1.5 Formal Persuasive Essay - Joshua Iva

 In this essay we will discuss how mobile phone’s control people’s lives. Mobile phones are one of the worlds one thing that can control a person’s life, they can distract you from family and friends, they tend to build addiction in someone, they tend to cause accidents and injuries, etc. For every 100 hours you use by talking on your phone, you suddenly increase the possibility of brain cancer by as much as 5%. Phone addiction can provide resistance in social life. Phone addiction can lead to living life through phones.

Most people can’t survive one day without their phones, and that is a huge problem to people’s brains and relationships. People browse the web, text, call, watch videos, etc. almost every hour which doesn’t give them time to rest and they tend to forget to eat and drink. People can stay up overnight and not get any rest due to addiction on their phones and blue light conditions to the eyes of humans that can cause no sleep. An effective way to stop people from having huge addictions to their phones, is to do exactly nothing and to daydream about things that you wish to happen in your life. 

 

75% of people can’t resist staying away from their phones from a limit of 5 feet away, what they need to do is take time apart from their phones and make yourself feel useful and enjoy the world. People tend to rather spend time on their phones than spending time with their family and friends. 25% of the people can do this quite oftenly; they know when to have their phones and when to not. Some people may keep their phones with them just for an emergency or in need for an emergency, but that doesn’t answer a question of why they are addicted to their phones. To decrease the number of people who can’t keep distance from their phones, you need to know that it is simple to do this and finally make yourself useful and do some chores.

 

Usually, people take time to spend with family; parents tend to apply rules, most mainly they allow no phones for distraction. This is what causes anger and stress to arise in people, mainly Teenagers. Kids and Young adults, are most certainly the age limit who lose self control when not having phones with them or when taken away from them, they tend to complain in the middle of something, or they would be mad all throughout because they won’t have something they are addicted to. People are still young and they find it hard to learn how to lose addiction, mainly to phones, but it's still possible. This can help increase the time of rest during the night and can grow more time with loved ones. Having rules in your household for phones is manageable to decrease the amount of distraction to your brain and to yourself with social media. 

Many car accidents are due to cell phones. Phone addiction is considered a disability. Approximately 660,000 drivers attempt to use their phones while taking hold of the wheel. There are ways to prevent this from happening; putting your phones on silent, completely turning off your phone, putting your phone out of reach or to really know the law and know you shouldn’t be having them out. These are ways to prevent car accidents and injuries from happening. It is good to be safe, and you always gotta watch out for what may come your way, especially for whoever may be in the car with you, you got to keep clear on the road and let driving distract you from your phone. These all include some safety methods to try and let driving distract you from your phone, because it’s something to get a hold of and to know about when driving. Nearly 400,000 injuries occur each year from accidents caused by texting while driving, and it may scare a lot of people, to get a clear hold of everything, try to keep families, friends and others safe when driving.

Mobile phones control people’s lives, mobile phones can be seen in classrooms, they can be a helpful tool when in need for help such as calculators, notes and calendars, but they tend to lead to a distraction for themselves and other students. When students use their phones to enter social media, it can lose their learning towards their work in class. This can create disruptions in class, especially when teachers continuously tell students to put away their devices. Me (Joshua Iva) with such a beautiful heart, it's easy for me to recommend NOT TO USE YOUR PHONES IN CLASS WHEN TEACHERS SAY TO “PLEASE PUT AWAY”, thank you, yours sincerely ‘Joshua Iva.’

Joshua Iva - Static image

Few updated work, but work is still in progress...

 Colour

This photo (crown) defines the colour purple, it shows a strong meaning of royalty and 3 other strong meaning behind the visual text is wealth, power and wisdom. If this is placed on someone's head it shows that they are worthy to do anything and are to basically to shown respect, and they get to take lead of what they are crowned for, like King, Queen, Prince etc. The colour purple fully shows and symbolises wisdom, luxury, royalty and power.

Symbol

This visual text symbolises gender (male and female). This is most common to be seen in public toilets, the reason being is because there places where females and males have to be separated due to privacy and the way the toilets are set for each gender. Its important to have toilets for two different genders, because it is safe for each other to feel comfortable when in need for privacy. Lets just say if a male was to for whatever reason was to walk in the female bathroom, it would cause the females to argue back and lose confident.

Lines

In this image, you can see a person standing in the middle of a tunnel, and what the tunnel is doing it leading its lines to the focal point. Everything in the image all has lines leading to the main part of the photo, the yellow and black lines on the side, and on the floor you see mini squares that have lines leading to the person and also in the ceiling, having a shiny reflection that reflects the floor and the side lines repeating its image that also shows leading lines. This helps shows the meaning behind image and lines, because they draw attention when looking at it, the first thing you would see is the focal point (Main part of the image) and because the help of the lines (Leading lines) it creates a beautiful image showing the techniques of the different static image aspect.

