The idea for the film came as a flash... What makes us human?... Our speech? Our thinking?...Not quite. It's our emotions and the ability to control them! Psychologist Paul Ekman had a curious idea: what are the basic emotions that anyone in this world feel no matter their gender, age, culture, or religion? After a long and exhausting study, he concluded that there were six basic emotions: anger, disgusted, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise.
Now it came the time to find out what all these emotions represented for my students. So, I gathered the information, namely: what made them feel each emotion; what is the facial expression of each emotion; where do they feel it in their body; how do they handle the negative emotions; how would they recognise the emotions in other people; what colour would they associate to each emotion. I was pleasantly surprised and privileged that they were open and keen to share their experiences. And that was how the ideas for the scenarios for each emotion came up.
Filming was an extraordinary experience, the students were amazing. I felt lucky that I had great colleagues that helped me and that I learnt a lot from anytime I had difficulties with editing, special visual effects, or any technical information.
This film offered me the possibility to work with different students and I am grateful for that.
Malo e lelei Room 22,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Maree and I am a year 8 student at Pt England school! It was absolutely incredible to see how yous used your faces to express your emotions and what happens.
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Hi my name is Rozaidah I really loved how you used your faces to impress your emotions
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ReplyDeletefaka lofalahi atu room 22,good job on your movie,my favourite part was when the two girls cheered up the girl that was sad.This reminds me of my feelings did you enjoy making your movie?
ReplyDeletehi room 21 I like how I was in your movie and I think your movie was great. Good job room 21! From Bentley
ReplyDeletehi my name is Zara and i'm from room 22 and i enjoyed how you made your movie about emotions now i know what it feels like to losing a cat
ReplyDeletehey Mrs Adina its me Naomi. i really liked your movie it was like my favourite. c: i hope you liked my comment.
ReplyDeleteHello my name is Sargent and I love what you did. It really makes sense to me now. Never to let little things affect you and never let anything else affect you.
ReplyDeletehi room 22 i was wondering what jeyda vika and naomi got for christmas
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hi my name samuel you made funny faces cool work
ReplyDeletehi my name is Te Ao from pt england school and I like your movie it was so
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Hi my name is Sonia and I like your movie
Deletehello years 4 and 3 that was a good job on your movie my favourite part was that Elijah dose his face.
ReplyDelete'Malo e lelei' Room 22 you guys did a really incredible job with your facials expressions. It was fabulous It felt like you guys were trying to
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Kia ora Mrs Adina I love how your movie showed all the types of feeling you can have in life because life is hard time to time and also I enjoyed all the fantastic and detailed stuff in your descriptive and amazing movie.
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hello Mrs Adina it's me legacy. I really like the way how you took photo's of people doing facials. I also like the way that on the fear video three people were scared of cool pics of clown and snakes and other animals, but my favourite animal was the tiger because of the sound it was making, it sounded realistic. I also liked the way how the girl on the disgust video was so funny because her facials were really telling me how disgusting the rotten fruits were and the rubbish were. But my favourite part of all was when two girl were making a girl that was sad feel better.
ReplyDelete'Malo e lelei' rm 22 your guy's movie was super fantastic.I really liked your face expressions from leonora.
ReplyDeletehi my name is Elijah and I liked the people's face facials
ReplyDeletehi room 22 paulah here i really like this movie because when isamu was really angry he just ignorned.
ReplyDeleteHi miss Adina and Room 21 I like all your facials and and the way they express it in a little video like when it was Elijah's birthday and disgust with all the rubbish and all the rotten fruit.The other one was happiness when they all got a present and they had a challenge of who could open it up first.The other facial was sadness when someone was in the library crying because her cat died her friends came and helped her out.Good movie From The Block Keep it Up
ReplyDeleteHello Mrs Adina its me Lil Lizzo I love your movie because it shows us emotions in every way. It is so amazing and cool
ReplyDeleteKia Ora my name is Jimmy, I liked your movie because it showed that whenever you're angry you just need to breath to calm down and it showed me that I need to do that more often.
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ReplyDeleteHi my name is Faith. I enjoyed your movie because you showed us how we may
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Kia Ora my name is Mary I loved your movie because of the music that was calming me down and the emotion faces were great too.
ReplyDeleteThis movie was because of the facials.
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ReplyDeleteI loved your guys movie I enjoyed the part where everyone smiled and showed our emotions in different ways I loved it.
ReplyDeleteTalofa and hi my name is lovely and i am from hay park school and i really loved how you put a lot of feelings in your guys film and I am feeling happy right now and i am in feuu class.
ReplyDeleteHI,im sascha a girl in room nine haypark school. I like the way you explained the feelings in actions. Great work keep working
ReplyDeleteHello Pt England school it is Mayshar from Panmure Bridge school I liked how Mery was doing the faces. It was funny when Mery did the angry faces.
ReplyDeleteWhat great Expressions You all had. And do you know that you can use your emotions to express your self . Great movie!.
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ReplyDeleteKia ora the block thank you for creating that lovely movie I enjoyed seeing Elijah spending quality time with his friends.
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