Author: Reanna

Bad driving is so common around the Wanaka area. Tourists are a prime example of this. Tourists have the most ideal plan to fly into Queenstown airport, hire a car with their overseas license and just cruise over the hill to visit pretty, little Wanaka. They make it seem so simple. Little do these tourists know how hard these roads actually are. The standard of driving and getting a drivers license in many over seas countries vary a lot to how we sit our license over here. We have three stages to our license process they are learners, restricted and then the full. The learners process is to ensure that future road users know all of the road rules, the restricted is all about practice driving with restrictions then after 24 months of having these stages you have finally made it to your full. The process of a New Zealand drivers license is so important to ensure we are safe road users. In New Zealand tourists are allowed to come here and drive on their overseas license. Some of these licenses have far to simple processes and the individuals don’t know how to drive cars properly let alone with new road rules and handling hard roads. I used to have a flatmate who was from Korea, she had her full license in Korea but had NEVER driven a car before! Which is insane! We are allowing people who have never driven a car before to come and hire cars and drive on the roads around here. My flatmate then crashed her car on the Crown Range through a barrier uninjured with large fines, she then left the country, leaving her fines unpaid.

The Crown Range is a pure example of a challenging road to drive. Many tourists that come to New Zealand haven’t driven mountainous roads like these before and they do not know how to handle many things such as sharp corners, speed, weather and road conditions. This has led to far too many crashes and this number is on the rise as the number of tourists visiting these areas increase. It isn’t really their fault that they don’t know how to drive roads like these because, unlike us they haven’t been bought up driving them often. By driving these roads regularly with supervision from our parents when we are learning, it will help us to understand how the roads around here work and make us better drivers.. this doesn’t mean New Zealanders are invincible and that we will never cause a crash but I do think that education and experience is key to driving these mountainous passes. Rental car companies have a responsibility to educate tourists on how dangerous and hard these roads actually are to drive, this will help to reduce crashes and hopefully encourage tourists to take public transport.

Locals around here aren’t much better, they are arrogant. New Zealanders have a reputation of thinking that “she’ll be right, surely there wont be a car around this bend that I am overtaking on” they think they know everything and that they are never in the wrong. You get the crazy “Im gonna pass this stupid tourist” type of local and then you get the “I live in this town so I can drive how I want and do what I want” type. A prime example of this is driving to school and finding a park. At MAC we have a small STUDENT carpark and we park alongside the road up to the top of the hill, when getting to school on time you find yourself having to park at the top of this hill as there are so many students that now drive to school. This becomes even better when arriving late and parking at the end of the long que at the top of the hill and walking down to find that there are massive gaps in the line. This is due to parents dropping their kids off at school and parking either in the STUDENT carpark or in this line, they then proceed to spending 10 minutes saying goodbye and watching little Johnny walking into school. After little Johnny has made it to school, they sit their and take their phone calls after all of this they leave. This causes students to find other parks and then leaves a gap in the line of parks further down the hill. This isn’t even mentioning how the parents around here are absolutely terrible at driving as well. In one instance when I was driving to school a while ago I was minding my own business and driving down the hill outside school watching out for the countless amounts of kids just about running out in front of the car and this one parent decides that he will just pull out right in front of my car, missing me by millimetres. I had to slam on the breaks and slammed my hand to the horn. He didn’t even care that he just about hit me. If he had, he probably would have tried to blame it on me because I am the restricted driver, therefore I am the one in the wrong automatically as. In so many cases I have seen locals that have been stuck behind yet another slow tourist car and they have decided to pass in the most stupid, dangerous place along the crown. This has caused many near misses and one day it wont be a near miss, it will be a head on collision going 100km per hour. That would not be a happy out come. Tourists should pull over in a safe place and let traffic behind pass them but a lot of the time the locals don’t even give them a chance to pull over. The mentality of the locals are “oh here we go, another stupid tourist”. A fatal crash in the community of Wanaka would be devastating, thats the perk and sometimes the downside of living in a small town, everybody knows everybody.

Every time we are on the roads around here we are putting our lives in the hands of bad drivers, would you trust some tourist with you life?

BANDWAGON –
Bandwagon is a fallacy based on the assumption that the opinion of the majority is always valid: that is, everyone believes it, so you should too.
EXAMPLE –
“you should play rugby not soccer because rugby is what everyone plays therefore it is cool to play rugby”

LOADED QUESTION –
A loaded question or complex question fallacy is a question that contains a controversial or unjustified assumption
EXAMPLE –
“Alyx how did your pregnancy test go?”

NO TRUE SCOTSMAN –
you reassert the argument even though the evidence is proven wrong.
EXAMPLE –
“no true scotsman has sugar on his porridge” A scotsman walks in and says “I have sugar on my porridge” “You are not a true scotsman then.

