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This is an interesting discussion about new media technologies; good for year 13 and scholarship to be informed about this

Website for home and school.

This has links to my other blogs and some student blogs.

Welcome to Edublogs.org. This is my first post. The intention of this site is to consider ways of learning that are in line with current pedagogy and ways that educators can tap into ideas and places to save us time! Your contributions and suggestions will be welcome, I hope that you find some of these beneficial too.

One of my favourite sites for learning objects is Merlot – there is a huge range of learning objects here that have been recommended by and for teachers.

Podcasting info

Revision site – alphabetical listings are really useful
film terms

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.

This site is the one to refer to for a lot of the information you need as background for Heavenly Creatures (film study)

Wet west filmfest - The rules are simple – create a film with a watery link and send it in. Entry is free.
Check it out and go for it.

Todays work is based on Moving Images unit standard for the text – Heavenly Creatures. The notes will also be required if you intend to answer the exam (Achievement Standard) on this text.
Preliminary Notes
1.1 At least one main idea in the text is explained with reference to at least one relevant section of the text.
The main idea in the moving image text Heavenly Creatures is ______________ .
This is shown when (give 3 specific examples of this from the film).

1.2 The significance of a main idea in the text is analysed with reference to at least one relevant section of the text.
The significance of the main idea is (can be historical – i.e. how it fit/didn’t fit society in 1950’s Christchurch – refer to H.C. website for news articles of that day) or sociological (how society/the girls place in it affected the outcome)
This is shown when (give 3 specific examples of this from the film).

1.3 Three examples of language features are identified using appropriate terminology, and each example is described in terms of its effect i.e. Explain how the technique is used in the text (use specific examples). What is the intended effect – What does the filmmaker want the viewer to learn through the use of this particular technique?)

Verbal (at least one from here) Visual (at least one from here)
dialogue lighting
sound Costume
Music Camera work
lyrics Editing
Mise en scene