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Archive for April, 2006


Best revision site – Film terms

Revision site – alphabetical listings are really useful
film terms

Word builder

On Mondays we are going to begin a word builder competition. This website gives you a fun place to check what you could have done with this week’s letters.

Well done

Here’s to prove I went to Wellington.

Hitchcock Article for you to read

Worth a read – remember that we will be looking at Vertigo and Psycho to complete our assessment tasks for Narrative Conventions in Term 2. Also a good time to be considering your production – whether it be film, print or radio/podcast you need to start planning ahead and gathering definite ideas about what you will be doing.

This site discusses ‘Marion Crane’s metaphorical journey into darkness’ – useful to take notes for 2.5 Narrative Conventions.

email address for holiday work

shazzandrob@surf.co.nz
sharonh@mmc.school.nz
keep the work rolling in peeps – let me know what stage you’re at and especially let me know when you think you have FINISHED!!!! and have a happy easter

email address for holiday work

Hey dudes and dudesses
Keep that work rolling in – shazzandrob@surf.co.nz is probably the best bet to email me, or sharonh@mmc.school.nz
Let me know what stage you are at and how near you are to completion with each set you send in. The sooner you send it, the sooner I can feed it back to you.

make notes from this site for your essay

http://www.calstatela.edu/centers/write_cn/journey.htm

These notes are useful for writing your essay, copy key points into your book.

Then go to essaypunch.com and do that essay.

Learn about lighting here

http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/htmfiles/mise-en-scene.htm

In the break please email me any work you do towards this standard – addresses are:
sharonh@mmc.school.nz
or
shazzandrob@surf.co.nz

I will do my best to get all your work back to you as soon as I can. Let me know with each piece how far you are on towards completion.

Learn about lighting

this website provides interactive lighting lessons – well worth investigating
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/qtvr/cineUpdate.jhtml

Also useful:
http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/htmfiles/mise-en-scene.htm

Cool site with vertigo colors (in colour!)

http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills-vertigo/colors.html

This one has a very clear plot explanation and some other notes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_(film)#The_plot