Recently added articles from Australian Screen Education:
AN ONLINE GOLDMINE: Film Australia Digital Learning
Jan 01, 2007; ... In this article, Lee Burton discusses the new Film Australia Digital Learning website, focusing on some of the clips and study guides that will interest secondary Media Studies and English teachers and their students. Lee gives a taste of the many lesson ideas and media production activities ...
The Book, the Film and the Website: Teaching Multimodal Texts
Jan 01, 2007; ... MULTIMODAL texts are those that combine, for example, print text, visual images, sound, music, spoken word and interactivity as in books, TV, film or computer presentation media. these activities aim to help teachers of middle years (5-9) teach about multimodal texts using popular books, TV ...
YouTube: The Evolution of Media?
Jan 01, 2007; ... In this article, Christian Christensen addresses a number of key issues related to the rise of YouTube as an internet phenomenon, and considers if sites such as YouTube and Google Video have readjusted the balance of power in the media world. IN April 2006, a little-known U.S. comedian ...
E-Merging Realities for Youth, Media & Education - Academic Papers from the National Media Education Conference 2006
Jan 01, 2007; ... THE National Media education conference was held in Brisbane from 6 to 8 October 2006. The theme of the conference was 'emerging realities for youth, media and education'. Presenters and participants aimed to explore the role media education plays in the curriculum at this point in time, when ...
Social Vertigo and Loss of the Self in GATTACA
Jan 01, 2007; ... Andrew Niccol's 1997 film Gattaca is obsessed with class differences. People exist in the world of Gattaca in a hierarchical class system based on genetics. Those who are born genetically 'pure' with the help of science are able to look down, both literally and metaphorically, on those who have ...
In the Thick of It: Trust and Suspicion in 'Lantana'
Jan 01, 2007; ... Lantana at a Glance Concerns: * Relationships and love * Honesty and trust * Appearance and reality * Betrayals * Loyalty * Loss * Self-awareness * Self-need/ego * Desires Main Characters: * Leon ...
THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY: MEDIA EDUCATION IN VICTORIA AND THE GREAT LEAPS FORWARD
Jan 01, 2007; ... This is an edited version of the keynote address that Roger Dunscombe delivered at the 2006 ATOM Vic State Conference. THE title of this paper comes from what I consider to be the defining cultures and agendas in Media education in Victoria: the past and the future. The first part of the ...
Running in Circles: Form in Run Lola Run
Jan 01, 2007; ... At the Berlin International Film Festival's 'Talent Campus' event in 2003, both Tom Tykwer, director of Run Lola Run (1998) and Mathilde Bonnefoy, the film's editor, ran workshops. One insight they provided into their working processes was the screening of a 'teaser' trailer for Run Lola Run, ...
The Castle: HOME OF THE BRAVE
Jan 01, 2007; ... Darryl Kerrigan would have been so proud - the locals cheering outside the Mildura Council offices certainly were. After a concerted community campaign they had beaten the State Government into submission and had saved their bit of 'castle' (well patch of land) from a toxic waste ...
Under the Storyteller's Spell: The Usual Suspects and Narrative Ingenuity
Jan 01, 2007; ... Bryan Singer's contemporary take on the noir thriller, The Usual Suspects (1995), is sometimes accused of toying with its audience. Such a criticism suggests that the film's makers are amusing themselves at the audience's expense and therefore using their craft to achieve an unworthy end ....
'WHERE'S DONNIE?' It's Neither Here Nor There: Ideas for Teaching 'Donnie Darko'
Jan 01, 2007; ... Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001) is a film that might provoke the following student responses: 'Huh ... whoa ... did I miss something? ... weird ... awesome ... didn't understand it.' These responses foreground some of the extratextual elements of Donnie Darko, a film that has at last made its ...
CUT to the CHASE: A Guide to Teaching Film as Text
Jan 01, 2007; ... This article is adapted from an English teachers' workshop, Cut to the Chase (2005-6), by Andrea Hayes. HEARD THESE BEFORE? * What films suit Year Nine ferals? * How important is genre? * 'What the %$^# are cinematic techniques?' * How do I get students to ...
Avoid that PUDDLE! Ten Classic Errors Made by New Filmmakers
Jan 01, 2007; ... AS Buddhists say, it is better to have awareness. Then you don't walk straight into the puddle. Rather you stop, see the puddle and step around it. Awareness, like good filmmaking skills, takes hard work to master. Making your first short film brings such an amazing sense of satisfaction and ...
BLOWIN' IN THE WIND
Jan 01, 2007; ... Blowin' in the Wind (David Bradbury, 2005) is a 50-minute documentary that explores the impact that recycled (or 'depleted') uranium has on people and the environment. IN 1994, australia and the United States signed an agreement to allow the US military to train and test its latest ...
RE-VISION: WHY MEDIA STUDIES DOES NOT MEAN THE DEATH OF LITERATURE
Jan 01, 2007; ... IN 1994, when the new London Group1 first met to consider new directions in literacy education, they derived the term multiliteracy in response to globalization and the proliferation of communication technologies in the twentieth century. Primarily, the group emphasized the fact that an ...
NETWORK LITERACY: THE NEW PATH TO KNOWLEDGE
Jan 01, 2007; ... THINK of a student who enters the school library seeking a book. She first consults the catalogue, searching by author name and title, but has no luck. next she asks for help from the librarian, who confirms that the book isn't there but can help the student find other, related material using a ...
Harry Potter AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE
Jan 01, 2007; ... A TEACHING UNIT ON USING A FANTASY FILM TO AWAKEN MORAL IMAGINATIONS AS children we spend hours in the world of fantasy, but as we grow up we learn to distinguish between what is imaginative and what is real. But human beings still need the ability to imagine, daydream and have fantasy ...
The ORIGINAL REALITY Television Series: From 7 Up to 49 Up
Jan 01, 2007; ... THE 7 Up series offers teachers and students an interesting opportunity for examining the reality television format in a different context to that provided by programs like Big Brother and The Biggest Loser. As the longest-running and most in-depth program to cover real people living real lives, ...
The Story of a Marginalized Australian: through my eyes
Jan 01, 2007; ... If Through My Eyes (Di Drew, 2004) is told from Lindy Chamberlain's perspective, why does it indulge the audience with such a macabre opening? Lindy (Miranda Otto) runs in slow motion holding a baby between a series of dissolves. Her breathing is amplified. Then, seated in the car, the faces of ...
Miss Potter AND THE 'GREEN WORLD' of Children's Literature
Jan 01, 2007; ... In many respects, Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was a remarkable late Victorian/early Edwardian Englishwoman. Besides being a renowned author of picture storybooks for children, she was also an artist, mycologist (specialist in the scientific study of fungi) and land preservationist. She was born ...