OVERVIEW OF TEACHING PROCESS
WEEK 1
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following exemplar and working on a group idea to help each other understand what is expected
developing ideas for our own assessment and submitting a storyboard plan of the final product receiving feedback on our storyboard and learning and preparing technical presentation skills developing presentations and ideas, deeper thinking activities and sharing a quick techy tip" with the class Checking we've included visual and verbal features and polishing the 'final product' finishing and submitting your VISUAL and VERBAL text |
EXEMPLAR - MODEL to follow
1) Know the text that you are starting from
This example uses the short film called FRANCIS (created by Richard Hickey) based on "This American Life" by David Eggers. A link to the short film is placed here so that you can watch it on VIMEO.
Summary of film
Francis is an independent girl who goes out on the lake in a rowboat at night. She enjoys her own space and the freedom of being able to do what she wants, when she wants. However, dark things happen during the course of the film and ultimately the tale of Francis is a cautionary tale.
Francis is an independent girl who goes out on the lake in a rowboat at night. She enjoys her own space and the freedom of being able to do what she wants, when she wants. However, dark things happen during the course of the film and ultimately the tale of Francis is a cautionary tale.
2) Analyse the text and identify an idea that you'd like to work with
Think about the messages that the text offers and decide whether you consider these images to be important or relevant to today's society.
Does the film/text make you think deeply about something that you think is important? Can you take an idea from the text and develop it into something new? What would be a really critical theme that you consider cannot be ignored? |
3) Brainstorm and summarise messages from the movie into an overarching statement of purpose
I believe that the film shows an independent young woman. She is a strong individual and is happy to be independent because she rows her own boat. She is not afraid of the dark. She knows how to enjoy her own company when she is alone by taking along her diary and her cigarettes. The film also shows the central character is engaging in behaviour that might be perceived as 'risky' and therefore outside of society's expected norm. The film portrays this strong but independent girl negatively because she is smoking and she has a hole in her stockings, suggesting that she does not take care of her appearance. All these signs add up to an inevitable 'cocktail of disaster' for poor Francis and in true mythological style, a character who does not take care meets with a sudden and unexpected, grisly demise.
This led me to think of the idea that "Women are portrayed negatively in the media" so my presentation will explore Negative Connotations of Women in the Media.
This led me to think of the idea that "Women are portrayed negatively in the media" so my presentation will explore Negative Connotations of Women in the Media.
4) Research your idea to help developed the ideas from your one line overarching statement
The next step was to research more on this topic and read around to get some ideas.
5 Developing ideas
A critical step to ensure you pass this standard, is to show that your ideas have developed. After researching around the topic for a while, I used a table to show the development of my ideas. The beauty of using this table is that it will also outline the structure that I will use in my final presentation. Now with this one table, I can show that my ideas are developed and that I've structured my powerpoint into a beginning a middle and an end.
6) Search other sources
Once you have developed your ideas, you might need to research to gather more materials for your presentation. Sometimes after developing ideas, the focus of a presentation might change. As you can see with this example...I started with "Negative Portrayal of Women in the Media" and I'm moving towards "How Society Can Change to Create Freedom for Individuals". I'll need images and music to represent both these ideas as I put my presentation together. People who were change-makers and large gatherings that showed governments the need to change.
7) Plan your storyboard so you know what your presentation will begin to look like
After you plan your presentation in a storyboard, you will be given feedback so that you know whether you are on the right lines. This rubric will guide you as to how you should progress in developing a storyboard. Generic feedback only will be provided as teachers are not permitted to give ideas or specific advice on presentations that are submitted for NCEA assessment. You are expected to show maturity as you work towards developing your own presentation. You should aim to be unique and include language features. Your teacher will offer you tutorials as time progresses so that you have the skills you need as you work through preparing your presentation.
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8) Example Storyboard Initial Draft
1) Negative Images from Francis (query copyR here) e.g.. hole in stockings and smoking
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2) Negative images of women from our society: too fat/too thin, wearing make-up, wearing suits to work, cleaning the house, body shape, generally showing weakness or living up to an image that society has created for them.
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3) A series of historic negative images. Why women have always been portrayed as the weaker, down-trodden sex since the time when fairytales were created.
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4) The society we have is the society we create. Images of modern media and pop/movie stars who we idolise who symbolise all these images of weak make-up wearing women. Find images of women with men beside them to emphasise the fact that people are not seen as a complete 'whole' unless they are in a partnership.
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5) Using symbolic images to change what the viewer is seeing and raising the question "How does society change?" from its current long ingrained paradigm.
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6) Images of how change happened historically. Women suffragettes/ blacks from slavery to Obama/from gays in the closet to gay marriage.
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7) Summarise position so far = That society can change but only if people want it enough. Use powerful images of how change occurred in the past and very modern images of crowds protesting against maltreatment to influence viewers' emotions.
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8) Acknowledge that in a busy world, there are many demands on peoples' time and resources and many more worthy causes. That the need to show positive portrayals of women in the media isn't as pressing as it was for women to have the vote. Add in famous Chinese proverb..."Journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step."
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9) Finish with direct address to the audience. The Future Wants You to begin the march for change. Add a series of images showing strong sports women in the headlines and men crying at sad movies. Advocate for equality.
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