Today on KEA Kids News...
New Zealand-based rocket company plans to capture and recycle rockets from space.
First try!
And Screenies - backstage at the international children's film festival.
Do you think Screenies is more fun than Netflix?
Yeah definitely.
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Hi I'm Bijou from KEA Kids News.
Here's the news...
Rocket Lab launches a new plan to catch and recycle falling rockets.
We get an inside scoop and inside a rocket.
There are only 12 countires in the world that launch rockets and Aotearoa is one of them.
The rockets are pretty much like all rockets with fuel tanks that fall off after they've
blasted out all the fire power, but this is where Kiwi inventor Peter Beck decided to
change the rules.
After a rocket is launched into space, some parts of it are designed to fall back to earth
and crash into the sea.
But the New Zealand company has an awesome new plan to try to catch them in mid-air.
Can you tell us about Rocket Lab's cool new plan about catching the rocket?
You know, right now, the rocket parts they fall back to earth and disintegrate but we
want to now be able to reuse some of it so the main booster.
So basically as it's falling back down to Earth, we try to slow it down and we do that
by using a ballute that's kind of a combination of a balloon and a parachute, and then we
come in with a helicopter which has a hook, and the hook captures the ballute and then
we pull the piece off to safety.
Why do you want to reuse the parts?
We want to launch more and more rockets, so for that we can reuse the parts so that can
happen more quickly for us.
How come you want to catch the rockets before they hit the sea?
We don't want them to get wet.
What will happen to them if they get wet?
So yeah we don't want them to get wet because we have lots of electronics in there and you
know you don't want to try this but you don't want to drop your phone in a pool.
Yeah.
Can we go and launch a rocket?
Let's go do that.
This is how we make our rocket, it's called a bottle rocket.
3... 2.. 1.. go.
We poured water into the bottle and then we stuck it onto this cord and then Alexandria
put the red wire on that one and it started making noise and then it blasted up.
Did you play with rockets when you were a kid?
Oh yes, rockets, cars, planes, all that sort of stuff.
It's good fun.
Do you have a favourite planet?
Um, I would say it's Saturn, do you know why?
Why?
Because of the rings, it's kind of like a hoolahoop, isn't it?
May the force be with you William Shatner.
I'm gonna try and catch the rockets ith this.
First try!
Good on you Rocket Lab.
I'm Bijou from KEA Kids News.
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Kia ora, I'm Milan and this is KEA Kids News.
Here I am at Screenies festival, it's a film festival just for kids.
Interview with the organiser, take one.
Hi Janette.
Hi Milan Janette, can you tell us all about Screenies
and how it started?
Screenies started a few years ago now in 2012 so it's about grass-roots film, it's about
growing a love for film and getting kids engaged as an audience, and as makers.
What have you been doing today?
Well, I've been helping my uncle make little movies?
How did you get started?
I started when I was little, I loved watching cartoons.
I used to put paper over the TV and then try and trace them to learn how to draw like that,
and 20 years later I'm still doing it.
When I first arrived we just came in and I'd red the little flyer things, they gave them
out at school and I knew about the animation and I didn't realise how cool it was gonna
be at the time.
So today, we've got some people who have kindly come and drawn us some drawings and I'm showing
them how to make them move.
Oh cool, awesome.
What have you been up to today?
So Milan, at th emoment I'm running a workshop with a group of rangatahi 12-16 year olds,
and we're just learning how to make movies and how to build stories around cool characters.
How do I make up a cool story?
You can make up a cool story anyway you like, but the way I like to make a cool story is
I like to think okay first of all have I got a character that I really care about and then
once I've got someone I really like, then I just put a story around them.
I build a world around a character, that's what I like to do.
Do you want to be a filmmaker when you grow up?
Well, no actually I want to be an actor.
What kind of actor do you want to be?
A comedian actor.
Cool, have you got any jokes?
No.
I'm working on it though.
Do you want to make films when you grow up?
I think it would be cool to write a storyline behind it and being books first and then turning
it into movies, but yeah, it would be cool.
Do you think Screenies is better than Netflix?
Definitely.
Have you enjoyed being here at Screenies?
Yes Do you want to be a filmmaker when you grow
up?
No What do you want to be?
A person in the movie.
Do you like to write stories?
Oh sometimes i do, his name is Barney Boxhead, he's like a box that has arms that can destroy
buildings.
One evening Barney Boxhead was walking along he accidentally stepped in a portal in the
ground and landed in somebody's brain and then he attached new DNA and switched them
to get more power so he can defeat more people.
That was screenies and this is KEA Kids News.
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