

Here is the movie that has been entered into the competition.