THEME 5 - MOCKUMENTARY

Hello hello!

After a few little problems, we finally had time to create our video for THEME 5! Please, enjoy this serious documentary work! We hope you'll find a lot of informations useful! ;)

 

 

THEME 5

Hello! 

Ah, it's pretty hard to write this but.. yes, this is the last theme of Comenius project. We're working on a cool - and totally truthful if you have doubts ;) - video, so stay tuned!

THEME 4 - Summary

Hello!

For Theme 4, we decided to choose the "Kenji Goto case", which is, shortly, about a japanase journalist who travelled to an Islamic State to rescue a friend, but was held hostage and beheaded. But we don't want short things, so let's get into it!

I chose one slovak news media site and compared the amount and quality of the informations with an international one.

What slovak media wrote about Kenji Goto:

Novinár sa nachádzal v zajatí od októbra 2014. Prišiel do Sýrie, aby pomohol oslobodiť svojho krajana, podnikateľa Harunu Yukawu, ktorý je nezvestný od leta 2014.

Extrémisti žiadali predtým od japonskej vlády výkupné vo výške 200 miliónov USD namiesto popravy Kenji Goto a následne sa predpokladalo vymeniť ho za samovražednú teroristku odsúdenú v Jordánsku na trest smrti. Rokovania neboli úspešné.

Translation: Journalist Kenji Goto was held hostage since October 2014. He came to Syria to help rescue his compatriot Haruna Yukawa, who has been missing since summer 2014. First, the extremists asked the Japanese government for 200 milion USD as an exchange for Kenji Goto, and then they asked to exchange a suicidal terorist who was sentenced to death in Jordan. However, the negotiations were unsuccesful.

The second article I found was about a succesful negotiation. It said that Japan and IS (Islamic state) reached an agreement about exchanging the woman terorist with Kenji Goto. 

And the third one said that IS already beheaded (killed) Kenji Goto and as a proof, they recorded a video.

The international source was more useful, giving me details about all the negotiations and a 24 hours ultimatum to Japan. Here are some of the most interesting ones.

Negotiation conditions:

“It is simple,” Goto says, “You give them Sajida and I will be released. At the moment it actually looks possible, and our government are indeed a stones throw away. Our government representatives are ironically in Jordan where their sister Sajida is held prisoner by the Jordanian regime. Again I would like to stress how easy it is to save my life. You bring them their sister from the Jordanian regime, and I will be released immediately, me for her.

These could be my last hours in this world, and I may be a dead man speaking. Don’t let these be my last words you ever hear. Don’t let Abe also kill me.”

Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga has said his country is outraged by the atrocity.

“This is an outrageous and unacceptable act,” Suga said. “We strongly demand the prompt release of the remaining Mr. Kenji Goto, without harm.”

There was also an emergency meeting over the situation.

But sadly, even after news about a "successful" negotiation , Kenji Goto was beheaded. This part was the most confusing for me, so I searched more.. Because why would someone after a successful negotiation do that? I wasn't able to find detailed informations in slovak language, so again, I used an international source.

Here is what it said:

Rumors circulated Wednesday that a deal had been reached between the Islamic State and Japan/Jordan regarding the release of IS hostages Kenji Goto and Mu’ath al-Kaseasbeh in exchange for Sajida al-Rishawi, who’s been imprisoned in Jordan since an attempted suicide bombing in Amman in 2005. 

Some IS Twitter accounts even claimed that the deal had already been done, saying Goto had been released by the group, and Jordan had released Rishawi from prison and that she was back in Iraq.

But Jordan’s foreign ministers have said that the rumors are false, demanding news organizations retract their stories, and asking for proof that their pilot Kaseasbeh (who was captured by Japan in the meantime) was still alive.

! It turned out the negotiation wasn't successful as the slovak media wrote. It seems that the journalist in charge just believed in the rumours and didn't check what was really going on. !

SUMMARY: The international source was more helpful and much less confusing. It was kind of a dissapointment, that rumour being accepted without checking twice, but things like that happen, especially in something as complicated as journalism.

TIP: When there's a topic you are really interested in or you are doing a school project, make sure to check more than only one media, or else you can experience something like I did. And you surely don't want to confuse anyone with inacurrate informations! :)

Čítať úplne: http://slovak.ruvr.ru/news/2015_02_01/Ozbrojenci-IS-popravili-japonskeho-novinara-2392/

THEME 4

The theme 4 is already here and we are working hard on it! Our first selection of topics is about the French terrotism case and Kenji Goto, the japanese journalist who was held hostage. Our other topic will be less serious, funny and a very interesting surprise, so stay tuned! :)

Theme 3 - Shopping

On the 29th of October we decided to go buy some necessary clothes and stuff for our theme called 'shopping'. Exactly at the time while we were working on theme 3 we had Halloween so we had an idea to buy things for this theme and personally I think we were successful. We split into two groups of two people. The first group included girls Lucia and Alexa and they had 50€. They chose very special products for example skin products to make perfect make-up for Halloween (eyeshadows, lashes, pencil, blush, lipstick and others). The second group, Ivana and Bianka, had 150€. They bought beautiful clothes for a Halloween party. It means shirts, a skirt, trousers, jackets, boots and from all these things they tried to create an amazing outfit for themselves. We think none of the advertisements we saw on TV, Internet or bilboards affected us during buying all our products. We just saw nice things and bought them. Unfortunately, we couldn't make records inside the stores. In spite of this we made a perfect video. We had a lot of fun, especially during the last two minutes of this video. It was a pleasure for us to make something like this and we are excited about the next theme 4.

