Sr. Kim Dung

Mosaic - Processing

Mosaic writing help students to explore the language and culture of color, learn how to use adverbs of time and frequency, and learn to write an essay describing a process in detail with “color” description. Besides those usefulness, Mosaic writing provide to students the present mosaics for critique, demonstrate ability to describe the thoughts behind the art. Because of those abilities, we learn and acquaint with Mosaic in writing advance. In order to write an essay about Mosaic, we went though some steps.

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Color is quite important for Mosaic, so we began with learning color and some vocabularies using in Mosaic writing. Describing a color, we can use hue meaning color, tint is a color diluted with white or light; shade is a color darkened with black and dark. Moreover, we explore colors by using funny color names such as beach party, burn orange, fern green, swamp green, royal blue and papaya whip. Defining a color is easier when using name of something that has consistent color such as lemon yellow or princess pink. Learning color is quite interesting and easy remembrance.

The second step is watching continuously 6 movie clips. While we were watching clips, we took note as much as we could. We focused on movie detail and color using in those clips. Then, two of six clips were chosen for mosaic. I chose two clips which were “Hero – Flying Snow vs Moon” and “Alice in wonderland” because those clips seem simple and have strong affection.

The following step is choosing color and creating mosaics. We were provided those materials. Each person excitedly chose appropriate colors from movie clips that had been chosen and implemented Mosaic. In addition, one of each had their own design; some people were quite detail in linking small piece of papers, and some people glued piece of paper to make a picture.

I chose clips of “Hero – Flying Snow vs. Moon” and “Alice in wonderland” because they are attractive with colors: yellow, sky blue, red, black green and white.

“Hero – flying Snow vs. Moon” is a Chinese film. There are two young women wearing red Chinese costumes during years when China was once divided into seven kingdoms that warred with each other constantly. I did not understand what had happened with those women, but they met in the forest during fall season and they fought until one of them was consumed. Even though I did not know the previous part and next part of the movie, seeing red costume they wore, I could predict the fighting, war, strength, power, danger, passion and blood can happen for them. Moreover, yellow of autumn leaves carried some meanings inside of women such as “autumn leaves under frozen souls” from lyric of Paolo Nutini – Autumn.

The second clip is “Alice in Wonderland” Alice found a door which opened to a new place. She followed the puzzle rail road. While she is going, she found a piece of red paint which had thrown from somewhere into in frond of her face. She jumped up to see what and who they were doing; she met three people painting flowers in a big green leave. They moved from one leave to one leave; on each big leave there were several flowers. After a while, Alice asked to paint with them. Those flowers were painted in red color.