Music Composing

03/08/20

 What type of song are you composing?

The type of song I am composing is, playing on piano like a slow sad type of mellow, with some singing in it to explain the story.

You working alone or as a group why?

I am working alone because there are some parts where I want to do things by myself and there are something's that suit a solo player and it's so much easier doing solo for I can decide whether I like or not then I can change it.

Which part of the composition are you writing first?

I am writing my lyrics at the moment and figuring out if it suits the part of the piano melody.

What are you working on this week?

This week composition, I am working on to definitely finish the piano melody and the full piano piece, then I will be figuring out the singing tone seeing if it fits in with the piano, then maybe a little of bit of writing the lyrics.

10/08/20

What did I do this week for composing?

This week, I have been focusing on still having to add lyrics, lyrics that go with my theme I am talking about. My theme is talking about someone who ran away, and never turned back home, and the family who owns her started to feel mixed of depressed emotions. I am also focusing on figuring out my tone of voice I will be using to go with the piano sound and lyrics this week.

My 1st Solo Performance

 Joshua's Solo Performance

Why did you choose this song?

I chose this song, because this song really suits my voice and it wasn't too low and too high.

Are you happy with your final performance of it?

Yes, I am really happy with my final performance, everything turned out the way I loved it to when I began to watch the video of my piece. I am really proud of myself and my singing teacher for helping me throughout finding this song and practising it.

What did you find challenging about this piece?

What I found challenging was working out my stage presence for this song, because it is a depressing song and it needs a bit of emotional movements. 

Performance goal for Solo 2 (What are you going to work at improving?)

Try and look up at the audience because I would always be looking down whilst singing. I also need to work on stage presence and being brave for my next performance.

"Disease" Acrylic paint - Upper body structure

12/08/20

For my artwork piece, I am working on my chosen kaupapa, Humans and the Environment.

In this image shown above, we seeing the upper body of the structure I am building, leading onto a 3D cardboard structure. I am starting off by working on paper to figure out the look I want and the colour I may apply on it. 

I love how this is turning out, the colours bring together a lovely piece of artwork to me, it is filled with so much colour and it work altogether to bring attention to if possibly seen on the streets or so. 

What is working:

What is working is that the mixture of colour for this specific type of artwork is coming together and bonding well, making an old fashioned type artwork and blending together with some future bright colour.

What is not working:

What isn't working, is that some other part of this structure's painting isn't very smoothly painted and was not accurate.

What is your next step:

My next step is what this could look like in 3D, I just wanted to paint this to practise and to possibly use this look on the 3D structured piece on cardboard. My next step is painting the entire body and bring to together colour and creation on to what suits the upper body structure.

 

Negative Space "Disease" Artwork

For this method of art I created, I wanted to use my imagination and create a very advanced art piece. 

What is going on in this practise piece is that I am creating steps of a human body with a missing piece in the middle (The stomach). This just shows the technique of negative space, for me I wanted to create something like this because it relates to people with stomach cancer e.g Stan Walker he had stomach cancer and had to go through scary surgeries, I wanted to show art from this disease, not that I'm judging it but because its something to care for and for it being scary, I wanted to create art from it making it beautiful.

What is working?

What is working in this artwork here is that it is coming together the way I want it to look like and it shows a beautiful look with negative space creating something I didn't expect to design.

What is not working?

What isn't working for me is that it is easier drawing it small on a small piece of paper, whereas it could ruin the effect for me applying it on a large piece of design. 

What is my next step?

Practise more of these to get the hang of it so it can be easier to make the real version of this on a bigger design for the finish product. 

Environmental Visual Art - Water Colour Painting

In today's session in Art class, we will be learning how to post blogs and writing clear information about the art we are drawing. We have to explain the background of the artwork and what inspires you about the artwork. It is pretty tricky having to find artwork to draw about and being prepared to explain what it means to you. 

This artwork was my favourite to work on, this relates to my chosen theme which is explained to be environmental. The reason why I chose this theme is because I love nature the impact of humanity on its condition, I love when people care for other people and the country and just how they want to travel the world to experience more about it. 

During the time when I was painting this tree, I experienced using water colour and learning the techniques on how to make a perfect water colour art piece. I used the complementary colour wheel technique to create the combination of colour, these colours coming together, bond very well with each other creating an amazing colour effects scene showing great life background of a tree, we sometimes see their true colours on the outside, but in the inside they bring true beautiful colours. These trees bring life to the world, they bring colour, art, oxygen and scent making this world a great beautiful place.