GAMBLERS –
The gambler’s fallacy is when an individual erroneously believes that the onset of a certain random event is less likely to happen following an event or a series of events.
EXAMPLE –
“Because of the fact that it rained yesterday it has now limited the chance that there will be any precipitation today”

Shot 1:  Tracking shot showing Alyx and I running
Shot 2: Birds eye shot showing us running again
Shot 3: Low angle shot
Shot 4: Another follow shot showing Alyx falling over and me picking her up
Shot 5: A zoom shot, zooming up on the finish sig

The director used many different types of film language throughout this short clip. Film techniques are things such as shot types, sound, camera angles, camera movement, lighting and cinematography. In this film the director only used camera shots, camera angles and camera movement. The first shot shows a tracking shot of Alyx and I running, this tracking shot is used by following behind or alongside the subject. This shot is often used in films to emphasise …. The second shot shows a birds eye view of Alyx and I still running, A birds eye view is shot from up above the subject. The third shot is a low angle shot, low angle shots are shot from below the subjects. These shots are often used to make subjects look bigger. The fourth shot is also a tracking shot that shows Alyx and I running, Alyx then falls over and I continue on to pick her up and carry her over the finish line. The fifth shot is a zoom shot, zooming shots are usually used to zoom into an important subject, in this case it was the finish sign. The lighting throughout this film wasn’t very good and was quite dark which made it hard to see exactly what the director was trying to portray. The director of the film could have added in more different filming techniques to improve the quality of their film. Techniques such as sound, better lighting, more steady camera movement would help to improve the film and help to emphasise what the director is trying to portray.

Camera shot: Shallow depth of field
Camera angle: Level angle
Describe content: A view of a post in their house showing how tall the boys are at what age, you can see Vincent’s hand just below his hight.
Symbolism: The post showing their hight show that Vincent isn’t as tall as Anton his brother who is younger them. It shows the inequality as Vincent is shorter because he genetically impaired. The colour suggests that the film is old even though its in the future.
Colour: sepia
Supporting quotation:

Camera shot: Birdseye
Camera angle: Looking down on the machine
Describe content: This shot shows Vincent’s real identity as “in-valid” after a urine test was performed.
Symbolism: This shows that Vincent is considered as an “In-valid” citizen in this time. It shows the inequality of life at this time as he is only considered “In-valid” as he is genetically disadvantaged.

1) “and then very slowly, as he walked, he tilted his head back in the rain, for just a few moments, and opened his mouth” – page 24
– This quote shows that Montag is open to Clarissa’s ideas and also shows the influence she as a 17 year old has on him.

PART ONE SUMMARY
The novel is set in the future, at this time in life it is illegal to have books. This 
novel started with Montag and his co-worker firemen igniting a house full of books. It is
Montag's job to get rid of illegal books in houses by burning them. - 
"the brass nozzle in his fists, with 4this great python spotting its venomous kerosene upon
the world, the blood pounded in is head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing 
conductor playing all the symphonies id blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and 
charcoal ruins of history"

It goes on to when Montag is walking home and he sensed someone or something watching him.
This is when he meets Clarisse, he thinks that there is something odd about Clarisse 
because she is very confronting and asks a lot of questions. - 
"you are an odd one" 

When Montag gets home he finds that Mildred has taken sleeping pills and tried to kill
herself. When he sees this he calls 911, some men came round, they drained, cleaned and 
replaced Mildreds blood to save her life. The men that came were impersonal like robots
or machines as Montag explains. - 
"operated by an equally impersonal fellow in nonstainable reddish-brown coveralls"

The next day Mildred woke up hungry as the men that saved her life said she would be
she also couldn't remember anything from the night before, from trying to kill herself. -
"I don't know why I should be so hungry" "I didn't sleep well. Feel terrible." Montag
tried to ask her about last night, "last night" she interrupted him and said "what about
last night" Montag said"don't you remember"

When Montag walks to work he sees Clarisse on the street

PART TWO
Montag has travelled to an old professors house with the book and he is wanting to know how
to understand what he reads in books. Fable explains that -
"the magic is only in what the books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe
together into one garment for us"

Montag got home to find Mildred and all her friends sitting at the palor, he then turns
off the palor and takes out a book and reads some poetry from it. This makes one of 
Mildred's friends cry. He doesn't understand why Mildred's friend is crying because he 
doesn't know what she has to be sad about. She then tells him that she has 3 dead husbands,
has had many abortions and her children hate her, she uses the pallor as a distraction. It
then becomes clear that the pallor is just a distraction for everyone to distract them from
what is really happening in this point of time.

Beaty finds out that Montag has been keeping books. Montag goes to work, gets interrogated by
Beaty and they go out on a job. As they pull up to the house Montag realises its his house.
Montag then burns his own house down and burns Beaty and the mechanical dog. Montag is then
on the run from the police and firemen. 
"police alert. wanted: fugitive in city. has committed murder and crimes against the state. 
name: Guy Montag. occupation: firemen. last seen..."