PADLET: PRESENTATIONAL TOOL

Have a look at Padlet.  It is like a digital corkboard (noticeboard).
What could you use it to present? You can use it in your group work as a collaborative tool. Below is one example of a student using it as a record of film reviews and under that some of its features are explained. Here is another example of one to which I contributed when I participated at a training day on animation.

G322 TV DRAMA: MY MOTHER AND OTHER STRANGERS: CHRISTMAS PARTY

We return to Moy Beg for the Christmas Party on the airforce base in order to analyse the representation of regional identity:

• Differences between American and Irish identity, shown through sound (accents of speech, vocabulary choices);  diegetic sound such as jitterbug, swing, Jingle Bells
  
• American identity, shown through mise-en-scene (party costumes such as cowboy hats and airforce uniforms; the US flag; red, white and blue motifs, jeeps, affluence of having cookies, soda and candy, the towering Christmas tree and other luxuries); brassy blondes as opposed to mousy, natural Rose; colour and warmth of base compared to drab, dark pub and houses
• Irish identity shown through sound (speech about Irish rights, heritage, history, ownership of land, forms of address that attempt to put the liaison officer in his place); awe of children as they gaze silent and open mouthed at party colours, Santa's sleigh and food
• British identity of Mrs Rose Coyne seen through camerawork (CUs of Rose's face in haughty coldness as contrast to party spirit; concern on Captain Dreyfuss's face); her dialogue, vocabulary choices
• Editing choices with shot/reverse shot as Irish intruder is brought before Captain Dreyfuss.
   

2016 HIGHLIGHTS

Claremont media students reached the finals of the MediaMagazine Film Production Competition 2016 with Roma Production’s ‘Nine’. We were proud and delighted to see their creative work recognized in a national competition.

As part of the finals, MediaMagazine invited the students, their family and friends to a special awards ceremony at the British Film Institute on Wednesday 6^th July. 

The event included the screening the team’s own shortlisted production, the awards ceremony and a reception.

Congratulations to the AS and AL students on their hard work, creativity and good results. The charts below show their success. 'Centre proportion' refers to our centre, Claremont Fan Court School.

DEVELOPING YOUR FILM OPENING

Today you are working with your group and should post completed work on your blog. Open the links in blue below for reminders.

• Interviewing your characters: scripting then videoing / presenting as What's App exchange or similar
• Storyboarding
• Shot list in GoogleDocs, so that it is a collabotaitive document

STORYBOARD

We consult the OCR AL Conference Weebly 2014 to see how Steve Thorne recommended approaching the business of creating a storyboard.

As you draw your storyboard, which is on paper with yellow PostIt notes, you save them in your group's folder in the classroom. The folder STAYS in the classroom so that it is safe and everyone can access it. 

Source: OCR AL Conference Weebly 2014

 

G322 TV DRAMA: MY MOTHER AND OTHER STRANGERS

We practise textual analysis skills for the summer exam today, using as our text My Mother And Other Strangers (BBC1, November 2016). The focus of the exam question is regional identity. The class white board displays the mark scheme for level 4 marks.

Answer the question below, with detailed reference to specific examples from the extract

only.

1   Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representations of regional identity using the following:

  • Camera shots, angles, movement and composition

  • Editing

  • Sound 

  • Mise-en-scene [50]