Phoebe's Passion Project

Drawing Vibes

Hi everyone, my name is Phoebe. This is a blogpost about my Passion Project.

Can you imagine yourself beaming with pride because you have written your very own graphic novel? Well, I can and that’s what my Passion Project goal is. I chose writing a graphic novel to be my passion project because I thought it would challenge me and I would learn lots of new drawing skills along the way.

I started off my passion project by doing lots of research and finding out about lots of things I needed to learn in order to draw my graphic novel. For example how long it takes to draw a page so I know how many I will actually be able to draw when I plan out my story, how big the strip size should be and how graphic novelists color their novels. Next I needed to plan out my story - the storyline, the characters and roughly how many pages long it will be. At the moment I am up to drawing my graphic novel! Below is one of the pages of my graphic novel. It still needs to be colored and a bit more detail needs to be added.

I have learned lots of new things so far. I have learnt all about how getting drawings colored online works, time management, what equipment graphic novelists use, how long it takes graphic novelists to draw one page and plenty more.

Here is the link to check out my blog http://phoebepassionproject2017.blogspot.co.nz/

Art

Art Walk

On Thursday last week all the Year 8 students went on an art walk around the city.  we visited many cool places such as the Christchurch art gallery, Coca and Spectrum. To see some cool photos watch the video below.

Thanks

Maddie S and Erica

Prototype Day

Amelia's Passion Project

Photogenic Blossoms

Goal/Purpose: My goal was to make 10 small stacking blocks to give away and 1 whole set to keep. I chose to do photography so I could see the different perspectives of photos and find out how much effort it  takes to take a perfectly focused photo.

The Process:

1. Choose my Photography Theme
2. Get a camera
3. Learn how to use my camera
4. Take lots of photos
5. Choose my product
6. Build My Product                                                                                     
7. Plan out my presentation
8. Present

Reflection: I am very proud of my photography skills that have developed over the year and also the blocks I made that turned out perfect. I found it difficult to hold my camera still without a tripod, so I would usually try to balance my camera on my knee or on the ground. If I were to do photography again I would most likely take a wider range of photos instead of just flowers. Passion Project has been such a great experience that I am just so glad it is compulsory as it teaches you how to organise yourself, do things yourself and of course think for yourself.

Amelia Adriaens

Reilly's Passion Project

Joanna's Passion Project!

Animals In Focus - By Joanna

Goal:

My goal was to improve my knowledge and understanding of different ways to take photos of animals.

Purpose:

The reason I chose this topic is because ever since I got given a basic camera for Christmas when I was 7, I have found an inner passion for photography and wanted to expand my knowledge and thoroughly improve what I know about photography. The reason I wanted to narrow it down to just animal photography was that I have grown up around all sorts of animals and wanted to do a project on animals and photography.

Process:

• Decide topic
• Research about topic
• Start blog
• Take photos
• Research
• Keep updating blog and diary
• Research
• Print out photos and info
• Present my project!!

Reflection:

Overall my project has been a quite a success and I have gained lots of skills like:

• Photography (action and focus)

• Organisation (organising mentor meetings)

• Time management

• Independence

• Knowledge about how different cameras work

I will definitely keep on taking lots more photos and look forward to learning heaps more!!

Me with my board:

Two of my photos:

Ella C's Passion Project

Screen Printing

My Goal

Was to learn how to screen print and to be able to screen print at home.

My Purpose 

I chose the topic of screen printing so I could combine 2 of my passions - art and clothing design. Screen printing allows me to do this because I can create my own designs and put them onto fabric to create art or clothing. I also wanted to learn something new and screen printing was something I didn’t know anything about.

My Process

Term 1

• researched about screen printing courses/workshops
• Book a screen printing course
• Look at designs, collect a variety  

Term 2

• Go to course/learn how to screen print
• Organise meet mentor meeting
• Extend my Passion Project goal

Term 3

• Research about resources needed to screen print
• Gather screen printing resources
• Screen print at home

Term 4

• Essay
• Board
• Present  

My Reflection

Passion Project gave me the opportunity to learn a new and creative skill – screen printing.

I am really proud of all the things I have been able to achieve:

• I have learnt how to screen print
• Put my own designs onto screens
• Created many screen prints
• Collected all the resources needed to screen print
• Screen printed at home
• Got some of classmates interested in screen printing, wanting their own screen prints and even screen printing themselves.

Please comment any ideas, feedback or questions your have for me.

By Ella C