Video for theme 3

Hello everyone!

We bring you our brand new video for shopping! We did the filming about a month ago and it's finally finished. I hope you'll enjoy it, leave a comment on what you think :)

Theme 3 - Shopping

Hey everyone, how are you doing?

Third theme of Comenius is shopping and we can surely tell you that this is our favorite topic so far. We already went shopping and had a lot of fun. We wanted to show you at least some scenes from our shopping  experience so we made something like trailer. And how do you like this theme? We hope you enjoy our trailer and will be waiting for our full video. 

HALLOWEEN! (╬⁽⁽ ⁰ ⁾⁾ Д ⁽⁽ ⁰ ⁾⁾)

 ╬ HAPPY HALLOWEEN! ╬

The best time of the year is here again! And it's HALLOWEEN! Are you excited as much as we are?!  It's definitely the day for young spirits to go all out with different looks, costumes and have fun. Since this is an American "holiday", only teenagers celebrate it, because traditionally, in Slovakia Halloween is called "Dušičky" and people visit the graveyard to light a candle for those who aren't with us anymore...

  

Okay.. Now back to the fun part! Do you like Halloween? How do you celebrate it? Do you prefer the cute or the creepy type of it?

As for me, I usually do the creepy one, so that's probably why I decided to do something cute this year! Do you like it? :P 

Oh and.. I've got a message to deliver just for you! 

HAVE THE BEST HALLOWEEN EVER!

New school year!

Hello Folks!

New school year is here with new theme to begin with - SHOPPING. We already started, as you noticed we have slightly different group. We decided where we would go shopping, who would be controller, how to split to two groups and so on. Later on there will be our video with the results of our shopping. Look forward to it ;)

See you! 

 

Hello,
I am Alexandra but my friends call me Alexa.I am 16 years old. I live in Komárno in a flat with my parents, one brother and a little dog. I've played volleyball for 7 years already and I like many others sports for example basketball or cycling. I started to play on guitar this year. I really enjoy music instruments but the mostly guitar because I listen to bands which include many guitar members. These are some main information about me. I hope to meet you guys from other countries. I'm so excited!

Hi everyone.
I'm also new in this group. My name is Ivana and I'm 16 years old. I'm a pretty active person and I always like to try new things. I've played volleyball for almost 8 years but I like to play basketball and other sports as well. Even though I play a lot of sports I really enjoy music, too. Korean pop is my favourite genre. Because of that I started to learn how to play on piano and singing. I hope Comenius will be an enjoyable experience and I will have a chance to communicate with all sort of people and even meet them someday.      

New members!

Heyy~! 
A little change happened. Because few girls from our group left, we decided to join the TEAM 2! If you have checked the blog of TEAM 1, you should know me ^^ But let me introduce myself again. My name is Luci and I'm 16 years old. My hobbies are writing, anime, listening to music and reading. Beside those, I'm really interested in fashion and I prefer things which are not THAT mainstream. Also, I love to workout I hope we'll get along as well as before~

Our Advertisments

Hello, guys!

So, the task was to create some ideas of our own on the theme advertising. Here's what we came up with.

What do you think about them?

Theme 2: Advertising

We can see that all the advertisements are trying to manipulate us by making us think that we need their products,but actually we don’t.They made their advertisment creative - look different than the others so it makes the consumer curious and it makes them to investigate the product.

Despite the fact that their products cause more negative effects than positive they are legally selling them. Most of them put lies into their advertisement for better selling. There are rules which forbid advertising such advertisements because it is againts the law.The advertisers have different ways to make their product atractive. Some make it funny, add some extra drama or colour to sell it better. They rarely care that their products could cause serious diseases or obesity to the buyers.

The Netherlands

Hello everybody. So back in November and in the beginning of December, there was our first international comenius meeting, in Netherlands. Two people from our group were part of it. We had a great time, lots of fun. We've got many new memories and met a lot of new people. The Comenius Dutch hosting group did an amazing job, which we'd like to thank them for. :)
We are looking forward to continuing to work with all of you, both, the ones we've met, and the ones we've not. Until next time...

- Peter and Lucy

Theme One: Social networks

Hi there!

I'ts little bit late, but there is our video for the theme one. We made several interview with students of our school, that are not participating in Comenius Project. They talk about how is it important to be careful on social networks even if you use them regulary.

 

Hope you enjoyed it. 

See you next time!

Theme One: Results

Hello guys!

Our team was given a task to investigate the attitude to social networks amongst students from age 15 to 19. Here are the results of 100 questioned students from our school. 24 of them are 15 years old, 29 are 16, 23 are 17, 15 are 18 and 9 are 19 years old.
Let’s analyse each question at a time:

1. What social networks are used/popular in your country?

                            

Theme One: Social Networks

Hello, guys!

Recently we have started working on our first project, the theme one, Social Networks. Each group have been given certain group of people - divided by age - to work with. Our group is examining the secondary school students, so from 15 to 19 years old. We started our research in our school, with big help of our English teacher (Thank you very much, Mrs. Kešiarová!). Students of every grade contributed in filling in the questionnaire and we will have to process it and come up with a conclusion about our students and their attitude to social networks. We have also found some volunteers to shoot a short interview with us.

You can watch it here:

See you next time! Bye :)

Hi, I'm Patrik. I decided to participate in this project because I've always found the idea of learning about different nations and cultures very appealing. In my free time, I enjoy reading, listening to music and playing guitar. I can't wait to have a chance to contribute.