Wednesday 7 November 2018

It's a Bit Dicey - LS1's 2018 Manaiakalani Film

LS1 contributes It's a Bit Dicey to the 2018 Manaiakalani Film Festival.

The Olympics are an example of many different kinds of people coming together to compete in the spirit of mutual respect, self improvement, and friendly competition. Everyone has the intent of being friendly, but people have put a lot of hard training into their performance. What might happen if there was a dispute?


The producers and writers of this movie have made a parody on old poorly dubbed kung fu movies to satirise a number of themes, but mainly certain behaviours that can be (although shouldn't be) expressed in high end competition.

As was the case for LS1's movie last year, learners were given a theme, then told to write a narrative. The best narrative was chosen to be made into a movie.

49 comments:

  1. Hello Panmure Bridge School,I am Maanas from Pt. England School, I really like your film it really shows how sportsmanship is important and also how you should never complain you lost and also the bloopers at the end make it very funny.

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    1. Thank you Maanas. Yes, we were poking fun at how athletes often start fighting even though they are supposed to be better than that.

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  2. Hey Panmure bridge school. Im Deavay from Pt. England School and I liked you movie. Its kinda funny how it went from minute to win it to fighting. There were little mistakes in the movie but that's ok. Are you gonna make another video like this and did you enjoy this

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    1. Hello Deavay

      All of the "mistakes" in the movie were made on purpose. As you can read in the post that accompanies the video, we made a parody. Parodies make fun of things. In this case the kind of movie we were making was an old kung fu movie, which often had little mistakes like the ones we deliberately put into our movie.

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  3. Hey Panmure Bridge, my name is Samuel. I really like the movie, it really gives us an opportunity to try out the challenge for our self.
    Keep it up.

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  4. Hey Panmure bridge, my name is Ewan from Spx catholic school.
    I really like the movie, it really gives you an understanding.
    can't wait to see what's next.

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  5. Malo e lelei Panmure Bridge School, my name is Michelle and I come from Glen Innes School, you've put loads of progress into this movie and nice fighting skills. My question is what topic is you're movie going to be next year?

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    1. Thank you, Michelle

      All of the kids involved in the movie worked very hard. As I wrote in the blog post, LS1 kids wrote the story as well. This was after learning about kung fu movies and parodies.

      Because we were successful in getting our ideas out in this movie, one of the LS1 kids has asked to make a superhero comedy movie.

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  6. Hi Panmure Bridge school

    I really love the way you guys act it was so amazing and was funny. I really enjoyed watching the bloopers it was funny as well.

    Keep it up!

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  7. Kia Ora LS1!
    My name is Lini and I'm a Year 8 attending St Pius X Catholic School.
    I really like how you used sounds over the fighting! I love how funny this is!
    Despite the little mistakes, I reckon this is a wonderful movie!

    Stay Positive & Kind!!
    Blessed Week,
    Lini.

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    1. Thank you for your positive comment, Lini.

      Our movie was a parody of old kung fu movies, as I mentioned in the blog post. Those movies often had little mistakes, so we deliberately put those mistakes into our movie to have some fun. This shows we understand how to make movies and are poking fun at how serious people can get about making movies.

      Poking fun at how movies are made was only one of the things we were poking fun at. I have already mentioned the other on the blog post.

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  8. Hi Panmure Bridge School, my name is Sarone I go to Glen Innes School, I really like your movie that I will watch it over and over again. Your movie is skillful. My favourite part of the movie was when Charlize and fao both got knocked down from those two girls.

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    1. Hello Sarone.

      Thank you for your comment. Not many people have understood that all of the "mistakes" in our movie were made on purpose because we are copying a specific movie style. I'm glad you enjoyed the movie.

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  9. Hi Panmure Bridge School

    Hi my name is Moko and I go To Glen Innes School.I really love it and I keep watching it over and very again.My favorites one is when charlize and foa got knocked down from the other girls.I really Enjoy

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  10. Greetings,
    I really love the fighting and the acting you guys showed. This film was my favorite because your acting and the sound effects made it look so cool. My favorite part in this film was the sushi that was showing because sushi is a great taste... Keep it up!!

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  11. Hi LS1
    I like this movie because their was fighting and then they came back to fight and kock them OUT!!

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  12. Greetings LS1.
    I really had a good laugh out of your movie and I also really enjoyed it! I liked the amount of effort you put into your movie too. The sound effects made it really amazing. Over all I really liked the fighting scene and the funny subtitles that had showed up too. Keep it up!

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    1. Thanks Nyjah. Yes, we copied a movie style which often had totally incorrect subtitles.

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  13. Malo e lelei LS1 I'm Ofa from LS2. I have watched your guys video at it's superb. I really love the scene where the girls were fighting and also the end part when Mr Johnson was speaking.

