Student Prize - Amanda Tauber

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"How Maui Captured the Sun " by Amanda Tauber

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sRLnWKPEDU

Description

Amanda's clever drawing and remix skills brought to life this important legend of Aotearoa. Amanda, who is in year Year 9 at Diocesan School For Girls, obviously put a huge effort into her entry and we love the vibrancy and colour. Nice work Amanda. Amanda wins an Ipod Touch sponsored by Digital New Zealand.

With Mix & Mash's focus on New Zealand images, data, words, video and music, school students can compete for prizes by remixing Kiwi digital content into beautiful new works. Our Free to Remix educators guide provides great advice on how to get started mix and mashing, including support finding openly licensed New Zealand content and data. We had a special prize pool to recognise the efforts of New Zealand students.

Amanda's description of the entry

Through Scratch (Free animation programming) I have created my own remix of the original Maori legend; "How Maui Captured the Sun". I have drawn and animated all the images freehand on the computer with the exception of one picture with no known copyright. I think people will enjoy this video because it is a creative way of showing the legend. It is easy to understand meaning that people of all ages can enjoy this.

Sources

I have used an image with no known copyright. The rest is free hand. Heritage image from Myths & legends of the Polynesians, London : George G. Harrap & Co., 1928, Artist Richard Wallwork (1882-1955) - found at eyeofthefish.org/hook-of-the-fish/