    Keep up the great work LS1!

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  14. Hello LS1,
    I am really into your film. It is a nice comedy film to laugh at. My favourite part was when they started to fight. Were you inspired by any other film to create this. Keep up the great films LS1!.

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    1. Hi Marieta

      We were copying the old kung fu movies that were very poorly made.

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  15. Hi LS1
    I really liked how you made a comedic film about sportsmanship, I found the part where they start fighting the funniest. Although, I don't quite get the part where your subtitles say "Where's my pizza?".
    Great Movie!

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    1. Hi Alex

      You'll have to watch some old kung fu movies. You'll see that often the subtitles had a completely different story from the actual story. Many movies imported to different countries between the 60s and 70s were like this. Movie makers didn't think it was necessary to hire proper translators.

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  16. Greetings LS1,

    What an amazing movie from you guys. Your movie made me laugh. I enjoyed every part of it. My favourite part about your movie was the action part with Alayah, Victoria, Fau, and Charlize. This movie was one of my best movies that I watched today. I enjoyed the costumes that Fau and Charlize wore.
    Nice Work LS1.

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  17. Greetings Learning Space 1,

    I really enjoyed watching your action/comedy movie. The sound effects and music made your movie even better. My favorite part from the movie was when you guys started fighting. Keep up the great work!

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  18. wow guys i like the how you show to balance a dice.

    keep up the great work. from Aaron bye

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    1. Thank you, Aaron

      There is a trick to how we balanced the dice for the movie. For our actual Olympics, everyone had to balance the dice for real. For the movie it was too hard and took us too long, so we had to resort to using different tricks. Can you figure them out?

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  19. Ni hao,my name is Sarah and I go to Glen Innes School
    I really enjoyed this funny skit,the sound affects were on point including the camera angles.How long did it take to film this?

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    1. Hello Sarah

      We put a lot of different jokes and mistakes into this movie, so it took longer to film than normal. It took maybe the whole of term 3 to get it written, filmed, and edited.

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  20. Hello Panmure Bridge. I liked your guys movie very much. Your movie is very skilful. My favourite part of the movie is when Charlize and Fau both got knocked out by those two girls. What do you think that you could of improved on the movie film? Keep up the fantastic work!

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  21. Hola soy Kyle(hello my name is Kyle) I am from room 7 St Patrick's school I was cool to see you guys to do karate and the the background noise was funny to hear it when they hit the other students keep up the good job see ya later!

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  22. Kia orana, My name is Edith and I am a yr 7 student from Tamaki Primary School. Your guys videos is really hilarious, but I have a question; 'What message are you trying to send out?'. I am not really sure but I love the editing and Well done! :)
    Edith!

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    1. Kia Ora Edith

      Thank you for your thoughtful comment. We were making a parody, as I explained in the blog post. We were making fun of the fact that some top level athletes get into fights with each other even though they are supposed to be better than that. It is a reminder that we should ALL be aware to avoid fighting because for the most part fighting is a stupid way to try solving issues.

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  23. Hello LS1. I think your movie was absolutely amazing for many reasons. It was humorous, the sound effects added interest, but above all the actors looked like they were having a great time. Just the best!!

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  24. Hi LS1 I love your movie because it was so funny and I enjoyed watching the karate moves.

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  25. Hi LS1 I love your movie because it was funny.

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  26. hi my name is joshua and this move is funny

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  27. Hello Learning Space 1.That was a fantastic movie.I liked how the movie was made and how you came up with a challenge.

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  28. Hi LS1. I like your movie because you had good actions and sound.

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  29. Hi my name is Rosalili. I really liked your movie because it was funny and entertaining.I learnt that cheating can make people angry and sad.

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  30. Hi LS1. I liked your movie because I liked the slow motion part.

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  31. Hi my name is Elaario. I loved your movie because it was about the challenge of putting a stick in your mouth and balancing dice on it.

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  32. Hi,LS1 I liked your movie because it was funny and I like it when you were stacking the dice on the stick.

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  33. Hi LS1 my name is Jaylee. I like your movie because it is very funny. I like the way the actors punched and pretended to fight.

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  34. Kumusta Panmure Bridge School, Patrick is my name. The movie is amazing! It's very action-packed and funny as well. The best part was the fighting. This really reminds me about Kung Fu Panda and other kung fu movies and shows. Next year, I'll try and do one of these fighting movies for my film festival! Say, how many children are in the movie?

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  35. Hi LS1 I liked your movie because it was funny and i like the way the actors acted good job

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  37. that fight was awesome that time when they turned into ninja that was great ur movie was cool keep up the good work.:)

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  38. That fight was really cool i really enjoyed your guys movie i loved how epic it was.

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